Yep, that is the brilliant, Brian Cashman answer to the latest wave of injuries: signing a completely anonymous, 33-year-old middle infielder who has recently been dumped by Pittsburgh and Detroit.
Boy, Kyle Holder must feel good about himself.
I just want to supplement our Peerless Leader's take on how of course Yankees get injured in droves in the Brian Cashman years, because that's all too often the sorts of players he is acquiring: overaged guys trying to hang on.
That's certainly true. But what's also remarkable are the number of guys who AREN'T all that old who now get hurt.
Stanton wasn't that old, but he was a guy with a long history of injuries. Made no nevermind to our Brian. James Paxton, in 6 major-league seasons as a starter, had averaged fewer than 100 innings a year. Bring him on board!
Even worse are the number of downright young, budding stars who now get hurt.
Once upon a time, I would've heard about The Gleyber's injury, for instance, and told myself, Phew! So THAT explains why he's been sucking so badly: he's been playing hurt. Well, all we have to do is wait for him to get well, and I'm sure he'll be a star again.
No more. Now the injuries and the failures seem to me to be one and the same, because they come from the same place.
The Gleyber, if you'll recall, tore up his arm sliding home in a big Scranton Railroaders game, an injury that might well have cost our boys in pinstripes a ring in 2017.
Not to worry. Just a freak injury, right? Then came some 20 games missed in 2018, another 18 in 2019—significant absences for such a young player. And now this.
It has been the same with so many others: The Sanchise, Sevvy, Andujar, Judge.
Pretty much a whole dynasty worth of young stars, who constantly get injured, and whose game starts to slide at the same time. Chicken, egg? Or chicken and egg salad—who cares, it is still an unsightly mishmash.
I don't know what it is, precisely: The lost playing time? PEDs? Overtraining? Over-compensation?
But it's always the same. Players—even YOUNG, star players—come up to the Yankees, get hurt, and get worse. Or they get worse and they get hurt. It doesn't make a dime's worth of difference.
Training and instruction, top to bottom, needs to scrapped and rebuilt in this organization, starting with its constantly self-serving, self-promoting head of baseball operations.
And while I quite agree with El Duque about hating tanking, this would be a great moment to do a one-time only tank and start over—first and foremost with front office personnel.
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Jordy Mercer to the Rescue
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If we don't win this year, it certainly would be an ideal time this winter to do a total house cleaning of the suits, starting with Cashman. There does appear to be something wrong with the way they coach and train these guys. Injuries do happen on other teams as well, but nobody does it like us. Almost our entire team gets hurt every year. This has to stop.
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