Imagine if you will, being a 25 year old baseball player for the AAA Yankee team, hitting nearly .360, and in competition for a "goldfish glove" for outstanding fielding skills ( I don't know what they call these awards in the minors ), and the GM who signed you basically says;
" You do not represent an upgrade over Clint Frazier," .....who is hitting .150, regularly strikes out in key situations, and fields like a three legged saw horse.
Uplifting? A confidence builder? Makes you glad you signed with these losers?
And we have a Scranton shortstop and a center fielder that Cashman just tarred with the same, shit-stained brush. Hit, run well, defend? Who cares?
What a guy. What a motivator?
It is easy to see why an alert and caring owner like Hal Steinbrenner ( who has never done anything in his life besides breathe ) would keep Brian on as GM , despite obvious failure at every level for now more than a fucking decade.
Cashman's latest description of his " up and going nowhere " talent also gives every other GM in baseball ( all of whom know better ) the opportunity to low ball every trade, and steal prospects in exchange for worn out old, expensive failures.
It is so obvious that the Yankees can't win with this ownership and leadership.
And by can't win I mean...anything meaningful.
Don't get all excited about beating the Angels who have the worst pitching in the AL.
I'll let the blog explode after this...
ReplyDeleteJudge and Urshela not playing tonight vs. the Angels. Boone said "they needed some rest".
The season is on the line...we're in fourth place...and we're resting two of our best hitters. For us folks who saw Cal Ripken Jr. play all those games in a row, it's galatically stupefying...
If I was a young prospect in the upcoming draft, I would dread the possibility of being drafted by the Yankees. Because the Yankees don't promote young players. They waste away their best years in meaningless minor league games. (Meaningless to us fans of the big club, of course. The fans of the minor league teams care, I'm sure.) But those players make a mere pittance and never get a chance to make millions in the majors. Those who are traded away to another club are fortunate. It's usually a career ending calamity to get picked by the Yankees. Judge and Sanchez simply lucked out, coming up at the right time.
ReplyDeleteThe Hammer of God
Who was "on the watch" when all these players were drafted and signed? Butthead cASSman needs to look in the mirror!!
ReplyDeleteAlphonso, I heard Buster Olney say yesterday that if Cashman is fired, he'll be in 2 seconds. Good to see the Cashman PR people hard at work.
ReplyDeleteMy former teammate, Celerino, has it spot on. Yankee PR brigade, led by chairman, Sweeney Murti, with a gaggle of charter members, Kay (despite today's rant) included are working overtime. Kay was in spectacular form yestgerday, proclaiming Cashlessman a Hall of Famer, for the 1996-8-9-2000 series, the 2009 series (despite the majority of the roster preceding him, the second-MVP (A-Roid signed by Hank over his objections), the actual MVP cut before the next season.
ReplyDeleteIt is astonishing how much false spew the press cover this idiot in. Except Bill Madden...
BLOCK THAT MIXED METAPHOR!
ReplyDeleteMichael Kay, the TV voice of the Yankees on YES, quickly torched manager Aaron Boone on his ESPN radio show. He also ripped Judge for not talking his way into the lineup.
“I’m sorry, and I’m probably going to ruffle feathers in the ivory tower here,” Kay said.
Cashman's real legacy is AAA success. Unprecedented AAA success. He is, by a wide margin, the best AAA GM in baseball's modern era. Of course the 'Riders will stay stacked, pummelling the competition night after night with a lineup of players too good for the league. Cash, consciously or not, wants it that way. Or at least, simply cannot do otherwise.
ReplyDeleteGerman coughs up a 2-run shot in the first.
ReplyDeleteOff to a flying start.
And Ohtani, not to be outdone, walks the first three Yankees.
ReplyDeleteI know. How can Gio and Judge sit in what is really this marquee game? Are they avoiding Ohtani?
ReplyDeleteAnd while we're having a terrific first inning against Wonder Boy, of course his first out is...Rougned Odor, who strikes out.
