 Hi everyone, I'm Meredith Moroccovitz alongside Jack Curry coming to you from sunny Tampa, Florida. Jack, could you ask for a better day for some baseball? This was another terrific day. I left the hotel this morning and I actually brought a jacket with me and as your attire and my attire shows, no need for a jacket. It's 80 degrees, it's beautiful, it's another terrific day in spring training. And it was certainly a great environment earlier today. Big showcase on the main field. Garrett Cole throwing to hitters for the first time this spring and they're probably about what, 800, 900, 1000 people in here watching, cheering them on? It was a nice crowd and it was the most buzz we've seen in spring training so far and Garrett Cole lived up to the hype in his first simulated game. He struck out the first four batters that he faced, obviously I'm just having some fun with that. This is about getting his reps in but Meredith thought I'm so interested in the way he goes about his business, even so much as when he started to throw his warm-ups, he threw a couple of warm-ups and then he took a couple of steps forward because his landing spot wasn't exactly what he wanted it to be. I know that's minute, I know other pitchers do it but I'm watching this guy so closely and there's such a meticulous quality to everything that he does. It was all fastball change today and he was asked a little bit about it afterwards in the clubhouse and he broke down an entire situation about how he wouldn't throw a change up to a guy who didn't even take out a fastball or he hadn't shown the fastball to yet. It was just funny to watch and even a simulated game situation where he was so dialed in, wanted people to know that that's not a pitch he'd normally throw, he just needed to throw a certain number of changes. You are going to be in heaven when he pitches games this season because you're going to be in the clubhouse asking him about it and you are going to get some detailed answers because this guy loves pitching. We saw that today and one other thing that I like about him is I've watched reporters go over and introduce themselves to him and he will ask, who do you work for again? What do you do? I want to know the names of all the beat writers and that's something that you notice that he's getting more and more comfortable with his surroundings. Obviously knowing the names of the writers that's not going to win him any games but I think it's just one more element of who this guy is and how much he embraces wanting to be a Yankee. He did joke a few more names to learn than in Pittsburgh or Houston and Brian Hoke of MLB.com went up to introduce himself today and he said hi I'm Brian he said yes from mlb.com knew already that was pretty interesting he certainly is in tune with everything that's going on around Yankee universe but he wasn't the only one that through. Jordan Montgomery was also there and it seems as though he's worked a lot this off season to make sure he puts himself in a position to potentially be the fifth starter. When Garrett Cole finishes it's sort of everyone's attention gets diverted and you're watching where Cole goes but you're absolutely right Meredith. A guy who is probably going to be in their starting rotation followed him in Montgomery and when you have Tommy John surgery there is a lot of downtime there is a lot of time where you simply can't even pick up a ball. So every time I see Montgomery out there in a situation like this I just think of the total relief that he must be experiencing to know how much closer he is to being able to resume his major league career at the level he wants to resume it. Now Aaron Boone spoke a little bit about Jordan Montgomery I asked him coming off of that Tommy John surgery would there be any type of an innings limit forum and you have to believe they certainly will bring him along slowly even though he did come back for a short while last year but you can't imagine that he's going to have a full workload in his first year back. Probably not the Yankees are always conservative with injured players especially injured pitchers we know how many injuries they dealt with last season. I think you're right Meredith I think you are careful with his workload but if you're that fifth starter in April with the off days that are slotted in there for potential rain and things like that sometimes the fifth starter is the guy who might get skipped once or twice so I think Montgomery has a chance to be a big time contributor for the Yankees. I loved when he was first up just how smart he was for young pitcher that he was out thinking the hitters in a lot of situations doesn't have that blow you away stuff that a lot of other guys have but he has the smarts to go with the stuff that he does have and as someone that's in the clubhouse just about every day you can just tell he's been so much more comfortable as the years have gone on you can tell he fits in a little better now he feels like he fits in I would think a little bit better now anything else stand out to you today. I just think that you're you're watching the Yankees go about their business I'm fascinated by some of the technology that has crept into the game I asked Aaron Boone about this if you want to Google rap Soto it's a pitching device that can help deal with spin access and spin rate and bullpen sessions it's there when Garrett Cole and the other pitchers were pitching today it was there and I just asked Aaron Boone how quickly are you getting that information and disseminating it and he said yes it's a whole new world some of the technology and some of the information is even new for him but what he likes Meredith is that the pitchers are embracing it the pitchers want that information and if it's information that's going to make you better and make you tougher to hit you absolutely should embrace it and I actually spoke with Matt Blake today that'll be coming up on Yankees access in March but he spoke a little bit about the technology how they're using it what they can see from it and how it helps pitchers but one thing he wanted to get across was the fact that they are not forcing pitchers to use this they just want them to know if they want to dive into it it's available they'll make sure they're set up with it and they'll walk them through the process to possibly find ways to make them better I'm glad you were able to ask that question and get that answer from him because that is one of the things I thought about there are some pitchers I'm sure who have their own routine and might not need all of that information to be better than who they are so the fact that the Yankees are offering it but maybe not force feeding it I think that's the right way to go well I think that's going to do it but before we go I complimented your white shoes your Stan Smith and did you have a situation yesterday not not even an hour after you left shortly after you complimented them I spilled a big gob of peanut butter don't ask how on the left shoe but I went to the hotel and the first thing I did before I did anything else was to make sure I cleaned those sneakers up so they're they're back in working order and by the way nice nice yes polo shirt that you're rocking today for your math lake interview I like it here we go team uniform a rock of its is ready