When a baseball team has as much success as the New York Yankees did a season ago, it’s hard not to reflect on all the greatness that was. From Aaron Judge’s historic Rookie of the Year campaign to Luis Severino asserting himself as one of the best starting pitchers in all of baseball, there are many contributing factors as to why the Bronx Bombers got to within a game of the World Series.
Despite the Yanks bringing in David Robertson and Tommy Kahnle from the Chicago White Sox last July to help bolster the bullpen, Chad Green was arguably the most important and most impressive development of all the Yankees hurlers in 2017.