{"id":2631,"date":"2024-10-27T05:38:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2024-10-27T05:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T05:38:03","slug":"1-forgotten-yankees-injury-that-completely-changed-2024-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"1 forgotten Yankees injury that completely changed 2024 World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If only the Yankees had one more weapon…<\/p>\n

\"Championship<\/p>\n

For years, we warned the\u00a0New York Yankees against the perils of relying on Jonathan Loaisiga\u00a0rather than treating him like a potential luxury item. Sadly, they didn’t listen this season, and were swiftly forced to come to grips with their house of cards collapsing.<\/p>\n

Somehow, some way, this Yankees team operates best in “scramble mode,” with their backs against the wall forced to innovate. But that process is far more difficult and time consuming than “easy mode,” and\u00a0after Loaisiga’s season-ending injury\u00a0— just three outings into the campaign — it took New York’s braintrust arguably five months to figure out some semblance of a bullpen pecking order.<\/p>\n

And, even when they did figure one out … man, it would look\u00a0so<\/em>\u00a0much nicer with just\u00a0one<\/em>\u00a0more swing-and-a-miss inducing arm to slot into the depth chart.<\/p>\n

The Yankees’ triumvirate of Clay Holmes, Tommy Kahnle, and Luke Weaver has carried them effectively through two postseason rounds, to the edge of the promised land. In Games 4 and 5, unable to summon a single tried-and-true solution, the slapdash combination of Tim Hill, Mark Leiter Jr., and Jake Cousins delivered splendidly (for the most part).<\/p>\n

But … the goal is to only break that glass in case of\u00a0emergencies<\/em>. It certainly won’t take some sort of trauma to force the Yankees back to a similar well by Game 3; in fact, it’ll probably be necessary in the flow of a long series. And Loaisiga, as evidenced by this heartbreaking post, will be watching from home and gutting it out like the rest of us.<\/p>\n

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