Will Warren can recite the errors. He remembers — and has pored over the video of — that 3-2, middle-of-the-plate fastball to the Angels’ Zach Neto again on Aug. 7.
“He taught me a lesson. I’ll never make that mistake again,” Warren mentioned this week. “After the game, Gerrit [Cole] was like, ‘Let’s throw your best pitch here because at the end of the day, if you walk him, you walk one run in. A fastball down the middle, you let four runs in.’”
In his second ever main league begin, the promising prospect allowed eight runs, half of these on the Neto grand slam, in 4 ⅓ innings through which he struggled and discovered. It was one lesson of many throughout a tough first style of main league life for Warren, who’s spending his offseason — and already spent his postseason — learning his missteps.
The Yankees will want the right-hander to soak up that information, regulate and enhance as a result of he is perhaps their first possibility when the primary inevitable rotation harm strikes.
