It's still early and all that, but damned if it don't look real bad, looks like a lot of us miscalculated the win total for the season. I thought they'd win 96 games. That seems like a billion billion light years ago.
Based on this past week or so, this might be the year the wheels finally fall off. The Yankee rocket ship torpedo roller coaster, with 1.5 million miles on its odometer, starting to lurch dangerously to starboard, might be about to capsize soon. Is it too soon to start sayin' the ship be sinkin'? I don't think so.
After a high altitude start, Franchy Cordero has crash landed. He was the only guy hitting for a while, you know. Now that he's gone cold, we see the true state of the offense.
We all knew that the offense was going to be a major problem this year. Big changes were necessary. Big time pruning and reforestation were necessary. Absolutely nothing was done, except bringing in another injured pitcher and Franchy Cordero.
You oughtta see Boonne on YES right now, looks like he’s wearing a Hefty Cinch Sack on his empty noggin.
Roster change: Weissert back to the Moosic Econo-Lodge, 33 y/o washout Nick Ramirez, who has thrown 31 MLB innings since 2019, none in the last 2 years, is up
One good thing. After Hicks failed to make the catch Judge was looking over at him with an expression that can only be described as disgust and derision.
Maybe he can, as the Captain, talk to Cashman and get this guy off the damn team. He is a loser.
Will be quite an interesting race this year between Yanks and Red Sox to see who stays out of AL East cellar. Sox, committed tankers in 2023, are the favorite. But don't count out industry punch line Brian Cashman. He'll make sure the Yankees stay in it somehow.
Because there is really no reason to punish myself, I did not watch a pitch after Nasty gave up the tie-breaking HR. So hard to watch the lineup of sub-.200 hitters flail away. I have returned to daily reviews of the Yanks minors through and there were some nice things there last night . Jones got 4 hits, including 2 triples and a double. Wells back DHing. the Martian got a HR. Chaparro had a HR. Jack Bauers is batting .333 with 9HRs, after getting one last night, with 20 RBI and an OPS of 1.3 something. I can't think of any reason that he is in AAA when you look at the BA of our bench/forced to start players.
If anyone interested, the easiest way to look things up on the Farm is the minor league page on MLB.com
Always nice to dream about the farm, but close observation of the RailRiders in the Cashman era leads to the conclusion that the chasm between AAA and MLB is so vast that predicting performance in MLB from AAA numbers is a fool's errand. At least on the upside. For every stud like Judge there have been at least a dozen sluggers/rakers who dominated for an extended period in the International League. Bird, Roller, Heathcott, Refsnyder, Gamel, Sanchez, Parmalee, Cave, McKinney, Florial, Montero, AJax...a few fringe big leaguers there but no real difference makers. One guy from the Cashman era who has really developed is Solano. Not with the Yankees, of course. Cash whiffed on that one. A relatively minor entry in the long indictment against him, but telling.
The farm ain't the answer, as we're discovering with the Oswalds, who are almost certainly fringe big leaguers at best (jury's still out and fingers arecrossed on Volpe). Getting Stanton, Bader and JD back is the only hope for this offense. And that assumes career norm performance from the first two, and at least the ability from JD to punish a mistake or two per week.
Otherwise, they may miss the playoffs. A different, well adjusted, better managed and organized franchise...a franchise that was honest with itself and not suffering delusions of grandeur... would be considering how to maximize Cole's trade deadline value.
But this is the Cashman Yankees. So the 2023 plan is no more than wishin'' and hopin' and magical thinkin' and prayin'.
Cole has a full no-trade clause, so any deal would be dicey to work out.
The solution is to assign all of the Yankee scouts to scout Tampa Bay's scouts and then draft whomever they like. Go all CIA/FBI on them. Sign the Caribs and South of the border guys the they like. We an't doing it on our own.
Gotta convince Cole to go, in thst case. The spooks would have known how to do that a generation ago. But like the Yankees, they're yet another American institution that has been hollowed out, set against itself, and transformed into an absurdity by maleducated, midwitted, ideological technologists.
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Re Cashman:
ReplyDeleteSome days you go to dive in the dumpster, and the dumpster is bare.
It's still early and all that, but damned if it don't look real bad, looks like a lot of us miscalculated the win total for the season. I thought they'd win 96 games. That seems like a billion billion light years ago.
ReplyDeleteBased on this past week or so, this might be the year the wheels finally fall off. The Yankee rocket ship torpedo roller coaster, with 1.5 million miles on its odometer, starting to lurch dangerously to starboard, might be about to capsize soon. Is it too soon to start sayin' the ship be sinkin'? I don't think so.
After a high altitude start, Franchy Cordero has crash landed. He was the only guy hitting for a while, you know. Now that he's gone cold, we see the true state of the offense.
We all knew that the offense was going to be a major problem this year. Big changes were necessary. Big time pruning and reforestation were necessary. Absolutely nothing was done, except bringing in another injured pitcher and Franchy Cordero.
The shit show has started early this year.
ReplyDeleteNever mind iron tablets reading this would cure your constipation instantly
Pooing through the eye of a needle watching this lot bat
Aaron Hicks .107/.194/.107 12 OPS+
Willie Calhoun .136/.208/.182 12 OPS+
Isiah Kiner Falefa .176/.243/.176 21 OPS+
Oswaldo Cabrera .211/.230/.296 47 OPS+
Franchy Cordero .174/.208/.457 81 OPS+
You oughtta see Boonne on YES right now, looks like he’s wearing a Hefty Cinch Sack on his empty noggin.
