ANAHEIM, Calif. — It really doesn’t matter how many times you see the makeshift, patchwork lineups posted to the wall of the Yankees clubhouse; it’s still jarring. Every time. That isn’t eliciting sympathy for the devil, just a statement of fact.
What in a parallel baseball universe would be the deepest lineup in baseball looks like something Eddie Feigner might’ve had behind him back in the day when the King and his Court would come to Eisenhower Park or Cedar Brook Park with three other teammates behind him and take on all comers.
“To varying degrees,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said late Monday afternoon, “guys have really stepped up and helped us win games.