Injuries have throttled the Yankees‘ bullpen this season, especially in the second half. Just imagine how nasty the unit would be with Chad Green, Michael King, Stephen Ridings, Zack Britton, Ron Marinaccio, and Scott Effross for example. With all those players, it would be nearly unhittable.
But injuries happen to all teams, and those players simply aren’t available at the moment. Effross was the last to go down, as the team announced a Tommy John surgery date for him only a few hours before their 2022 playoff journey began. As a result, the Yanks’ relief corps has been under so much scrutiny lately that we were led to believe that it would be their downfall, their Achilles’ heel.