Greg Bird soon could move up to where Yankees imagined him

CLEVELAND — When Aaron Boone tinkered with lineups late in spring training, his mindset was to use the left-handed hitting Greg Bird in the third spot between right-handed sluggers Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. That plan crashed on March 24 in Kissimmee, Fla., when Bird was scratched from an exhibition game against the Braves with…