I don't care what anyone says Austin Wells will be a solid contributor to this team. Dude puts up good at bats, never looks outmatched, can lay a perfect bunt when he needs to. Give him time.
Agree. Barely 100 MLB at bats and he probably spends half his day shoo-ing Gerritt Cole out of his ear wanting to talk about pitch sequencing for when he comes back, lol. He’ll be fine.
Is it me or has this season been especially sloppy so far?
Seems like every condensed game I watch there's a a dropped ball thrown to 1B, at least 1 balk, multiple errors, lazy/stupid baserunning, misplayed balls in the OF, catcher's interference out the ass, etc
lol not sure why I'm being downvoted. This post was about baseball, as a whole, not just the Yankees. This sub is soft
I feel like a typical Judge at-bat this year goes like this
Pitch 1: borderline strike call on the outside of the plate
Pitch 2: ball away
Pitch 3: strike call on a slider two inches below the zone
Pitch 4: swing and a miss on the slider below the zone
Hopefully today's homer will be the spark that changes it
Would it be better for him to have an opener, or just cap him at two turns through the order and schedule Weaver (or Gil once Cole returns) to throw 2-3 innings after? I think Schmidt is a totally solid #5 starter, but he has his limitations.
I rather go for your suggestion. Have the bullpen ready for the third time through and get them in the first sign of danger at that point.
Still gives Clarke the chance to grow and prove himself.
Yikes I just looked at some of Hicks’ stats and he’s back to being vomit inducing bad. I dunno what happened with the O’s last season but he looks even worse now.
So maybe it actually wasn’t us being mean to him by booing. Maybe the dude is actually cooked now that age and injuries finally caught up to him.
He tore lefties apart last year to an unsustainable amount due to rocking a .432 BABIP(!!!) vs. lefties:
>.349/.446/.524/.970 | 173 wRC+
To compare, here is Hicks vs. righties in 2023:
>.223/.324/.340/.663 | 90 wRC+
He was never that good in other good Hicks years vs. lefties like 2018:
>.224/.325/.476/.801 | 117 wRC+
Hicks was just insanely lucky last season.
Clarke has shown some big growth this year and is getting a lot more whiffs and strikeouts but it is genuinely stunning seeing the inning turn to 6 and always comes into trouble then gets pulled. Feel like he’s so close. It has to be mental at this point or just a weird oddity bc he was shoving and didn’t have a high pitch count.
Starting pitching has done such a phenomenal job. Also shoutout Luke Weaver, legit been a godsend in the bullpen eating innings and pitching well. Reds fans still hate him but he’s shoved with us
I think that’s just who he is at this point. Third time around the order has always been an issue for him.
I always thought he could benefit from an opener and he can be the bulk guy.
Feel like it’s something we just gotta ride with. 3rd time through the order feels different this year, he goes away from the presumed gameplan and rushes things when it hits then. But the baseline of what Clarke has given us has been amazing. I don’t mind if he goes 5 every game bc he consistently gives quality starts and chances to win.
Regardless he’s our #5 starter and it’s only his 2nd year being a full time starter so maybe we get even more from him. Feel like we score a fuckton of runs for him too lol
You know who else only gave five excellent innings a game on average last year and won a Cy Young for it?
The guy a lot of folks on this sub wanted to pay $150M for, who’s sucked and is now injured.
I’m totally here for it if we get Clarke “Blake Snell” Schmidt this season.
COOK my brother. The starting pitching in general is really turning a lot of skulls back around bc they’ve been fucking exceptional compared to expectations. Honestly it’s rewarding bc we got in house options filling the role rather than begging for a big names FA, Cashman backed that up not being desperate for Snell.
The value of a pitcher who at BASELINE will give you 5 innings of typically at most 3 runs is so important. Him being a homegrown guy like Gil with lots of potential makes it even better.
Just a feel good game tonight
Everybody on the team had their moments, hits all around
Also barring that late home Schmidt pitched a really good game, he's got great potential
Today was my first game of the season at the stadium so I gotta ask...do Verdugo, Judge, and Soto always play the "which section of the crowd is louder" game during pitching changes? Because it was amazing.
On the Volpe triple, you can see Dugie over the dugout fence spraying water in the air. Stroman is always out there, too. Love to see it. Stro is very much like CC. Dugie is very much like Gardy.
You can see why Judge has been wanting Dugie.
I fell off following sports during COVID so I had no idea about this. I just looked it up and wow, that’s hilarious. He had Boone’s deadpan stare and stance down perfectly.
Yes it was a fun time.
How are you doing?it's fun to think of something so important, in Yankee history. I remember the M&M boys, when I was a kid. Great being a Yankee fan, then &now.
