After acquiring Andrew Benintendi from the Kansas City Royals directly following a loss to the New York Mets, GM Brian Cashman still had plenty of work to do. With an injury to Michael King sidelining him for the season, the New York Yankees desperately needed replacement arms in the bullpen. They got one in Scott Effross (and later, Lou Trivino, who Peter will discuss later).
Effross, to put it simply, is a unicorn. My colleague Esteban Rivera wrote about how much he diversifies the Yankees bullpen here, so instead of focusing on that, I’m more interested in how much the newest Yankee reliever reminds me of the injured King because it is almost uncanny.