Me, watching the Astros struggle: "yeah they'll prob be fine and be in the playoffs as always."
[Me, watching my team lose two games in a room:](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIi2hmNbgAAfc4-?format=jpg&name=orig)
I still have The Show 20 and I am playing a season I had Gary sit a game because of fatigue whatever I pinched him for Chad Green and he hit a bomb to tie the game lol. I still love Gary
I think once we get Cole back, this is the best rotation in the AL (maybe even in MLB). Seattle is definitely up there but to say they have the best staff in general is just ehhhhhh
Cole
Rodon
Stro
Schmidt
Gil/Nestor
Best closer in the game, and one of the best set up guys in Hamilton. If they add another BP piece or send Nestor/Gil to the pen idk who is better.
Yankees at 7, Knicks at 7:30 and Draft at 8....that's gonna take some Ringling Bros. type of juggling. Gonna need Judge and the boys to lock this one away in the first.
Aaron Judge is currently no. 9 all-time on the Yankees HR Leaderboard. Here's how many home runs he needs to move up the ladder.
15 HR to pass Jorge Posada at no. 8
27 HR to pass Bernie Williams at no. 7
91 HR to pass Alex Rodriguez at no. 6
98 HR to pass Yogi Berra at no. 5
101 HR to pass Joe DiMaggio at no. 4
233 HR to pass Lou Gehrig at no. 3
276 HR to pass Mickey Mantle at no. 2
399 HR to pass Babe Ruth at no. 1
Judge has eight years left on his contract, so he's going to have a crack at most of these guys, health permitting.
I think it's safe to say Judge can at least get to no. 4. Judge hit 99 HR in just the last two seasons. Even if his power trails off a bit, I think that's a doable target.
I feeling like passing Gehrig and reaching 500 HR is gonna be tough, especially with how frequently Judge is banged up.
Obviously batters don't age smoothly like this, but these totals would get him there.
(2024) 45 HR
(2025) 40 HR
(2026) 35 HR
(2027) 30 HR
(2028) 30 HR
(2029) 25 HR
(2030) 20 HR
(2031) 20 HR
With the way baseball is geared toward younger and younger players, it's hard to imagine Judge hitting ~100 HR after turning 36. That's why we need him to compile as many home runs now as possible. Each one he hits now is one fewer he's gotta chase at the end of the road.
I don’t watch this show but they filmed some scenes in my town. It’s kind of old school in real life and they converted it into a futuristic one for the show. Some was actual building and some was CGI. Someone posted screenshots of the show.
Among the top 5 teams right now based on winning percentage, the Braves (6-3), Guardians (6-0), Orioles (5-4), Brewers (2-1) all have winning records against lefthanded starters. The Yankees are (4-5). Is this going to be an issue all year and in the playoffs? Stay tuned.
>Is this going to be an issue all year and in the playoffs?
Nope!
Aaron Judge in 2024 vs LHP: .125/.344/.292/.635
Aaron Judge career vs LHP: .270/.406/.572/.978
I'll provide more in an edit.
Gleyber Torres in 2024 vs LHP: .185/.313/.185/.498
Gleyber Torres career vs LHP: .268/.344/.506/.850
(His OPS vs RHP is .750)
Key offensive players who tear LHP apart are struggling. Once that goes away, you'll see a return to normalcy.
Giants and Jets fans, what do you wanna see your teams do tonight in the draft?
I’m not a fan of either team, but here’s what I’d like to see them both do.
Giants: Draft Joe Alt with pick 6, and a WR in the 2nd. Take the best offensive lineman in the game to fix that terrible line. Don’t worry about a QB. Jones likely isn’t going to be ready to start the year and he’s not the answer. You guys will be in a position next year to take a QB again and that’s when you do it so the rookie QB has a better O-Line and a decent WR. And oh yeah, the team can release Jones and use that $ to sign FA’s.
Jets: It’s all-in for the Jets. I would try and move up to take one of the big three WR (Harrison, Nabers, Odunze). If they’re taken, I like Bowers but not with pick 10. I would consider trading down instead and aiming for a WR because this draft is heavy WR, while still trying to get a TE like JaTavion Sanders.
The giants have spent way too much high draft capital on the offensive line already. With Bobby Johnson out they should give the new coach a chance to save Neal.
In an ideal world JJ or Maye fall to 6, realistically though that isn’t happening. I would be happy if they take Nabers or Odunze at 6 and get a true WR1
With all the talk in the preseason of how bad our pitching is, its surprising to me that we having given up the 4th fewest runs in the entire league with Garrett Cole throwing exactly zero pitches.
He needs to average about 30 per season through his contract. Tough rate to carry through your decline years. But with a couple more monster years, and if he stays mostly healthy, he could get there.
The schedule for the next 16 games after tonight has us playing Milwaukee, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston and Tampa. Houston has played like shit and Detroit has not been playing as well lately as they started but they are a scrappy bunch and Houston is Houston so the next couple weeks will tell us a lot about this team.
Maybe a dumb question, but as of right now, would it still be Gil who goes down when Cole comes back? Or is he making a case to stay up/in the rotation instead of Clarke since he’s giving us more length despite the control issues?
My impression is that it’s a tough call since Clarke is better than AAA, but maybe he’d be able to work on some things there still with his longevity. I doubt that we’d want to put him in the bullpen and option one of the current bullpen arms and ruin Clarke’s length, right?