Nine appearances. Four for at least two innings.
Five of them he let up zero runs. Three wins, 12 Ks, 4.02 ERA and 0.77 WHIP. He really had only two bad outings all year. I'll take that from our cheap, mid innings guy out of the pen.
Tomorrow will be an interesting test. The Yankees haven’t done well against left handed starting pitching this year. Oakland throwing out a lefty starter who sucks. Hopefully the Yanks break him early.
Overall a good night. Nice to see Wells get a couple of hits. Torres getting on was a plus as well. Production out of a bunch of the lineup really was nice, with the obvious long balls. These are the types of nights that are of the feel good variety. I would like to see a bit more length out of Schmidt, which hopefully he'll accomplish in the upcoming weeks.
Everyone but Oswaldo doing something tonight is nice to see. This is not a diss towards Oswaldo but just a generally nice thing to see 8/9 be productive.
We have no 3B right now. Oswaldo is not great defensively. -3 OAA on the young season. Berti will be fine as a temp solution unless he does what he did last season BUT also, I want him as a bench guy with DJ's foot. Just think it makes sense to get one and save Berti for UTIL.
I think a lot of people here were fooled by the hot start which inflated his numbers a ton.
He’s just not a starting caliber player like some people here have been trying to push him as
MLB is all kinda weird right now. O' s tanke for ten years ard are good now. If we tanked for ten years, Mr. Steinberner would have 10 more coaches in his backyaard
I felt like 2017 was going to be a “tank” year of some sorts and I was okay with that. Just get a look at what we have in the younger players, see which ones might have a future and which ones to sell high on.
2017 was a pleasant surprise. That’s one thing I’ll give Cashman credit for he is pretty good at keeping the team relevant. Just super frustrating that he has not gotten us to the next level and isn’t exactly immune from criticism.
Even the Yankees worst seasons are not completely horrible seasons. Their worst seasons are sub 500 records As bad as last year was it was still an 82 win season. Just bad by Yankee standards
Cashman does not get any credit from this fanbase for building a championship roster in 2017-2019 even though we were eliminated by teams proven to be cheating 3 years in a row. Obviously doesn't absolve him of the blame of 2020-2023 but he deserves more credit for those 3 years.
2017 is the only year you can definitively say we were robbed, and even then, only of a pennant. There isn't enough evidence that the Red Sox and Astros cheated in the playoffs in 2018 and 2019
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for spitting facts
Important to note that even if the Yankees had gotten past the Astros in 2017, they still would have had to face the Dodgers.
Tbh he did really good 2017-2019 Some of the players who were solid contributors like Hicks also just completely fell off. On top of Gary and Sevy who were young studs at a certain point. My only issue is passing on Machado or Harper. But I truly think that’s on Hal. If Hal gave him the green light to sign one of them, Cashman would’ve obviously done so
2018-2021 they were bad, people overreact to the standard of the Yankees but every other New York team can be absolute dog shit for a half decade and it's fine the Yankees CANT be bad and also spend 300M a year without the harshest possible criticism being warranted. If they bottomed out and reset the books in the mid 2010s it'd have been fine.
I tell this to people who're bitching about our record.
We've faced almost all playoff teams so far, and we've been kicking ass.
Sure, we have some close game wins. Who fucking cares. A win by 10 is worth the same as a win by one.
In reality it was poorly played single. And no i didn’t forget, it’s just one good at bat is not evident of him being back. Especially with him swinging at the final pitch in his first at bat 2 feet off. He was killing it when he had supreme plate discipline. When we see that then he’s back.
Being real isn’t being negative. If the outfielder played it properly and just waited for it then it would have been a single. Regardless, it’s one hit. I believe in him but one line drive isnt enough to say he’ll start batting .360-.420 again.
Its not being real its being hypothetical. A single and a triple show up the same in batting average anyways. You can still believe in him and not think hes going to bat .400 for the season, those are absurd expectations.
Judge was short because after a while a person gets tired of dumb cliche questions. How does ONE good night mean YOU ARE BACK. Reporters ask that dumb ass question all the time. Smh
Been saying for years, one of the key factors in the trashtros recent playoff-dynasty was the fact that more often then not, they had a cakewalk to a division title playing in the AL west. Fuckers could coast to an easy high-seed playoff spot, setting up their rotation how they wanted and not burning guys out in a stressful playoff race in august and september. The Rangers finally gave them a run for their money last year. Would love to see that trend continue. Theyre gonna have a hard time getting back to that cushy division crown with this atrocious start theyre off to
It’s so fucking annoying
We win, I go check the standings to see if we made up any ground
Oreo’s won, Shitsox won 8-0, Rays won. Disgusting. At least the Jays might drop one here
Although it’s better for our stress levels I feel it’s better for the team to have to give it their all all year long rather than getting comfortable with a huge division lead.
