El Marciano has been activated from the IL and will bat leadoff tonight for AAA Scranton Wilkes Barre. Interestingly, they aren’t making him work his way up thru the minors to begin the rehab.
Thankfully, there’s no longer any nonsense about not having any space for him in the Majors. Hopefully he stays healthy and performs well enough for a quick call up to the Bigs.
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Average from Verdugo would be nice.
If the Martian is back and in form, one more bat at the deadline and a strike out arm should right the ship sufficiently to take a wild card out of jeopardy. At least if the starters can keep the ball in the yard.
Then fingers crossed a couple other guys achieve non-suckassdom for the playoffs.
Why disparage Maas like that. Yeah, his average fell from .252 to .220 his second year, but he hit 23 HRs and drove in 63. Who wouldn't be ecstatic if LeMahieu was doing that. 23 HRs from Torres or Verdugo would be great.
Downside- he’s tiny- like 5’6” tiny- and has regularly been injured.
Could he and Dominguez give the offense the boost it needs?
Then if they get bounce back performances from 2 of Gleyber, DJ, Volpe, Rice or Rizzo... the lineup will be fine.
The Yanks still need at least one more stud for the pen.
Downside- he’s tiny- like 5’6” tiny- and has regularly been injured.
Could he and Dominguez give the offense the boost it needs?
Why is it a downside if he's tiny and gets on base at a 40% clip? Sounds like it might help with a smaller strike zone.
Yanks scored five runs in those two games and all five came as the result of the five extra base hits they got: three homers, two doubles. Torres had three of those five extra base hits.
Point being: As disappointing as Torres' year has been, Yankees are not replacing him with a tiny guy of dubious power.
Torres is batting 5th tonight. DJL is not in the lineup. The priority is a third baseman.
It won’t happen because they don’t do anything with foresight, but they should platoon Peraza/Cabrera at 3B and Durbin/Vivas at 2B. This way you know what you have next year and inject some athleticism for the rest of the year.
Or let Cashman convince Hal he needs a 400M payroll to compete. All the rest of the teams jostling for position with us, except for Sox at 180M, have payrolls around 100M.
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was a nice kick in the nuts. Not to mention every hitter not named Judge and Soto turning into Kevin Maas from his 2nd year.
Why disparage Maas like that. Yeah, his average fell from .252 to .220 his second year, but he hit 23 HRs and drove in 63. Who wouldn't be ecstatic if LeMahieu was doing that. 23 HRs from Torres or Verdugo would be great.
Wow did he really do that well in the first year following his historic rookie (half season) year? Would have guessed he did worse but his career was fading fast at this point regardless. I remember drafting him second round in a baseball fantasy draft and people still break my balls about it all these years later. They mocked me that very day. Well deserved.
Unfortunately this is true. Everyone had high hopes for Torres - when we got him from the Cubs, he was projected as a potential all-star. But I was at Sunday's game against the Rays and I don't think it's a stretch to say that Torres came close to losing that game singlehandedly between his fielding and non-clutch hitting.
I hope he gets white hot right away and gets the call very soon. Otherwise, I expect more of the same, with Stanton coming back and they continue to play Verdugo and use Grisham regularly.
Then if they get bounce back performances from 2 of Gleyber, DJ, Volpe, Rice or Rizzo... the lineup will be fine.
The Yanks still need at least one more stud for the pen.
It won’t happen because they don’t do anything with foresight, but they should platoon Peraza/Cabrera at 3B and Durbin/Vivas at 2B. This way you know what you have next year and inject some athleticism for the rest of the year.
Or let Cashman convince Hal he needs a 400M payroll to compete. All the rest of the teams jostling for position with us, except for Sox at 180M, have payrolls around 100M.
Nice inning: they finally made this scrub look like the 5.50-ERA pitcher that he is. Somehow I thought Judge hit that much harder on the last out.
Verdugo to the bench and Grisham to Korea.
I want a move for one clear upgrade in the pen and one clear upgrade at 2B/3B with DJ or Torres to the bench and Cabrera to Japan.
