The Yankees’ math never really added up for Clint Frazier.
Frazier, who famously couldn’t follow the massive league club after years as a top prospect, seemingly has lingering beef with the franchise and its analytically driven focus.
“I do feel like they hired just a few too many rocket scientists to attempt to like make the lineup,” Frazier said on “Foul Territory” on Thursday, “as a substitute of similar to letting a former player or a man that has more experience write the lineup.”
He recalled to fellow ex-Yankee and podcast host Erik Kratz being told by one analyst that there isn’t a such thing as “players getting hot.”
“I could 55-for-55, and they might be like, ‘he’s not hot, he’s going to chill down.’ They believed you were what you were,” he said. “And in my mind, I used to be like, that’s not using your eyes… you gotta run with that sometimes.”
Frazier was a polarizing presence for the Yankees upon his arrival as a 21-year-old prospect from Cleveland in 2016 as a part of the Andrew Miller trade — partly as a result of his flowing red locks.
The Yankees relaxed their hair policy this season, giving Frazier yet one more qualm together with his former franchise.
“I used to be just highly offended man,” he said. “I felt like I used to be one in all the blokes there attempting to push the envelope. That felt personal.”
Frazier never realized his potential over parts of 5 MLB seasons with the Bombers, battling multiple concussions and getting released in 2021 and bouncing from the Cubs to the Rangers to the White Sox, seeing his last MLB motion in 2023.
Once the No. 53 prospect in MLB.com’s top 100, Frazier’s MLB days ended with a .235 batting average, 29 home runs and 101 RBIs over parts of seven MLB seasons.
Frazier officially retired last season after a run with the Charleston Dirty Birds within the Atlantic League.