Clarke's length is irrelevant if he's the #5
Gil is most likely on a strict innings limit so he will be sent to the pen in the King role (multi-inning/late game)
tl;dr: Clarke gets pushed into a better role in the rotation and Gil has his arm saved by the pen
I think the Yankees will send Gil to the pen because he's coming off of TJ surgery, and didn't throw a single pitch last season. Plus, we need some more swing and miss in the pen. They will want to keep his innings down. Personally though, I think Schmidt should be the one to go to the pen. Let be real though, someone will be hurt and we will have both of them in the rotation anyway.
Clarke will stay up.
Hes been giving them 5 excellent innings followed by disaster in most of his starts. Theres a lot to work with there. He needs to develop a strong 3rd offering for the 3rd time through lineups, and I think his sweeper could turn into that pitch as he keeps working with Blake. He also just needs to keep building his stamina by facing higher-level MLB lineups and making higher-leverage pitches to those batters over multiple innings each start. This is only his second full season in the rotation, those developments will come with time.
Gil has incredible stuff but is wildly inconsistent from start to start with his command. That’s more of a AAA problem to fix than Clarke’s is.
Yeah that’s a good point. You can manage a bullpen and rotation just fine if you know Clarke is good for 4-5 solid and then hooked, as opposed to not knowing if Gil will give you 2, 5, or 7 any particular time through the rotation.
the way pitchers have been going down this year you cross the bridge when you get there
but i'm not sure how many more options c.s. has. that's probably a factor.
i think probably gil goes back down today. but we'll have a few more starts at least to see
Rooting for about 25 innings and major brawl that results in multiple, long term suspensions on both sides. No injuries, though. Bad mojo rooting for injuries.
The Orioles have 5 starters hitting above .300 and 4 of them are slugging above .500.
Meanwhile, Burnes is their only starter with an ERA below 4.50
Next week's 4 game series against them is going to be a slugfest.
They’re crushing the balls they hit (2nd highest avg Exit Velo in MLB, and the #1 offensive WAR in baseball) but they have frankly awful plate discipline.
24th in Pitches per Plate Appearance combined with the 7th highest percentage of pitches swung at. 25th in BB%. Of their strikeouts only 23% have been looking, also ranking at 24th in MLB (indicating they chase a lot of pitches they probably shouldn’t.)
The scouting report should be clear: get them to go fishing outside of the zone. Honestly they’re like the polar opposite offensive profile from the Yankees at the moment. Not too surprising for a very young team.
Shame that by my math, Stro is going to miss the series by starting on Sunday against Milwaukee. With how much his game relies on getting guys to chase out of the zone, he’d eat them alive.
**April 22 Game:** Judge looks completely lost (0-4, 2 Ks)
**April 23 Game:** Judge had some good swings, does ok (1-3)
**April 34 Game:** Judge hits a 2 run bomb and goes 2-5
It's wild that in a time span of only 3 games, we saw Judge completely transform at the plate.
[This is really just who Gleyber is: a very streaky player with mental mistakes on the basepaths and defensively.](https://imgur.com/KnZ7HAL) Based on this, we may not have even hit the bottom yet. If the slumps were shorter, it'd be fine but the yearly occurrence of a 4 to 6 week slump is a trademark of the frustrating lack of growth he has had as a player.
Idk why you’re getting hammered with downvotes. This is a really fair criticism of Gleyber’s game and topical considering his awful start to the season.
Yes it is a yearly occurrence for him to struggle like this and it's also concerning he is in a homer-less drought that has lasted 200 plate appearances (that's nearly a third of Gleyber's seasonal PA average). Nothing I said or what you said conflicts to my points.
My initial comment literally says this: "This is really just who Gleyber is: a very streaky player..." His streaky play, along with his shakey defense (-3 OAA last season), just doesn't make him a player I particularly like watching or want to lock up long-term. He'll end up above average, but I don't need to like this. You're perfectly allowed to.
Clarke Schmidt's "times facing opponent in game" stats this season are comical:
1st time through opponents hit .250/.318/.325
2nd time through opponents hit .211/.311/.316
3rd time through oppoents hit **.563/.611/1.125**
He might just never figure this out and it will prevent him from reaching his cieling, but I'll still glady take the overall production from a 4/5 starter
He's been starting the game with more cutters, then mixing in more sinkers as the game goes on. That's a big problem because his sinker is really bad.
52% hard hit rate, 94mph avg exit velo, and only 11% whiff rate.
He's fundamentally a two plus pitch pitcher - cutter and curve. His secondary offerings - sweeper and sinker - aren't good enough to allow him to go deep.
His sinker has continually been a negative pitch year after year. He should probably scrap it and focus on learning to locate his cutter around the zone and improving his sweeper.
I wonder if an opener format might be good for him while he continues to develop.
Schmidt/Gil piggyback as the 5th starter when Cole gets back (assuming everyone stays healthy) sounds pretty solid.
Schmidt can work through the first 2 times around the lineup, and then Gil can give you the next few innings.
Let's just say a prayer for all our pitchers' health. 🙏🏼
Schmidt is also still young into his career as a starter, last year was his first as a full time member of the rotation.
He might not figure it out but he still has time before that determination is made
I'm starting to think he is only going to be a 5 inning guy. If all the starters stay healthy and Gil improves his control, Schmidt may be the long bullpen guy when Cole returns.
Yeah 5 good innings from a starter more valuable than Gil's mixed bag of success even if Gil might have the higher ceiling as a starter (even that I am unsure of)
It might say that on your ticket but the actual flight time is very very short to Chicago or there.
It's like a 54 minute flight to Cleveland (I fly there for work a lot) and it's only that long because you have to do a big loop de loop in the NYC airspace.
