{"id":154291,"date":"2026-01-29T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154291\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:36:10","slug":"yankees-lose-player-to-angels-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154291\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Lose Player to Angels on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> are likely heading into the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> season with a group that looks very similar to the one that fell short in the divisional round last year. <\/p>\n<p>Even so, there is still legitimate hope for a deeper postseason run, thanks in large part to the return of right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/gerrit-cole\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gerrit Cole<\/a> and the retention of every major contributor from an offense that finished as one of the most productive units in baseball. <\/p>\n<p>But one glaring weakness remains, and it has only grown more concerning as the offseason has unfolded: the bullpen. <\/p>\n<p>New York has taken noticeable hits in relief depth, with right-handers Luke Weaver and Devin Williams both choosing to head across town to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>, leaving the Yankees with far fewer high-leverage options than they had a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees are likely heading into the 2026 MLB season with a group that looks very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-154291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}