How Brent Headrick became a Yankees bullpen savior…
BOSTON — If you predicted Brent Headrick to have the seventh-highest bWAR of any Yankee at the midway level of the season, I’m guessing you might be either blood-related or mendacity.
Because as a lot as the Yankees had high hopes for the lefty reliever coming into this 12 months, it was tough to think about him being fairly this good, this reliable and this often used in a bullpen that was in need of some reliable arms.
Headrick has posted 1.5 bWAR, which trails only Cam Schlittler, Cody Bellinger, Aaron Judge, Ben Rice, Paul Goldschmidt and Max Fried on the Yankees. He is in that company because of his 1.66 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 38 innings while establishing himself as a reliable high-leverage arm in Aaron Boone’s circle of trust.
“He’s been huge for us down there,” Boone said on Wednesday.
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