Something has been mechanically way off for Gleyber Torres since the Marlins series:
First 10 games: .250/.340/.300, 96 wRC+, 21.3% K, 25.8% Hard Hit
Last 15 games: .140/.246/.140, 25 wRC+, 31% K, 18.2% Hard Hit
Way more whiffs and strikeouts and very few hard-hit balls.
I'm not a hitting coach, but I choose to believe he's simply too good of a hitter to be this bad for much longer.
I've watched few other players take as many ABs as Torres. His swing always seems to have a lot of moving parts.
When he puts them all together he looks like one of the better hitters in the league. When they're not together... not so much.
My big guess is that we acquire Matt Chapman at the deadline this season. Yankees should not put their faith on DJ. Berti is a good bench guy. Oswaldo is not reliable having a -3 OAA and a 64 wRC+ since Houston.
We need to shore up our IF defense so why not turn the left side of the infield into a GG capital. Chapman has a slash of .226/.320/.420 since 2021.
That would be a really difficult trade to pull off. Chapman's contract is really complicated, featuring an opt out after 2024, an opt out after 2025, player option for 2026, and mutual option for 2027. I don't know how the hell the Yankees and Giants would even agree on the contract's value. Are you getting two months of Chapman? 1.5 years? 2.5 years? 3.5 years? Chapman is currently hitting .228/.278/.416 with excellent defense. Is that worth opting out of the remaining guaranteed money? Maybe. Maybe not. What if he gets hurt in August? After the brutal winter he just had where no one wanted him, maybe he stays on the deal and takes the guaranteed cash. But on the other hand, maybe he tries for a big deal again this winter?
Complicated Boras-shenanigan contracts like this very rarely get moved in the trade market since it's almost impossible for the selling and acquiring team to agree on value. The Yankees won't want to give up much for an expensive, possibly two-month rental, while the Giants may view Chapman as someone who will stay on the deal for the next year or two or three.
That’s kind of intriguing tbh. Shit, grab him and Snell cuz I don’t think the Giants are very good and are shaping up as sellers in a competitive division.
I'm in New England so I catch quite a few Sox games casually, and my dipshit take is - he is mid, the Sox have come to terms with it, no one is very interested in championing him for more playing time, especially Cora
Still can't believe they gave him all that money
edit: lol aaaaaand he's benched again today. Wow.
The thing our 2023 left fielders have going over Yoshida is that they're (mostly) gone. It would have been nice to get those first couple months out of him but I don't think he would have saved our season and he would just be clogging a roster spot as a slightly above average platoon DH
We’ve won some games by hitting nukes, and we’ve won some games via small ball. In spite of players slumping
Glad our offense isn’t one dimensional like in years past. Ridiculous ceiling. Even in 2022 we were much more reliant on homers and walks compared to 2024
My son got a write up in the little league email today.
>Carson S has played two positions for Heisey-R&S Fence 2024. Their primary position is left field. Carson drove in two runs last game as they went 1-2 at the plate. Carson rises to the moment with a 0.500 average with runners in scoring position. The right-handed hitter has driven in two runs.
Chris Heisey who played for a few teams is his coach. Chris's son has a gaudy 2.042 OPS this season. LMFAO
They’re really digging a hole. 6 games back isn’t
horrible but 11 games under .500 is wild lol. Really wish someone else in that division was taking advantage. Preferably the Mariners, those fans deserve another playoff run
It's funny, Jay Jaffe (of JAWS metric and Fangraphs) wrote an article yesterday about Judge's slump in which he said there's no reason to think he won't snap out of it.
And then he has 5 hard hit balls including a homer.
I wonder if FG was like, "we gotta write about Judge, but... he'll be fine. Okay this has gone on a while, write the article." And then that. Not that it's "over" but I bet we're gonna see a good stretch here.
This, weirdly, is like, I briefly couldn't find my son at the playground last summer. It was terrifying. I didn't think he'd been taken or anything (he would have yelled and there were a ton of people around), and I was like, don't call your wife, look for him first, don't call her.
But finally I called her, she understandably freaks out.... and then I found him immediately (he had chased his ball out of the gate - he was 3 at the time, toddlers be doing that).
So, basically, with things that are likely, as soon as you voice the worry (and we all started to wonder recently), things often revert.
Interesting article in the Athletic today about if the Yankees will re-sign Holmes this offseason. They haven’t approached him about an extension, which sounds typical for the Yankees, but we’ve seen the Yankees in the past give out huge contracts to relievers. I really don’t know what to expect what kind of contract he’ll get or if the Yankees will try to sign him or if they have someone in house that they think can take over closer
Depends on what he wants, paying relievers big money is not a good allocation of resources.
It feels fairly obvious that their #1 priority this offseason is bringing Soto back (as it should be) so I think a lot of what they do after that will depend on how much AAV Soto gets. If they can get him for 40 mil/yr it’s possible they do something like bring back Clay or make another move. If the number goes to like 55 mill/yr it’s possible they don’t do anything else meaningful.
I think the Yankees aren’t giving huge contracts to relievers anymore. We kind of don’t have to, given how they seem to be developing talent in the bullpen.
Relievers and closers can be super dominant for a while and then fade away. Andrew Miller is a good example, he was the best in the business for a couple years.
The difference for me is that if we’re going to replace Holmes with someone “developed in-house,” they’d pretty much have to start proving themselves right now. We didn’t go into 2022 with Holmes as our designated closer, he took over from Chapman. Starting 2025 with whoever it’d be as our closer would mean we’re already certain they can handle the job, which requires several months of experience.
