When you Google Justin Wilson, you have to scroll past a deceased race car driver and a deceased celebrity chef before you get to the lefty reliever.
And yet Yankees fans were absolutely up in arms about dealing Wilson to Detroit during the 2015-16 offseason. What a world.
At the time, though, the move didn’t make a whole lot of sense. The Yanks were taking one of their few existing strengths, the 7-8-9 fellas in the ‘pen, and dismantling the first third of the equation. And not for any great return, either. The secondary piece in the previous summer’s Cespedes-to-the-Mets trade and a depth arm who struggled to find his footing with the Erie SeaWolves.