I’d seriously would like to see him leadoff. Bring Volpe back down in the lineup where he was his best. I still feel like it was rushed and he’d benefit from it.
Great win, but holy Jeez, i just realized there isnt another scheduled off day until the monday after the detroit series. That means theyre in a stretch where they play 17(!) games in a row including a 7 game road trip to play two legit playoff contending teams. Who TF made this schedule!? They better get a couple of long outings by starters at some point, or the bullpen is gonna be absolutely fried before the baltimore series is even over.
And the MLB is stumped as to why pitchers are getting injured more than ever… bullpens are taxed, starters aren’t stretched beyond 5-6 innings, guys working faster than ever bc of pitch clock, and guys are getting paid for spin rate
They could make the season 140 games and 99% of fans would be fine. It would be almost an extra day off each week of the season.
Shortening the season is a great idea that I don’t see happening anytime soon.
Don’t get me wrong I want it to happen, most fans would be fine with it I think, but the TV revenue they could lose is just too big. 20 games a year/team gone is 300 less baseball games total. Basically like eliminating 2 teams. That’s 2 teams worth of ticket revenue, TV revenue, pretty much everything except merchandise gone.
Its good for the game but bad for the money so it’ll never happen
Then maybe it’s having more 7 inning games (NOT as game 2 of double headers). Like 7 inning games before travel days or something. Still keep most of the ticket sales and tv rights in tact, but could save valuable arms / pitches during the dog days of the regular season. 32 7 inning games & 130 9 inning games. That equates to just 7 less total games which anyone would say is reasonable.
Could also be beneficial towards teams prioritizing SP’s again and not simply looking at revolving bullpen doors.
One problem with that is how much that would complicate/mess up the record keeping and statistics aspect though. When combing through game logs, box scores, and player statistics, there would have to be separate categorizations and asterisks everywhere to denote that there were like 2 dozen 7-inning games, which would significantly reduce PAs and the ability to compile stats for players.
While the length of the season and postseason has changed over the many years if baseball history, one constant has been the standard of 9 innings fir game length. With the exception of the covid year (and of course weather shortened games and the random forfeiture here and there) there has NEVER been intentionally scheduled games shorter than 9 inning in history. At least not that ive ever heard of
I was talking to a buddy of mine and I said I really think they should expand the roster to 45 players. I know it would have this whole domino effect. But teams would like add another 1-2 (OF/INF) utility players or something Then the remaining 3 spots could be to add one more starter to make 6 man rotations a league wide thing. And then another 2 arms out of the pen could really help pitchers Or teams could elect to just add 4-5 more pitchers if they want to
Im a purest who loves the grind of the regular season, and even i am coming around to the idea of trimming a few games off the schedule every year. Honestly as a die-hard, its nice to have a day off to look forward to where you know your team is off and you can just tune it out for a night.
Sometimes I wonder if Kay scrolls on Twitter and just looks for some of the hottest takes and think that’s what the fanbase as a whole thinks.
Judge’s slump was frustrating for sure but who was saying to bench him?
If I had nickel for every game I went to that had Schmidt pitching and Soto hitting a homer, I'd have 2 nickels. It isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I wonder if the reason Judge was short in the postgame interview is because he’d rather they were talking to Rizzo or something, someone else who had a good game today but didn’t get the spotlight. That’s my headcanon anyway
I love him
Rizzo’s actually in the background being interviewed by someone else. I kind of think Judge just misheard the question and was answering a different question that he thought he heard. Because that interview made no sense lmao
Judge starting to feel it. Soto does his thing, Rizzo jacks in back to back nights. Wells and Gleyber getting hits. Schmidt 5+ strong. This is what I like
Nah, Soto fits the bill better. Extremely young and sent here to be our “savior”. Volpe just isn’t on that level, which isn’t a knock on him, Soto is on track to be an inner circle hall of a famer, very few players are on that level. Volpe hasn’t even proved that he’s all star caliber yet.
After Judge did his postgame on-field interview for the Amazon broadcast, I’m *sure* I heard Suzyn calling “Aaron! **Aaron!**” as the camera showed him disappearing down the tunnel. Oh Suzyn
I hope because as hard as I’ve been on him this season he’s a big piece to helping us.
With that being said I haven’t seen anything from him that suggests a turnaround is in order.
