{"id":157928,"date":"2022-10-08T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=157928"},"modified":"2022-10-08T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T23:41:14","slug":"isiah-kiner-falefa-found-way-to-prepare-all-season-for-yankees-playoff-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/isiah-kiner-falefa-found-way-to-prepare-all-season-for-yankees-playoff-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Isiah Kiner-Falefa found way to prepare all season for Yankees playoff pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isiah Kiner-Falefa put up very similar offensive numbers in his first year with the Yankees as he did last season with the Rangers. And his much-analyzed defense actually ranked a bit better this season than in 2021, but aside from tying for sixth with 10 defensive runs saved, per FanGraphs, his metrics at shortstop have been significantly below average. Yet unless the Yankees want to entrust arguably the most important position to Oswald Peraza and his 18 career major league games, Kiner-Falefa will have to prove he&#8217;s up to the task in the postseason. &#8220;I dealt with being in a different, more intense, environment all season,&#8221; Kiner-Falefa said this week in Texas, where he spent the first four seasons of his career. &#8220;I tried to embrace it and not run away from it. In any big-game situation, I tried to overplay, whether it was in Boston or the Subway Series, I understood that was the kind of situation we were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isiah Kiner-Falefa put up very similar offensive numbers in his first year with the Yankees as he did last season with the Rangers. And his much-analyzed defense actually ranked a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[220,202,58],"class_list":["post-157928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}