TAMPA, Fla. - Forced into a full season of downtime because of ankle and heel injuries, Troy Tulowitzki watched a lot of baseball last year, and there was one club that regularly caught his eye.
"I saw a lot of this team," Tulowitzki said of his current employer, the New York Yankees. "They played some good baseball, came up a little bit short. I want to help them finish it off with a championship."
While the Yankees were marching toward a 100-win 2018 season that ended with an American League Division Series loss to the Boston Red Sox, Tulowitzki, then a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, was rehabbing from surgery to both heels, and ankle problems that began in 2017.