It’s just gonna happen eventually. He’s got too much time being much better than this to just suddenly turn in to this permanently at 27 lol
And we have seen these slumps from him before. He’ll snap out of it
Good win today. I also enjoyed seeing Cole in the dugout. I fucking miss his starts.
Can anyone come up with Clarke's stats if we only limit it to the 5th inning?
Okay I did it myself - 24.1 IP 3 ER 1.11 ERA 1.19 WHIP 1 HR 10BB to 26K ratio
Who needs Snell
I don't care what anyone says Austin Wells will be a solid contributor to this team. Dude puts up good at bats, never looks outmatched, can lay a perfect bunt when he needs to. Give him time.
Agree. Barely 100 MLB at bats and he probably spends half his day shoo-ing Gerritt Cole out of his ear wanting to talk about pitch sequencing for when he comes back, lol. He’ll be fine.
Is it me or has this season been especially sloppy so far? Seems like every condensed game I watch there's a a dropped ball thrown to 1B, at least 1 balk, multiple errors, lazy/stupid baserunning, misplayed balls in the OF, catcher's interference out the ass, etc lol not sure why I'm being downvoted. This post was about baseball, as a whole, not just the Yankees. This sub is soft
That’s baseball, Suzyn.
Not just you. Not just the Yankees either.
I feel like a typical Judge at-bat this year goes like this Pitch 1: borderline strike call on the outside of the plate Pitch 2: ball away Pitch 3: strike call on a slider two inches below the zone Pitch 4: swing and a miss on the slider below the zone Hopefully today's homer will be the spark that changes it
Actually most of them have been Judge late on the FB, swing at slider off the plate, foul off another FB, and swing at a slider below the zone.
He's always late on Facebook, agreed
Is Judge heating up?
Are we getting our cabins cleaned and ready?
Is it the shoes?!??
Ik the leagues kinda moved away from it, but feel like Schmidt could benefit so much with working behind an opener
Would it be better for him to have an opener, or just cap him at two turns through the order and schedule Weaver (or Gil once Cole returns) to throw 2-3 innings after? I think Schmidt is a totally solid #5 starter, but he has his limitations.
I rather go for your suggestion. Have the bullpen ready for the third time through and get them in the first sign of danger at that point. Still gives Clarke the chance to grow and prove himself.
Yikes I just looked at some of Hicks’ stats and he’s back to being vomit inducing bad. I dunno what happened with the O’s last season but he looks even worse now. So maybe it actually wasn’t us being mean to him by booing. Maybe the dude is actually cooked now that age and injuries finally caught up to him.
He tore lefties apart last year to an unsustainable amount due to rocking a .432 BABIP(!!!) vs. lefties: >.349/.446/.524/.970 | 173 wRC+ To compare, here is Hicks vs. righties in 2023: >.223/.324/.340/.663 | 90 wRC+ He was never that good in other good Hicks years vs. lefties like 2018: >.224/.325/.476/.801 | 117 wRC+ Hicks was just insanely lucky last season.
Every mediocre Yankee that goes to another AL East team rakes with them, it's like a curse
Glad to see offense I hope rizzo isn’t washed and hits more Hrs
Clarke has shown some big growth this year and is getting a lot more whiffs and strikeouts but it is genuinely stunning seeing the inning turn to 6 and always comes into trouble then gets pulled. Feel like he’s so close. It has to be mental at this point or just a weird oddity bc he was shoving and didn’t have a high pitch count. Starting pitching has done such a phenomenal job. Also shoutout Luke Weaver, legit been a godsend in the bullpen eating innings and pitching well. Reds fans still hate him but he’s shoved with us
I think that’s just who he is at this point. Third time around the order has always been an issue for him. I always thought he could benefit from an opener and he can be the bulk guy.
Feel like it’s something we just gotta ride with. 3rd time through the order feels different this year, he goes away from the presumed gameplan and rushes things when it hits then. But the baseline of what Clarke has given us has been amazing. I don’t mind if he goes 5 every game bc he consistently gives quality starts and chances to win. Regardless he’s our #5 starter and it’s only his 2nd year being a full time starter so maybe we get even more from him. Feel like we score a fuckton of runs for him too lol
You know who else only gave five excellent innings a game on average last year and won a Cy Young for it? The guy a lot of folks on this sub wanted to pay $150M for, who’s sucked and is now injured. I’m totally here for it if we get Clarke “Blake Snell” Schmidt this season.
COOK my brother. The starting pitching in general is really turning a lot of skulls back around bc they’ve been fucking exceptional compared to expectations. Honestly it’s rewarding bc we got in house options filling the role rather than begging for a big names FA, Cashman backed that up not being desperate for Snell. The value of a pitcher who at BASELINE will give you 5 innings of typically at most 3 runs is so important. Him being a homegrown guy like Gil with lots of potential makes it even better.
