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10 stars you may have forgotten were Yankees

Author: Joe Frisaro / Source: MLB.com

On Tuesday, New Year’s Day, reports leaked that the Yankees were close to a deal with Troy Tulowitzki, the five-time All-Star who once looked like a potential Hall of Fame candidate before injuries derailed his career.

Tulo is only 34 years old, and he could serve as a fill-in for the Yanks until Didi Gregorius returns from Tommy John surgery. At the minimum salary that New York will reportedly be paying Tulowitzki, the price is certainly right for the club to give him a chance.

But that’s not the story, as far as I can tell it. The real story is, “Whoa, Troy Tulowitzki is going to look crazy in pinstripes!” I had only recently gotten used to him as a Blue Jay, considering he’s one of the most iconic Rockies of all time. Now he’ll be in a Yankees uniform? There’s an incongruence in seeing Tulo in pinstripes, but it’s one we should be used to by now. There is a long, rich history of the Yanks bringing in veterans who made their name with other teams at the tail ends of their careers — often for such a short amount of time that you might forget they ever played for New York at all.

Today, we take a look at the 10 most incongruent Yankees, those who had outstanding careers elsewhere and sneaked into pinstripes toward the end. You probably don’t remember that any of these players were Yanks; with some of them, it even seems wrong that they were ever part of the team. But Yankees they were. Tulo can’t look any stranger in pinstripes than these guys did.

We limited ourselves to players in the 2000s, by the way. The recency won’t make it much easier to remember.

Lance Berkman, 2010
The Astros — beginning their transition from the old guard to the young, stacked 2017 World Series champions we know today — sent Berkman to the Yankees at the Trade Deadline for a pair of Minor Leaguers, one of whom was Mark Melancon. Berkman only played 37 games for the Yanks, and they weren’t particularly impressive ones: He had just one homer and hit .255. He launched a big home run in the American League Division Series against the Twins, however, but New York declined his option in the offseason. It worked out just fine for Berkman: He signed with the Cardinals and won his first and only World Series the next year.

Jose Canseco, 2000
Even though Canseco was still a productive hitter — he had 46 homers for the Blue Jays in 1998, which had to have been the quietest 46 big flies Canseco was capable of hitting — he bounced around from team to team in the last five years of his career: From 1994-2001, he played for the Rangers, Red Sox, A’s, Blue Jays, Devil Rays, White Sox and, yes, the Yankees. The Yanks were the least remarkable of his stops, where he hit six homers in 37 games and was unable to make the postseason roster for the ALDS and AL Championship Series. He got one at-bat in the World Series against the Mets and struck out. It didn’t stop him from picking up his second World Series ring.

Matt Holliday, 2017
After eight productive years, the Cardinals didn’t offer Holliday a contract following the 2016 season. He immediately picked up with the Yankees, and for a while, hit the ball like crazy. He had 11 homers during the first two months of the season and was briefly the Yanks’ best hitter. After the All-Star break, though, injuries grabbed him again, and he barely played until September. He was left…

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