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VIDEO: Yankees First Base Prospect Chris Gittens Crushes Team's First Home Run of Spring

By Jackson Thompson

Yankees first baseman Chris Gittens hits a home run at Steinbrenner field on Saturday.
Yankees first baseman Chris Gittens hits a home run at Steinbrenner field on Saturday. / Yes Network on Twitter

Yankees fans will be expecting a lot of power hitting from their Bronx Bombers in 2020, off the bats of Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Gary Sanchez among others. Fans probably didn't expect first base prospect Chris Gittens, of all people, to get things started at Spring Training, but the burly basher crushed the first Yankees home run of the spring on Saturday against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Gittens went yard off of Blue Jays reliever Jake Petricka in the bottom of the ninth to cut the Blue Jays' lead from 2-0 to 2-1.

Gittens, a 6-4, 250-pound slugger from Texas, was drafted by the Yankees in 2014 out of Grayson County College in Denison, TX. He has steadily risen through the farm system over the past five seasons, and finished 2019 in Double-A Trenton for the third straight year.