You might be mispronouncing J.A. Happ’s first name
J.A. Happ will be the newest Yankees starting pitcher and also their latest source of confusion. His name is one of the most botched in all of baseball. Despite the temptation to pronounce both letters in Happ’s name separately, as in “JAY-AY,” he asked in 2016 to keep it monosyllabic. “It’s just pronounced ‘Jay,’” he...