Fresh after hitting two home runs to help the New York Yankees complete a sweep of their archrivals, the Boston Red Sox, on Monday, Luke Voit praised the club for its enormous depth and overall talent.
Voit, traded to the Yankees near the end of the 2018 season, keeps justifying the investment that the club made in him. He may not be a Gold Glover at first base, but boy, he can hit with the best of them.
“We have the deepest team in baseball,” Voit said. “Guys are coming up and providing us with innings, at-bats, everything. It’s really impressive. I’ve never been on a team that’s had this much depth. Guys have stepped in for big-time All-Star players and have done really well.”
Thairo Estrada and Aaron Hicks also homered in the Yankees’ 6-3 victory, which helped them improve to 10-0 in the Bronx this season.
“That’s unique in the history of this rivalry,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I just think it’s a stretch where we’ve had a few really good series against them. They’ve had some things not go their way, so I don’t put a whole lot into it.”
The Yankees are enjoying a healthy Voit
Now healthy after a core muscle injury halted his season in 2019, Voit lost weight but not his trademark power.
“Luke is a guy that can do a lot of damage,” Hicks said to MLB.com. “He’s starting to prove that now. He’s very important to this team, especially now. We’ve got a couple of guys on the IL and he’s going to be very important to us.”
The Yankees’ first baseman has a total of four multihomer games in his career, two of which have come against the Sox.
“It’s a big-time series every time you play these guys. We always bring it,” Voit said. “They’ve been fighting the injury bug, too, but we’ve had guys come up and step up. They’ve had a lot of pitching guys going up and down. We’re locked in and it doesn’t matter who it is. We’ll be ready to go.”