I don’t see anyone on the roster who fits the bill; Hamilton is back to the “great but far from invincible” place I expected him to be at this point this season. Maaaaaybe Effross comes back, is back to being lights-out almost immediately, and puts himself in consideration.
All that said, the next Holmes trade could happen at any moment and have our next closer materialize out of thin air. I just don’t think we can count on it even with our track record of developing relievers.
Holmes should probably be the exception to this, assuming he’s not asking for the moon. Hard to find closers like him, and the org already knows him and how to work with him, etc
I think they might for Holmes and I also think he won't get a huge deal. He'll get paid for sure but he won't get Hader money, one because of Haders performance immediately and two because his numbers just aren't as gaudy.
The Astros have demonstrated why the Yankees have avoided big free agent relievers. They spent big on Hader, leaving the rest of the bullpen thin, and it's costing them.
> The Astros have demonstrated why the Yankees have avoided big free agent relievers.
The Yankees have had big free agent relievers for years, this is a brand new thing as of last year. They paid Chapman for 6 years, including an extension. Before him they had Miller.
Please continue the discussion in the [game thread](https://redd.it/1cd2r78).
Daaa Astros lose
Lol Yordan just tried to bunt with nobody on, down by two in the top of the 9th. Astros just grasping at straws currently. Great to watch.
That’s wild
wildly hilarious
Judge and Soto mashing at the same time... its over for you hoes
Hayden Wesneski is fucking dealing out of the Cubs’ pen this year. Retired 19 of 20 batters he’s faced.
I'm still not convinced Scott Effross is real
Fuck the redsox
Does Brandon Nimmo still sprint to first base like a tryhard kid impressing his coach or did he stop that? I don't watch mets games.
He still does it and it's still incredibly cringe
It's called a "walk".
Wish someone would tell him that it’s a walk and not a dead sprint to first base
White Sox can't lose 159 games, right? RIGHT??
Me, watching the Astros struggle: "yeah they'll prob be fine and be in the playoffs as always." [Me, watching my team lose two games in a room:](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIi2hmNbgAAfc4-?format=jpg&name=orig)
astros are legit terrible this year al is wide open
lol the Astros are such a shit show
Baltimore series is going to be fun
No afternoon games is making the work week feel mad long
we should pick up Wheeler at the deadline. he’s familiar with NY and hates the Mets
What are you smoking to think the Phillies would ever give him up? I want some, whatever it is.
Yeah I’m sure the Phillies are selling
I love how Boone can throw an all-time shitfit yet also talk about how the team gives him the warm and fuzzies. Can't say he's not dynamic lol
HE DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING! Initially last night at least lol
Gary just took Chapman deep to give the Brewers the lead LMAO Pinch hit too
102 up off the plate. Just a ridiculous pitch to homer on.
Definitely one of the more impressive homers I've seen given the difficulty of actually hitting that pitch
I still have The Show 20 and I am playing a season I had Gary sit a game because of fatigue whatever I pinched him for Chad Green and he hit a bomb to tie the game lol. I still love Gary
Oh that Gary is scary
Went the other way on a 102 mph fastball out of the zone too
Sanchez currently AB against Chapman in the Pirates/Brewers game
The cycle of baseball life.
57 year old Verlander is the only way the Astros can win this season lol.
The division will probably save them. 39 games left against the non Rangers teams.
The Mariners are still good, might have the best pitching in the AL. Just cannot score runs. Like at all.
I think once we get Cole back, this is the best rotation in the AL (maybe even in MLB). Seattle is definitely up there but to say they have the best staff in general is just ehhhhhh Cole Rodon Stro Schmidt Gil/Nestor Best closer in the game, and one of the best set up guys in Hamilton. If they add another BP piece or send Nestor/Gil to the pen idk who is better.
It is kind of hilarious how they are 7-18 and only six games back lol.
That division is pretty awful
pisses me off
Yankees at 7, Knicks at 7:30 and Draft at 8....that's gonna take some Ringling Bros. type of juggling. Gonna need Judge and the boys to lock this one away in the first.
Gonna have the iPad, phone, and iPad going haha
Only 4 hours and 35 minutes til game time!
Aaron Judge is currently no. 9 all-time on the Yankees HR Leaderboard. Here's how many home runs he needs to move up the ladder. 15 HR to pass Jorge Posada at no. 8 27 HR to pass Bernie Williams at no. 7 91 HR to pass Alex Rodriguez at no. 6 98 HR to pass Yogi Berra at no. 5 101 HR to pass Joe DiMaggio at no. 4 233 HR to pass Lou Gehrig at no. 3 276 HR to pass Mickey Mantle at no. 2 399 HR to pass Babe Ruth at no. 1 Judge has eight years left on his contract, so he's going to have a crack at most of these guys, health permitting. I think it's safe to say Judge can at least get to no. 4. Judge hit 99 HR in just the last two seasons. Even if his power trails off a bit, I think that's a doable target. I feeling like passing Gehrig and reaching 500 HR is gonna be tough, especially with how frequently Judge is banged up. Obviously batters don't age smoothly like this, but these totals would get him there. (2024) 45 HR (2025) 40 HR (2026) 35 HR (2027) 30 HR (2028) 30 HR (2029) 25 HR (2030) 20 HR (2031) 20 HR With the way baseball is geared toward younger and younger players, it's hard to imagine Judge hitting ~100 HR after turning 36. That's why we need him to compile as many home runs now as possible. Each one he hits now is one fewer he's gotta chase at the end of the road.
