Matsui Won't Play The Outfield Until At Least June

From the AP:

Hideki Matsui won't play in the outfield for the New York Yankees until at least interleague road games in June, and will be restricted to designated hitter and pinch-hitting appearances until then.

"The earliest we would need him in the outfield would be interleague, and that's a ways off," Girardi said Wednesday. "That's why we envision him as our everyday DH. We need him. He's a great RBI guy. He's very important to our lineup."

If it were up to me, he wouldn't step foot in the outfield all year, but that's just me. I know they don't want to lose his bat when they don't have the DH, but he might actually cost the team more runs in the field than he'd produce at the plate in those interleague games.