“Oh no, why is he coming into the game?”
If you’re reading this, I guarantee you that this thought has gone through your mind more than once in recent weeks. Whether it’s Andrew Heaney, Nick Nelson, or Brooks Kriske that gets that reaction when they begin the long jog in from the bullpen door, we all understand the immense feeling of dread. No lead feels safe when they enter the game, and when the Yankees are down, their entrance feels like a white flag flying over the Yankees dugout.
For some reason, watching Kriske turn an ordinary loss into an eight-run blowout earlier this week got me thinking about the worst pitchers to have pitched more than a handful of innings for the Yankees in the last few years.