ReplyDeleteRoster change: Weissert back to the Moosic Econo-Lodge, 33 y/o washout Nick Ramirez, who has thrown 31 MLB innings since 2019, none in the last 2 years, is up
Good thing Judge is batting third, Hammer. Look at all those guys on base in front of him!
ReplyDeleteThey actually scored a run…
ReplyDeleteJudge batting third: the famous Cashman-Boone propensity for panic and recency bias.
ReplyDelete5 singles and 1 run. Things are going great!
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ReplyDeleteWelp, down a run, may as well change the channel. Life's too short
Is Bud Light the drink of choice in the club house? It would explain a lot
ReplyDeleteGo Little Tony!! Go Go Go!!!
ReplyDeleteC'mon Big Tony!!! Drive 'em in!!!
ReplyDeleteHicks. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteCan we DFA Hicks now? Pretty please?
ReplyDeleteOne good thing. After Hicks failed to make the catch Judge was looking over at him with an expression that can only be described as disgust and derision.
Maybe he can, as the Captain, talk to Cashman and get this guy off the damn team. He is a loser.
I really like the Laborers Local 731 radio adds.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I'm listening for now. The ads.
ReplyDeleteLooks like I picked the wrong year to give up sniffing glue!
ReplyDeleteThuhuhuhuh Minnesota Twins have won the ball game.
ReplyDeleteIt defies the laws of physics such a fiasco couldhave occurred with Judge batting third.
ReplyDeleteI bought lab grown diamond earing for my Lovely and Delightful Partner for Mother's day. I'm becoming very interested in the ads.
ReplyDeleteOh, and let us all note that The New York Yankees have lost a season season to the Minnesota Twins for the first time since 1938.
ReplyDeleteFuck all of them. You all know which ones I'm talking about. Fuck. Them.
The Team website said they “faltered” tonight. Of that I have no doubt.
ReplyDeleteI think Hicks honestly misjudged that ball.
ReplyDeleteBut that's the problem.
Hicks has reached a point in his career where he cannot:
—Hit for power
—Hit for average
—Run fast
—Throw hard
—Accurately judge flyballs.
So the reason for keeping him is...?
Games such as tonight's are also why Ma Boone is a bad manager, even above and beyond what Brian Cashman makes him do.
ReplyDeleteHe seems to have absolutely no way to motivate this baseball team. I don't know that anyone would. But he does not.
Will be quite an interesting race this year between Yanks and Red Sox to see who stays out of AL East cellar. Sox, committed tankers in 2023, are the favorite. But don't count out industry punch line Brian Cashman. He'll make sure the Yankees stay in it somehow.
ReplyDeleteBecause there is really no reason to punish myself, I did not watch a pitch after Nasty gave up the tie-breaking HR.
ReplyDeleteSo hard to watch the lineup of sub-.200 hitters flail away.
I have returned to daily reviews of the Yanks minors through and there were some nice things there last night .
Jones got 4 hits, including 2 triples and a double.
Wells back DHing.
the Martian got a HR.
Chaparro had a HR.
Jack Bauers is batting .333 with 9HRs, after getting one last night, with 20 RBI and an OPS of 1.3 something.
I can't think of any reason that he is in AAA when you look at the BA of our bench/forced to start players.
If anyone interested, the easiest way to look things up on the Farm is the minor league page on MLB.com
Always nice to dream about the farm, but close observation of the RailRiders in the Cashman era leads to the conclusion that the chasm between AAA and MLB is so vast that predicting performance in MLB from AAA numbers is a fool's errand. At least on the upside. For every stud like Judge there have been at least a dozen sluggers/rakers who dominated for an extended period in the International League. Bird, Roller, Heathcott, Refsnyder, Gamel, Sanchez, Parmalee, Cave, McKinney, Florial, Montero, AJax...a few fringe big leaguers there but no real difference makers. One guy from the Cashman era who has really developed is Solano. Not with the Yankees, of course. Cash whiffed on that one. A relatively minor entry in the long indictment against him, but telling.
ReplyDeleteThe farm ain't the answer, as we're discovering with the Oswalds, who are almost certainly fringe big leaguers at best (jury's still out and fingers arecrossed on Volpe). Getting Stanton, Bader and JD back is the only hope for this offense. And that assumes career norm performance from the first two, and at least the ability from JD to punish a mistake or two per week.
Otherwise, they may miss the playoffs. A different, well adjusted, better managed and organized franchise...a franchise that was honest with itself and not suffering delusions of grandeur... would be considering how to maximize Cole's trade deadline value.
But this is the Cashman Yankees. So the 2023 plan is no more than wishin'' and hopin' and magical thinkin' and prayin'.
Cole has a full no-trade clause, so any deal would be dicey to work out.
ReplyDeleteThe solution is to assign all of the Yankee scouts to scout Tampa Bay's scouts and then draft whomever they like. Go all CIA/FBI on them.
Sign the Caribs and South of the border guys the they like.
We an't doing it on our own.
Gotta convince Cole to go, in thst case. The spooks would have known how to do that a generation ago. But like the Yankees, they're yet another American institution that has been hollowed out, set against itself, and transformed into an absurdity by maleducated, midwitted, ideological technologists.
ReplyDeleteLOVE "maleducated, midwitted, ideological technologists," Publius!
ReplyDeleteThere is no cure.
ReplyDelete