Saturday, October 14, 2017

Designated What?


The Yankees invested several million dollars into a position known as, " Designated Hitter."

Matt Holliday is the chief investee.  The prime recipient of that largess.

He had a great spring and first half of the season, propelling the Yankees into the conversation about playoffs.

Then, he contracted, " the virus."

He looked ill and remained ill for a long time.  Even today, he looks like a weakened version of the world series batting hero for the St. Louis Cardinals of a few years ago.

His hitting went on such a decline ( catching the Judge/Sanchez strike out virus ) that he did not appear in our first series of playoff games.  That chore was allocated to Headley and Ellsbury.  But Matt returned yesterday, due to the ineffectiveness of the other two.

So what have we got?

After 24 at bats for our various DH's in these playoffs, we have zero hits.  A batting average of .000.  There have been 3 walks earned, and 9 strike outs.  No runs scored, no runners advanced, and no RBI's.

Shall we re-name the " position" in the batting order?  Something along the lines of: " non stressful auto out?"  Seriously, if we get to the WS, where there is no DH in away games, we'll be better off having CC at bat.

So here is what I propose;

 Let Torreyes be our DH.  I know.  He struck out in his one plate appearance, and got picked off first in that disaster loss to Cleveland.  Ancient history.

But he usually puts the bat on the ball, and gets it in play somewhere.  If Houston has to play a ball occasionally, they might screw up.  It doesn't happen when we simply swing at air.

We need his grit.

We need some offense.

We need a reason to watch.


3 comments:

  1. YES YES YES!

    TORREYES AT DH!

    SOMEBODY NEEDS TO PUT THE BAT ON THE FUCKING BALL!!!!

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  2. Amen, ALL-CAPS!

    Hell, why isn't Tyler Austin on the damned postseason roster? All that guy ever did was get clutch hits for us.

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