Agree with Flats here on just blow the guy away. Sometimes the Yankees catchers get cute. If the batter cannot catch up to the FB, don't speed up the bat with a change.
Just like 2 change ups to get behind 2-0 to O'Neill. Got behind and gives up the hit.
If one hit is struggling then oh boy id take alot more struggle from our staff
He was all over the place. High pitch count, but he did have the 5 pitch 4th(?). 83 pitches 48 strikes and 35 balls with 4 BBs.
I am sure they are protecting the arm too.
All those Hicks fans from earlier this week can’t wait for him to carry us. Still hopeful.
Yeah they'll have to keep waiting. I'm not given to hyperbole but there can't be too many guys in baseball with a worse approach and more warped view of themselves. We're a week into August and he has all of 6 hrs yet he's still trying to pull every pitch and hit everything 480 feet when there's 8 friggen guys on the right side of the diamond. We need Mr Miagi to come in and do his danielsan all valley karate rub his hands together shit on Bader's foot pronto.
Well, we no longer have the best winning percentage in
baseball, at this rate Houston will overtake us in AL also.
Certainly no time to panic but maybe not everything this team does is perfect. Maybe the resident experts can tell us why we should still expect a parade down the canyon of heroes.
Coming off this historic start, I don’t want any excuses if we finish with a whimper.
Hicks fucking sucks and should not see the light of day. I’d call up Peraza to replace the punchless IKF.
Losing to Monty tonight with a guy most NYY fans don’t like/trust would be a bad look for Cashman.
The only thing I care about is October. Not interested in good or bad looks. With that said, we need to protect our lead, even as unlikely as it would be to get caught, you wouldn’t want this to get too much lower and have to feel the Rays or Jays making a run at it.
IKF is what he is. I’m not particularly disappointed with him,
although the defense hasn’t been as mistake free as I hoped. There’s a replacement in AAA, but I struggle to recall Cashman bringing up a rookie to play full time at this point of the season on any good Yankees teams.
Outside of a 7 game stretch, Hicks has been absolutely awful. He’s been “They need to stop playing him altogether” bad. Hicks has just 20 XBHs the past 2 seasons in over 450 plate appearances. To give you an idea of how awful that is, IKF has 16 XBHs just this season despite having zero HRs or triples. The problem though is without Stanton or Bader combined with Cashman’s unwillingness to play Florial, the only other option is playing Aaron Judge in CF and Carp in RF everyday. My goodness… THERE’S STILL THREE YEARS LEFT ON HICKS’ CONTRACT!!!!!
Our offense is really just Judge, and when Rizzo/Stanton get hot, and
lately DJ. That's it. We can't count on Judge to hit 2 HR's a game in the playoffs, something needs to be done to inject some life into the lineup. I swear half the lineup is just up there guessing and putting up totally non-competitive AB's.
Hicks needs to sit, maybe we have some podiatrists on here who can work on Bader so he can return ASAP. IKF should be relegated to the bench. Torres should be told he's going to be Starlin Castro'ed next if he doesn't get his head out of his ass. Benintendi is looking like a prepubescent Gallo right now but it's very early. God willing Donaldson goes on a run this season.
There have been numerous examples of young players, not necessarily prospects, coming up in the past and injecting some juice to the season. Peraza needs to be that guy.
all the way around, they wasted a few opportunities earlier in the game (especially Torres striking out twice) with men on base...
then Holmes blowing the lead late. He needs to get it together, his confidence must be shaken at this point a bit.
lately DJ. That's it. We can't count on Judge to hit 2 HR's a game in the playoffs, something needs to be done to inject some life into the lineup. I swear half the lineup is just up there guessing and putting up totally non-competitive AB's.
Hicks needs to sit, maybe we have some podiatrists on here who can work on Bader so he can return ASAP. IKF should be relegated to the bench. Torres should be told he's going to be Starlin Castro'ed next if he doesn't get his head out of his ass. Benintendi is looking like a prepubescent Gallo right now but it's very early. God willing Donaldson goes on a run this season.
There have been numerous examples of young players, not necessarily prospects, coming up in the past and injecting some juice to the season. Peraza needs to be that guy.
Some fans LOVE Torres. I've been ready to move on. He's too high and low of a player. At 23 maybe he'll grow out of the boneheaded mistakes, I don't see it happening. Would have been ok trading him for Pablo Lopez if its true he was asked for.
With Peraza and Volpe playing very well I actually think he's gone this offseason. Coulda sold high at the deadline lets see how he finishes the season.
RE: Our offense is really just Judge, and when Rizzo/Stanton get hot, and
then Holmes blowing the lead late. He needs to get it together, his confidence must be shaken at this point a bit.
Shame is for the 4 batters he looked like the old Holmes. He overpowered their best hitters. Losing O'Neil at 1-2 was the killer. O'Neil looked overmatched and then got bailed out with the walk. St. Louis scored all their runs on 2 out hits where they simply went with the pitch and didn't try and do too much. We could take a lesson.
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Yankees first round pick Spencer Jones went 3-for-4 with his first professional home run and two RBI's today in his second career game.
