Content Warning: This story contains details of domestic abuse.
In baseball, there is usually a culture of keeping your head down and your mouth shut. Players prefer to keep their interpersonal dramas within the confines of the clubhouse whenever possible. It was a rare exception when Yankees reliever Zack Britton answered a question about his teammate, Domingo Germán, with anything other than a simple deviation.
“Sometimes you can’t control who your teammates are,” Britton said. “That’s the situation.”
Britton is an MLBPA representative for the team and one of the few remaining pitchers on the 2019 Yankees staff.
Germán returns this spring after nearly 18 months out of MLB after an 81-game suspension under the league’s domestic violence policy. He served 18 games at the end of the 2019 season, and then missed the entire shortened 2020 season while serving his remaining 63 …