"Butthead cASSman." I like that. There is a profane insulting lyricism to it. Well done. One of my closest workmates, big Yankee fan - may be a lurker here, had never heard that Hideki Irabu committed suicide before today either.
ReplyDeleteIrabu was not a very good major league pitcher, which was highlighted even more so by being on the 1998 and 1999 Yankees. He was serviceable for both of those squads; those were his only years with positive bWAR, a total of 4.6 for the two years. He was Yankee. Two WS winning teams. Okay major leaguer for a couple of years on one of the greatest teams in Yankee history. Suicide is the result of depression and psychiatric illness. I wish he could've gotten help. He should be at every Old Timers Day jogging his chubby self out to the mound. I think he would be beloved by Yankee fans by now. He did not live up to our crazed manic unrealistic expectations for him back then, but who could have? I would say now that when he retired he had lived a life well lived.
Thank goodness Ohtani can't find the strike zone tonight...
ReplyDeleteOh, by the way, FUCK Buster Olney.
ReplyDeleteAnd he's out! Which raises an interesting dilemma for the Angels.
ReplyDeleteWalking off to sarcastic applause from Yankees fans. Yeah, you come into (What Used to Be) The House That Ruth Built, claiming to be the new Babe...you better produce.
Joe Madden trying to blame it on the umps.
ReplyDeleteOhtani plunked Clint Frazier, a .186 hitter. He walked Gardner on four pitches. Yeah, it was the umps' fault.
7-2 now—beautiful bit of hitting by The General!
I wonder if Judge is feeling a bit more limber just now.
Wow, Ohtani sure stunk up the joint.
ReplyDeleteWarbler, Irabu was a very sad case. Apparently he had been an unhappy kid in Japan, the son of a Japanese mother and an American serviceman who abandoned the family.
ReplyDeleteHe had some very good moments as a Yankee—twice named AL pitcher of the month, I think—but it later came out that he had a bad knee injury he hid from everyone. Afterwards, his life just deteriorated.
Really a shame.
As for Cashman, yeah, he's spent years shamelessly pandering to the Knights of the Press Box (as Ted Williams used to call them). He basically wrote a book for Klapisch—one that praised him to the skies and abused Jeter, all over the great Stanton trade.
ReplyDeleteNo lead is safe.
ReplyDeleteGerman should be yanked now. Can't hold a 5-run lead. Jesus.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to The Red Menace?
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing Irabu's AAA start in Rochester in '97: he got completely pasted, as I recall. He was somewhat of a disappointment in his MLB career, but he was far from terrible. It was the loss of his family due to alcoholism that really pushed him over the edge.
ReplyDeleteWhy? Why must this be?
ReplyDeleteWin, depression is insidious. Been there too many times myself, and after the last go-round I just decided to keep taking the pills forever. Low dosage, but enough to keep me on a more or less even keel.
ReplyDeleteI hated when King George called him a fat toad. No class. Humiliated the man in public. Unforgiveable.
HC66--That was knights of the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteI've told you this story before but I shall tell it again. The Boss roasted Hideki in the press over not running fast enough to first to cover a grounder, I think in a spring training game. During the regular season I was at a game and Hideki was pitching. He was cruising right along and then in the 5th(?) there was a grounder to his left that I think Teixiera fielded. Now Hideki was not fleet of foot. He was a big man with quite a bit if girth too, but he hustled over to first to just beat the runner in a bang bang play. And the packed stadium gave him a damn near standing ovation. That went on long enough so there was no doubt it was sarcastic. Really really sarcastic. Irabu seemed to get flustered. He lost the strike zone and then he was pulled after giving up a rally.
ReplyDeleteNew York is a tough town. Smart opinionated fans in the Bronx. We rode Hideki pretty hard those years, years where we had nothing, absolutely nothing to bitch about.
Remember: Every Yankee on a championship team, with very few exceptions, is a Great Yankee.
ReplyDeleteWe're in a delay?
ReplyDeleteWe am.
ReplyDeleteConsidering how long it took to play two and a half innings, this will be a very long evening.
I mean, almost two hours and we're in the third. We can thank lousy pitching on both sides.
