Good afternoon everyone, it’s time to dive back into the mailbag and answer some of your questions. Remember to send in your questions for our weekly call by e-mail to pinstripealleyblog [at] gmail [dot] com.

Ruff Trade asks: How did the bullpen go so wrong this year? Bednar aside, all the acquisitions were busts.

The gamble of reinventing a bullpen at the deadline is unfortunately that sometimes things don’t always work out, and there’s no room to account for not sticking the landing. On paper, the Yankees cleaned up at the deadline: they got a closer in Bednar for relatively cheap, added another arm that has been a closer in Camilo Doval to strengthen the bridge to the closer, and added a project in Jake Bird. I was, admittedly, skeptical of Bird playing out due to just how terrible hi

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