Great, he’s hired.
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THAT'S HOW WE DO!
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and we didn't get Ruocco calling it. I'll never forget him calling Judge's statcast-breaking bomb in Seattle.
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They may, need to go out and get a closer.
About a dozen trades, some big ones, today and nothing from the Yankees.
Just horrific shit tonight
Then the worst closer comes in and shits the bed in two pitches.
You cannot even blame Boone for BP mismanagement because no matter who he puts out there is rubbish. No trades to find help. It is almost that Cashman is wasting Hal's money to spite him.
Soto is not re-signing with this bunch.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Then the worst closer comes in and shits the bed in two pitches.
You cannot even blame Boone for BP mismanagement because no matter who he puts out there is rubbish. No trades to find help. It is almost that Cashman is wasting Hal's money to spite him.
Soto is not re-signing with this bunch.
Soto is gone and you can not blame him. This is the same shit year after year.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
They got their hearts ripped out. Totally expecting a Boston sweep this weekend.
This is a manager who had Jones pinch-hit and Wells pinch-run in the same game.
Still, he isn't the biggest problem for this organization.
How much longer do those two get Hal?
What's fascinating about this collapse is that despite having the worst record in MLB over the past month and a half, they are still somehow only 2 games out of first place.
They just can't stick with Clay Holmes anymore. Flushes the game in just two pitches, and has now blown 25% of his save opportunities for the season.
Has his OPS up to .754. Very respectable for a C.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
Yeah, great idea. Turn your young star SP, the guy that has been far and away your best SP all season and turn him into a RP. Jeezus man
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
Point out the closers whose fastball sit 92-93. Even 94-95. (And when he gets it up to 95 his control gets shaky). And with all his junk, batters haven't been having too much trouble.
While I'd hate to see Gil pulled out of the rotation, he's thrown more innings than ever before. Are you willing to risk what hopefully will be a long career to make the playoffs this year with a team that has major issues?
With Stanton coming back, what’s the over/under on the games Dominquez has to play down in AAA to hone his grit?
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
Point out the closers whose fastball sit 92-93. Even 94-95. (And when he gets it up to 95 his control gets shaky). And with all his junk, batters haven't been having too much trouble.
While I'd hate to see Gil pulled out of the rotation, he's thrown more innings than ever before. Are you willing to risk what hopefully will be a long career to make the playoffs this year with a team that has major issues?
Asking Gil to get up and come into games and throw as hard as he does 3-4 times per week is very likely worse for his arm than pitching him once per week. If he goes to the pen it will be in long relief where he can keep the schedule he’s used to
With Stanton coming back, what’s the over/under on the games Dominquez has to play down in AAA to hone his grit?
What's amazing is they let Stanton dictate that he won't play in any rehab games. No matter how advanced the pitching machine technology is, it's not the same. The machine doesn't change the time between pitches. The machine does alter speeds on the same pitch from one pitch to the next. You don't have to worry about the machine missing up and in. You don't break out of the box to run to first after making contact.
So what we're going to see is 8 to 10 games of Stanton looking like crap. It happens every time he comes back.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
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They made that mistake 40 years ago with Righetti. No thank you.
Maybe Cortes.
Cortes is the worst choice of the starters. He doesn't have the stuff to be a closer.
What stuff? Getting people out stuff? Having balls stuff? Cortes would be better than Holmes. He throws strikes. His control is rarely off. He works the batter. You don't need 98 to be a closer. He gets it up there 92/93 as a starter. We have seen 95. Probably can sit 95 for an inning and with all his junk, batters would have trouble.
It's not all about velocity. It is about getting swings and misses as a closer. Cortes struggles to put batters away outside of his first year here.
No, he does well thru 5 innings most times. As closer he only needs to do it for 1 inning. And he needs to have the balls to do it, which he does.
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Yeah, great idea. Turn your young star SP, the guy that has been far and away your best SP all season and turn him into a RP. Jeezus man
The majority of ‘Yankee Fans’ here are dumb fucks. This is nothing new.