The postseason run that Harrison Bader had with the Yankees in 2022 will be forever in fans’ hearts. A 253 wRC+ and five home runs in nine games are hard to forget, after all. However, that scintillating run raised expectations for the center fielder, and he had a rough time trying to meet them.
Poor Bader had terrible luck with injuries, as he suffered two separate IL stints with the Yankees – one to open the season with a strained left oblique, and another one in late May with a right hamstring strain. Nonetheless, the battle to stay healthy was nothing new for Bader, and he was ultimately far from the player that shocked the world in October 2022, ending up waived and on a different team by summer’s end.