“This is the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Station. The next stop is 161st Street, Yankee Stadium.”
The Scranton Shuttle has been part of Pinstripe Alley parlance for as long as I can remember. Looking through the site’s archives, it first appeared all the way back in 2007, at the time known as the Scranton/JFK shuttle and actually coined by a writer from DRays Bay. Back then, the term was used mostly derisively, referring to journeymen pitchers who filled out a bullpen that was, outside of Mariano Rivera and Joba Chamberlain, not all that good.
Over the years, however, the Scranton Shuttle has evolved into a core part of the Yankees’ bullpen strategy.