The Yankees had dreams of their version of Shohei Ohtani.
Dermis Garcia had his own dreams to consider.
“All of my life — all of my baseball-playing life — what I wanted to do was hit,” the Yankees’ slugging prospect, who currently is playing for Single-A Tampa, said over the phone this week.
Similar words ended a brief experiment of developing a power bat into something rarer. At the end of last season, the Yankees moved Garcia, who had been a first baseman and third baseman, from the corners to the mound, wanting to see how the live arm from a 6-foot-3, 200-pound prospect could translate.