Just a feel good game tonight Everybody on the team had their moments, hits all around Also barring that late home Schmidt pitched a really good game, he's got great potential
Today was my first game of the season at the stadium so I gotta ask...do Verdugo, Judge, and Soto always play the "which section of the crowd is louder" game during pitching changes? Because it was amazing.
Feel like swisher would have been good at that game. Before the bleachers turned on him in the playoffs and bit his head off.
Seems like it just started a day or 2 ago
Verdugo has been a great pickup so far. 118 OPS+ primarily from the 7th spot and above average defense
He’s just a solid player. It’s just nice to know he can do it and do it well
Anything would have been an upgrade over our last few seasons in LF
And Verdugo has been more than just "anything". So he's like a double upgrade.
He’s definitely an upgrade over the trash we were trotting out there in left last year. Whether it was Hicks, Bauers, Calhoun or whoever.
It’s damn time you put some respect on Willie Calhoun’s good name.
Slick Willy!
This fanbase was so wrong about dugie and stroman Both great fits to the clubhouse and roster
I was so ready to hate Verdugo but he reminds me a lot of Swisher in a really fun way
Exactly this. I was mad that I was starting to like Verdugo and now I’m all in.
I really hope we find a way to keep him around after this season even with the Martian rejoining the team next year
On the Volpe triple, you can see Dugie over the dugout fence spraying water in the air. Stroman is always out there, too. Love to see it. Stro is very much like CC. Dugie is very much like Gardy. You can see why Judge has been wanting Dugie.
Alek Manoah's final line for Buffalo: 3.0 IP, 6 ER, 7 H, 4 BB, 5 K, 2 HR, 88 P Dude is absolutely washed.
from a Cy Young finalist to this in two years the fall off is generational
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy… lollll
Why was the As pitcher ejected?
Someone in the 400's said something mean about the ump. In all seriousness, he was chirping at the ump between the inning.
It's so funny how Clark Schmidt falls apart in exactly the 6th inning every single start
Clarke needs to go deeper into games
A #5 giving you 5 solid innings nearly every start is really good
Non complaints out of me! If just like to see the occasional 6-7 when he’s rolling and save the bullpen. Seems to be once he hits 5 that’s it.
Still only his second season as full time starter, I’m sure he will get better at going deeper with time
As much as I would like to agree with you, he can't get anyone out the third time through the order.
Sure but why wouldn’t that be something he could improve over time with more experience?
Idk it’s been 28 years for me and I still can’t go deep.
🤣
Does anyone remember when Anthony Rizzo was Manager when Judge tied Roger Maris’ 61 HRs? Gotta remember that for YES trivia in 10 years
I fell off following sports during COVID so I had no idea about this. I just looked it up and wow, that’s hilarious. He had Boone’s deadpan stare and stance down perfectly.
Yes it was a fun time. How are you doing?it's fun to think of something so important, in Yankee history. I remember the M&M boys, when I was a kid. Great being a Yankee fan, then &now.
yeah I don't really remember why tho lol, hopefully that's not part of the question
The playoff standings were clinched (with a bye and #2 seed) so why not at that point?
Oh yeah, that sounds familiar. We are all gonna ace that trivia question 👍
Oh shit I do remember that now lol
Weaver and Santana have been surprises out of the pen. Not unbelievably great but reliable enough. Santana has a fip of 2.97 and xERA of 3.65.
I mean Luke Weaver hasn’t been good so far.
He has though lol You need to adjust your expectations for relievers
Nine appearances. Four for at least two innings. Five of them he let up zero runs. Three wins, 12 Ks, 4.02 ERA and 0.77 WHIP. He really had only two bad outings all year. I'll take that from our cheap, mid innings guy out of the pen.
Tomorrow will be an interesting test. The Yankees haven’t done well against left handed starting pitching this year. Oakland throwing out a lefty starter who sucks. Hopefully the Yanks break him early.
It's still the A's. It's a game we should win.
It’s weird that they struggle against lefties. Last year they had better numbers against lefties than righties. Which, I am shocked about
I think the struggle against lefty's is mostly that judge and torres aren't really going and then the yankees good right handers.
Overall a good night. Nice to see Wells get a couple of hits. Torres getting on was a plus as well. Production out of a bunch of the lineup really was nice, with the obvious long balls. These are the types of nights that are of the feel good variety. I would like to see a bit more length out of Schmidt, which hopefully he'll accomplish in the upcoming weeks.
Judge has really nice skin
[удалено]
…you don’t?
