It’s difficult not to get used to certain aspects of a baseball team during the lengthy regular season. For the Yankees, there have been several players who exceeded expectations, and that became the norm: you got called and you performed, or you were acquired and you performed.
When something disrupts that consistent trend, though, it’s also easy to take notice of what’s missing. In this case, major league pitchers have started making adjustments against Gio Urshela. In general, they decided to not offer him a pitch he was performing well against. The established norm of Urshela simply hitting everything that came his way has started to fade.