The Yankees have not had a 20-game winner in over 20 years. Can Max Fried do it? With Aaron Boone as a manager, compiled game scripts in hand, I doubt it. Plus, Fried won 17 games back in 2019 but never more than 14 since then.
But he is now 6-0 and his ERA is 1.01 so this is shaping up to be a career year for him. Health? Keep fingers crossed.
It's funny how this is — and I don't want to make a thing out of the "New York mystique or whatever — but Devin Williams comes to town and "craps the bed" to use low's crude but effective phrase.
Max Fried arrives in New York and can do no wrong. How to account for this? I would think the Yankees rated each as top-notch in their respective roles when they signed them. One soars north and the other dives south.
