To soothe their fan base after they don't sign Tarik Skubal, the Yankees have announced the promotion of Aaron Gershenfeld - the team's current Run Prevention & Catching Coordinator - to a new, unnamed slot within their soul-crushing corporate machine.
What will Gershenfeld do? What will his job be called? Who is he? Wait... who are you? What's going on here?
Stop with the questions! They steal your soul. The Gersh will replace Tanner Swanson - last season's Director of Catching/Major League Field Coordinator - who was recently poached by Seattle. We've replaced the Director of Catching with a Run Prevention Coordinator, which is overseen by the Rector of Titles, which answers to the Provost of Pitter-Patter.
But who is "the Gersh," and what will he be scrawling into that clipboard of fate?
At considerable expense - and physical danger - IT IS HIGH has compiled 10 tidbits of intrigue on this man of mystery.
1. Why is there a shadow over his basic information?
2. Why is this on his Baseball Reference record?
3. Does he have a thing for looking like Colin Jost?
4. At age 34, he could be younger than many MLB catchers. (Note: Austin Wells is 27, Ali Sanchez 29.) Will that help or hurt?
5. In 2013 and 2014, playing for University of Louisville - (across the river from New Albany) - Gershenfeld helped his team reach the NCAA World Series.
6. He graduated from Louisville with honors in sports administration and was named to the All-Academic team.
7. In 2016, as hitting coach for East Tennessee State, he was credited with helping four players to be selected in the MLB draft.
8. In 2017, as an assistant at Vanderbilt, he helped the team reach the NCAA Super Regionals.
9. He moved to The Citadel and became a third base coach, specializing with catchers. He was said to be instrumental in recruiting top high schoolers.
10. But questions persist. Is that him, circled, behind headliner Hal Steinbrenner, in the 2013 New Year's Day performance of Kinky Boots? If so, what is he doing?
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Gershenfeld is one of those names that just rolls off the tongue, poetry in sound.
Remember when guys had simple titles like Catching Coach? Man, those were the days.
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