Every season, there’s a handful of players that come to the plate against the Yankees and make you say, “here we go again.” It’s not always necessarily the best players in the league, but there’s bound to be somebody who takes their game to another level when they face the Yankees.
This isn’t to say that these players are guaranteed to be a thorn in the Yankees’ side in perpetuity, the way, say, Evan Longoria was for years, just that they’ve crushed the Yankees so far. Here are this season’s most notorious Yankee killers:
You can’t have a list of Yankee killers without someone from the Red Sox.