"Lin, no matter how many times I watch that forkball, it's still disgusting. How did you come up with such a pitch?!"
As the young Aaron Judge walked into the players' locker room at George Steinbrenner Field, he heard Luis Severino's loud exclamation as soon as he stepped through the door; and when he looked in the direction of the voice, this is what he saw:
Yankees fans' highly anticipated star pitcher Luis Severino was currently gathered around an Asian face with an incredulous expression; aside from him, several main bullpen players and some lower league pitchers who were promoted during spring training shared the same expression as Severino.
Aaron Judge clearly remembered how, just over a week ago, this friend of his had sent him a private message, grumbling about the team's higher-ups going through so much trouble to sign Lin Guanglai as "redundant," and as a pitcher nurtured by the Yankees, he claimed he would "show that Asian guy a thing or two"...
