No, not the neighbors’ nephew who fell out of the tree and broke his arm last summer. I mean the New York Yankees infielder who won the starting second baseman’s job out of Spring Training last year! You know, the lefty hitter with breakneck speed out of the batter’s box.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a year later and Tyler Wade is…fighting for a roster spot. A combination of bad luck and illness saw him demoted to the minors last year and supplanted by Gleyber Torres. The rest, as they say, is history, but more about that later.