“It was nice to get that out of the way early on and it was something I’ve been waiting for to get that going and help the team," Mateo said in Spanish with teammate Wes Wilson translating. "It was fun. You get a couple knocks, you feel a little more comfortable after that."
His new teammates had a lot of fun, too ... and a few came close to upstaging Mateo in this Thunder romp.
Here’s other notable prospect news from Mateo’s first Eastern League contest:
Yankees fans need to start paying attention to Zack Littell, a right-hander who was traded last winter by Seattle straight up for lefty reliever James Pazos.