Peter Abraham has a picture of Hideki shaking hands with Red Sox pitchers Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima. Quite the media event back in Japan.

Mr. Abraham also mentions Andy Pettitte's simulated game from yesterday. He pitched to 17 hitters. 9 of which were Andy Phillips. The other at bats were taken by Cody Ehlers and Justin Christian. He allowed 4 hits (3 singles).

The best part, I think, is that Donnie played 1st base during the game. The post mentions that Mattingly made a play on a hit by Phillips and scooped a low Jeter throw. Good stuff. Tyler Kepner also has an entry on the game where he observes that there were players wearing #6, #22 and #51 on the field... but none of them were who you'd expect and he has no idea who they were.

Commenter Mattingly fan over at Lohud points to the Rawlings All-Time Gold Glove Team ballot. Former Yankees up on the ballots include Jim Kaat, Donnie, J.T. Snow, Bobby Richardson, Derek Jeter, Paul Blair and Dave Winfield.

Finally, Steve mentioned that Robinson Cano is in the new New Era commercial. Watch it below: