This is not a rough patch.
This is not a hiccup.
This is the true 2025 NY Yankees, a team with many issues and expectations, all of which converge to make one simple point:
This team isn't very good.
Average starters, thin bullpen, terrible defense, inability to advance runners, aging lineup, lackluster effort, and -well - that's Chinatown, Jake.
We can wait until October, or Doomsday for Anthony Volpe to shrug off the hometown stress and start hitting like a star. There's no guarantee it will happen. In fact, with every error, with every slump, Volpe's resurgence looks less like a feasible outcome, and more like a YES Channel talking point gone awry.
We can continue to play Jazz Chisholm at 3B, staunch in our belief that DJ LeMahieu will magically shed 10 years, gain a step in both directions at 2B, and start hitting again. Next week, he turns 37.
We can keep the lineup as is - (as if we have options) - while opponents walk Aaron Judge, knowing they will pay no price.
We can tell ourselves that we're just going through a slump, and one of these days, we'll mount a winning streak and regain the AL East.
What's wrong? Everything.
And maybe, just maybe, this is a late July when the Yankees are sellers - not buyers - in the trade market. Could management make such a decision?
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Quick, schedule another bobble head giveaway and retire a few more numbers!
Sell? What exactly do the Yankees have that’s worth buying? Or, in a trade, what would they get in return? More dreck?
The only good news during this fall from grace is the emergence of My Favorite Martian.
You know what? Hal has been right all along. I can't imagine why (coughing fit), but there are too many teams who are showing success without breaking the tax threshold. (Coughing fit has seized me I can't go on).
I anticipated the season thinking of an outfield of The Martian, Cody, and Judge. An infield without DJ, with Jazz at second, Goldy holding first for a year, spelled with Rice. Wells and Rice as the catchers. Peraza at third, hitting or not, and by some miracle anybody but Volpe. Cole and Fried anchoring the rotation. Stroman lost for the season, maybe, Schmidt and Gil and Rodent filling out the group. Luke as our closer.
Maybe they'd be good, I thought. Could win something.
Nahhh. Boone is still there, being an idiot. Injuries took a toll, of course. Then there are the same old weaknesses, the same old mismanagement and bad roster construction.
What a shitshow. Like Mattingly, Judge is a wasted star, and the best course is just to stay wasted.
I don't understand why the press stay so quiet when the Yankees are a complete shambles yet again
I subscribe to the New York Times and I read the New York Post and anything else Ican get my hands on online and I neer see any real criticism of Cashman or Boone
Do the journalists fear being blacklisted if they speak up? Or has it always been this way in New York toeing the party line?
I mean I am still learning about baseball and do not pretend to be an expert but for years in a stadium designed for left handed we had none
Now the latest farce of a 2B 3B playing out of position and of course many more similar scenarios but these seem to me a novice to be pretty obvious problems that no other team in the leagues would tolerate
For the money the Yankees pay in salary the return is terrible
Or am I missing the point as long as we make the playoffs each year and Hal makes 10's of millions extra dollars profit each year then that is all that matters to him?
I've been referring to Li'l Tony as The Disappointment.
SYF, 10s of millions of dollars in profit is all that matter to ownership.
All of your observations are correct. The way this team is run is a slap in the face to its fans, perhaps especially to long-time fans who clearly see the mistakes and stupidity of the statistic/analytics approach, taken to an extreme.
Cashman puts the anal in analytics. Like all team sports, baseball demands instinct, human understanding, and an appreciation of intangibles. He has none of it.
How do you say that in Italian?
If they won't fire Lorna Boone, perhaps he/she will set itself on fire.....
Even in the recent dark days of 2013 we had an actual third baseman. Sure it was the already dead Kevin Youkilis splitting time with Jayson Nix but at least we went into the season with a a guy who plays third.
And what happened to the plan to prop up LeMahieu's corpse at third instead of the more-movement-required second? We could probably use an athletic guy in the middle infield, maybe a guy who plays second, maybe even throw caution out the window and try Jazz there. What about Peraza at third, Jazz at second? Too radical?
Jasson is hitting though, bright side. He's either on a roll or he's figuring things out and right now he's the only reason I don't cancel Gotham Sports.
Christ I'm sick of Volpe.
“Aye . . . Disappointment !”
Looks as though Brandon Kuty’s piece today in the Times/Athletic took the kid’s gloves off a bit and was more critical of the team…
Volpe certainly is a disappointment. Then, so's the whole team. Stinks from the head down. Stinks. Stinks. 'cept Aaron, poor guy.
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