Padres’ Kirby Yates: How lost Yankees season resurrected my career

In Yankees history, the 2016 season goes down as a ground floor of sorts. Gary Sanchez exploded onto the scene. Aaron Judge went deep in his very first big-league at-bat, then struggled. Clint Frazier and Gleyber Torres arrived in the Yankees organization via rare selloff trades, as did Justus Sheffield and Dillon Tate, who helped…