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1996 Yankees 20th Anniversary Retrospective: John Wetteland

1996 World Series MVP John Wetteland rarely made closing out games look easy, but he reliably got the job done for the team that won the Yankees their 23rd World Series Championship. For that performance, and for his mentorship of Mariano Rivera, the legend of Wetteland as a Yankee is greater than the sum of the stats he accumulated during his two-year stint in pinstripes.

Background

Wetteland grew up in Sebastopol, CA in Sonoma County, the son of a minor league pitcher who housed his family in a tent next to a one-room cabin he had built.