The cruel irony of Garrett Whitlock ending the New York Yankees season was not lost on anyone who watched the American League Wild Card game Tuesday night. It was especially not lost on the pinstripe faithful.
Whitlock, the Boston Red Sox reliever who delivered the final blow to the Yankees 2021 season by limiting them to one run in the ninth in a 6-2 loss at Fenway Park, was once a highly-regarded prospect for the Yankees. But Tommy John surgery took him out of action in 2019 and the 2020 minor league season was wiped out. The Yankees didn’t protect him in the Rule 5 Draft last year and the team’s biggest rival picked him up as a result.