And so we dump the Bader, and leave the Florial. In Scranton.
It's enough to make one pine for the days when crazy ol' Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis used to order teams to release their stockpiled players from the minor leagues (looking at us, old New York Yankees).
Meanwhile, who could have seen yet another Harrison Bader injury coming? Anyone with an abacus.
As of today, the Westchester Cheetah has missed 30.6 percent of the games his teams have played since the start of the 2018 season. What's more, the percentage he has missed has grown steadily from 2020, rising from 16.7 percent that truncated season, to 36.4 percent in 2021, 46.9 percent last year, and 54.4 percent this season thus far—with a 10-day stint on the DL just beginning.
Incredibly, that's not even the top absentee mark of any Yankee over the past five seasons.
There is, of course, dear, departed Oft-Injured Hicks, who missed 42.6 percent of all Yankees games since 2018, including a high of 80.2 percent since 2021. Though perhaps it is unfair to give Hicksie the (Non-) Attendance Award, as increasingly, those days and nights on the bench came because he was just...bad.
Take a look instead at the soon-to-be-with-us-once-more, Giancarlo Stanton. He has missed 39.7 percent of all NYY games since coming over in 2018.
But that figure is distorted by the fact that Stanton miraculously missed only 4 games in all of 2018. Since then, he has managed to miss 88.9 percent of a season (2019), 32.1 percent (2022), and 77.2 percent (this year, thus far).
His record would look even worse, save for the Covid pandemic, as in 2020, Stanton was not fit to play for any of the time before the season finally began, and missed 61.7 percent even of mere 60 games the Yanks played that year.
I think it is fair to say that no Yankees general manager has ever assembled a starting outfield with so little ability to stay on the field. Remember, right up until a couple weeks ago, Brian Cashman was still insisting that these three players were all key parts of the Yankees juggernaut he had assembled.
I suspect it is even fair to say that no general manager, anywhere, anytime in the history of major-league baseball, has ever assembled a would-be outfield that is so consistently injured, for so long a time.
Talk about meatballs...
With Cashman, nothing is ever as it seems. Take those meatballs, for example. They are made with soy extender, otherwise known as textured vegetable protein.
ReplyDeleteand here I’ve been thinking all along that The Intern’s specialty was finding hidden gems at Goodwill.
ReplyDeleteLook around baseball, we are not alone. Especially when it comes to high priced players, or the wannabes. I have to wonder, how much of this phenomenon is due to "hamburger helper"? Naaaaah.
ReplyDeleteSoy extender sounds a bit naughty.
ReplyDeleteSort of like vegan viagra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2aH9tu4s30
ReplyDeleteJustin Shackil has a voice that should be slapped.
ReplyDeleteUnwavering positivity!!!
Wow this is the scrub lineup…
ReplyDeleteTearing the cover off of the ball.
ReplyDeleteAt least Schlitz isn't the schitts.
We could have skipped the first 9 innings of this game. In fact, I did. Turned on now…. Let’s make this quick.
ReplyDeleteWhat a thrilling game. I missed almost all of it, too. Thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteJudge hit a ball to the warning track. It didn't go out. We lose.
Last night, in a blowout, Booone used King for two innings. I can understand if he needed some work going two maybe three batters. BUT BURNING UP YOUR BEST RELIEVER??? I KNEW THAT THE DEED WOULDN'T GO UNPUNISHED. WTF????? Seasons are lost from mistakes like that. Send Boone to the causeway.....
ReplyDeleteKevi,
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing when I saw the box score.
Why use King for 2 inns. when we have such a feeble lineup?
Couldn't Weber go 3?
With today off, 1 inning in games back-to-back would seem to work, unless, because of last year injury, they are not going to go back-to-back.
I can't remember if he has done back to back this year.
For those scoring at home,
ReplyDeletePeraza is batting ,347 with a 1.061 OPS, with 9HRs and a .398 OBP,
but there is no room for him.
I think that he has conquered AAA.
Maybe they can trade Torres for a good OF as soon as our walking wounded return this week and plug Peraza somewhere in the IF.
This is why he is the fucking Genius. He can do no wrong. Hal wants to have his Baby. He has been nominated for the Hall Of Fame for executives. He will not change his ways because there no need. Brought in Kei Igawa, Carl Pavano and Miller the stretching coach who told the Yankees not to stretch. The result, lots of pulled hamstrings. Extended Barren Hicks when he would not extend Jeter or Mariano. He was not responsible for Mr. Softy, Ellsbury. That was clueless Hal and Fat Slob Randy Levine. Brings back Javier Vazquez, not once but twice. Under Cashman, the Yankees AAA Farm Team, has a roster of older players. The Genius picks up retreads. The Atantla Braves develop and bring up young stars who flourish. The Genius does make up ridiculous sayings like "We are a Deathstar." He does sleep in the streets and climbs up and down buildings. I will say it again, with Genius Cashman in charge, N O W O R L D S E R I E S. He is an overrated full of himself incompetent boob. Bader's contarct is up at the end of this season. He will no doubt be resigned and spend the majority of his time with Tissue Mon Stanton on the IL.
ReplyDeleteP.S. on The Genius. Held on to Frazier, Sanchez and Andujar amongst other players too long.
ReplyDeleteWell that's the thing with being a GM, sometimes you roll snake eyes. What's extraordinary about The Brain is that he seems to be "cursed". Javier Vazquez, the first time, was widely lauded the first time. But all the rest, my God, Ellsbury was already a China doll with Boston.... I think that one problem is that Cashman gets to keep money not spent on certain categories. Like scouting and development. Anyone on this blog could have overseen a few successful picks and trades in 24 years.
ReplyDeleteIt ain't just the big things with Cashman. It's also the little things like not putting injured players on the I.L. Instead, they play short, sometimes several guys short, for days, weeks! He also fails to bring up his own minor leaguers and instead brings in fringe guys who have been jettisoned by other organizations. He brings in inexperienced coaches who are mediocre at best. He probably has got no scouting system in place and doesn't even know who to ask for in a trade. He brings back the same free agents for second and third helpings.
ReplyDeleteCashman should be crucified by the media, but that guy lives an amazingly charmed existence! He gets paid millions of dollars a year to fuck everything up and the media thinks he's a genius! Is this Alice In Wonderland or what gives?