Yankees' runs per game over the first 105 games of the season: 5.4
Over the last 12: 2.75
Reaction of Dillon Lawson, as reported in today's New York Post:
“I think one of our biggest strengths the entire season has been the depth of the lineup. So right now one of our biggest strengths is no longer there. The thing right now even when we’ve got some guys missing from the lineup, we also have some guys that are in the lineup that have performed all year that are going through their first real slumps since maybe April."
So true.
“So when you get all of that put together, we just have to continue to put our head down and push forward.”
Right!
“Even when things were going right, we were always questioning the process. We were still making changes to what we would do. We were still coaching, even when things were going well. Even with Judge, with Stanton, with [Anthony] Rizzo, with DJ, still coaching them through great seasons, knowing that if it’s not right when we’re going good, it’s probably not right when we’re going bad.”
"Great seasons"? But all right...
That mindset, Lawson added, “turns into panic or second-guessing,” so he and manager Aaron Boone have constantly preached that the Yankees can’t “rest on the fact that we were winning games.”
Uh-huh.
“Is it good baseball? Is it a good process? For us now, that gives us comfort going through this, knowing that the process is good. It allowed us to play at a high level before. It’s constantly adjusting, not to say that we’re blind to any new changes. There’s always a healthy sense of insecurity or paranoia, of ‘are we good enough?’"
Good process. Right.
“We have to continue to get better. Continue pecking away and take steps forward, even though we believe we have the best offense in baseball.”
All righty, then. This has been your daily blather, from Yankees blather instructor, Dillon Lawson.
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Did Booney write that?
Well at least he didn't say, "hit strikes hard" again.
More great moments in coach-quotes, from Matt Blake in The Athletic, about Aroldis Chapman’s recent performances: “To me, we’re seeing the convicted version of Aroldis Chapman again…” I guess we should assume that Chapman is once again fully locked and loaded.
Hilarious, Hinkey!
More insight from Professor Lawson (because when IS enough enough):
What have you been seeing from Josh Donaldson at the plate this season?
Lawson: I think a lot of bright spots. It’s been weird. Where probably you’re talking about the production maybe hasn’t been what he’s wanted, he’s been able to make adjustments. It’s a matter of just piecing all of that together at the same time. I think that at first, when we first started looking into it, it started with physical. But we know that the bat speed is still there, we can see that, we can prove it. So, it’s moving from one thing and checking the boxes and peeling each layer back to make sure we can help or adjustments might be able to be made, and lately it’s been with the bat path, the ball he hit at Citi Field is really indicative of good things to come. That’s what he’s done over the course of his career. He’s been able to drive the ball to center, to right field, without really trying to manipulate the swing, push it, surely there has to be just part of it where he just wants it all to click and happen right now and you press and maybe you get yourself out of an approach, but i still think probably since the Pittsburgh series, he’s been taking good approaches to his at-bats. … I do think that, realistically, the second half is going to be really hot for him
I know my head is down and I’m pushing forward. Who’s with me!?
Fucking corporate speak...jeez...
He's a graduate of the Aaron Boooooooone School of Pablum and Vanilla Wafers, where the motto is:
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
The man should be the White House press secretary. We are fucked.
"...realistically, the second half is going to be really hot for him..."
Um... uh...
The second half started nearly 40 games ago, and in that time, he's gotten really hot, batting 202
Thanks Matt. Where are you going to be working next season?
Or Dillon. Or whatever your name is.
Ugh. I'm even angrier and less coherent than I was in December.
What is wrong with Donaldson is that he is too old.
It's probably not one thing. When you get old, everything is not as good as it used to be.
The eyes don't see as well, for one thing. You might be able to read the eye chart just as well as you ever did, but there are other signs that the old eyes aren't seeing as well as they used to. You can't recognize the spin on the ball as well; you don't square the ball up as well.
And then your reaction time and bat speed is probably not as good either. I don't care what they say about Donaldson's bat speed. When you compare an older player's bat speed to a 20 year old player's, you can see the difference right away. An older player can "cheat" on the fastball by guessing, sitting dead red, but then he becomes more vulnerable to the off speed stuff.
Lol.. I thought something very similar.
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