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Brian Cashman’s hunt for starting help just got tougher

TORONTO — The part we can too easily overlook — and will too easily overlook, even in this column — is the human factor in the equation.

That is easily remedied, of course, because all you need to do is walk into a major league clubhouse, take a few steps, and you’re bound to run into someone who’s received, at one time or another, with one body part or another, the kind of news so devastating that it shakes you to your core.

The way Jordan Montgomery was, no doubt, shaken to his core when the most recent MRI came back with ominous news, when he was placed on Dr.