Based on this quote from Girardi, he seems fine with the change of plans:This winter, Joe Girardi and Dave Eiland came up with a plan to slightly cut back on the spring training workload of their starting pitchers. But that plan was subject to change. Javier Vazquez was scheduled to begin his throwing schedule on Wednesday, but Vazquez asked if he could get some light work in today instead.
“I’ve been throwing in Puerto Rico, a few bullpens, and it’s been like a week and a half since I threw my last bullpen so I wanted to get a feel for it again,” Vazquez said. “They had us for a week without throwing, and they said if you want to throw one of these days, it’s no big deal. I told them I would love to throw today.”
“What works for one guy is not necessarily going to work for everyone else,” Girardi said. “We’re all made up different, so you have to be able to adapt to a guy’s physical personality and his mental personality. I think it’s important. I don’t expect our guys to be robots. You have new guys who come in and their program in the past might have been different and they might have had a lot of success and been comfortable with that. You don’t want to take a guy out of his successful regimen.”The best thing for a pitcher, especially a pitcher playing for a new team, is to come into the season comfortably. If this is what Vazquez feels better doing then that's what he should do. If you want to hear more from Vazquez, Jennings also has some audio of him speaking to the media, which can be found here.
