Over the last few years, the Yankees’ hitting coaches have shown a knack for transforming relative unknowns into fearsome big league sluggers. Just look at the leaps taken by Luke Voit, Gio Urshela, Mike Tauchman and Mike Ford. And while Voit and Urshela have maintained or improved upon that production — entrenching themselves as major league stalwarts — others have crashed back to Earth.
Yesterday, my colleague Dan Carty delved into the regression of one of those players. He explored how Mike Tauchman’s precipitous decline from 2019 to 2020 has thrown his role on the team into the realm of uncertainty.