He keeps trotting out Volpe. He keeps thinking Williams is a closer. He keeps playing Wells (Cashman did trade away all of our really good catching prospects, so there's that). Rice is a better catcher, a better hitter, and can be an even better catcher if he gets to play there every day.
Bednar is the best guy Cashman got, and Boone doesn't turn to him when he needs him. That pretty much goes for Weaver, too.
McMahon is the second best--or maybe the best, we've yet to see--guy Cashman got.
Every player who's going to be a free agent at the end of the season has got to be counting the days before their escapes.
Judge, our beloved Captain, is still making excuses for Williams. Which is nice of him. And Williams' recent bad outings have really been caused by Boone's terrible managing.
Stanton is actually hitting. He didn't come through last night in his final at-bat, but he's been doing better than anyone else on this damned team. And I'd rather have him up in a crucial ninth-inning spot than Judge, to be honest. Because...you know. If Judge can't play the outfield, Stanton has to. It won't always be pretty, but without his bat, we're toast. And who knows if Judge can still hit with his injury? But yes, we can only hope so. Again, no other choice.
A few more losses this week and Tampa could pass us if they can put together a few wins.
Boone is an idiot.
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And yes, Stanton haters, I still say he's been doing just fine since he finally started playing. We can all carp about the injuries, the bad legs, the lack of lineup flexibility. But he's got 28 RBI with 34 hits, and if those were all meaningless than what can we say about Judge?
Exactly.
Stanton is far from great, but on this shitshow of a team...Wells, Volpe, Chisholm, Boone, Williams...I'd rather have him than not have him.
Dear, esteemed JM. I cannot tell you how much I love these early morning updates. It feels like the announcer from “victory at Sea”, crackling in over my radio at an odd hour. Of course, that means that I am also up. What does Life mean?
As for Stanton, you are a good man for defending him and it’s not like you don’t make sense, but he just has the word “irrelevant“ written all over him. He did redeem himself a little bit last year in the postseason, but maybe it’s just that most awful expression that some of us Yankee fans have - he doesn’t seem like a real Yankee.
The thing is, it’s a distraction right now. He is one overpriced, semi-adequate link in a chain that is just a pile of metal shavings. He might be great on another team, honestly. It’s just that the synergy of the Yankees team is like multiple piles of dog shit under my pillow. It’s not working. We can all like and dislike different members of this team, but we need to stick together here.
I will take your words to heart and try to kill the hatred in me. In the meantime, the tip of our canoe, as Hoss suggested, is going over the edge of the Falls Near the lovely town of Buffalo. I am dictating this quietly from the other room, so please excuse any typos. My significant other is asleep and I am alone with my Yankee angst. My Yankgst…
What I think of Stanton is relative. This team blows. And on this team, Stanton matters. If we had a real manager and a really strong roster, he'd be completely expendable. But we don't, and we don't, so he isn't.
His offense means we need him. Because we have that much less offense if we don't use him. And on the 2025 Yankees, we can't afford to have any less offense than we have, because we really don't have much.
That's kind of been my defense of him all along. You can say he sucks, but he sucks less than a lot of other guys we trot out every day.
Absolutely true, JM. I’m just a broken Yankee soul right now.
Stanton has what, 10 home runs in 5 weeks? He may be physically limited, but he isn't a dumbass player who doesn't seem to give a shit.
Yes, JM's daily early appearances are like this blog's programming of the morning TV test pattern, The Modern Farmer, silent Farmer Gray cartoons, and the Sunrise Semester.
JM - is that you?
Giancarlo playing in the outfield is going to be like watching Bruce Bochy out in right field. Same speed, range and mobility. But Stanton has been great with the bat since coming back.
Maybe he can use it on Boone..
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