1. Matt Duffy (R) 3B .313/.351/.409, 0.8 fWAR
2. Jake Bauers (L) 1B .308/.379/.538, 0.2 fWAR
3. Wilson Ramos (R) CA .282/.324/.442, 0.8 fWAR
4. C.J. Cron (R) DH .251/.331/.470, 1.1 fWAR
5. Joey Wendle (L) 2B .277/.322/.375, 1.0 fWAR
6. Willy Adames (R) SS .227/.250/.409, 0.0 fWAR
7. Mallex Smith (L) CF .294/.356/.387, 1.1 fWAR
8. Carlos Gomez (R) RF .180/.255/.325, -0.4 fWAR
9. Johnny Field (R) LF .250/.284/.453, 0.7 fWAR
Blake Snell (L): (82.1 IP, 2.30 ERA, 2.9 RA9 WAR)
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Domingo German (R): (47.1 IP, 5.32 ERA, -0.1 RA9 WAR)
1. Aaron Hicks (S) CF .243/.345/.420, 1.4 fWAR
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF .272/.394/.565, 3.1 fWAR
3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF .248/.324/.484, 1.6 fWAR
4. Gary Sanchez (R) CA .190/.291/.430, 0.9 fWAR
5. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B .296/.353/.566, 1.1 fWAR
6. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B .304/.333/.541, 1.0 fWAR
7. Tyler Austin (R) DH .218/.271/.471, 0.0 fWAR
8. Ronald Torreyes (R) SS .333/.344/.429, 0.6 fWAR
9. Neil Walker (S) 1B .214/.284/.300, -0.5 fWAR
Amazing. Teams like '98 are maybe once in a generation IF you're lucky. This team is good but has a ways to go to be like that.
Thank you, very cool!
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German looks like a very legit 5 starter to me for now with upside to be a #3 or better.
Very impressive young man. Good fastball, slider and change. gotta love it. Another great find by Cashman , forget how we got him... Eovaldi trade?? Either way he was def just a throw in.. but cash prob picked him out of a list of names so kudos ..
He came with Eovaldi in 2014 for Martin Prado and David Phelps.
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This team would need to go on a 21 game winning streak to match the 1998 Yankees 65-20 record.
Amazing. Teams like '98 are maybe once in a generation IF you're lucky. This team is good but has a ways to go to be like that.
That stat just goes to show how truly great that 98 team was.
I've been watching the Yanks since the Jake Gibbs/Horace Clarke days of the early 70's and the 98 team was the best Yankee team I've ever seen. They finished 125-50 when it was all said and done.
Torre had a great quote about that team when asked if it was the best team ever, he replied he didn't know about that but knows they're in the conversation and that's good enough for him. I always think about that when the 98 team is talked about and yeah Joe, it's good enough for me too.
That 98 team was so ridiculous. They basically had one long winning streak all season long once they got past the first 2-3 games. Wells, Cone, Andy El Duque and irabu for comic relief as the 5th starter. Lineup stacked 1-9. Insane BP. Insane team.
The game is on MLB Network using the NESN feed if anyone is interested.
Agree with that. I don't know what's taking so long.
In fairness, I think they were waiting for that, and also to give Drury a couple of games at 1B. Although with Walker backing up Bird, not sure how much we need that. Thinking about it, they probably just want Drury to play every day, which he won't with Andujar-Didi-Gleyber-Bird in there. That's our infield, they're not going to platoon just for Drury.
To this point - the game I most remember like that was in Oakland where they were down 5-1 going into the ninth. Kenny fucking Rogers of all people shut them down for 8 innings. Yanks loaded the bases with no one out and Strawberry pinch hit and knocked a grand slam to the it. They ended up winning 10-5 after a 9 run 9th inning.
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That was actually Strawberry's second pinch hit grand slam that year.
It builds Drury's trade value and/or also makes Walker very tradeable.
btw, look up the career stretch Bernie had 1995 to 2002. Averaged 317. Over 400obp during that stretch and drove in an average of 100 per year, stole about 12 bases a year but was not a great baserunner, fielded beautifully ( hid a weak arm). He had years with BA of 328, 339, 342 and 333 in that stretch. He was every bit a very core player. Just did not fit the core four narrative.
2 1B Tino Martinez*
3 2B Chuck Knoblauch
4 SS Derek Jeter
5 3B Scott Brosius
6 LF Chad Curtis
7 CF Bernie Williams#
8 RF Paul O'Neill*
9 DH Darryl Strawberry*
I had forgotten that Knoblauch was the 2B pretty much all that year. It was before he got the yips throwing to 1B.
Interesting thing is Po didn't really start playing full time till '98. He wasn't even on the '96 team. So him and Bernie have the same amount of rings.