Andrew Heaney navigated seven hits over five innings against the Mets on Tuesday, allowing two earned runs and striking out an impressive eight batter along the way.
He still gave up two home runs, which many Yankee fans will remember after the lefty allowed home runs at a dizzying rate in the second half of 2021 with New York, but now that he holds a 2.12 ERA with the Dodgers, Sal says the stark improvement just doesn’t add up.
“Something’s up,” Sal said. “He was atrocious with the Yankees. He was terrible with the Angels, came to the Yankees and couldn’t get anybody out, now all of a sudden he’s throwing BBs and nobody can touch him?
“We saw that with the Astros, and something was up there, wasn’t there?”
Jerry Recco noted that the sticky stuff that Sal was noting with the Astros was used across the league, and it didn’t seem to be helping Heaney at all when he was in New York. He pitched to a lowly 7.32 ERA with the Yanks after being acquired from the Angels, but now, in 10 starts this season, has allowed just 11 earned runs in 46.2 innings of work after allowing 29 in 35.2 innings as a Yankee.
“Can you blame me? I used to be naïve to this stuff,” Sal said. “Andrew Heaney sucked here! I’m more shocked that Heaney has that ERA than I am that Joey Gallo is having that success.”
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