For Andrew McCutchen, the hardest part about becoming a Yankee was shaving his beard. Not because he had any qualms about complying with his new team’s facial-hair policy so much as he feared that his 9-month-old son, Steel, wouldn’t recognize him. “The only thing I was worried about was my son and what his reaction was going to be,” McCutchen said at a pregame news conference on Saturday. with it.”Crisis averted, McCutchen indicated with a smile. And with that, he said, he kissed his son and his wife goodbye at their home in San Francisco on Friday, when he was officially traded from the Giants to the Yankees for two minor leaguers, and he headed for New York.

Source: New York Times September 01, 2018 23:02 UTC