Andrew McCutchen thinks the Yankees should cut their hair policy.
“I definitely do think it takes away from our individualism as players and as people,” McCutchen told Jensen Karp on “The Sports Bubble” podcast. “We express ourselves in different ways.”
McCutchen spent about two months with the Yankees in 2018, coming over from the Giants in a trade and playing a role in their playoff run.
When he showed up, McCutchen immediately had to grab a razor and lose the beard he had with San Francisco. McCutchen also sported dreadlocks during much of his nine-year run in Pittsburgh before chopping them off and selling them to raise money for charity in 2015.
The Yankees don’t allow players’ hair to go past the collar of their baseball jersey and they can’t have facial hair that extends beyond their top lip.
McCutchen thinks owner Hal Steinbrenner should seriously consider booting the rule that his father, late own George Steinbrenner, implemented in 1973.
“I feel like maybe there should be some change there in the future — who knows when — but it’s just one of the many things in this game that I feel that there just needs ... it needs to be talked about, and to be addressed,” said McCutchen, who took a three-year, $50-million deal from the Philadelphia Phillies following his stint with the Yankees.
Of course, McCutchen’s stay with the Yankees wasn’t all bad. In fact, he called the organization “great.” He said he felt a little more “powerful” wearing the pinstripes.
“It was for me it was an honor,” he said. “It was something that I felt I would never have the opportunity to do.”
Still, McCutchen said, he didn’t like “those policies of shaving and letting the jersey speak for itself.”
He said it would have been tough for him to do when he was sporting his dreads. He said cutting them, even on his own accord, was a “very tough thing for me to do.”
“Because that was who I was,” he said. “That was how I expressed myself. That’s who made me Andrew McCutchen. That’s how people noticed who I was, it made me unique. I think, especially in this year, the year of 2020, I just feel like these things are, or should be, things that people should take at heart and realize that we have a way of expressing ourselves in different ways.”
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arcxjo on July 6th, 2020 at 20:13 UTC »
Mattingly! I thought I told to you trim those sideburns!
Mjb06 on July 6th, 2020 at 16:20 UTC »
I totally forgot McCutchen played for the Yankees.
RicoRecklezz617 on July 6th, 2020 at 16:19 UTC »
Johnny Damon had to get a butch haircut