New Brewers pitcher Nestor Cortes has bizarre take on Yankees’ World Series loss

Whether it is the Milwaukee Brewers or any other team, you want players that think they can beat anyone. While voicing that opinion out loud can ruffle feathers at times, you want guys who take the field looking and expecting to win. If you don't, you end up like the lifeless husk of a team that was the 2024 White Sox.

It appears as though new Brewers starter Nestor Cortes has that kind of edge. Given his path to the majors and experience playing for a contender, Cortes has seen first hand what it takes to contend and beat the best teams. When you have that kind of guy on the mound who is also a pretty good pitcher when he is healthy, that is a great starting point for success and big reason why the Brewers decided to trade for him.

However, Cortes may be a bit too far on this side of the spectrum. In a wide ranging interview with The Athletic, Cortes talked about his experience in the 2024 World Series including the bizarrely obvious take that if the Yankees had won the games they lost, they could have won the title.

Nestor Cortes seems to think the Yankees could have won the World Series if they hadn't lost it

Now, it isn't that weird to have a player come out and say that they still think they had the better team and should have won a given game or series. Baseball is a funny game and weird stuff happens all the time. However, Cortes' recollection of the World Series and his role in it was particularly odd and specific.

“They can talk whatever they want to talk, but we win Game 1 — which we should have — we lost 2 and 3, we win Game 4 and we should have won Game 5. Then we go back to LA up 3 to 2." Yes Nestor, if the Yankees had won the games they lost, they would have been on the verge. That is correct.

Cortes also broke down the grand slam that Freddie Freeman hit off him in the Fall Classic. While it was kind of neat to hear about the strategy behind the choice to send Cortes out despite a lengthy layoff and the team's gameplan against Freeman, he also basically said that anything could have happened in that at-bat and he was stunned Freeman hit a home run.

Self-awareness does matter in the sport of baseball and sometimes you just get beat. Hopefully Cortes understands that sometimes another team is just better for a given day/week and he doesn't continue his weird revisionist history ramblings while with the Brewers.

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