There are fun players, and there are good players, and then there are fun good players. Aaron Judge is that last category, and in 2019, Nestor Cortes might have been in the first category. It was interesting to see how the Yankees would use a soft-tossing lefty in what’s normally a flame-throwing bullpen, and while Cortes Jr.’s release point and arm slot trickery was fun to see, his stuff probably doesn’t measure up to MLB caliber, especially in a loaded bullpen like New York’s.
Grade: C-
Statistics: 66.2 IP, 5.