TAMPA — Start making your list of most valuable Yankees in 2015. You had Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira, Didi Gregorius and Brett Gardner.
When might you get to Adam Warren? Because, really, you should get to him.
“His role is not looked at as important from the outside,” Joe Girardi said. “But inside it sure is.”
This is not criticism of the Yankees’ trade for Starlin Castro. The Yankees refused to give up Gardner to the Cubs and ultimately relented on Warren because they believed their need for a young, middle-of-the-diamond everyday player was more pressing than having a Swiss Army Knife pitcher.