By this time next year, it'll be five misses in 15.
First, they're gonna stick with Volpe. They'll say he played 2025 hurt. George Lombard Jr. won't be ready, and they won't wanna spend big on a free agent SS. So it'll be Volpe. And he'll suck.
They'll re-sign Trent Grisham. The Mets or Dodgers will outbid us for Cody Bellinger, prompting a panicked Hal to bestow an 8-year, Aaron Hicks-level deal upon Grisham. And he'll suck.
They sign some aging 3B to a Josh Donaldson contract. And he'll suck.
Gerrit Cole will return in July. He'll be pushing 36. He'll suck.
Aaron Judge will face nagging injuries that reduce him to 90 games and 30 HRs. He'll still be great. But without him, they'll suck.
I cannot argue with any of this.
ReplyDeleteHow could they not?
ReplyDeleteI’m sensing a name change….
ReplyDeleteThe New York Suckees
Or of course the alternative, obligatory spelling - The New York $uckees
DeleteThat's very optimistic ED...
ReplyDelete2013 is the sun around which the Yankees planet orbits. 2026 may be the point of closest approach, which will touch off another orbital cycle of mock-contention before, you know, 2013 arrives again.
ReplyDeleteEl Duque, I'm sensing a very low win total from you in next season's blog pool.
ReplyDeleteCarl - BoonAlytics will once again guarantee us 79 wins.
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ReplyDeleteSo much fun being a Yankee fan!.
ReplyDeleteAnd Giancarlo Stanton is under contract until 2027. How many lower body injuries will he have in the coming years?
ReplyDeleteCan easily see all of this, except McMahon’s contract extends through 2027. He will be the starting 3B man next year.
ReplyDeleteI got to New York last night after a flight that included five hours of delays. All the extra time did allow me to read the novel "Butter" from start to finish.
ReplyDeleteSo I'll be here until next Monday. After this season, everyone may be too disgruntled to get together, or even a few of us. But I'm around if you have a notion.
Love to get together when I can, JM. You have a date in mind, let me know. Maybe next Saturday?
ReplyDeleteSeattle went up 3-0 on Yesavage in the first. Huh. Seems like they read scouting reports or something.
ReplyDeleteDon't think there's really been enough about just how bad most of playoff baseball has been this year. The Dodgers won a "thriller" against the Phillies, 2-1 in 11...with two of the runs scoring on pitchers' errors, and the other on a bases-loaded walk. I thought maybe the Detroit-Seattle, 15-inning final was never going to end, both teams kept swinging out of their shoes, at one pitcher after another...
ReplyDelete...Our disappointment aside, the Yanks' Game 4 was objectively awful. A bullpen game, in which 3 runs scored on miscues by our second baseman...
ReplyDelete...and now, Seattle putting Toronto right back in this one because of ANOTHER first baseman-pitcher covering flip gone awry. So major-league ballplayers no longer practice ANYTHING? I think most of the teams I've seen in the postseason spend more time on their home run celebrations than they do on infielder practice.
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