Heading into his final start of the 2020 regular season, Masahiro Tanaka was fully aware that his time with the New York Yankees may soon be concluding. Nonetheless, he’s currently doing his best to focus on the task at hand.
“You are not thinking about it all the time,” Tanaka told the New York Post’s George A. King III. “Just going into today’s game you realize this is the last start of the regular season for me which means the last start of my seven-year contract with the Yankees. I did have that thought going into the game but it wasn’t like I was thinking about it all the time.