It’s not quite a chicken-or-egg puzzle, but when to play and when to rest becomes a significant dilemma at this point of the baseball season. Yankees catcher Brian McCann wants to be there for every moment of the final push. But the reality of rest must intervene.
“You just have to be smart about it,” said McCann who received a day off Friday from manager Joe Girardi during the Subway Series with the Mets. “He’s been amazing with me all year giving me rest. He just picks spots to give me a breather.”
So Girardi picked Friday against the Mets lefty starter Steven Matz to rest the lefty-hitting McCann.