An MLB team’s area scout who spends his time assigned to the Northeast knows that there won’t be a ton of gems to be unearthed. It’s a position where you just make the most of what’s in front of you.<\/p>\n
For the New York Yankees<\/a> and Matt Hyde, apparently there was plenty in front of him, or he certainly knew where to look.<\/p>\n Hyde is the under-the-radar MVP of the Yankees’ Wild Card series win over the Boston Red Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three of the biggest heroes of the series were Hyde’s finds: Anthony Volpe in Game 1, Ben Rice in Game 2 and Cam Schlittler in Game 3.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0Cam Schlittler threw the craziest statistical gem in a long time<\/a><\/p>\n Rice and Schlittler both grew up in Boston’s backyard.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty cool for an area scout from anywhere, let alone the Northeast, which isn\u2019t exactly a hotbed for baseball, to have three guys making an impact for the team,\u201d Rice told Gary Phillips<\/a>.<\/p>\n Volpe was born in New York City and went to high school in New Jersey.<\/p>\n Rice grew up in Massachusetts and went to Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n Schlittler also grew up in Massachusetts and then went to Northeastern University.<\/p>\n Not a bad trio of kids from cold-weather country.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0A<\/a>\u00a0moment for incredible Cleveland Guardians memories<\/a><\/p>\n And the Yankees needed all three to get past the Red Sox. Without Hyde, who knows if they’d have any?<\/p>\n It’s an unsung position, but in this case, Hyde’s praises deserve to be sung.<\/p>\n More MLB News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MLB team’s area scout who spends his time assigned to the Northeast knows that there won’t be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-186669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}