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.
Kevin, I don't necessarily disagree with Hal. But if he thinks the Yanks should win spending the same or less money, then he should get a GM who can do that.
Perhaps the way the Yankee organization approaches Baseball. There is a little creepy baold man running the show. He is arrogant and clueless.
Scotland, the NYTimes likes to think of itself as a national newspaper, even a global one. They much prefer to cover the likes of European football or the Tour de France over local baseball. They also like to do big, magazine-style pieces about things like rock-climbing or hiking.
The tabloids are more engaged, locally, and can be tough. But overall, I think they're stuck in bigpictruism. The "big picture" is, the Yanks have not had a losing record since 1992. Therefore, the big picture is that they must a light unto the nations, and a model organization.
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Not available today to post a game thread/dread/shred/meds.
Would/Could someone else post one today?
America Thanks Each and Everyone of You !
Absofuckinglutely!
Schmidt to have Tommy John surgery. The (s)hits keep coming!
NYT hates the Yankees. Maybe they abhore the 'new money' Steinbrenners. But as long as I can remember, NYT coverage of the Yankees has been total crap, with a side of "I'm sorry, did we overlook you?"
The Martian's hitting sixth today. Christ knows why. He homered twice out of the leadoff spot yesterday. Another righty starter today, if it was a lefty I could see it. But nope, a righty. Big Yankee's algorithm must have him down there for some reason. At least he's not sitting. Thank heaven for small favors.
re media softness toward Yankees management, for what it's worth Francesa trashed them on his podcast a couple days ago. Damned Boone with faint praise and pointed out what we all know: it is a poorly constructed team that tells itself soothing stories about what a well run organization it is, about the vagaries of baseball, and about what its assembly of talent is capable of.
After this Schmidt news, it's clear that the Yankees are the most depressing, and likely most depressed, team in baseball.
Did I not say that Volpe and Schmidt should be traded? (Excusez moi whilst I pat me self on the back.) I'm tellin' ya, that game against the Orioles was the dividing line between the good and the bad, and Volpe was on the wrong side of the line. That was last year, I think. The game with the Volpe error with Clay Holmes on the mound and then the Verdugo face plant to seal the deal.
Clarke Schmidt, I think I've been sayin' for a couple years already, he should've been traded. He obviously max'ed out here. Another team might get him to the next level as a starter, but it shure as hell wasn't going to happen here. Now that his elbow snapped, nobody's going to trade for an injured pitcher (except Dumbass Cashman). So he'll end up leaving when he turns free agent, whenever that is, and the Yankees will get nothing for him.
I'm too lazy to check on Josh Hader's stats, but I'm sure he's having a good year. Should've gone after him and signed him as a free agent. I wanted him, but Cashman very rarely, if ever, does what I think. So they never made an offer for him, so far as I'm aware of. Hader's got that weird leg kick on the follow through, with the foot moving in an awkward direction. That kind of thing is a huge distraction to the hitter. Makes him much more effective than a normal pitcher. Dumbass Cashman never signs guys like that. He likes vanilla pitchers with smooth & easy mechanics. Good for avoiding injury, maybe, but hitters never have a problem seeing them well.
I don’t know why anyone should be surprised by the announcement About Schmidt.
The Intern drafted Schmidt knowing he needed TJ surgery before he ever threw a pitch for them, and took him with the 16th pick in the 2017 draft. What a waste.
The Intern has no idea how to construct a team and no idea how to evaluate talent. He has no business being anywhere in the organization but the mailroom.
Schmidt will never be even a decent back end starter. He was an accident waiting to happen again. And again.
That’s my boy Brain; you’ve done it again.
Angels used to have a pitcher, I think it was Brendan Donovan, who before every pitch, would make a motion like he was doing hara kiri to himself. Sometimes he did it twice, sometimes he did it thrice. I don't remember the Yankees ever scoring a run off him. Another type of pitcher who Cashman would rather kill himself than bring here.
Indeed. With our Strat-O-Matic analytics department at the helm the Yankees are a hopeless mess.
The Martian has been on fire and should be hitting at the top of the order, either in front of or behind Judge. But the Yankees are being run by people who don’t know anything about baseball. Put the kid out there every day and leave him alone.
No wonder Glauber is having a year in Detroit. The Yankees have a habit of killing players.
Is that guy Cashman canned, that catcher Carlos Narvaez, still hitting .290 for Boston? Is it just me or are all the guys that Cashman let go hitting up a fucking storm all over major league baseball? What's that say about the coaching here?
Volpe needs a goddamned personal hitting coach and a personal fielding coach. He needs someone to hold his hand for each at bat and every inning in the field. They could do that, but I get the sense that they don't want to. They're perfectly all right letting their players struggle and death spiral down until ... poof! Mayday, mayday, she's breaking up, she's breaking up, I can't hold her .... PFGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Gleyber Fucking Torres, leading the A.L. All Star votes for 2B! I knew that was going to happen. Just not going to happen here. A J Hinch, that cheating bastard, probably at it again in Tiger Town. Must've figured out a new way to relay pitch signals to his hitters. Can you imagine how much better the Yankees would be if they had fired BaBoone and hired cheatin' A J Hinch as their manager? Some things will never change.
And the guys Cashman drafted most recently are also these types of walking injury time bombs, right? I forget what the deal was with them, but they all had some kind of negatives attached to them. Very poor drafting.
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