"Oh, I can gather all the news I need on the Rumfield Report..."
Our known knowns, thus far:
After a red-hot start to the season, Toby Joseph "T.J." Rumfield has settled into a comfortable .250/.327/.400/.727 with your Colorado Rockies, including 4 doubles, a triple, 3 home runs, 11 walks (against only 13 strikeouts), and 16 RBI—all figures that would make him the monster of the Yankees' bottom half of the lineup.
Recently seen in NYC during the Rockies' sweep of the Mets, the Scranton refugee went 1-9, with a single and an RBI; walked three times, and struck out twice.
On the other hand, Colorado went ahead for good in Game 1 of their Sunday doubleheader, when the Metsies threw wild on what looked like the double-play grounder he had hit. Gee, putting the ball in play—what a concept!
And in the nightcap, when it seemed as though the Amazin's might actually score, putting two men on base with none out in the fifth, Rumfield made a nice, leaping catch of a Tyrone Taylor line drive, to turn an unassisted double-play.
That play epitomizes Rumfield's chief strengths: his relative athleticism, and his ability to field.
Thus far, T.J. has yet to miss a game, and he has had 117 chances at first without an error.
I still maintain that if he had been at first base in the 2024 World Series instead of a washed-up, immobilized Anthony Rizzo, we would have escaped the Fatal Fifth Inning of Game Five, and maybe even rallied to win the Series against a badly injured Dodgers team.
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Yeah, that's the pity of it all. Even if Oswaldo Cabrera had been at 1B, we probably win that game. Boone throwing the first game away really killed us though, so I don't know that we win the series even if we'd won the 5th inning debacle game.
For what it's worth, Derek Jeter and A-Rod both picked the Yanks to win that series in 6, if I recall correctly. I think I predicted the Yanks would be swept. If not for those two horrendous losses, it would've been a series. Typical Ba-Boone.
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