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Yankees: Francisco Lindor’s newest photo has NYY fans going crazy

Adam Weinrib
Adam Weinrib

Yanks Go Yard

CLEVELAND, OH - SEPTEMBER 24: Francisco Lindor #12 of the Cleveland Indians warms up during the fourth inning against the Chicago White Sox at Progressive Field on September 24, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Ron Schwane/Getty Images)

Yankees fans are going wild after spotting Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor without his trademark facial hair. Something or nothing?

While the rest of the baseball world was focused on which completely viable players their teams were embarrassingly choosing to non-tender (Kyle Schwarber? Really?), Yankees fans found themselves preoccupied with a superstar’s facial hair.

And that’s the way it ought to be.

We can all take a 12-hour moratorium on speculating about which brand new free agents are solid fits for the Yankees. After all, this fan base is conditioned to go for the gold.

It’s a fact that Francisco Lindor is available in trade this offseason, one year before his much-ballyhooed free agency. It’s also factual that Lindor and Gio Urshela are offseason buddies, spending time together since they first crossed paths with the Indians.

So it’s not completely overboard to suggest it means something when Lindor, who’s had a little goatee for his entire time in the spotlight, suddenly appears with a naked chin on the night of the non-tender frenzy.

I mean…just let us have this, OK?! It’s OK to have a little fun every once in a while!

Isn’t this what the baseball offseason is for, after all? Rampant speculation about minor changes in detail? If the NBA gets to have LeBron’s Plane Watch every time he’s on a free agent tour (which, by the way, was completely correct about his destination in 2014!), then we get to stock watch the beards of All-Stars.

Naturally, it didn’t take long before a photoshopped Yankees lid showed up in the mentions.

We’re all excited about this “update,” but it remains important to keep one thing in mind: The arrival of Lindor would either mean the departure of Gleyber Torres or, far more likely, DJ LeMahieu.

Luckily, Yankee fans were there to remind us all of what’s really important this holiday season.

Exactly. If you see a bearded LeMahieu staring blankly, then the game’s over. You’ve already lost.

Make sure to keep checking in here for any future updates. Hopefully, somebody starts monitoring Lindor’s barber’s private plane data?

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib

Adam Weinrib is a Content Director on the FanSided network, and has been the co-editor at Yanks Go Yard for 6 years. He also co-hosts The Baseball Insiders Podcast thrice weekly, alongside FanSided MLB insider Robert Murray, as well as the Yanks Go Yard Podcast. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at 12up.com, and has been covering MLB and NFL for 10 years. He was also a headline and features contributor at ClickHole and Onion Sports, as well as the Associate Producer of the ESPN 30 for 30 film "Believeland". An avowed fan of the New York sports teams -- specifically the Yankees -- as well as the North Carolina Tar Heels, you can find Adam complaining mid-game on Twitter, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn if the game goes really poorly.