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The New York Yankees announced on Saturday that they have officially signed Brett Gardner to his new contract. They also announced that they were DFA’ing reliever Stephen Tarpley. The move was a bit surprising, but not completely unexpected.
Tarpley bounced around a bit between AAA and the MLB due to his ineffectiveness against righties the past two seasons. He was one of the best lefty on lefty pitchers in baseball.
Lefties had just a .164 average against Tarpley, while righties had a .378 average against him. He was giving up hits to almost 2/5 of righties, which can’t happen.