The expectations for Joey Gallo are lower now than they were when the Yankees acquired him at last season’s trade deadline.
“When I first got traded here I think they thought I was Babe Ruth, or something, I don’t know,” Gallo told The Post and smiled.“A lot of the Joey Gallo they saw last year wasn’t the normal Joey Gallo,” he said.
“I think last year they thought I was somebody that I’m not,” Gallo said before going 2-for-3 in the Yankees’ “I didn’t really realize until after the season that I was really getting f–king blasted by everybody,” he said. “After the season obviously, you’re at home chillin’ a little bit more and then you’re like, ‘They didn’t like me too much there in New York, I guess, so.’ This year I’m just going to try to win games.”
“When you’re working out and you’re tired in the offseason, it provides a little more fuel like, ‘All right, I’m gonna show people who I am,’ ” Gallo said, “but baseball’s a weird sport because the more mad and angry you get doesn’t mean the better you’re gonna be. … You have to be calm almost, you know. … I wish it was football or a fight where I can just like beat the hell out of someone but you can’t, it’s baseball. It’s a 162-game season. Being angry doesn’t necessarily help you play better.
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