Everyone who follows baseball long enough has memories of a player burning brightly for their team for a short period and then never playing for the team again. Many players who put up good stats in a small sample size end up falling away because they get more playing time and they regress and/or get figured out. However, there are a handful of ones who never reach that status because, for one reason or another, they stop playing for the team before regression hits.
Here is a selection of ten Yankees who put up genuinely good numbers in a small sample of games but then didn’t play for the team again after that.