With big-game pitchers Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg heading this winter’s free-agent class, backup catchers aren’t hip at this time of the year, and the Yankees will certainly be involved with Cole, Strasburg and Zack Wheeler.
Yet, as a first-time free agent, the 31-year-old Romine has been more important to the Yankees than the garden-variety backup because of Gary Sanchez’s injury history the past two seasons.
This George King article is weird, because he essentially ends with, “But eh, I guess Kyle Higashioka wouldn’t be that bad if that’s what they go with.”
So…uhm…thanks for that, George, I guess?