Jonathan Loáisiga’s season is officially over — and honestly, it feels like another chapter in the Yankees’ “How Not to Build a Pitching Staff” handbook. The 30-year-old reliever has been sidelined most of the year, and now Aaron Boone confirmed Thursday that Loáisiga won’t throw another pitch in 2025 thanks to a right elbow flexor strain.
The only “good” news? No surgery… at least for now. Loáisiga met with elbow guru Dr. Keith Meister earlier this week, and Boone explained, “He’ll be done for the year, but nothing they have to go intervene on right now.” Translation: the knife stays on the shelf, but we’re not exactly in the clear.
And here’s where it stings: the Yankees really, really needed him. Brian Cashman went all-in on his “bullpen solves everything” philosophy this offseason, but forgot one tiny detail at the trade deadline — we actually needed another starter behind Max Fried and Carlos Rodón. Instead, we ended up with a warehouse full of closers like it was a Costco sale and the hope that we would have someone like Loáisiga to go multiple innings if we needed. Unsurprisingly, that plan has aged about as well as week-old sushi.
Even worse, this might be the last time we ever see Loáisiga in pinstripes. Injuries have chewed up his prime, and at 30, with a medical chart that looks like a CVS receipt, his future in the Bronx is anything but certain.
Bottom line: the bullpen’s thinner, the rotation’s still a mess, and Cashman’s master plan continues to look like a group project where nobody did the homework. Let's hop home runs get us into the post season, because that's literally all we are relying on right now.
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