The New York Yankees opening pitcher, Carlos Rodon, wore a beard during the team’s 4-2 victory over the Milwaukee brewers in the first game of the team’s season on Thursday.
The new aspect attracted mixed online reactions after the organization made drastic changes in one of its long -standing policies last month. Rodon, 32, had a beard with the San Francisco giants and the Chicago White Sox before signing with the Yankees and shaved.
When the Yankees discarded their facial hair policy in spring training, players were allowed to grow “well arranged”. With the missing rule, Rodon, along with other Yankees, had beards on the day of the inauguration.
CLICK HERE for more sports coverage at Foxnews.com
New York Yankees starting pitcher, Carlos Rodon, #55, reacts during the third entry against Milwaukee brewers at Yankee Stadium on March 27, 2025. (Brad Penner-Imagn images)
However, fans had different opinions about seeing Yankees players with beards for the first time in a long time.
“That beard looks great in Carlos Rodon,” a user published in X.
Other fans were not so friendly to the Yankees starting pitcher. “Carlos Rodon looks terrible, the outstanding beard, in his stripes before the crowd of Yankee Stadium. Very disrespectful,” an X fan published.
“Not being an old man because I did not think I would care so much, but seeing Carlos Rodon in the striped mound with beard is driving me crazy,” another fan published on social networks.
Rodon won the victory, when he launched 5.1 tickets and yielded only one race in four hits and two walks while struggling the seven brewers of the brewers.
Broadway actress faces criticism for reading the letter of the national anthem during the presentation before the game
The New York Yankees starting pitcher, Carlos Rodon, #55, gives the ball to the manager Aaron Boone, #17, after being relieved during the sixth entrance against the Milwaukee brewers in the Yankee Stadium on March 27, 2025. (Brad Penner-Imagn images)
Some fans tied Rodon’s strong performance with his beard.
“Very excited for a full year of Carlos Rodon Barbudo with this twisted sliding control and a new change,” an user published in X.
“Carlos Rodon can be the one who benefits the most of the new beard policy of the Yankees,” said another fan on social networks.
In the previous two seasons before Rodon signed with the Yankees, he made the All-Star team in both years and launched more than 310.2 entries with the giants and the white socks. His first two years with the Yankees, without a beard, were not so productive for Rodon. His era in his Yankees career is 4.67, and he has not been the pitcher As that the Yankees expected him to sign.
New York Yankees starting pitcher, Carlos Rodon, #55, launched himself against the Milwaukee brewers during the third entry in the Yankee Stadium on March 27, 2025. (Brad Penner-Imagn images)
However, with a beard in 2025, Rodon has had a strong start. Rodon was not the only player who had a beard, since the left gardener Jasson Domínguez, reliever Mark Leiter Jr. and the closer Devin Williams also had beards.
The next Yankees game is against the brewers on Saturday at 1:05 pm et, with Max Fried making a debut on his team after he signed an eight -year contract and $ 218 million with the Yankees in the low season.
