God bless David Wells. Should’ve stayed a Yankee. In EACH of his two two-year stints as a Yankee, he went 34-14. He loved the pressure, going 10-5 with a 3.17 ERA, for instance, in the post-season. He became a regular, starting pitcher at 30 years old, so his numbers don’t quite scream Hall of Fame, especially after his last couple of years, aged over 43, fattened up his career ERA. But over the course of a decade between age 32 and 42, he went 172-90.
We loved him when I was in San Diego