NY Daily News · Feb 21, 2016
Yankees’ Betances taking nothing for granted during spring
New York Yankees relief pitcher Dellin Betances (68) New York Yankees Spring Training. George M. Steinbrenner Field. Tampa, FL. February 21, 2016. (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)TAMPA – Dellin Betances has been one of the most dominant relievers in baseball for the past two seasons. So why is he still approaching this spring as if he was still a rookie?
The towering righthander enters 2016 as a two-time All-Star and one-third of the most fearsome bullpen trio in recent memory. But things haven’t always come so easily for the 27-year-old, who needed nearly nine years after being drafted to assert himself as a productive big-leaguer.