The Yankees have shown a lot of faith in Zack Britton. They traded for him at the 2018 trade deadline despite Britton having only recorded 15.2 innings after undergoing Achilles surgery before the season. They signed him to a contract that could pay up to $53 million, one of the better deals a non-closer relief pitcher has ever received.
Britton has rewarded that faith. Though he’s never quite resembled the dominant force he was at his peak, Britton has now turned in a season and a half’s worth of high-quality late-inning relief work with New York.