Yankees’ bullpen being exposed as glaring soft spot

The Mets had been useless workforce strolling late Friday night time. A recreation was misplaced, and so was Clay Holmes for months with a fractured fibula. That left the Mets eight video games underneath .500 and sensing that they’d simply suffered one key damage too many, this one to probably the most constant participant on the 2026 squad.

They had been despondent. Reeling. Ready to be knocked out.

That the Yankees didn’t seize on this second says one thing, sure, concerning the Mets’ resolve. But it screams concerning the present state of the Yankees as effectively. They went on a nine-game street journey with the assumption they had been the majors’ greatest workforce. They will return to The Bronx having misplaced seven of 9 and the soft spots on their exposed roster, notably an underwhelming bullpen.

Aaron Boone and different Yankees insist they nonetheless consider within the size of this aid corps. What else can they are saying? But it was the entire group which faltered throughout these 9 video games. The pen was 0-4 on this journey with a 5.40 ERA. David Bednar, Fernando Cruz, Camilo Doval and Brent Headrick every blew a save. Bednar, Cruz, Headrick and Tim Hill every suffered a loss.