Gallo arrived at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, a day after the Yankees traded him to Los Angeles with hopes of putting his nightmarish time in The Bronx behind him.
Gallo arrived at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, a day after the, with the hope of putting his nightmarish time in The Bronx behind him.
“My time in New York didn’t go as well as I wanted it to,” Gallo told reporters in Los Angeles. “Obviously I wish I played better. … If you don’t play well, they look for somebody else to take that job and do it. But I think it’s nice to get a fresh start and a new clubhouse and a new place on the other side of the country, completely. And just get back to playing baseball again and trying to win games for the Dodgers.
The Dodgers were targeting a left-handed hitter throughout the trade-deadline frenzy, and though they were peripheral contenders for Juan Soto, they settled for Gallo. The Dodgers are confident they can bring out the talent that Gallo had displayed before his tenure with the Yankees. “Baseball’s hard,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “And so the mind helps the performance. So my hope, our hope is that having a fresh start, having clarity, being open to the Dodgers will tap into that talent that he does have and prove for performance. So there’s certainly an exhale and joy to be out of New York, nothing against the Yankees.”The Yankees acquired Gallo at the deadline last season, but the slugging outfielder was a disaster in pinstripes.
After leading the league in strikeouts in 2021, Gallo couldn’t right the ship this season. He is striking out in almost 50 percent of his at-bats, and his .159 batting average would be the worst in baseball if he had enough at-bats to qualify.
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