NFT: Yankees Game Thread 8/9 vs the Toronto Blue Jays. Tanaka Day

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2 run single.

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Making bad deals out of spite.

And this kid Gary Cooper has a four hit game. Wow.

Holy shit. Kid had a night. Wow.

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people said it was a hitters park. Not sure where that was.

But maybe he can hit, and he looks decent in the field.

Colorado Springs, like 75 games this year - had himself quite a line in terms of offensive output. OPS over 1.

I dog them for awful situational hitting but tonight they were superb. Lil Ronnie can play on my team any time. Approach is better, great job by the hitters picking up unusually shaky middle relief tonight. Judge is absolutely lost right now. Hopefully he shakes it off.

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with their inferiority complex front and center as always.

In comment 13554509 Stu11 said:

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I dog them for awful situational hitting but tonight they were superb. Lil Ronnie can play on my team any time. Approach is better, great job by the hitters picking up unusually shaky middle relief tonight. Judge is absolutely lost right now. Hopefully he shakes it off.

Judge should get dropped down in the lineup at least temporarily. He seems like he'd accept that and just work harder. Hard to fault the guy - he was Ruthian for half a season. Let's let him work through it.

In comment 13554521 Del Shofner said:

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In comment 13554509 Stu11 said: Quote: I dog them for awful situational hitting but tonight they were superb. Lil Ronnie can play on my team any time. Approach is better, great job by the hitters picking up unusually shaky middle relief tonight. Judge is absolutely lost right now. Hopefully he shakes it off. Judge should get dropped down in the lineup at least temporarily. He seems like he'd accept that and just work harder. Hard to fault the guy - he was Ruthian for half a season. Let's let him work through it.

I'm just disappointed that he and Sanchez continue to flail at outside pitches and refuse to go to right.

Good win.

pretty clear they're having trouble identifying off speed pitches and they're way out in front of it. I'd venture to guess Judge's numbers on fastballs are still pretty decent. He went to RCF with one on Sunday for a home run.

So it's not that they're refusing to go to right, they're just not recognizing off speed pitches the way they were in the first half. And they're so far out in front, they have no chance to go the other way.

the Mets are taking a beating over that trade, haha. Pretty funny.

having ownership like that. I feel for their fans

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NYY: 2 prospects Mets asked for and $1m in salary relief. CLE: 30th rounder Ryder Ryan and about $5m in salary relief. Mets chose latter.

You literally can't make it up. Mets fans are raging on Twitter, too.

Mike Puma‏Verified account @NYPost_Mets 3h3 hours ago

Having spoken to Bruce about the situation in recent weeks I know he is ecstatic: He wanted a shot this year at the World Series.
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Can't say I blame him. I bet it has to be frustrating for players to know they are on a team with ownership that is never willing to go that extra mile to win.

Also glad we didn't give anything up for Bruce, but that's besides the point.

In comment 13554491 adamg said:

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Making bad deals out of spite. And this kid Gary Cooper has a four hit game. Wow.

Jay who?

In comment 13554516 Dave in Hoboken said:

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with their inferiority complex front and center as always.

Yep.

...on who the two prospects were that the Yankees offered?

that was mentioned by Incarcerated Bob though, so take it FWIW.

was Luis Medina. If that's true, Mets fans are right to be upset. An MLB-ready reliever and a flamethrower with a big ceiling.

Freddy Coupon taking the money instead of the prospects is such a Mets-thing to do. SAD!!!

Can't wait for the Baghdad Z Spin Cycle to go into full effect today.

I wondered what the Yankees could conceivably offer that would force the Mets to say yes. Based on these past couple of weeks, I'm not sure Torres, Frazier, Florial, Adams, Sheffield and Betances would get it done. They might ask for Judge or Sanchez, too.

In comment 13554809 B in ALB said:

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Freddy Coupon taking the money instead of the prospects is such a Mets-thing to do. SAD!!! Can't wait for the Baghdad Z Spin Cycle to go into full effect today.

He's already been on top of it in the Jay Bruce thread, lol