the 2023 new york yankees: all rise, again?

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Da fuq

Excite for new folk hero franchy “shane spencer” cordero

Aaron Boone has been ejected and I don't blame him pic.twitter.com/pQYSVRTdpl

— Dillard Barnhart (@BarnHasSpoken2) April 12, 2023

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Roflmao

brit-oh no

Who throws a complete game

Reader email to Robert Christgau:

Opening Day (with Volpe wearing the #11 once worn by Hector Lopez, etc.), plus the recent death of Joe Pepitone, has me wondering if you’re willing to construct a lineup of your all-time favorite Yankees, limiting yourself to those players who have played during your decades of fandom. You’re allowed a DH even if they weren’t around during their careers. Also one right-handed and one lefty starter, plus a reliever.
— Ben Greene, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

How can I say no? C: Yogi Berra; 1B: Don Mattingly 2B: Bobby Richardson; 3B: Graig Nettles; SS: Derek Jeter (sorry Phil, I’ll never forget you); LF: Dave Winfield; CF: Mickey Mantle (though DiMaggio did hang in there till 1951, I never saw him at his best); RF: Aaron Judge; DH: Reggie Jackson (yah yah A-Rod); RHP: David Cone (fuck Roger Clemens); LHP: Ron Guidry (sorry, Whitey); Relief (duh): Mariano Rivera.

Most of that seems fine, although Willie Randolph was a much better player than Bobby Richardson (who somehow managed to lead off 162 games for the '61 Yankees and score all of 80 runs--.295 OBP).

I’d put Munson as C, Henderson and Oscar Gamble in the OF, and Brosius at 3rd

No Judge please, too soon

Iirc brosius couldn’t hit a lick

There must be a better righty than Cone, no? Great pitcher, but his greatest seasons were almost all with other teams (Mussina comes to mind).

Iirc brosius couldn’t hit a lick

There must be a better righty than Cone, no? Great pitcher, but his greatest seasons were almost all with other teams (Mussina comes to mind).

― clemenza, Wednesday, April 19, 2023 12:00 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

will probably be gerrit cole when all said and done

christgau was just listing his favorites, anyway, not the all-time best

Yeah, you're right, missed that--definite difference.

I got curious and took a look. I’d say for right handed starter of that period, Mel Stottylmyre would be a good choice.

Dual hatting pitcher / consigliere

volpe .250/>>>>>>>.419<<<<<<<<</.375 5 SB in his last 7

With Judge once again pressed into center field duty and Stanton down, right field has been a grab bag, where Cordero has the most playing time (43 PA). Collectively, the five players who have spent time there have hit — and here I’ll urge you to cover the eyes and ears of any small children within reach — .152/.179/.304 for a 25 wRC+. Comparatively speaking, recently released staring pitcher Madison Bumgarner would be an upgrade with his career .172/.232/.292 line and 44 wRC+.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-loss-of-aaron-judge-only-magnifies-slumping-banged-up-yankees-woes

who could've guessed the yankees needed more help on offense

Hicks has been awful in left field...some real little league style play a few days ago when IKF (playing center) called him off a fly ball and Hicks nevertheless went in front of him for the catch
not to mention his lazy ass whiff last night to end the game

hicks had a great season . . . in 2018. but he's pretty much been hurt or bad ever since, and now he's 33

Team is lost in space…abysmal runs per game, so many injured, no juice

bader has provided a little juice, including yesterday’s win which was the best of the season

but yeah, this is a bad lineup, mediocre defense and bullpen, injured starters, a front office too cheap and stubborn to fix any of this, and a manager who routinely makes things harder on his players

NYY are truly a psychically joyless watch. From the stadium to the hair shit to volpe and judgr (players im otherwise pulling for) idolizing jeter to the point of parody

bader homer!

farewell to aaron hicks 🫡

when you have a chance to add a talent like greg allen you really have no choice

Byeee

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Baltimore lol

just like that aaron judge is the mlb leader in war and wrc+, tho he's only on pace for 46-50 homers this year

Just moved into the Top 10 in bWAR, but still a game behind Wander Franco. Having missed 11 games, pretty damn impressive.

Yankees coaches wtf are you doing

Anthony Volpe said he changed his stance after meeting up w/ Austin Wells & some other guys he played with last year on the off day. They were reminiscing & watching old ABs (& eating chicken parm) at Volpe's house when they noticed the #Yankees SS had veered from his old setup.

— Gary Phillips (@GaryHPhillips) June 14, 2023

Yeah that anecdote is wild

nobody in the major league coaching staff had a chance to sit down with him and work on his swing, eh?

chicken parms were high-key the secret ingredient

obviously judge is hurt but this is an objectively terrible lineup for a $280m team

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they're 27th in batting (.229), 28th in OBP (.297, behind the tigers!) and 23rd in OPS (.708), because they still hit dingers -- and all that includes judge's insane numbers

not brian cashman's finest effort, and aaron hicks's rebound since joining the orioles doesn't say much for the coaching staff either

I love seeing stats like Josh Donaldson being 3 for his last 47 or was that Stanton

donaldson homered tonight! now hitting .132/.200/.441 with is both incredible and slightly better than giancarlo's .184/.244/.377

yankees are 0-6 in games where josh donaldson has homered

Donaldson has 9 hits, 7 of them homers

jesus

Stanton looks utterly washed up, i think one thing that was telling for me from last season is he wasn't getting any XBH beyond home runs. he played 110 games and had 31 HR and 7(!) doubles, that's a pretty good trick.