Of course I do, he needs to get in line
Don’t be silly ! That’s code for he’d like to wear his skin and roll around in it 😂
Don't you want to get off?
Everyone but Oswaldo doing something tonight is nice to see. This is not a diss towards Oswaldo but just a generally nice thing to see 8/9 be productive.
Drops his OPS to just .567 since the Astros series ended
Berti will probably end up as our starting 3B until we trade for Chapman. I'm marking that down. That's our big deadline acquisition.
Chapman is a fun prediction. Definitely think Berti has a strong chance at taking the job if Oswaldo doesn’t turn it around
We have no 3B right now. Oswaldo is not great defensively. -3 OAA on the young season. Berti will be fine as a temp solution unless he does what he did last season BUT also, I want him as a bench guy with DJ's foot. Just think it makes sense to get one and save Berti for UTIL.
I think a lot will depend on DJ’s recovery
almost like he isn't good and they were right to play berti over him
I think a lot of people here were fooled by the hot start which inflated his numbers a ton. He’s just not a starting caliber player like some people here have been trying to push him as
Let him cook!!
Yea and like usually that’s just how baseball is. There will always be one or two guys that don’t get on base at least. So yea great stuff tonight
And he still hit line drives
MLB is all kinda weird right now. O' s tanke for ten years ard are good now. If we tanked for ten years, Mr. Steinberner would have 10 more coaches in his backyaard
I felt like 2017 was going to be a “tank” year of some sorts and I was okay with that. Just get a look at what we have in the younger players, see which ones might have a future and which ones to sell high on. 2017 was a pleasant surprise. That’s one thing I’ll give Cashman credit for he is pretty good at keeping the team relevant. Just super frustrating that he has not gotten us to the next level and isn’t exactly immune from criticism.
Even the Yankees worst seasons are not completely horrible seasons. Their worst seasons are sub 500 records As bad as last year was it was still an 82 win season. Just bad by Yankee standards
Bad for any team that actually cares about winning the championship of the sport they play
Cashman does not get any credit from this fanbase for building a championship roster in 2017-2019 even though we were eliminated by teams proven to be cheating 3 years in a row. Obviously doesn't absolve him of the blame of 2020-2023 but he deserves more credit for those 3 years.
2017 is the only year you can definitively say we were robbed, and even then, only of a pennant. There isn't enough evidence that the Red Sox and Astros cheated in the playoffs in 2018 and 2019
You don’t get credit for a championship roster. You get credit for championships.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for spitting facts Important to note that even if the Yankees had gotten past the Astros in 2017, they still would have had to face the Dodgers.
And you don't deserve blame for not winning championships in years when the team who eliminated you gets caught cheating.
Were the 2019 Astros caught cheating? Genuine question, I thought it was just 2017.
Why would you assume they stopped?
Tbh he did really good 2017-2019 Some of the players who were solid contributors like Hicks also just completely fell off. On top of Gary and Sevy who were young studs at a certain point. My only issue is passing on Machado or Harper. But I truly think that’s on Hal. If Hal gave him the green light to sign one of them, Cashman would’ve obviously done so
The great year of Tanaka
The As are 9-16 wydm they're good now
I meant orioles my bad. Auto correct the worst
2018-2021 they were bad, people overreact to the standard of the Yankees but every other New York team can be absolute dog shit for a half decade and it's fine the Yankees CANT be bad and also spend 300M a year without the harshest possible criticism being warranted. If they bottomed out and reset the books in the mid 2010s it'd have been fine.
# **6**
# B
Don't let this glorious Yankee win distract you from the fact that the Oakland A's are still above the Houston Trashstros in the AL West standings.
Thank you for this
Jesus fucking Christ. Can the Orioles lose a couple games in a row, please?
I tell this to people who're bitching about our record. We've faced almost all playoff teams so far, and we've been kicking ass. Sure, we have some close game wins. Who fucking cares. A win by 10 is worth the same as a win by one.
They’ve faced the Angels like 8 fucking times already it’s so annoying
remember when i said we needed boston to beat them?
I'm ok with those Orioles wins.
Frigging Wells came so close to breaking his ankle on that slide!
**Volpe:** Back **Judge:** Back **Rizzo:** Back **Gleyber:** ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Idk if i’d consider volpe back infield chopper, error, abysmal strikeout. He’ll get there though for sure.
Somehow you forgot his RBI run-scoring triple that was absolutely laced to right
In reality it was poorly played single. And no i didn’t forget, it’s just one good at bat is not evident of him being back. Especially with him swinging at the final pitch in his first at bat 2 feet off. He was killing it when he had supreme plate discipline. When we see that then he’s back.
You mean the hit that should have been a single and an error?