If only Irabu had the thick outer shell of a Black Jack McDowell, he might have done better on the mound. Though by the late 90s, nobody ever gave the fans the finger anymore. A shame. Sometimes, they deserve it.
JM -- It was worse--Steinbrenner called him a fat pussy toad. Steinbrenner was a psychotically abusive, corrupt dolt.
ReplyDeleteAnent the Warblist account of the Irabu play: fans are not smart and opinionated. They are an atavistic merciless front-running tribal mob.
ReplyDeleteA little rain-delay theater: William Carlos Williams on fans.
ReplyDeleteThe crowd at the ball game
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
The crowd at the ball game
is moved uniformly
by a spirit of uselessness
which delights them—
all the exciting detail
of the chase
and the escape, the error
the flash of genius—
all to no end save beauty
the eternal—
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful
for this
to be warned against
saluted and defied—
It is alive, venomous
it smiles grimly
its words cut—
The flashy female with her
mother, gets it—
The Jew gets it straight— it
is deadly, terrifying—
It is the Inquisition, the
Revolution
It is beauty itself
that lives
day by day in them
idly—
This is
the power of their faces
It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is
cheering, the crowd is laughing
in detail
permanently, seriously
without thought
Honestly, I'd be so happy if Hal sold the team to someone who gave a shit.
ReplyDeleteLove the poetry! And hey, the rain is a good excuse for pulling German before he had to be pulled anyway.
ReplyDeleteYeah, good not to forget what a bastard George the Mad King was. An abusive frontrunner who did all sorts of damage, and was only prevented from ruining the team by people who were loyal to the Yankees beyond anything they deserved.
ReplyDeleteIrabu was more collateral damage. But then, the Yanks have long been careless and wasteful with all kinds of players. No less than DiMag and The Mick were almost ruined by their foolishness.
All right, it's an official game.
ReplyDeleteBlow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanes, spout Til you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
Raining again. That's it. They're gonna call it. G'night.
ReplyDeleteThe radar seems to show that they could resume it between 11:30 and midnight if they are inclined to do so (check your yourself online). Frazier left the game not because of the HBP but because of dizziness.
ReplyDeleteFrazier being dizzy might explain the whole season for him.
ReplyDeleteI bet they pick up the game and play into the wee hours. It's the Yankee way. As opposed to Yawkey Way, which is a horrible testament to a racist asshole.
OK, I'm not sure he was a racist, but it just felt good to say it.
He was a racist
ReplyDeleteOutside that first inning, these are the same old, same old fail-with-RISP and let's-GIDP Yankees
ReplyDeleteHe was a racist—but they're going to change the name of it. It's the 21st century Red Sox: they do everything right, we do everything wrong.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I checked back just now to find that it was still going on. Unbelievable. This is more of the fan torture that MLB regularly engages in. 'What, you're not up for a 5-6 hour game that is about half rain delays?' Ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteBoy, what has got into Gary Sanchez? Leaping out from behind the plate, pouncing on dribblers and throwing bullets to first?
ReplyDeleteDon't know—but I ain't complaining.
Can anyone agree with me that Garnder is not totally useless (even though his HR was largely unnecessary, but it does keep El Chapo on ice).
ReplyDeleteThink of this: had it not been for the Boy Wonder's implosion, THAT may have been our only run!
Oops - I though a save situation was only when the run differential is three.
ReplyDeleteWell, I would agree, save that Chapo is in there, and threatening to blow it.
ReplyDeleteFucking Chapman.
ReplyDeleteTrade this bastard while we can still get something for him.
Subway fare and a rancid box of Cracker Jack?
ReplyDeleteToo late for that, JM. You can't give this guy away.
ReplyDeleteSomebody will take him.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for him, really. He just lost his confidence, completely. That has to suck.
Chapman is hiding an injury. I'm glad that I wasn't watching... If they lose, a tailspin is almost assured.
