Yankees May Have Prepared Shelley Duncan for Coaching Career

After being in the Yankees organization seemingly forever, Shelley Duncan, 30, is a Baby Bomber no more after he left via free agency and signed with the Cleveland Indians this offseason. For a couple of reasons his time with the Yankees is filled with mixed emotions. Sitting down with Tyler Kepner of the NY Times yesterday Duncan tried to explain his time here saying that he doesn’t like to dwell on the past, but that he can’t help wondering what life would have been like if he had been drafted by another organization. One positive he does bring out of it is that he felt like the Yankees possibly have prepared him for a second career, as a coach. Here are excerpts from Kepner’s piece: “It’s a complicated thing to talk about,” Shelley Duncan said. “I don’t like to think about it much. You really can’t control any of the stuff that happened over there. It’s like me and Eric talk every night. We just share thoughts every night about how things are so different. ...