Keith was on air hours after Anthony Rizzo was placed on the IL, and after fielding calls for months from fans that were convinced Rizzo was off physically, and it likely stemmed back to his collision with Fernando Tatis Jr. two months prior, he had to wonder how the Yankees didn’t come to a similar conclusion.
“Somebody should have identified that,” Keith said. “I’m reading the quotes from Rizzo, and I feel bad. I know he’s trying to be a fill-in captain and a leader, because [Aaron] Judge was not there.
“This really happened? The New York Yankees, in New York City, when we all said he’s not right?”
Sure, Rizzo could have been more vocal about the lack of explanation behind his struggles, and how they clearly began after an incident that clearly shook him up immediately after, but the job of the training staff is to protect the players from themselves, and Keith says the Yankees medical staff failed in that regard.
“We watched him struggle out there for plenty of games, and we wasn’t right,” Keith said. “And it’s not right that they let that happen…it’s also not right that they missed it. And these are the New York Yankees, who carry themselves with this air of knowing better than everyone else. That’s a mistake, and one that people are gonna remember for a while.”
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