We’ve already made a few selections to the Yankees’ all-complementary team pitching staff: Eddie Lopat and Monte Pearson headline our rotation and Ramiro Mendoza is the swingman. Now, we move on to the two relievers with a great history in pinstripes as complementary arms, one from each side.
The game is more flexible today with relievers and how they’re used. That’s not to say that it was always about the closer — way back in the day we had the fireman reliever, when arms out of the pen came in all sorts of gems and threw multiple innings often finishing the game.