The Yankees keep drawing upon their highly rated farm system to remain competitive in the AL East.
Today, we saw the last appearance of young Jace Peterson, and the arrival of a 33 year-old .197 hitter, who shall remain nameless.
This move was undoubtedly to improve the match-up with Cris Sales, who will likely shut us out anyway.
Can we face the truth?
Whoever is rating the Yankee farm system in the " high end" category, is drinking too much and staying up way past deadline.
We keep trading youth for age; speed for sloth; excitement for hopelessness.
I understand the guy ( see photo, above ) in the back, far right, still can reach 14mph on his heater. He might be related to Dellin Bettances.
In any case, we are loaded.
And Aaron knows all the right moves to make.
So why can't we beat anybody?
Why is it too early to panic?
I actually hate this team. Last year I listened to almost every game. This year I can't do it. Shitting the bed against he Blue Jays has made me despise these guys. Aside from a couple minutes here and there I don't even listen to our beloved Master and Lady. Giancarlo fucking sucks. I thought he was an overrated pile of shit for years, somehow the stars aligned (Harper got injured and everyone on the Cubs under-performed) and he won the MVP last year.
ReplyDeleteWho's ready for some sacrilege? Give me the Toddfather, give me Headley. Anyone but the shit they're trotting out there now.
"Yankees had a 5-5 start and in all five defeats they either were tied or led in the seventh inning or later" - https://nypost.com/2018/04/10/red-sox-showed-the-yankees-early-how-al-east-can-be-won/.
ReplyDelete5/5 in losses by the bullpen, not even the Binders was that bad. At least Advanced Analytics can thank Sevy's fantastic start tonight for bucking that trend.
I guess I'm just a Josephite, someone who wishes to see the House of Binders restored to the Managerial position
Please offer a Mea Culpa to Mr Joey Binders and bring him back... This hack Boone is outta control lame
DeleteBFG
Data can't pitch...data can't hit.
ReplyDeleteWell, thank goodness we broke that 5-5, late losses string tonight!
ReplyDeleteRED SOX ARE 9 - 1.
ReplyDeleteMOTHERFUCKING METS ARE 9 - 1.
WE ARE DICKING AROUND AT 5 - 6.
WE DON'T LOOK READY TO PLAY.
IT'S LIKE THERE IS NO FIRE, NO DIRECTION.
FUCKING ANALYTICS.
FUCK CASHMAN.
FUCK BOONE.
Oh, come on! Tyler Wade managed to return to action tonight halfway through the game, after missing only three days with "flu-like symptoms."
ReplyDeleteI hate to say it, too, but the sure sign of the choker: hitting the big home-run blast when you're already hopelessly behind. That was a Roy Smalley trademark, as I recall.
Oh, by the by: great pic, Alphonso—I think I see some of my relatives there—and great comment.
ReplyDeleteObviously, whoever has been calling the Yankees' farm system one of the best in the majors for the last several seasons was into some seriously good bourbon.
Andujar was ready to go? Tyler Wade was a diamond in the rough? Oh my goodness, what a bunch of malarkey!
ANONY you're on to something. Bonnie Prince Binders would have erupted at the team already and woken them up. Mr. Nice Guy Psychology Major with an emphasis on Analytics wants to tell them it's okay because they tried and then take them out for ice cream.
ReplyDeleteAndujar STINKS. His scouting report is exactly that of Refsnyder's
ReplyDelete"His bat is can't miss but we need to work on his defense."
Was never high on him. Sensed something was amiss when he only played that one game last year during that stretch when there were injuries left and right and nobody could hit. And yet somehow he stayed on the bench the entire time. Or was he optioned? As Jonathan Quaile Higgins would dismiss such a question, no matter.
And the biggest mistake that Cooperstown made (outside of Boone, and not trading the trash in the farm system) was leaning on the broken staff that is CC. Everyone knew that last year was the last hurrah, except Coops. He made him our number 3 starter because he threw 4 good innings in game 5 of the ALDS.
Leinstery, they put him in, he lined three hits, and then they sent him back down.
ReplyDeleteYep, in retrospect it sure appears that you were right, and we prospect-huggers were wrong. Andujar and whoever else should have been traded off for Gerrit Cole, or some such.
But that's not what his stats said, and it's not—reportedly—what all kinds of scouts and GMs were saying at the time, and it's not what all those bourbon-and-crack-swilling experts on farm systems have been saying all along.
I can sure admit to being wrong, but I can't blame Cashman for doing what I've urged that he do for about 20 years now.
As for Stanton and Drury, though...
RailRiders off to a fast 3-1 start, with a 5-2 victory over arch rival Iron Pigs in Moosic. It's early, but it looks like sure thing, first ballot International League Hall of Famer Brian Cashman has done it again. Nobody builds a AAA dynasty like Cash.
ReplyDelete@Horace...Andujar and Wade? NY fans suffer from overratitis. The media is to blame. Call it fake news if you want. Yankee fans are not immune to it.
ReplyDeleteCashman must have saw this so he went out and got Drury....uh, but maybe it was The Master who made the trade. John's analytics came up with 75 times mentioning Judge and Drury during the season. Don't know where he got that data? That doesn't look like Big Data to me. Maybe the Yanks should have signed a GDPR for the crap data they are using.
In the past, ranger, I've been immune to Cashman's hyping of the farm system. Usually, all it's meant is that he has guys too old for the leagues they're in finally getting their stuff together against green players.
ReplyDeleteBut EVERYBODY seemed to think these guys—and the Gleyber, and others—were ready. SI was calling the Yanks the best situated team in baseball this spring, when you combined ready players and the farm.
And then there were all the recent examples of players—Judge, Sanchez, Severino, Bird—who seemed like the real deal. Suddenly, it appeared, Cashman had figured out how to run a farm system, or at least hired someone who did.
Alas, it proved a false spring. But again, I don't claim any ability to assess baseball talent by myself. All I'm saying is what everybody told us—AND what the statistics SEEMED to confirm. If you knew better, I salute you.
It's amusing watching Yankee fans in meltdown about young players over tiny sample sizes. George Steinbrenner lives. These idiots would have consigned Mickey Mantle and Bernie Williams to oblivion too--they reflect the thinking of the imbeciles running the Yankee organization into the ground--Hal and Brian and Randy. If a prospect doesn't hit .400 in his first twenty at-bats, he's a bust. Import Walker and Drury and stagger to mediocrity and oblivion--that's the answer, right?
ReplyDeletealas @Horace...my glass is always half empty...and not trusting on what I read...that's my bad.
ReplyDeleteNo, they stink, too, Anon. We are equal opportunity stinkers.
ReplyDeleteAs to you, ranger...hey, you were right! It pays off. I usually try not to pay attention to the Yanks' in-house media, either. But when it got so universal...
If Jonathan Swift said, "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him," then, well, "When Coops Cashman appears, you can know that all the dunces—myself included!—will be in confederacy with him."
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