In the end, the bullpen was not quite the Yankees’ undoing.
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For much of the season, the group — nearly always a strength in the past several seasons — had threatened to derail them.
The relief corps was too prone to blowups through July.
General manager Brian Cashman made several moves at the trade deadline to import enough talent for a theoretical super bullpen to form, though that degree of strength never came to fruition.
In October, the group was less deep than hoped as Luke Weaver battled a pitch-tipping issue and the adjustments that came with it. 3
Yet what became manager Aaron