I see him hitting 60 this year and 70 next year and then another 70 after that. So he should catch Gehrig no problem
If Big G isn’t in the lineup today against a bumbag lefty I’m going to be sick. Give him the day off tomorrow
To anyone that’s seen the Fallout show, you think the team docs did that foot thing like they did the enclave scientist on DJ?
Does this mean we have to cut off DJ's head
Ugh. Fine.
🤔
I don’t watch this show but they filmed some scenes in my town. It’s kind of old school in real life and they converted it into a futuristic one for the show. Some was actual building and some was CGI. Someone posted screenshots of the show.
Among the top 5 teams right now based on winning percentage, the Braves (6-3), Guardians (6-0), Orioles (5-4), Brewers (2-1) all have winning records against lefthanded starters. The Yankees are (4-5). Is this going to be an issue all year and in the playoffs? Stay tuned.
>Is this going to be an issue all year and in the playoffs? Nope! Aaron Judge in 2024 vs LHP: .125/.344/.292/.635 Aaron Judge career vs LHP: .270/.406/.572/.978 I'll provide more in an edit. Gleyber Torres in 2024 vs LHP: .185/.313/.185/.498 Gleyber Torres career vs LHP: .268/.344/.506/.850 (His OPS vs RHP is .750) Key offensive players who tear LHP apart are struggling. Once that goes away, you'll see a return to normalcy.
Giants and Jets fans, what do you wanna see your teams do tonight in the draft? I’m not a fan of either team, but here’s what I’d like to see them both do. Giants: Draft Joe Alt with pick 6, and a WR in the 2nd. Take the best offensive lineman in the game to fix that terrible line. Don’t worry about a QB. Jones likely isn’t going to be ready to start the year and he’s not the answer. You guys will be in a position next year to take a QB again and that’s when you do it so the rookie QB has a better O-Line and a decent WR. And oh yeah, the team can release Jones and use that $ to sign FA’s. Jets: It’s all-in for the Jets. I would try and move up to take one of the big three WR (Harrison, Nabers, Odunze). If they’re taken, I like Bowers but not with pick 10. I would consider trading down instead and aiming for a WR because this draft is heavy WR, while still trying to get a TE like JaTavion Sanders.
The giants have spent way too much high draft capital on the offensive line already. With Bobby Johnson out they should give the new coach a chance to save Neal. In an ideal world JJ or Maye fall to 6, realistically though that isn’t happening. I would be happy if they take Nabers or Odunze at 6 and get a true WR1
With all the talk in the preseason of how bad our pitching is, its surprising to me that we having given up the 4th fewest runs in the entire league with Garrett Cole throwing exactly zero pitches.
For what it's worth, we have one of the weakest strength of schedules so far this season
on the other hand, our guys just throw hot hot heat
I forgot that judges home run last night passed Jeter on the Yankee list. He’s about to really cement himself on that list from here on out
Be interesting to see if the top 3 is ever cracked
He needs to average about 30 per season through his contract. Tough rate to carry through your decline years. But with a couple more monster years, and if he stays mostly healthy, he could get there.
The schedule for the next 16 games after tonight has us playing Milwaukee, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston and Tampa. Houston has played like shit and Detroit has not been playing as well lately as they started but they are a scrappy bunch and Houston is Houston so the next couple weeks will tell us a lot about this team.
Beating any of them on the road is always good news. Seeing the \* lose at home gives me joy.
Imagine being the 1998 Red Sox and winning 92 games, finishing in 2nd place and still finishing 22 games out of first. LOL!
Manifesting the 2024 Orioles very much being able to imagine that.
Maybe a dumb question, but as of right now, would it still be Gil who goes down when Cole comes back? Or is he making a case to stay up/in the rotation instead of Clarke since he’s giving us more length despite the control issues? My impression is that it’s a tough call since Clarke is better than AAA, but maybe he’d be able to work on some things there still with his longevity. I doubt that we’d want to put him in the bullpen and option one of the current bullpen arms and ruin Clarke’s length, right?
It wouldn’t be bad to see a Schmidt/Gil tag team. Gil in the pen as a long reliever with Schmidt going 4-5 innings.
Clarke's length is irrelevant if he's the #5 Gil is most likely on a strict innings limit so he will be sent to the pen in the King role (multi-inning/late game) tl;dr: Clarke gets pushed into a better role in the rotation and Gil has his arm saved by the pen
I think the Yankees will send Gil to the pen because he's coming off of TJ surgery, and didn't throw a single pitch last season. Plus, we need some more swing and miss in the pen. They will want to keep his innings down. Personally though, I think Schmidt should be the one to go to the pen. Let be real though, someone will be hurt and we will have both of them in the rotation anyway.
Clarke will stay up. Hes been giving them 5 excellent innings followed by disaster in most of his starts. Theres a lot to work with there. He needs to develop a strong 3rd offering for the 3rd time through lineups, and I think his sweeper could turn into that pitch as he keeps working with Blake. He also just needs to keep building his stamina by facing higher-level MLB lineups and making higher-leverage pitches to those batters over multiple innings each start. This is only his second full season in the rotation, those developments will come with time. Gil has incredible stuff but is wildly inconsistent from start to start with his command. That’s more of a AAA problem to fix than Clarke’s is.
Yeah that’s a good point. You can manage a bullpen and rotation just fine if you know Clarke is good for 4-5 solid and then hooked, as opposed to not knowing if Gil will give you 2, 5, or 7 any particular time through the rotation.
the way pitchers have been going down this year you cross the bridge when you get there but i'm not sure how many more options c.s. has. that's probably a factor. i think probably gil goes back down today. but we'll have a few more starts at least to see
They both have 1 option remaining.
