Maybe Harrison Bader didn’t have his phone near him and couldn’t hear the news from his agent.
Or: The New York Yankees didn’t tell the outfielder that the franchise had put him on waivers on Tuesday.
Because Bader informed reporters in an interview after the news broke that he was “in the lunch room” and saw that he had been put on waivers while watching ESPN.
His first question? “What does waivers mean?” But he laughed about that, and later said he never watches ESPN, and then, “Here we go.”
Bader took it all in stride. Give him credit, because I’d be miffed if I was him:
Harrison Bader on how he learned he was waived: “I was in the lunch room and saw it on ESPN”
Classless move by Cashman and the front office pic.twitter.com/SfP7T5ueaq
— ZT🗽 (@NY_EvilEmpire) August 30, 2023