Nineteen years later, Todd Frazier will be back on the Yankee Stadium infield. Only this time, he won’t be a visitor.
Frazier, the New Jersey native who won a Little League World Series in 1998 and stood next to Derek Jeter when his team was honored by the Yankees, has come home. And he can’t wait to try to lead his hometown team to the playoffs, to return to the postseason for the first time in four years himself, and be able to do so in front of friends and family who have followed him at a distance for so long.