Quick Hit: Don Mattingly, Marlins Channeling Their Inner Yankee

The New York Yankees are one of the few franchises in the four major sports in North American and one of the few Major League Baseball franchises that actually ban facial hair on their players. I say one of the few and not the only franchise because a new team is joining the fray for 2016, the Miami Marlins. Former Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly is the new manager of the Miami Marlins and he is bringing some of his “Yankee” with him.

Obviously this is a first for the Marlins and a first for Mattingly as a manager, the Los Angeles Dodgers did not choose to enact to facial hair ban while he was managing there. Manny Ramirez thanks you for it too. Now truth be told this is probably an organizational call and Mattingly is just the one enforcing it but still, most places won’t report it as such and Mattingly will get the brunt of the blame.

Facial hair or no facial hair the Marlins head into 2016 looking for their first winning season since the 2009 season and their first trip to the playoffs since their World Series victory in 2003. Whatever works, right?

David Robertson is Talking About the Yankees Again

David, we get it. You're a member of the Chicago White Sox now and you didn't want to come back to the Yankees because Chicago has a better chance of winning. You didn't necessarily agree with all the rules the Yankees threw down, apparently the facial hair policy irked you a bit, we get it. I love you D Rob and I really loved watching you play in the Bronx but it's over. You know you can refuse to answer a question or just turn the question around to talk about your current team? Right?

Anyway the point of this article was to inform you guys what Robertson had to say about the Yankees admittedly outdated facial hair policy. Here is the quote from his ESPN interview:

"This is nice, not to have to shave every three days. I think it's kind of ridiculous, but that was the Yankees' rule — they wanted to have you clean-shaven. Here you can just let it grow. Obviously, they don't want me to get it to that point. But I won't let it get out of control."

Joba Chamberlain didn't rip the Yankees facial hair policy and neither did Robinson Cano. Be better, because we know you can be and we know that you are.