Last March, general manager Brian Cashman once again worked his magic on the trade market and acquired outfielder Mike Tauchman from the Colorado Rockies. At the time, Yankees fans didn’t think much of it, considering he had only batted .153 in 52 career games.
But the “Sock Man” — as a lot of diehard Bomber fans love to call him — became an admirable fill-in when New York’s outfield was decimated with injuries after Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Hicks all went down. Tauchman burst onto the scene and slashed .