The Yankees’ all-time “full sentence” team

Over the years, we here at Pinstripe Alley have had some run learning and reading about amusingly named players from Yankees history. There’s one area we haven’t totally explored though: players whose names make full sentences.

If a player’s surname is a verb, that can lead to fun opportunities to make full, gramatically correct sentences out of just the two words in a player name. That got our creative juices flowing, so here is a team of players/full sentences.

Shields tossed 26 innings over two seasons with the Yankees from 1924-25. He then nearly died from tuberculosis, and wouldn’t return to the majors until 1930 with the Red Sox. He’s also keeping someone safe from something, so that’s…