For much of the offseason the assumption has been that the Yankees would sign a right-handed bat to platoon with Brett Gardner or Randy Winn in left field, and now SI.com's Jon Heyman reports that they've found their man in Marcus Thames.
Arrgh.
On the bright side, Marcus Thames gets to keep playing professional baseball, which he totally deserves because he's a really nice guy, but come on. There wasn't any other team that wanted to pick him up instead?
