Michael Kay and Ken Singleton with the YES Network (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
Michael Kay and the Yankees postgame show really let the team have it after they got cute in ALDS Game 2.
The Yankees, with a tradition of thinking outside the box in recent years and building a bigger and badder analytics department than anyone else in baseball with their vast resources, may have overthought their Game 2 pitching strategy.
In what played to the public as a desperation move, the team opted to pitch rookie phenom Deivi Garcia in Game 2, leaving the more stable Masahiro Tanaka for the series’ third contest, when they would likely need a rested group of top bullpen arms only in his stead.