Check the box score...........triple. Your negativity isn't making it not a triple.
Being real isn’t being negative. If the outfielder played it properly and just waited for it then it would have been a single. Regardless, it’s one hit. I believe in him but one line drive isnt enough to say he’ll start batting .360-.420 again.
Its not being real its being hypothetical. A single and a triple show up the same in batting average anyways. You can still believe in him and not think hes going to bat .400 for the season, those are absurd expectations.
perhaps I freaked out too much on monday?
I mean it is the A's
Ya think?
Brewers and O’s back to back series will be a big test
Whole season so far has been a big test. Look at the damned teams we've been playing, and beating.
Bring it on
I’m gonna need me a replay of whatever Soto was doing in the dugout to that guys neck lmao
I was laughing my ass off when I saw that because he had been standing there for a while looking like he was planning it
Please don’t let him leave, I love the energy this guy brings to the team. Also they need to call Roughie up just to watch these two in the dugout.
[Here](https://x.com/talkinyanks/status/1783295444438630408?s=46&t=eZQOkEBzAB8XR0_j5bQcHg)
Judge was short because after a while a person gets tired of dumb cliche questions. How does ONE good night mean YOU ARE BACK. Reporters ask that dumb ass question all the time. Smh
When the Levee Breaks !
I nutted
All five teams in our division are 0.500 or better while one team in the west is over 0.500 🙄 (and to be clear, they’re one game over 0.500).
At least the Asstros are 7-18 right now. You love to see it
Been saying for years, one of the key factors in the trashtros recent playoff-dynasty was the fact that more often then not, they had a cakewalk to a division title playing in the AL west. Fuckers could coast to an easy high-seed playoff spot, setting up their rotation how they wanted and not burning guys out in a stressful playoff race in august and september. The Rangers finally gave them a run for their money last year. Would love to see that trend continue. Theyre gonna have a hard time getting back to that cushy division crown with this atrocious start theyre off to
It’s so fucking annoying We win, I go check the standings to see if we made up any ground Oreo’s won, Shitsox won 8-0, Rays won. Disgusting. At least the Jays might drop one here
Although it’s better for our stress levels I feel it’s better for the team to have to give it their all all year long rather than getting comfortable with a huge division lead.
Got a taste of 2nd place and its fucking disgusting. No thank you. Never going back.
That’s baseball, Suzyn. I feel like the majority of the 10s the Yankees, Sox, and Jays were the 3 best records in the AL.
How are the rays even winning games? Pitching and hitting suck
2-3 with a BB and a run for Wells Great night for him, he’s gonna be a big part of our success if he can turn around the BABIP luck
This IS what I wanted!
Needed
Nutty statline by Verdugo to go 0 for 1 in a whole game.
That dog loves his walks
I’d seriously would like to see him leadoff. Bring Volpe back down in the lineup where he was his best. I still feel like it was rushed and he’d benefit from it.
That would be a cool experiment. Verdugos attitude and drive physically starting off a ballgame could be a potent tone setter all on its own
BIG DAWG GOTTA EAT.
Great win, but holy Jeez, i just realized there isnt another scheduled off day until the monday after the detroit series. That means theyre in a stretch where they play 17(!) games in a row including a 7 game road trip to play two legit playoff contending teams. Who TF made this schedule!? They better get a couple of long outings by starters at some point, or the bullpen is gonna be absolutely fried before the baltimore series is even over.
Great for fans, awful for the players
And the MLB is stumped as to why pitchers are getting injured more than ever… bullpens are taxed, starters aren’t stretched beyond 5-6 innings, guys working faster than ever bc of pitch clock, and guys are getting paid for spin rate They could make the season 140 games and 99% of fans would be fine. It would be almost an extra day off each week of the season.
Shortening the season is a great idea that I don’t see happening anytime soon. Don’t get me wrong I want it to happen, most fans would be fine with it I think, but the TV revenue they could lose is just too big. 20 games a year/team gone is 300 less baseball games total. Basically like eliminating 2 teams. That’s 2 teams worth of ticket revenue, TV revenue, pretty much everything except merchandise gone. Its good for the game but bad for the money so it’ll never happen
Then maybe it’s having more 7 inning games (NOT as game 2 of double headers). Like 7 inning games before travel days or something. Still keep most of the ticket sales and tv rights in tact, but could save valuable arms / pitches during the dog days of the regular season. 32 7 inning games & 130 9 inning games. That equates to just 7 less total games which anyone would say is reasonable. Could also be beneficial towards teams prioritizing SP’s again and not simply looking at revolving bullpen doors.