ReplyDeleteJM--Look at his numbers for the past 13 games, plus tonight. Nobody wants that. He doesn't throw 103 anymore. He's not that guy. His "injury" is that he's a power pitcher who is 33 years old and is wearing down. There is no way to repeal the laws of nature.
ReplyDeleteLugnut strikes out Iglesias. One to go.
ReplyDeleteChapman fell fast. Reminds me of Knoblauch. Just all of a sudden, skills gone. Not fun to see.
The first part of the season, Chapman was great. And that's what they'll try to sell. That he can be straightened out.
ReplyDeleteBut whether he can be, that's a big question.
Aw, fuck. We're dead.
ReplyDeleteJust clean house. Roster, coaches, front office, everyone needs to go.
ReplyDeleteRemember that feeling of 2016? We all wanted them to bottom out so they'd sell at the deadline and rebuild. This is worse. That team was a bunch of old guys coming to the end of their careers. This was supposed to be the team that was built up and it's been an abject failure. And what's worse is between the contracts to Cole (useless without his glue), Stanton and Hicks (overpaid and injured and for some reason paid and injureder) there is a good chance this persists for at least 5 more years.
And...that was pretty amazing.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget seven years of LeMahieu, the unathletic, slo-mo singles hitter.
ReplyDeleteLeMahieu has a seven year deal? Who the fuck approved that? He was already on the wrong side of 30 when they got him two years ago. I must have missed it, I thought he was on a 3 or 4 year deal.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be the dagger for the season. They've had A LOT of bad games this year. This one takes the cake. How does a team come back from such a colossal fuckup? 7 runs in the first, have the have runners on all game an not one more run scores and then give up 9,000 runs with your "star" closer in.
First time a Yankees closer has given up a 9th-inning home run since 1986. But of course, Chapman is rapidly establishing himself as the worst closer in Yankees history—which is saying something.
ReplyDeleteAnd we'll do it all again... in less than 12 hours! Get some sleep.
ReplyDeleteSorry--LeMahieu has a six-year deal. Still a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteLeinstery, I'd say almost any commitment of that length is too long, and it's true that LeMahieu's nearly 33, which is also a big risk.
ReplyDeleteBut hey—he drove in 3 runs today, on a very nice double, hit to the opposite field like a pool master putting one in the corner pocket. He can play five positions, most of them very well, and he seems to be emerging from his early season woes. I don't see him being the big problem tonight, and I don't see him being the big problem on this season so far.
After this game tonight, cheapskate Hal better make a move.
ReplyDeleteHC66--You can't judge a player by one night. LeMahiue not only moving into his thirties, but he's had three above-average seasons in a roughly ten-year career. For most of his MLB tenure he's been an average SINGLES hitter, a .700 OPS kind of guy, who runs like Andy Devine and has all the charisma of a doughnut. That was a ridiculous contract as soon as it was signed--a symptom of dumbass Cashman's recency bias, one of his many fatal flaws.
ReplyDeleteLet's review:
ReplyDelete—In a marquee game, our franchise player decided to sit out.
—Our starting 3rd baseman—and one of our best hitters—also took off for some reason.
—Our starter looked awful, and was only saved from humiliation by a rain delay.
—Our closer turned in the worst effort by a Yankees closer in 35 years.
—Our replacement closer had to get 2 outs, with nobody on base. He couldn't do it. He had to get one more strike across to a .138 hitter. He couldn't do it.
—Stanton, Torres, and Rouged Cheeks went down like whipped dogs in the bottom of the ninth, which John Flaherty just blasted.
—Luis Cessa is still on this team, for some baffling reason.
I'd say these were the major problems on the night.
Oh, and Leinstery, the other thing about LeMahieu: Cashman, as usual, had no alternative. Had he somehow acquired some great replacement for him in a trade, or brought some top prospect up, I could have seen cutting The General loose, useful as he is.
ReplyDeleteBut he had no one. Coops never PLANNED to bring in anyone, just as he never had a plan to replace the 700 lifetime wins that walked off the pitching staff after 2003.
No LeMahieu would have meant that many more innings from Tyler Wade and Rougned Odor. Which is the root of the problem.
