How a year changes things.
Coming off the 2019 season, Yankees fans could be forgiven for thinking their front office had an alchemist on staff, spinning other teams’ spare parts into gold. After all, they appeared to have recently unearthed gems in Luke Voit and Gio Urshela and it seemed Mike Tauchman, acquired from the Colorado Rockies at the beginning of the year, was just the next in a growing list of players to benefit from pinstripe pixie dust.
Pressed into duty because of injuries, the outfielder dubbed The Sock Man by John Sterling burst onto the scene in impressive fashion.