Jazz Chisholm, since his arrival, has always stuck out as the anti-Yankee.
Jazz with a capital “J” in a lower-case orchestra of chamber music. These Yankees are most content making noise with their torpedo bats. Except Chisholm. He is loud. In how he enters a room, moves about a baseball field and talks about it all.
In a media-trained world in which the Yankees come in such a bland vanilla that you could fall asleep between when, say, Anthony Volpe begins a particularly short, uninsightful answer and ends it, Chisholm stands out like a lavender wristband.
It was Chisholm who publicly blurted what Aaron Boone told his team behind closed doors after being swept four games in Toronto in early July – that they remained the best team in the American League and to stay positive. And it was Chisholm, who two weeks ago amid the Yankees’ late surge, that proclaimed, “I feel like any team that thinks they’re better than us, they should know that when we step on the field, that we’re coming with relentlessness and we’re coming to step on necks.” Or the kind of thing you might expect from the WWE, not the NYY.
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