"That's John Gant, right?" manager Mike Shildt said Wednesday morning before batting practice at George M. Steinbrenner Field, home of the New York Yankees and the mini-facade.
Gant will look to match Jack Flaherty's start Tuesday -- if not in strikeouts and success then with pitch count and innings. The righthander with one of the team's better changeups has a foothold on the fifth spot in the rotation in part because he's out of options and cannot go to the minors without likely being lost to another team. But, he also brings a quotient that isn't as wily as the movement of a new split-finger fastball or as dazzling as the heat on a 103-mph fastball.