With 75 strikeouts in their first eight games - an average of over nine per game - the 2020 Yankees are on course to achieve the unachievable - projected to notch 1519 K's this season - a feat of fatiguing failure that would go down in the annals of inactivity.
The Bronx Boredoms are well ahead of previous incarnations over the last 10 years, whom we wrongfully derided as tiresome. In fact, compared to this team, those Yankee rosters were joyful engines of excitement.
Here are the last 10 years in Yankee team whiffs.
2012: 1176
2013: 1214
2014: 1133
2015: 1227
2016: 1188
2017: 1386
2018: 1421
2019: 1437
2020: Limited season, non-applicable.
2021: 1482
2022: Projected 1519
Can these plucky Yanks really beat 1,500? It's a long, hard slog, marching back and forth to the dugout - 1,500 times without putting a ball in play.
Good luck to Team Tedium.
El D, now we have something to root for.
ReplyDeleteWe are going to see the following signs of the Yankee apocalypse, at some point, maybe this year, maybe next, or maybe sometime within the next decade:
ReplyDelete1. 27 strikeouts by Yankee hitters in one 9 inning game, known as the Immaculate Strikeout Game. (I hope they win it, at least.)
2. 9 solo homers by Yankee hitters in one game, only to lose 10-9.
3. 9 double plays hit into by Yankee hitters in one 9 inning game.
4. The 3 True Outcome Game (3TOG), where both the Yankees and their opponent hit only home runs, strikeout or walk.