The team opened the camp this week as a big news from New York Yankiz’s spring training, there was a change in the long -standing facial child policy of the organization.
For the last 49 years, a beard was not allowed among Yanki players. But the team owner Hal Steinbrener announced on Friday that the “well -prepared beard” would now be allowed as the franchise develops over time.
According to athletic, New Yankise Reliever Devin Williams allegedly stabbed policy change, held a meeting with Steinbrener and General Manager Brian Cashman to discuss the team’s rules. Williams first favored a full beard during his last six major league season and also described Yankiz’s camp in Tampa with his facial hair.
Williams reluctantly shaved when the pitchrs and catchrs did their first workouts, but the team had a stubble on his face for photographs, indicating a new era. He told the athletic that he intends to grow his beard back, and how long it happens that it would probably indicate the boundaries of the adjusted policy of Yennakis.
For example, Greg Vauan had done 26 years ago with Cincinnati Reds, Williams provoked the change and freed the faces of his peers.
30 -year -old Williams admitted that the facial hair policy would be a factor to decide whether to signed with Yankise. The All-Star Reliever will be a free agent after the season and a career for being in demand with a career 1.83 ERA, the rate of 14.3 strikes to save nine innings and 68.
Steinbrener admitted that the policy can become a barrier with future player acquisition among a generation that felt the beard “part of their character.”
“If I ever came to know that a player whom we wanted to get to get a championship to make us better, then did not want to stay here … will not come here due to that policy … it will not come here … There will be a lot, “Steinbrener said through Jake Mintz of Yahoo Sports,” I am quite confident that this is a real concern. “
However, Yankis captain Aaron Judge has not intended his hair to get out.
The judge told the New York Post, “I was drafted by this organization, so I was here on the first day, I have been shaving since 2013.” “This is what I know, this is what I use. I look around the building, see the old pictures of the previous legends and the people who have played here follow the rule, So I just tried to follow them. “
The judge explained that he told the steinbrener that there is no hair under the ruls such as the collar, which was not important to maintain a standard with discipline and yanki.
