Joining him was the Yanks' latest "great new arm of the future," Carlos Lagrange, who the Bombers should have put in their bullpen to start the season, so they could have at least got a decent half-year out of what is certain to be yet another, sad career of rehab stints, imagings, and promising comeback outings, down in the far-flung outposts of the Yankees' crumbling empire.
At 33, Carlos Rodon has never thrown 200 innings in a season. And yet, he joins Max Fried, who has also never thrown 200 innings in a season, on the DL.
Carlos the Younger, who is 23, has never thrown more than the 120 he reached last season. Didn't help.
Gerrit Cole has thrown over 200 innings in a season. He is just coming back from his second, extended DL stint. If "coming back" is what he's doing.
But the fact is that doesn't happen with your New York Yankees.
The young guys get hurt, the older guys get hurt. They are coddled, they are instructed, they take all kinds of pills to give 'em all kinds of thrills learn all kinds of things about all kinds of pitches...
And they still get hurt.
Look, I'm NOT for rushing along young pitchers, or overworking guys. The past really was full of young guys who were overworked and blew out their arms, never to be heard from again.
But this—whatever this is—for the Yankees or the majors, isn't working.
We keep hearing about the tremendous velocity that guys attain today...although at our ill-fated outing to the Stadium, we saw Yankees and Reds pitchers alike throwing all sorts of 80-something junk. (I think one pitch was even at 79 mph, though that might've been the position player we ended up using.)
Reserved and rested and reconstituted as these guys are...none of them can complete nine innings. Almost none of them can throw six innings—something else that's destroying our game. It's sure as hell destroying the Yankees. Every year it's the same thing: the kids don't come up, and the older guys go down.
We keep being told this is scientific. We keep being told this is better. It's not science, and it's not better.
The other day on SNY, the estimable John Harper was advising the Yankees to do whatever it took to get Tarik Skubal from the Tigers. Harper's reasoning was that, "With the American League the way it is, the Yankees are practically slotted in to make the World Series."
Sadly, even with the American League the way it is, they are not. I don't think they will make the playoffs, much less the Fall Classic.
And I doubt that they could even assemble a package of players that would bring them Skubal. And I doubt that Skubal would get through even the rest of the season with this franchise...without ending up on the DL.
What the Yankees need to do—what MLB needs to do—is figure out what they're doing wrong, so they can fix it.
Crazy idea, I know.
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I don't think they're making the playoffs either. The rest of the A.L. is starting to play better, much better. And the Yankees are playing like pansies.
BTW, I think I said awhile back that the mound should be lowered to help the offense. I sit corrected.
I've been takin' note of the run scoring all over baseball the last month or so. This is not scientific - I'm not even looking at the statistical totals - but it don't look like the offenses around baseball need any help. These days, it seems no lead is safe. We're seeing 8 run leads evaporating in one or two innings. If we lowered the mound, these games might never end, there's so much hitting and run scoring. There have been many games lately where one team scored over 20 runs in a game. We think the Dodgers have a good lineup, but they're seem underpowered compared to the Brewers, Cubs, Athletics, even the Rockies. All fearsome offenses that just never stop hitting. They're never out of game, even when they're down by double digit runs. They can easily make that up in two or three innings. Seems like they're scoring 20 runs in a single game at least once a week.
Seems the only ball club in need of offense is right here. The Yankees can't score runs, can't hit, can't run the bases. I heard the Yankees have hit the most home runs in baseball. That's hard to believe, but if they say so, it must be correct. But home runs don't mean you have a good offense. And if we lowered the mound for the Yankees, then the other team would be hitting against our pitchers who are throwing off the lower mounds as well. Bottom line: it's just as we predicted in spring training. This Yankee team is offensively challenged, can't score runs.
The Yankees are well on their way to 3.5 Million in attendance at home..
They can’t score runs, can’t hit, never could run the bases, but by god, they will turn a handsome profit.
And that’s all that matters in Yankeeland
Wait, what???! Hitting home runs doesn't necessarily mean you score the most runs???? Blasphemy! How dare you contradict MLB's preconceived notions!
Well said.
Hey, they said they were running it back.
Big swoon -- Check.
An AL East team is having a special year, taking control of the division - Check.
Playing Volpe at SS despite - uh his Volpenizing - Check
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Volpenizing :
Can't turn the DP.
Can't throw a ball to first that comes in over the waist.
Makes the Volpe Face. A confused squint. "How did that happen" How was I out." Where should I have thrown?"
Can't hit. etc.
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Playing position players out of position - Check .
Insisting that a player who is the worst hitter in baseball is "Getting close" Check.
Using relivers that shouldn't be in MLB - Check
Using them over and over and over again - Check
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Plus everything everybody all ready mentioned..
They ARE running it back.
Last box to check is
Bounced and humiliated by that hot AL East winning team in the playoffs.
We'll get there.
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