Do you ever pull up a Baseball-Reference page and think, “Wait, he played for the Yankees?”
As a Yankees blogger, I like to think I have a strong grasp on the team’s history, as well as the players who made up the rosters over the years. But every now and then, I find something surprising, like when I discovered Lee Smith pitched eight games in pinstripes in September 1993. How’s that for a fun fact?
I fear, though, that some day, maybe 20 years from now, a Yankees blogger (in whatever shape that assumes in the year 2040) will open up Baseball-Reference (because that will certainly still exist, likely in its present format) and say, “Wait, Andrew McCutchen played for the Yankees?