 McCutcheon of all from a first round draft pick into an MVP and an icon in the still city the 31 year old was traded to San Francisco by the rebuilding pirates in January and with the Giants falling far back in the playoff chase he was dealt to the Yanks after he cleared waivers last week. Here he is from this morning. It was a it's kind of a you know surreal feeling you know you're you play this game you we all know the history here and you know just to see the news and to hear it that I was gonna be a Yankee eyes it's kind of a surreal feeling because of course you know I feel like a lot of baseball players want to at least throw the pinch right song for for who knows how long just to say you did it you know it's a it'd be a really surreal feeling so to actually for it to come to fruition is it's a pretty surreal like it's like the only word I can think of right now but yeah so we were excited me my family me my wife we were excited about it and you know we're ready to get going you know what I just I go out there and I just play the game you know as hard as as I can play it and that's the only way that I know and but I feel like for myself I think just just being out there just playing the game like I like I've done not only doing that but having a lot of fun doing it and I think that's the one of the key things I can bring here is is just the charisma and having a lot of fun making a lot of people laugh they seem like they have a lot of fun here so it won't be a hard adjustment for myself to to get along with all the guys and yeah just keeping everybody upbeat and you know regardless of whatever's going on so yeah just just having a lot of fun out there on the field and and playing the game hard staying to the right Eric Andrew they being inserted into a pennant race what does that mean to you you guys were on the periphery of attention in Pittsburgh now join the team that that's right in the stick of the playoff hunt what does that mean oh yeah it means it's time to go there's no no going through the motions there's no just trying to finish out the season on a high you know it's it's it's time to go some to fight to fight towards and you know I have been in this situation before so I'm I'm ready to go and I'm ready to help the team in any way that I can here and just try and get the team a boost in any way that I can so yeah for me personally I'm ready to get to get get started and you know we're already you know the goal is you know making it past the playoffs you know and making it to the World Series and trying to win so this franchise knows then they know how to do that and know what that's about so I'm looking forward to that and but you just got to take it day by day and handle business today and that's what I'm ready to do