Here are some select quotes from a Daily News Yankees feature. Joe Girardi:

You see that early in the season a lot of times. Guys don’t have a lot of at-bats, so you can have three days where you don’t get any hits and all of a sudden you go from swinging the bat really well to being under .200. You have a couple good days and you’re back above .300.

Mark Teixeira:

The first nine games, you’re going to have some funky stats – you have guys who you’ll say he’s going to be the next MVP and he’s sent down a month later. You’ll have guys who are hitting .050 and then he wins the MVP. It’s such a small, small portion of the season and it’s raining and it’s cold and you can’t get into a rhythm sometimes. I’d love to be able to hit .300 from day one, but that’s just the way baseball is.

Kevin Long:

Almost every team in baseball probably has a few guys hitting under .200. It’s common this time of year. We have a couple guys that need to get on track, but I’m not worried about any one of them. Things are always magnified at the beginning.