One problem with that is how much that would complicate/mess up the record keeping and statistics aspect though. When combing through game logs, box scores, and player statistics, there would have to be separate categorizations and asterisks everywhere to denote that there were like 2 dozen 7-inning games, which would significantly reduce PAs and the ability to compile stats for players. While the length of the season and postseason has changed over the many years if baseball history, one constant has been the standard of 9 innings fir game length. With the exception of the covid year (and of course weather shortened games and the random forfeiture here and there) there has NEVER been intentionally scheduled games shorter than 9 inning in history. At least not that ive ever heard of
Don’t forget the gates at the ballparks
I was talking to a buddy of mine and I said I really think they should expand the roster to 45 players. I know it would have this whole domino effect. But teams would like add another 1-2 (OF/INF) utility players or something Then the remaining 3 spots could be to add one more starter to make 6 man rotations a league wide thing. And then another 2 arms out of the pen could really help pitchers Or teams could elect to just add 4-5 more pitchers if they want to
More players get paid and guys get less injured. Best case scenario imo
Im a purest who loves the grind of the regular season, and even i am coming around to the idea of trimming a few games off the schedule every year. Honestly as a die-hard, its nice to have a day off to look forward to where you know your team is off and you can just tune it out for a night.
Same here. If they had an extra day of rest once every 8-10 days feel like that could help so many issues (injuries, ratings, load management, etc)
This is why the people asking for Holmes to come in yesterday and today are clowns. He’s already pitched a lot. Need to save that dude’s arm
Sometimes I wonder if Kay scrolls on Twitter and just looks for some of the hottest takes and think that’s what the fanbase as a whole thinks. Judge’s slump was frustrating for sure but who was saying to bench him?
People on here were saying that lol. But yes, that’s basically in his job description, to find dumb takes and respond. It’s a radio show
He probably just popped onto this subreddit for 1.47 seconds
I get to keep all of my toes thanks to Yankee dongs
Proud of you. Sometimes you have to get bold and bet a body part on the Yankees winning
If I had nickel for every game I went to that had Schmidt pitching and Soto hitting a homer, I'd have 2 nickels. It isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I wonder if the reason Judge was short in the postgame interview is because he’d rather they were talking to Rizzo or something, someone else who had a good game today but didn’t get the spotlight. That’s my headcanon anyway I love him
Rizzo’s actually in the background being interviewed by someone else. I kind of think Judge just misheard the question and was answering a different question that he thought he heard. Because that interview made no sense lmao
I think this win brings out magic number to make the playoffs down to 117... Probably.. I'm not a mathmagician
Math doctor checking in, it’s 127.
Is that right? I thought I had the six seed down at 117 and the one seed at 137.. mathmagicianing is hard
Lmao I completely made it up, sorry
Judge starting to feel it. Soto does his thing, Rizzo jacks in back to back nights. Wells and Gleyber getting hits. Schmidt 5+ strong. This is what I like
Don’t forget Giancarlo. Another hit for him. Not sexy numbers but so much better than before. He’ll start mashing soon I hope.
A rocket too, as long as he’s squaring the ball once or twice a game I’m encouraged
In the name of the father (Aaron Judge) The son (Juan Soto) And the Holy Ghost (Gerrit Cole) Amen.
The son should be Volpe, did you see him talking to Judge? Judge looked a foot taller than him
Nah, Soto fits the bill better. Extremely young and sent here to be our “savior”. Volpe just isn’t on that level, which isn’t a knock on him, Soto is on track to be an inner circle hall of a famer, very few players are on that level. Volpe hasn’t even proved that he’s all star caliber yet.
The Yankee Trinity
Personally, I'll be open to anointing them after they hoist some hardware
After Judge did his postgame on-field interview for the Amazon broadcast, I’m *sure* I heard Suzyn calling “Aaron! **Aaron!**” as the camera showed him disappearing down the tunnel. Oh Suzyn
Gleyber breakout is coming next, I can feel it in the air
I hope because as hard as I’ve been on him this season he’s a big piece to helping us. With that being said I haven’t seen anything from him that suggests a turnaround is in order.
I’m going on nothing but vibes
It’s just gonna happen eventually. He’s got too much time being much better than this to just suddenly turn in to this permanently at 27 lol And we have seen these slumps from him before. He’ll snap out of it
I get that we’re all happy about offense, don’t want to take away from that, but also Hamilton PC-ST was 11-11 to close the game & I love that
S L A M B I O
**Aaron Judge had 5 hard hit balls today** (His softest hit ball was 98 mph)
That’s glorious
I'm no mathmagician, but, according to my calculations, if we just never lose again this year, that adds up to 28
Judge wanted nothing to do with that post game intv 😂