When a man has been discarded twice and reinvented himself and then become an All-Star and done it all with an island vibe, a pandemic is just another thing to overcome.
Even when it hits the season after he made his first All-Star game and the year before he is due to be a free agent and it cut his first big payday by nearly two thirds.
When you’re Kirby Yates, your take-it-as-it-comes chill is perhaps the ultimate tool to employ in the most take-it-as-it-comes of situations.
“Nothing I can really do about it,” Yates said Wednesday with a smile.