The New York Yankees have sent down four players to two different camps as they trim down their big league spring training roster.

Alan Horne and Mark Melancon were reassigned to minor league camp while Jeff Marquez and Chase Wright were sent to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

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The Spring Training field that the New York Yankees called Legends Field, will now be called Steinbrenner Field.  The Tampa City Council has already agreed to the name change for the old leader of the Yankees.

We all know that George isn’t running the team anymore and that his son Hank the team’s senior vice president, took over running baseball operations last fall.  This move clearly is appreciation for what George Steinbrenner and the Yankees did down in Tampa during spring training.

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