From commenter ZacharyA...
DJ LeMahieu continues to look extremely lost. He's hitting .179/.220/.295 (.515 OPS) in his last 30 games with no encouraging underlying metrics. If we find out at the end of the year that he's playing through an injury and the Yankees didn't want to put him on the IL, I'm going to be furious.
Anthony Rizzo has been better the past week, but he hasn't homered in more than a month. We need his power back desperately.
I can't adequately express how worried I am about Giancarlo Stanton. He's hitting .167/.245/.356 (.601 OPS) since last year's All Star break! This is the worst stretch of his entire career. I looked it up to verify. We're in uncharted waters with how bad he's been for so long.
There are 39 catchers with at least 120 PA this year. Kyle Higashioka ranks 33rd in OPS and Jose Trevino ranks 36th. These guys are bottom-of-the-barrel bats even when compared with their weak-hitting peers. I don't think the Yankees will dump them or anything — game-calling and defense are too important — but it puts more pressure on the rest of the lineup when you have an auto-out in the lineup.
The Yankees rank 28th in hits and 25th in walks this season, which combines for a 29th-ranked OBP. That OBP, currently sitting at .296, is our worst team OBP since 1967. That was during the offensive doldrums that led to the mound being lowered. Now, most likely Judge will come along and rescue us from a sub-.300 OBP, but we're 2800+ PA into the season. This is no longer a small sample size.
There have only been three Yankee teams to finish the season with a sub-.300 OBP: the 1908 New York Highlanders and the 1967-1968 Yankees.
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All I can say is 'wow'.
We're as bad as the late 1960s incarnations of the team? Like CBS, maybe Hal can sell the team to his father.
Oh, worse than that. As mentioned, the 1968 team—holder of the lowest BA in major-league baseball since 1900, PERIOD—had a team OBP of .303, when you don't count in the pitchers, who were forced to hit then.
It’s bad, even the Yankee apologists are running out of excuses. Boone was particularly inept in last night’s presser. It seemed he almost wanted to speak the truth, but held back.
Cashman’s roster construction is an utter failure. What we are writing about Stanton now will be written about Judge in a few years.
Then again he will be playing 1B as early as ‘25. The toe jam only adds impetus to that move.
Yeah, Donaldson can still hit some HR’s for us, but will also disappear for stretches. He’s 37, it’s over…WTF was Cashman thinking? I don’t hate JD as much as most, who have never gotten over the Jackie remark. It was a stupid, totally unnecessary thing to say, but if there’s a bigger jerk than Donaldson in the league, it’s Tim Anderson - he was the one who competed himself to Jackie Robinson, and Donaldson simply skewered him for it. In retrospect, it may have JD’s finest hour. Low bar there, for sure.
Never liked Stanton, never wanted him, always knew this day would come. As Zach pointed out ifs been a year long slump over 2 seasons. Here’s something that I think will piss many of you off: imagine how much better the team would be with Ohtani instead of Stanton. If we weren’t lashed to the salaries of DJLM, Stanton, Hicks, even Cole, like Ahab lashed to Moby Dick, we could even afford him.
And hey - speaking of Dicks, are we really going go all year with Dilbert Lawson and the other two stooges as our h/c’s?
It’s embarrassing to lose to the worst team in MLB. Even if we win 10-1 tonight and Stanton hits 2 HR’s, it doesn’t change a thing.
I have to agree with borntorun99 on the Donaldson thing.
I don't care for him and wish that he would just go away with his .100+ BA, but the thing with Anderson was overblown.
We busted each other's ball constantly in sports and as I have written here, I played in a very mixed-raced sports arena. I was on track in college and the majority were Black
If one of those guys would have compared themselves to say, Jesse Owens, or if somebody we had meets against did, we probably would have busted that person's balls too.
Juvenile? Yes, but SPORTS is juvenile!
Maybe we would be more sensitive today.
However, there is nothing about Anderson that leads me to believe he is not a prick himself. Seems very full of himself and quick to temper and shout.
The only silver lining is that they will not pickup JD's option at season's end...really...they wont...
Jackie needs to go. But it won't happen soon enough to matter.
In fact, the management won't do anything that matters before I and most of my fellow iIIHers have their ashes dropped from a drone onto Cashman's lawn.
@ BTR & The Archangel, So that was probably it, two dickbags named Jackie and Jackie going at it. One white and one black. Hell, why don't they get married to each other in Vegas? They deserve each other, would probably end up killing each other. Good riddance.
Ballplayer humor has always been exceedingly crude. Yanks used to have a pitcher named Domingo Jean, who had a wide space in between his two front teeth. And the players used to give him a piece of rope and tell him to floss his teeth. And Bernie Williams used to get teased by Mel Hall all the time. Mel used to call Bernie "Bambi". Bernie should've given Mel a Christmas present of used diapers "from Bambi".
Nothing to worry about. Stanton now has a long streak from last season to this one of hitting under .200. He is done!
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