By george, y'all have shaken the wasps' nest, had no idea the stanks lurked on here.

as uptight as the yankees are about everything, it is strange to me that they will issue uniform number zero

Right?

I love to see them win
As I love to see them lose lol

The Yankees have officially dismissed hitting coach Dillon Lawson.

Brian Cashman has never fired a coach in-season. He once told me that he doesn't believe in doing so, and that you need to evaluate each season in full. Clearly, he'd seen enough.

— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) July 9, 2023

Jesus Christ

Re: The IKF bunt, Kiner-Falefa said that the Yankees’ scouting report said Kutter Crawford has had issues throwing to bases. The intent was to have Crawford throw the ball away and spark a rally.

— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) August 19, 2023

that is fucking abysmal

as is telling the media about it

it genuinely seems like an organization that feeds in $300 million to the machine and just leaves it to run.

― JoeStork, Saturday, August 5, 2023 1:01 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

at this point, the best hope is for them to suck as hard as they can until even a guy as shameless as hal feels embarrassed

hal’s philosophy: as long as the checks roll in, everyone in the organization is doing their job

honestly as the most casual of yankees fans…I find all the pitchforks out for cashman to be pretty funny. a year or two ago he was the best GM in the league…now they might have their first losing record in THIRTY YEARS and suddenly every decision they’ve made was terrible

Do you remember the last time they were under 500

I’m 34, so no! but something tells me they’ll continue to be in the mix

a year or two ago he was the best GM in the league

citation needed

i think he's been a v. good GM, and it's not his fault that rodon got hurt, and i suspect that signing judge to the gargantuan contract that will haunt the team for years to come was a decision made over his head

but this is a poorly assembled team, and doing *nothing* at the trade deadline was a dereliction of duty

i also roll my eyes at the exaggerated dragging of cashman, he was pretty good until about 3-4 years ago

last 3-4 years have been pretty disastrous tho

donaldson trade, hicks contract, lemahieu contract, punting the trade deadline, sitting out free agency every other year to get under the luxury tax

that last bit doesn’t depend on the gm, it’ll likely be ownership policy for as long as the steinbrenners own the team, but still, he’s had the job for 25 years and it’s culminated in this. gotta be someone out there who can do better with $309 mil

*screams* ellsbury contraaaaaaaaact

applies for stadium Cracker Jack seller job

$15 Bud Lite anyone?

I don’t really watch the Yankees as much as I used to since I got MLB.tv and have a choice of games to watch, within my timezone anyway, but the wider Yankee media environment is high art in many ways. It reminds me very much of classic Arsenal fan TV during the bad Wenger days.

The apex of Yankee media is ofc Talkin’ Yanks, which is hosted by baseball video specialist Jomboy and his sidekick Talkin’ Jake. When I tell you these are high art. The best ones to watch are, obviously, when something bad happens. This is even truer when Aaron Boone has to go on - he is contractually obliged to appear on this show which is WILD - and they pepper him with questions. But let’s rewind.

The show has a very specific dynamic. Jomboy takes the role of Sad Dad Who Is Disappointed in the Yankees. Jake is younger, sarcastic, constantly boiling with fury. When Boone is on the show feeding them a line of bullshit, I’m constantly watching Jake. He keeps his face rigidly still, while his eyes SCREAM with fury. He sometimes wears T-shirts on the show mocking things Boone had said. He is the personification of the booing Yankee fan who throws stuff from the stands on the field, except what that person might be like on a day to day basis.

On the normal show, a conversation might go like this:

Jomboy (dejectedly): I don’t know, Jake. I think we thought it would all be ok when Judge came back, but the roster problems…

Jake (sarcastically): well it would have been nice if the front office had thought to pick up an outfielder…or a left fielder…or watching this team wasn’t an exercise in absolutely exquisite AGONY

the producer guy who speaks in a monotone whose name i can never remember: it would be really nice if this yankees team could win a game or just be shot into space

Jake: Watching (other team), you know what I noticed? They play with PASSION. They play to WIN. Like the Yankees team I grew up watching!

Jomboy: (almost on the floor in despair) it used to be the Yankees Way.

I’m telling you guys. It’s art.

Would love to see a breakdown of sad/mad Yankees media/fans vs sad/mad Mets media/fans this year. As a Mets fan I read the above and think “cute, they feel a sense of sharpness in regards to this seemingly tame season of adversity”.

Matt Olson said that the Braves would watch Frank the Tank meltdowns after beating the Mets, his popularity transcends everything I think

yankees have missed the playoffs three times in the last 30 years. their fans have no idea how to deal with adversity and they're going to lash out at everyone in sight

eventually they'll turn on judge, simply for not being jeter

Suffering from their own history of success, a tragedy

Some of them turned on Judge last year when the team slumped mid-season. (Which, to be fair, is common across sports, directing ire against a bad team's one good player.)

they did win 99 games last year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

they are certainly very bad now

I garbled that a bit. They definitely weren't bad last year--the parenthetical referred to this year's team--but there was some booing directed at Judge. I forget exactly when; I posted about it in the Judge thread.

I could not possibly feel less sorry for the Yankees than I do right now.

Cashman's success over a 25 year period is incredible, and it doesn't just come down to money. But every time the Yankees have an off-year, I wonder whether he has the motivation to do this anymore. Nobody has ever navigated all the Steinbrenner BS better than him, but how long until he simply wants a break from it all?

Going for 10 straight tonight--not since 1913. (They last lost 9 straight in '82.)

luis severino is healed

the blessed hands of Cash Man

Donaldson released

five in a row, eight of 10, back over .500!

this team caught some bad breaks; i think they should run it back in 2024