During the 2016 season, future Hall of Famer David Ortiz of the Red Sox grabbed then-Orioles reliever Zach Britton for a chat up in Boston.
“The year that he was retiring, he pulled me aside one time in Fenway and he kind of just described, ‘Your ball starts here and then it’s gone,’ ” Britton, with his hand outstretched simulating Ortiz’s description, said Thursday. “That was probably the best compliment I’ve gotten from a guy like him.”
Most of the other comments about Britton’s power sinker cannot be printed.
But that is part of the repertoire the Yankees hope they have added at the cost of three pitching prospects, including Dillon Tate, to make the deepest bullpen on the planet even deeper.