Yarbrough actually has five pitches (fastball, cutter, sinker, change-up, sweeper). Each one has a different velocity, some in the 70s, some as soft as 67-mph. They attack different quadrants of the strike zone.

It’s tough to get a bead on him,” Aaron Boone said of Yarbrough, who has always been a funky side-armer. Nobody has tried to change him.

Ryan Yarbrough picked up a dazzling World Series ring from his time with the Los Angeles Dodgers last season. Then he went out and beat them.