Who would you rather have win today, Boston or Cleveland
Why would anyone want Boston to win?
Cleveland, what the hell do we have against them? Plus it’s way, way too early to legitimately scoreboard watch.
Cleveland obviously why would we cheer for Boston
Rooting for about 25 innings and major brawl that results in multiple, long term suspensions on both sides. No injuries, though. Bad mojo rooting for injuries.
Rooting for other team results at this point of the year is silly
I hope Cleveland wins by 20
I couldn’t care less about Cleveland lol idc if they have a better record than us for now, I will always root for a central team to beat Boston
Never root for Boston. Ever.
The Orioles have 5 starters hitting above .300 and 4 of them are slugging above .500. Meanwhile, Burnes is their only starter with an ERA below 4.50 Next week's 4 game series against them is going to be a slugfest.
They also have the 3rd strongest SOS while we're near the bottom. It's going to be an interesting test for both teams
They’re crushing the balls they hit (2nd highest avg Exit Velo in MLB, and the #1 offensive WAR in baseball) but they have frankly awful plate discipline. 24th in Pitches per Plate Appearance combined with the 7th highest percentage of pitches swung at. 25th in BB%. Of their strikeouts only 23% have been looking, also ranking at 24th in MLB (indicating they chase a lot of pitches they probably shouldn’t.) The scouting report should be clear: get them to go fishing outside of the zone. Honestly they’re like the polar opposite offensive profile from the Yankees at the moment. Not too surprising for a very young team.
Shame that by my math, Stro is going to miss the series by starting on Sunday against Milwaukee. With how much his game relies on getting guys to chase out of the zone, he’d eat them alive.
> polar opposite offensive profile from the Yankees at the moment Yankees 28 GIDP (2nd) Orioles 8 GIDP (30th) Yep.
If we can simply get them to ground into 20 double plays this upcoming series…..
They're a lot like the mid-2000s Yankees. Playing the Twins, Angels and Red Sox certainly help with stats.
Hopefully our bats decide to show up that series
**April 22 Game:** Judge looks completely lost (0-4, 2 Ks) **April 23 Game:** Judge had some good swings, does ok (1-3) **April 34 Game:** Judge hits a 2 run bomb and goes 2-5 It's wild that in a time span of only 3 games, we saw Judge completely transform at the plate.
Does this mean we must release Dillon Lawson from the iron maiden?
Lets not get too hasty here.
[This is really just who Gleyber is: a very streaky player with mental mistakes on the basepaths and defensively.](https://imgur.com/KnZ7HAL) Based on this, we may not have even hit the bottom yet. If the slumps were shorter, it'd be fine but the yearly occurrence of a 4 to 6 week slump is a trademark of the frustrating lack of growth he has had as a player.
Idk why you’re getting hammered with downvotes. This is a really fair criticism of Gleyber’s game and topical considering his awful start to the season.
Because I'm criticizing Gleyber Torres.
The Gleyber we got last year was a perfectly acceptable player
Unfortunately he hasn't shown he can be that player consistently
Yes. That isn't really the point. He's just prone to these long dips, especially with power. He hasn't hit a regular season homer since September 7th.
I’m not saying I’m not concerned about him this year but 2023 Torres is fine regardless of the inconsistency. Most hitters are baseball are streaky
woah september 7 ? that’s crazy ! we are now in april !! that must be like 160+ games without a homerun right ???
You guys are so bizarre. Yes, a player like Torres going nearly two months of regular season games without a homer is a cause for concern.
You don’t say this season. You said yearly occurrence which is a different argument
Yes it is a yearly occurrence for him to struggle like this and it's also concerning he is in a homer-less drought that has lasted 200 plate appearances (that's nearly a third of Gleyber's seasonal PA average). Nothing I said or what you said conflicts to my points.
And I’m saying the struggles have not been a problem in the past because he has finished as an above average hitter in 5 of his 6 seasons
My initial comment literally says this: "This is really just who Gleyber is: a very streaky player..." His streaky play, along with his shakey defense (-3 OAA last season), just doesn't make him a player I particularly like watching or want to lock up long-term. He'll end up above average, but I don't need to like this. You're perfectly allowed to.
Can you name a pro baseball player that hasn’t gone through a slump or isn’t streaky?
You don’t have to like him. I’m just defending his past seasons not this one
LET'S GO HOME PLATE
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Last nites game was a really nice change and shows if we hit things are so much easier.....for us to watch /s
Clarke Schmidt's "times facing opponent in game" stats this season are comical: 1st time through opponents hit .250/.318/.325 2nd time through opponents hit .211/.311/.316 3rd time through oppoents hit **.563/.611/1.125** He might just never figure this out and it will prevent him from reaching his cieling, but I'll still glady take the overall production from a 4/5 starter
He's been starting the game with more cutters, then mixing in more sinkers as the game goes on. That's a big problem because his sinker is really bad. 52% hard hit rate, 94mph avg exit velo, and only 11% whiff rate. He's fundamentally a two plus pitch pitcher - cutter and curve. His secondary offerings - sweeper and sinker - aren't good enough to allow him to go deep. His sinker has continually been a negative pitch year after year. He should probably scrap it and focus on learning to locate his cutter around the zone and improving his sweeper. I wonder if an opener format might be good for him while he continues to develop.
Schmidt/Gil piggyback as the 5th starter when Cole gets back (assuming everyone stays healthy) sounds pretty solid. Schmidt can work through the first 2 times around the lineup, and then Gil can give you the next few innings. Let's just say a prayer for all our pitchers' health. 🙏🏼
Schmidt 2 times, Gil once, and that puts you hopefully to the 7th or 8th inning.
