Harrison Bader joined the Yankees in a midseason trade with St. Louis. After missing time with an injury, he hit his first home run for New York in Game 1 of the ALDS.
His former team, and the player they acquired for him, Jordan Montgomery, were cruising through September. His new team was struggling, in need of the kind of spark Bader could provide if he were healthy. But the Yankees had traded for him knowing they would have to wait for his plantar fasciitis to heal.
“I’ve learned from a lot of players in the past to let your game speak for itself,” Bader said then. “Being in this atmosphere, to not really have a voice — what I can do to help the team win, that is my voice, so the fact that I can’t play has taken my voice away, which has been tough.”A month later, one game into the Yankees’ postseason, Bader has made himself heard.
“I want to show them all why I earned that uniform, there’s no doubt,” said Bader, who played in 14 regular season games for New York. “However, the flip side, the more professional side, the reality of the situation, is that I wasn’t ready to play; and if I was going to force playing, if I was chasing that exact emotion, you know, it would have been — it wouldn’t have been a version of myself that would have been effective for myself and for my teammates.
Bader was a regular for the Cardinals since 2018, an elite defensive center fielder who won the Gold Glove there last year. He is not known as an offensive force, but he is not irrelevant at the plate, either: Bader owns a .245 career batting average and .723 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. And, at least for one night Tuesday, he looked like the kind of player whose impact grows at the biggest moments. He hit .160 in 10 postseason games for the Cardinals over the years.
“It’s very easy to get emotional. It pulls you out of what you’re trying to do,” Bader said. “I definitely remember the level of excitement I felt. Fans standing up when the other team had two strikes on them. It was just a constant energy factor, if you will. And you know, since I was a young kid — I’d say maybe 20 years ago I started coming to Yankee Stadium — nothing’s changed.”
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