Pinstripe Alley · Mar 6, 2021
Yankees 2, Pirates 3: Jameson bleeping Taillon
Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports The Yankees dropped their seven-inning contest with the Pirates 3-2 Saturday afternoon, but there were a range of positives concerning the possible No. 2 in the rotation, and the race for the last bench spot stayed hot.
I am starting to giggle when I think about Jameson Taillon. I’ll have quite a bit more on his mechanical changes tomorrow, but Taillon, through three innings this spring, looks legitimate. He struck out the first batter he faced, former Yankee Dustin Fowler, and ended up sitting down four of the nine men he saw. Throwing 39 pitches, he did walk a batter, and the two singles he allowed were both very hard, with exit velocities over 105.