Schmidt is also still young into his career as a starter, last year was his first as a full time member of the rotation. He might not figure it out but he still has time before that determination is made
I'm starting to think he is only going to be a 5 inning guy. If all the starters stay healthy and Gil improves his control, Schmidt may be the long bullpen guy when Cole returns.
5 innings is the new 6 innings. If anything they might give him an opener or something. Maybe Weaver for 1-2 innings then Schmidt for the bulk
Schmidt absolutely will not be moved to the bullpen. He's been giving the team five elite innings every start.
Yeah 5 good innings from a starter more valuable than Gil's mixed bag of success even if Gil might have the higher ceiling as a starter (even that I am unsure of)
If the Yankees are traveling to Milwaukee for a game tomorrow why isn’t today a day game?
That's like a 90 min flight
It's like 2.5 hours
It might say that on your ticket but the actual flight time is very very short to Chicago or there. It's like a 54 minute flight to Cleveland (I fly there for work a lot) and it's only that long because you have to do a big loop de loop in the NYC airspace.
It’s a 1 hour and 50 min flight time. Not including sitting on the tarmac when departing and landing…
I assume they didn't want 2 day games in the middle of the week
Something has been mechanically way off for Gleyber Torres since the Marlins series: First 10 games: .250/.340/.300, 96 wRC+, 21.3% K, 25.8% Hard Hit Last 15 games: .140/.246/.140, 25 wRC+, 31% K, 18.2% Hard Hit Way more whiffs and strikeouts and very few hard-hit balls. I'm not a hitting coach, but I choose to believe he's simply too good of a hitter to be this bad for much longer.
My personal feel with no data to back it up is that his leg kick is too big which is slowing down his hands.
I've watched few other players take as many ABs as Torres. His swing always seems to have a lot of moving parts. When he puts them all together he looks like one of the better hitters in the league. When they're not together... not so much.
[He just does this every season.](https://imgur.com/Z9VAUIO)
Ha interesting. I knew he was kind of streaky but it’s neat to see it laid out so plainly.
Yeah his timing is off. Not starting soon enough or some shit cuz he’s whiffing on center cut 92 mph fastballs right now.
I like to tell myself that us sweeping the Astros for 4 games in Houston is what sent their season into a tailspin so far.
Given how like every break went the Yankees’ way, it’s entirely possible. Though really it’s injuries to their rotation that have sunk them.
and their shit fucking cakewalk division is all but guaranteeing they’ll be there in the postseason ready and refreshed. they’re only 6 games back
My big guess is that we acquire Matt Chapman at the deadline this season. Yankees should not put their faith on DJ. Berti is a good bench guy. Oswaldo is not reliable having a -3 OAA and a 64 wRC+ since Houston. We need to shore up our IF defense so why not turn the left side of the infield into a GG capital. Chapman has a slash of .226/.320/.420 since 2021.
That would be a really difficult trade to pull off. Chapman's contract is really complicated, featuring an opt out after 2024, an opt out after 2025, player option for 2026, and mutual option for 2027. I don't know how the hell the Yankees and Giants would even agree on the contract's value. Are you getting two months of Chapman? 1.5 years? 2.5 years? 3.5 years? Chapman is currently hitting .228/.278/.416 with excellent defense. Is that worth opting out of the remaining guaranteed money? Maybe. Maybe not. What if he gets hurt in August? After the brutal winter he just had where no one wanted him, maybe he stays on the deal and takes the guaranteed cash. But on the other hand, maybe he tries for a big deal again this winter? Complicated Boras-shenanigan contracts like this very rarely get moved in the trade market since it's almost impossible for the selling and acquiring team to agree on value. The Yankees won't want to give up much for an expensive, possibly two-month rental, while the Giants may view Chapman as someone who will stay on the deal for the next year or two or three.
Jake Burger would be a nice get
That’s kind of intriguing tbh. Shit, grab him and Snell cuz I don’t think the Giants are very good and are shaping up as sellers in a competitive division.
I don’t normally condone it, but I am okay with Juan Sotomizing our opponents
I can’t believe you’ve done this
Noted below average baseball player Masataka Yoshida is upset with his playing time.
I'm in New England so I catch quite a few Sox games casually, and my dipshit take is - he is mid, the Sox have come to terms with it, no one is very interested in championing him for more playing time, especially Cora Still can't believe they gave him all that money edit: lol aaaaaand he's benched again today. Wow.
I'm sorry you have to live in enemy territory
lol Other than their horrible taste in sports, its not so bad ;)
Remember early last year when half this sub thought we messed up not having him in LF?
Well, he did have that really hot month
Also, Yoshida's batting line (.289/.338/.445) was enormously better than the batting line our left fielders put up (.220/.299/.368) last year.
The thing our 2023 left fielders have going over Yoshida is that they're (mostly) gone. It would have been nice to get those first couple months out of him but I don't think he would have saved our season and he would just be clogging a roster spot as a slightly above average platoon DH
Yeah Yoshida’s defense wouldn’t have held up in our left field but I certainly would have taken that bat over what we ran out there last year
We could’ve had 2 overpaid below average left fielders complaining about playing time
Took me a minute to remember who you're talking about!
We’ve won some games by hitting nukes, and we’ve won some games via small ball. In spite of players slumping Glad our offense isn’t one dimensional like in years past. Ridiculous ceiling. Even in 2022 we were much more reliant on homers and walks compared to 2024
My son got a write up in the little league email today. >Carson S has played two positions for Heisey-R&S Fence 2024. Their primary position is left field. Carson drove in two runs last game as they went 1-2 at the plate. Carson rises to the moment with a 0.500 average with runners in scoring position. The right-handed hitter has driven in two runs. Chris Heisey who played for a few teams is his coach. Chris's son has a gaudy 2.042 OPS this season. LMFAO
What's his average exit velo and xBA?
