SF Giants, Mike Yastrzemski (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
SF Giants’ outfielder Mike Yastrzemski was named the 2020 Willie Mac Award recipient.
The SF Giants have become accustomed to seeing surprise standouts in each of the past two seasons. But none have managed to find success more than outfielder Mike Yastrzemski.
A little over a year ago, Yastrzemski was an unknown struggling minor-league ballplayer who the Giants acquired in a low-profile swap of elder minor-leaguers.
His biggest claim to fame was his grandfather, the great Carl Yastrzemski, and he was contemplating an early retirement having spent seven years in the minors without even sniffing the major leagues.