Despite my own personal, irrational dislike of Brock Holt over the past few years, last winter, I advocated for the Yankees to bring the longtime member of the Boston Red Sox to the Bronx to serve as a much-needed veteran utilityman. At the time, Tyler Wade and Thairo Estrada were the team’s primary bench pieces, and neither inspired much confidence.
Sound familiar? Much has changed over the past 12 months, but that need certainly has not gone away.
Holt would fill that need rather nicely. His bat has never been particularly strong — he’s posted an OPS+ above 100 only twice in his career, in 2018 and 2019 — and he’s never ranked well in hard-hit rate (25.