Tommy Kahnle’s special pitch

Having Tommy Kahnle is good for a few reasons. First, purely, it’s good to have good pitchers, and with an injured list that already includes so many names, the Yankees will need Kahnle to play a key role. We already touched on that along with his return a few weeks ago, and time since, there hasn’t been much reason to believe that’s any less true.

Another thing from Estevão’s piece — its central topic, actually — that hasn’t changed is Kahnle’s increased reliance on his changeup since his return, as he’s still throwing it a career-high 82 percent of the time, up from 76 percent last year and 52 percent in 2019, his last full healthy season (also in New York). On a more granular level,…