Yea some guys were playing over their heads in the first half but never expected this type of regression. What a horrid stretch for the hitters and even the bullpen
Definitely in a bit of a free-fall this past month or so. Yikes. Entire team is in a daze. I think this team has reached it's peak with Judge as the face of the franchise. If they give him anything close to a decade long contract; they are nuts.
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Cortes. He was really struggling .
Agree with Flats here on just blow the guy away. Sometimes the Yankees catchers get cute. If the batter cannot catch up to the FB, don't speed up the bat with a change.
Just like 2 change ups to get behind 2-0 to O'Neill. Got behind and gives up the hit.
If one hit is struggling then oh boy id take alot more struggle from our staff
He was all over the place. High pitch count, but he did have the 5 pitch 4th(?). 83 pitches 48 strikes and 35 balls with 4 BBs.
I am sure they are protecting the arm too.
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They have 3 runs. The offense isn’t exactly carrying the load.
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Pitching. It's usually pitching. Of course that's true for everybody else, too.
They have 3 runs. The offense isn’t exactly carrying the load.
All those RISP left on base early...
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Pitching. It's usually pitching. Of course that's true for everybody else, too.
They have 3 runs. The offense isn’t exactly carrying the load.
True. Not blowing them away.
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Pitching. It's usually pitching. Of course that's true for everybody else, too.
They have 3 runs. The offense isn’t exactly carrying the load.
All those RISP left on base early...
I was thinking the same thing. This loss is on basically everyone besides Nestor.
I mean, do we? Marwin?
We need Stanton back in the worst way for this lineup.
Walks by pitchers killing damn near every time.
I’m not going to go crazy, but they don’t look like an elite team right now.
Yeah they'll have to keep waiting. I'm not given to hyperbole but there can't be too many guys in baseball with a worse approach and more warped view of themselves. We're a week into August and he has all of 6 hrs yet he's still trying to pull every pitch and hit everything 480 feet when there's 8 friggen guys on the right side of the diamond. We need Mr Miagi to come in and do his danielsan all valley karate rub his hands together shit on Bader's foot pronto.
Certainly no time to panic but maybe not everything this team does is perfect. Maybe the resident experts can tell us why we should still expect a parade down the canyon of heroes.
Coming off this historic start, I don’t want any excuses if we finish with a whimper.
Hicks fucking sucks and should not see the light of day. I’d call up Peraza to replace the punchless IKF.
The only thing I care about is October. Not interested in good or bad looks. With that said, we need to protect our lead, even as unlikely as it would be to get caught, you wouldn’t want this to get too much lower and have to feel the Rays or Jays making a run at it.
Outside of a 7 game stretch, Hicks has been absolutely awful. He’s been “They need to stop playing him altogether” bad. Hicks has just 20 XBHs the past 2 seasons in over 450 plate appearances. To give you an idea of how awful that is, IKF has 16 XBHs just this season despite having zero HRs or triples. The problem though is without Stanton or Bader combined with Cashman’s unwillingness to play Florial, the only other option is playing Aaron Judge in CF and Carp in RF everyday. My goodness… THERE’S STILL THREE YEARS LEFT ON HICKS’ CONTRACT!!!!!
Hicks needs to sit, maybe we have some podiatrists on here who can work on Bader so he can return ASAP. IKF should be relegated to the bench. Torres should be told he's going to be Starlin Castro'ed next if he doesn't get his head out of his ass. Benintendi is looking like a prepubescent Gallo right now but it's very early. God willing Donaldson goes on a run this season.
There have been numerous examples of young players, not necessarily prospects, coming up in the past and injecting some juice to the season. Peraza needs to be that guy.
then Holmes blowing the lead late. He needs to get it together, his confidence must be shaken at this point a bit.
Hicks needs to sit, maybe we have some podiatrists on here who can work on Bader so he can return ASAP. IKF should be relegated to the bench. Torres should be told he's going to be Starlin Castro'ed next if he doesn't get his head out of his ass. Benintendi is looking like a prepubescent Gallo right now but it's very early. God willing Donaldson goes on a run this season.
There have been numerous examples of young players, not necessarily prospects, coming up in the past and injecting some juice to the season. Peraza needs to be that guy.
Some fans LOVE Torres. I've been ready to move on. He's too high and low of a player. At 23 maybe he'll grow out of the boneheaded mistakes, I don't see it happening. Would have been ok trading him for Pablo Lopez if its true he was asked for.
With Peraza and Volpe playing very well I actually think he's gone this offseason. Coulda sold high at the deadline lets see how he finishes the season.
Carp says hello.
No, teams will be limited to 28 players now, IIRC. No more 40 man rosters in September.
then Holmes blowing the lead late. He needs to get it together, his confidence must be shaken at this point a bit.
Shame is for the 4 batters he looked like the old Holmes. He overpowered their best hitters. Losing O'Neil at 1-2 was the killer. O'Neil looked overmatched and then got bailed out with the walk. St. Louis scored all their runs on 2 out hits where they simply went with the pitch and didn't try and do too much. We could take a lesson.
Peralta was warming up...
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Yankees first round pick Spencer Jones went 3-for-4 with his first professional home run and two RBI's today in his second career game.
Torres looks 111111000000000% lost at the plate.
There were 3 major league level hitters in the lineup tonight.
Cashman must have photos of the Steinbrenner family. 12 years and counting.