NFT: Yankees at Blue Jays GDT 8/9

...my next door neighbor's Yellow Lab can call better balls and strikes.

is that there is no accountability. Segal didn't make himself available to the media after. The crew chief dodged questions. Meanwhile you can force a 20 something year old player to face a barrage of media after messing up a game. Segal wont be called in, fined or reprimanded even behind the scenes.

Happ was a big mistake

In comment 14525660 nygnyy274 said:

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Happ was a big mistake

I wonder if we'd be thinking this if not for the juiced balls...

Happ's 4-seamer generates a ton of fly balls, and a lot of fly ball guys are having problems this year.

Not totally defending Happ, but some of the HR numbers around the league are absurd right now. It's August 10th and we already have 4 guys right on the precipice of 40 HR's (Yelich, Trout, Alonso, Bellinger) - at least one of these guys is going to hit 50+ and my guess is all 4 will at least get close.

A guy like Freddy Galvis is going to hit 20+ HR's this year and he's not even playing full time now that Bichette has been called up.

will be interesting to see how they handle his starts/innings next year if this continues.
3rd year option - ( New Window )

Then they absolutely need to use an opener with him to avoid hitting the 3rd year vesting clause.

I don’t really care if they light their money on fire, but for as long as ownership has an upper bound on the payroll, I can’t help but care.

It would be lunacy to just stroll along like nothing is wrong and stumble into the third year of that awful deal.

performance science and analytics team are at identifying and acquiring position players they are that bad at identifying and acquiring starting pitchers. Hopefully Severino and Betances can be available and effective in the playoffs. Because the Yankees are going to have to try to win 3 playoff series with very limited starting pitching.