“Do your best, or you’re only cheating yourselves.”
My parents often said exactly this to us quite often when we were kids, usually the night before a big test. Though we didn’t know it, it was essentially them saying, “Don’t just know the material. Know it your best.”
You’d think that for all of the annual crowing about World Series contention and always building a lineup expected to win one, the Yankees would understand this.
Well, career minor leaguer Duke Ellis got the call when rosters expanded on Sunday. DJ LeMahieu was not designated for assignment despite Anthony Rizzo returning from injury.