All of a sudden, it seems Brian Cashman's Winter Meetings interview where he mourned the Yankees losing "Devin and Weaver" might've just been a simple slip of the tongue after all.
Luke Weaver, the 2024 postseason's Ferocious Jungle Cat, ended the 2025 season in distress. He was more than likely felled by a hamstring injury that he never quite mechanically recovered from. When he returned, he turned in more flat performances and hanging changeups than he had previously. Any hope of fully righting the ship disappeared closer to October, when Weaver became terrifyingly unusable; he faced seven batters, and recorded one playoff out.