Tampa is burning up. Gruesome, unbearable heat. Clocks melting, and not in a Salvidor Dali way. Nobody goes to ball games. (Wednesday, hosting the Blue Jays, a mere 13,000 showed up.)
Meanwhile, the Rays are sniffing the exits. (Friday, the city signed a hostage deal to keep them in Tampa, for now. It requires the sacrifice of every family's first-born.) Worst of all - for Tampoans, anyway - the Yankees keep creeping closer, now one measly weekend series behind.
Meanwhile, every Yank win pushes Toronto into a death spiral. Vlad Jr. - "I'd never be a Yankee/Wait, I'll join the Yankees/Check that: I'll never be a Yankee" - Guerrero will soon return. Who cares? He's hitting .263 with 7 HRs. Worst year of his career. And he'll never be a Yankee.
By this time next week, we're playing two against Boston. Biggest day of 2026.
Meanwhile, at least 10 hitters should belt more than 30 HRs
By the way, Cody Bellinger has 10. But I doubt he'll be running much, after he returns. (Spencer Jones - 7 SBs, not yet thrown out) has a better chance, unless he's in Scranton.
Volpe homered again in Triple A. And Luis Durango - the Slapper, down at Somerset - went 2 for 3. I gotta go. Running off with my human printer.
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.263 with seven HR? Plays first base? Ugly beard? Earning 40 million dollars this year? How is this guy not a Yankee already?
[Checking BR]
Oh, I see now. He walks at a fair clip and in his worst season is striking out only 13,4% of the time. His strikeout rate has in fact dropped throughout his career. And it looks like he plays a pretty good first base, too.
So he's still got a lot of work to do to before he becomes a Yankee. Or else the coaching staff will have its work cut out for it.
It's worth noting that Alvarez is leading the league in both BA and HRs. Houston is a pitiful .500 team but could very well win its division, and Alvarez might end up as MVP this year. That's okay, I'll settle for Schlittler with the Cy Young.
By the way, I take it we didn't get Helium for his defensive skills. Too bad he can't hit much. So why did we need him?
Spencer almost made a great catch yesterday. Just off by a couple inches and it hit the heel of his glove. He covers a lot of ground, don't he?
They wuz lucky yesterday. Good win, sure, but very fortunate. How do you win a game with four hits? Four fucking hits? Well, two run HR + in-surance sac fly + good pitching = win.
And you know that means they'll piss away the last two games of this series for sure. Wonder what kind of stupidity Boone will pull today.
They probably don't win that game without Spencer Jones. But watch, when the walking wounded get back, he'll be the first to get sent down to the minors.
Why'd we get Helium? Well, Cashman, of course. I'm not a big believer in stats, but his stats actually told the story on him. A guy who peaked early in his career, then trending down, down, down. San Fran was smart to get rid of him and get something, anything in return.
Michael Kay posted this 3 minutes ago:
Stanton has strained his other calf so his return has been put off for now.
I had to double check this because I thought it was satire.
glassman
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/new-york-yankees/news/yankees-giancarlo-stanton-injury-update-could-end-season/da343fe0819ef34498bedda1
The man is supposed to be a professional athlete.
Stanton should've retired three years ago. But if he retires, he wouldn't get paid on the remainder of his contract. And so he soldiers on in disabled list purgatory. Which means the Yankees should just release him and eat the remainder of his contract. But they don't do that either. Which is a joke and none too funny for us fans.
He is enjoying his stay at the Jacoby Ellsbury "ease into retirement home".
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