When the news broke that the Yankees were sending Chasen Shreve and Giovanny Gallegos to the Cardinals back in July, I have to confess that I was wholly unfamiliar with the player they were getting in return. I had never heard of Luke Voit, and I figured that he would spend the remainder of the season in Triple-A. The Yankees weren’t going to give up on Greg Bird, right?
Frankly, I was just happy that Brian Cashman had found a way to get Shreve out of the bullpen and received more than a bag of balls for him in return.