the 2023 new york yankees: all rise, again?

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

that’ll fix everything

it's a step up from firing the 1B coach, i'll give him that

Of all the corporations to sponsor the jerseys…I was not expecting starr insurance

Domingo German removed from the official roster for ROS over "an alcohol related issue"...

he asked the barback why he wasn't getting any buybacks and got punched in the face

jaffe: The Yankees Lose Germán and Rizzo Amid a Miserable Week
The handling of two unrelated matters calls into question the team's leadership, from top to bottom.

After getting booed off the field coming out of the game in the fifth, Luis Severino sat down at the very end of the #Yankees' dugout.

A couple players and coaches went over to pick him up.

Severino hasn't moved a muscle since then. He's just sitting in the corner alone.

— Max Goodman (@MaxTGoodman) August 5, 2023

last week he was quoted as saying "I feel like I'm the worst pitcher in baseball," at this point what do you have to lose by giving someone in AAA a shot and letting him rest/work on whatever's going on?

absolutely no idea what they're doing on any level

i actually like aaron boone but a half-decent manager might have noticed that rizzo spent the last two months in a fog.

they have judge and they have cole. and then they have like a dozen injured 36-year-olds and anthony volpe (who sucks). i thought carlos rendon was a good signing! but this team is deeply fucked. has there ever before been a $300m last-place team?

i do love the higster tho

I mean, as a hater and loser I’ve never followed them that closely, but I kind of assumed that part of the Yankee machine involved actually working with their players and trying to fix problems as they arose. Now it genuinely seems like an organization that feeds in $300 million to the machine and just leaves it to run.

rip

how much would it take to get theo to take over this mess? (he's already a hall-of-famer; why take on something that would only drag his legacy down and make his previous fans hate him?)

been a while since he was called a genius, tho -- maybe he needs that boost

watched a game last night for the first time in a couple of months...what a mess

feel like sunday's game may be a must-win for aaron boone

that one game last week where he was wearing a players uniform lol

Abreu nailing J Turner with a fastball one pitch after Devers took him deep on a 3-0 count, keep it classy NY

Tbf I think Abreu simply isn’t very good?

Some very strange bullpen decisions being made by Boone

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.