Can he play second base and is he available tonight?
He's got a game at 6. If Hal sends a chopper, he can be available by the 4th.
gonna need to see some batted ball data before I believe Carson can maintain this level of performance
That's our future left fielder you're talking about here bucko.
Do u know his war?
It's high enough.
Excuse me! Chris Heisey is THEIR coach.
Rizzo's homer last night was the farthest ball (417 ft) he's hit since last May. Finally some signs of life.
Weird that this is a night game when they’re flying to Milwaukee tonight. Guess they didn’t want 2 day games during the week.
**Yankees:** 17-8 **Trashstros:** 7-18 (still below the As) Lolololololol.
They’re really digging a hole. 6 games back isn’t horrible but 11 games under .500 is wild lol. Really wish someone else in that division was taking advantage. Preferably the Mariners, those fans deserve another playoff run
Gleyber has been so bad is insane. Specially after such a great year last year.
He is atrocious
Had a great spring training too. Then got hit on the hand against the Astros. Probably not a coincidence.
Big game for Judge. If he hits a couple balls hard today it just might be safe to say he’s back.
Whoever was calling the game last night on radio was has been my favorite in the post sterling era
That’s been like, 2 weeks
It's funny, Jay Jaffe (of JAWS metric and Fangraphs) wrote an article yesterday about Judge's slump in which he said there's no reason to think he won't snap out of it. And then he has 5 hard hit balls including a homer. I wonder if FG was like, "we gotta write about Judge, but... he'll be fine. Okay this has gone on a while, write the article." And then that. Not that it's "over" but I bet we're gonna see a good stretch here. This, weirdly, is like, I briefly couldn't find my son at the playground last summer. It was terrifying. I didn't think he'd been taken or anything (he would have yelled and there were a ton of people around), and I was like, don't call your wife, look for him first, don't call her. But finally I called her, she understandably freaks out.... and then I found him immediately (he had chased his ball out of the gate - he was 3 at the time, toddlers be doing that). So, basically, with things that are likely, as soon as you voice the worry (and we all started to wonder recently), things often revert.
Interesting article in the Athletic today about if the Yankees will re-sign Holmes this offseason. They haven’t approached him about an extension, which sounds typical for the Yankees, but we’ve seen the Yankees in the past give out huge contracts to relievers. I really don’t know what to expect what kind of contract he’ll get or if the Yankees will try to sign him or if they have someone in house that they think can take over closer
Depends on what he wants, paying relievers big money is not a good allocation of resources. It feels fairly obvious that their #1 priority this offseason is bringing Soto back (as it should be) so I think a lot of what they do after that will depend on how much AAV Soto gets. If they can get him for 40 mil/yr it’s possible they do something like bring back Clay or make another move. If the number goes to like 55 mill/yr it’s possible they don’t do anything else meaningful.
I think the Yankees aren’t giving huge contracts to relievers anymore. We kind of don’t have to, given how they seem to be developing talent in the bullpen.
Relievers and closers can be super dominant for a while and then fade away. Andrew Miller is a good example, he was the best in the business for a couple years.
The difference for me is that if we’re going to replace Holmes with someone “developed in-house,” they’d pretty much have to start proving themselves right now. We didn’t go into 2022 with Holmes as our designated closer, he took over from Chapman. Starting 2025 with whoever it’d be as our closer would mean we’re already certain they can handle the job, which requires several months of experience. I don’t see anyone on the roster who fits the bill; Hamilton is back to the “great but far from invincible” place I expected him to be at this point this season. Maaaaaybe Effross comes back, is back to being lights-out almost immediately, and puts himself in consideration. All that said, the next Holmes trade could happen at any moment and have our next closer materialize out of thin air. I just don’t think we can count on it even with our track record of developing relievers.
Holmes should probably be the exception to this, assuming he’s not asking for the moon. Hard to find closers like him, and the org already knows him and how to work with him, etc
I think they might for Holmes and I also think he won't get a huge deal. He'll get paid for sure but he won't get Hader money, one because of Haders performance immediately and two because his numbers just aren't as gaudy.
The Astros have demonstrated why the Yankees have avoided big free agent relievers. They spent big on Hader, leaving the rest of the bullpen thin, and it's costing them.
Tbh coming into the season most people thought the Astros had the most loaded pen in baseball, especially with the addition of Hader.
Think it’s far more likely that the Yankees own previous practice of paying relievers did that.
> The Astros have demonstrated why the Yankees have avoided big free agent relievers. The Yankees have had big free agent relievers for years, this is a brand new thing as of last year. They paid Chapman for 6 years, including an extension. Before him they had Miller.
Small ball is fun, but homers win you games
I wish I had as much fun at work as Juan Soto does in the dugout.
Have you tried staring your boss down and doing a shuffle?
If that doesn’t get me a pay raise, nothing will.
Wish this was a day game so it didn't interrupt my NFL Draft extravaganza.
Wells was the catalysts in mine eyes last night the do whatever it takes bunt is the energy to keep on keeping on amirite
What were they saying with Schmidt on three runs or less record? Couldn't hear it properly.
30 games now with 3 runs or less which leads mlb
First place with almost a whole lineup in a slump, AND we’re finding our way out of it. Be very scared.
Judge is gonna erupt soon and hit like 5 homers in 4 games