HC66--There's a difference between the problems that are manifest on one given night and those that afflict the team over the long term--some of those overlap, some do not.
ReplyDeleteStanton talking about how they will only get 6 hours of sleep before tomorrow's game. Huh.
ReplyDeleteWell, how about this, Giancarlo? You call a limo to get down to a nice, fancy Manhattan hotel and in bed by 3. You tell Boone you'll be a little late tomorrow for all your DHing preparation, sleep to 11, grab another limo back to the Stadium, wolf down some of the terrific, free food in the clubhouse AND STOP BITCHING ABOUT THE TRAVAILS OF YOUR $29-MILLION A YEAR JOB.
Just saying.
This team sucks from top to bottom. Fire and trade everyone you can should be there order of the day
ReplyDeleteYeah, Pete Rose, Cobb, Mantle, Aaron, Speaker, Carew, Gwynne... need more? Yeah, you turn thirty, you're finished. People who have no sense of history are always trying to appear smart by throwing around phrases such as "recency bias". It's only natural, when that person only has a thin layer of knowledge to lean on, what other explanation is there?
ReplyDeleteStanton actually complained after what happened tonight???!!!! We need Mattingly.
ReplyDeleteHC66, bringing the 700 wins, along with the overall lack of an effective methodology that has hung over Cashman's tenure was a diamond bullet.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone on this blog has taken a trip to Scranton online, as I have. You find a lot of overaged players and scrubs filling up the roster. The owner has told us about all of the prospects fans will see. Sure Hal! The Yankees do not develop players and who do we have to thank? No other than Genius Cashman. The executive of the century.
ReplyDeleteKevin--Look at the overall numbers. Not only is recency bias stupid, anecdotal evidence is stupid. Of COURSE there are people who have good years after thirty. But most players start to decline after age 27. LeMahieu has NEVER been a consistently above-average player--for most of his career he's been an AVERAGE hitter, even though he spent most of those years in the most hitter-friendly park in the majors. You would know all this if you weren't a fucking idiot.
ReplyDeleteHere's the sad truth about LeMahieu: He had exactly ONE above-average season with the Rockies, 2016, when he won a batting title and slashed .348/.416/.495 (OPS 911). In every other season but one (2015, when he just made it at .301), he batted BELOW .300 and slugged below .800, which is mediocre--and this in the most batting-friendly ballpark in the majors; for three of those seasons in Colorado his OPS was BELOW .700, which SUCKS; his OPS has mostly been in league-average territory, which also SUCKS for a player making that much money. In a stadium where balls fly out as though they had mini-jet engines attached, he was in SINGLE DIGITS in homeruns in five out of seven seaons, peaking at 15 in 2015. So . . . for most of his career, hitting in the most offense-friendly park in the majors, he was mostly a mediocrity or worse. He has mostly been a 1 to 3 WAR player--his 5.5 for the Yankees was an aberration, not his typical year. And as he ages--he is now 33 years old--he is likely to regress to this norm of middling-to-crappy--a slow, decent-fielding singles hitter who MIGHT flirt with a .300 batting average but will show little or no power. This signing was sheer IDIOCY. Cut consider the source of the signing, and consider how much money for how long, along with Stanton, and you take the full measure of Cashman's ineptitude and stupidity (and the stupidity of a certain someone on this blog who seems to think it was a GREAT IDEA--his initials are KEVIN).
ReplyDeleteCashman has never made the adjustment from the PED Era. Look at the 2009 team, you can count guys who had their PED come to light moments. Since then Cashman has never made the adjustments. PED's will keep a veteran healthy and hitting home runs. No PED's, but the same approach to constructing a roster, you get a team full of injuries and guys who's power has disappeared.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a PED demonizer. I believe it was league wide and the usual at the time. Personally I wish every team was able to designate 1 player per season as "PED" player (this is not a joke). That player could use the PED to help him come back from injury or stay healthy (or swing a bat without landing on the IL). I know this stance isn't realistic in today's atmosphere.
Cashman has to adjust or Hal has to fire him.
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