Jim Leyritz claims he pulled off a coup to keep away from a commerce for the Pink Sox close to the top of his profession.
Leyritz, a postseason people hero of the legendary Nineteen Nineties Yankees dynasty, appeared on OutKick’s “Scorching Mic” with Jonathan Hutton and Chad Withrow on Tuesday to speak about his personal experiences with the MLB commerce deadline.
He revealed that one time he referred to as the late, tempestuous Yankees proprietor George Steinbrenner to step in and cease an impending commerce to Boston.
“Effectively, you understand, I used to be that man after ‘95 and ’96 with the Yankees,” Leyritz, now 60, stated of being a commerce goal, as he was swapped 4 consecutive seasons from 1997-2000.
“Impulsively, I performed for a few groups that weren’t going to make the playoffs. They all the time traded me to a group going to the playoffs. There was fairly a little bit of my final three or 4 years of being just about packed up on July 12, and I simply questioned the place we had been going to wind up as a result of we had been going to finish up someplace. It’s not simple.”
Then got here his story about how he had performed for the Pink Sox throughout a part of the 1998 season — and didn’t wish to return when he was on the Padres across the 1999 commerce deadline.
“I performed for San Diego. It was a state of affairs the place I acquired a telephone name. I used to be on a rehab task, 1999, in Las Vegas, getting back from a damaged hand. I acquired a telephone name, and rapidly it was like, ‘Hey, you’re being traded to the Boston Pink Sox,’” Leyritz stated.
“And I stated, ‘No, no, no, no, no, please.’ I don’t wish to return to the Pink Sox. And so they stated, ‘Effectively, we have to make a commerce for you within the subsequent day or two. I’ll offer you 24 hours to determine one thing else.’
“I put in a telephone name to George Steinbrenner’s secretary, Debbie Nicolosi. I stated, ‘Debbie, inform George I’m being traded again to Boston.’ She goes, ‘Nope, you’re not going to Boston. You’re coming right here.’ Inside 24 hours, I used to be traded again to the New York Yankees. That may be thought-about tampering, I’m certain. However we acquired away with it again then.”
On the time of the commerce, Yankees normal supervisor Brian Cashman credited then-manager Joe Torre’s endorsement for making the deal occur.
