Tuesday certainly was, well, a day for the New York Yankees.
It was supposed to be just a regular day early in the offseason. The laconic, almost reclusive Hal Steinbrenner had a scheduled Zoom call with the media. Word got around that familiar face James Rowson was likely the new hitting coach. GM Brian Cashman was doing GM things at the GM Meetings down in Scottsdale.
Somewhere along the way, it all went wrong. Steinbrenner gave his usual end-of-season platitudes, lamenting the disappointing season in which his team “accomplished nothing.”
The owner then did his spiel about big changes coming, but played the privacy card when pressed.