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The Official 2024 New York Yankees Thread

The Yanks are an imperfect team, but they've played with a lot of heart this post season. Even the game 3 loss included them clawing back to take a lead. Fingers crossed that they get a solid start from Rodon and score enough runs that they can give the high-leverage bullpen guys a night off. Couple that with a hope that Mets/Dodgers goes seven so that the Yankee bullpen can get some rest before the World Series.

Also need to give kudos to Verdugo for playing solid playoff baseball and making Boone's confidence in him seem like a good decision.
 
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Wow Wow Wow Wow

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I'm shaking my head over that Soto at bat. That's just how epic it was. Can't see Cashman letting him go away. He's been planning this signing for a few years.
 
This has all the makings of an all-time World Series. Major star power on both squads. The Yanks have the advantage in starting pitching and the Dodgers have the more formidable and deeper lineup. The Yanks will need Cole to pitch like a Cy Young winner and Rodon to continue giving them solid starts. They'll also need someone, either Jazz or Wells, to start hitting or Stanton probably won't get many pitches to swing at. I'm psyched for the Series to start.
 
Here we go!!

Cole v. Flaherty

Rodon v. Yamamoto

Schmidt v. TBD (!!)

TBD v. TBD
 
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Yankees play with fire too much congrats to the Dodgers for sweeping the Yankees.
 
A non serious baseball vs a serious one. Dodgers wanna win a World Series more then the Yankees do.
 
Why does Aaron Boone put in Cortes who hasn't pitched in a month when you have Maza who's done a pretty good job in the playoffs?
Verdugo made hell of a catch, going into the stands!
 
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RSHERMVIKES said:
Why does Aaron Boone put in Cortes who hasn't pitched in a month when you have Maza who's done a pretty good job in the playoffs?
Verdugo made hell of a catch, going into the stands!
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And then walk the bases loaded where Cortes can't use all his pitches because bouncing one would tied the game.
 
What a game. Still buzzing from the game.

Verdugo made a ridiculous catch robbing Ohtani. Cortes got lucky with that pitch to Ohtani. Ohtani could have sent that ball to the moon but missed it just a little. Not sure Boone walking Mookie was the right move to have lefty Cortes facing lefty Freeman. Freeman said after the game that he watched the Ohtani bat vs. Cortes to get an idea what's coming, and he had a plan for it. He saw the same pitch Cortes threw to Ohtani, and gave the historical swing. The rest is history with Gibson vibes.

Dodgers are on all time high for game 2 with Yamamoto on the mound vs. Rodon. I got the feeling Yamamoto gonna pitch well tonight since he lives for moments like this.
 
Watching i thought at the time walking Betts was an all time bad idea even if it turned out ok. For one, when Cortes is on he handles righties ok. But Betts has to hit more than a single to do any more than tie the game. A bloop hit by Freeman now does exactly what the slam did, the bloop wins the game. A walk, wp, error ties the game. Too bad because that was a bad game to lose. By the way, the walk to start the rally really opened the door. .
 
Let's talk about Aaron Judge.

He's batting .150 over his last 8 playoff series. He's 0 for 8 with multiple runners on this playoffs and who knows how many guys he's left on base total because it seems that either Gleyber or Soto are always on. Soto has now been intentionally walked in front of him multiple times, it's embarrassing at this point.

It's bizarre because he isn't even chasing pitches. Pitchers are challenging him right down the middle over and over. These are pitches he crushes during the regular season and he's not even close to making contact with them in the postseason. Changeup right down the middle and he's way out in front, fastball down the middle and he's way late.

What do you do with him? Having him bat between Soto and Stanton is just killing this team.
 
superjohn said:
Let's talk about Aaron Judge.

He's batting .150 over his last 8 playoff series. He's 0 for 8 with multiple runners on this playoffs and who knows how many guys he's left on base total because it seems that either Gleyber or Soto are always on. Soto has now been intentionally walked in front of him multiple times, it's embarrassing at this point.

It's bizarre because he isn't even chasing pitches. Pitchers are challenging him right down the middle over and over. These are pitches he crushes during the regular season and he's not even close to making contact with them in the postseason. Changeup right down the middle and he's way out in front, fastball down the middle and he's way late.

What do you do with him? Having him bat between Soto and Stanton is just killing this team.
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He was bad I found myself rooting that he would get that golden sombrero.

Yamamoto will roll tonight. He fears nobody in this lineup. He can walk Soto all night and get Stanton 3 out of 4 times.
 
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huskeynut said:
Pulling Cole after 85 pitches was the big mistake. Now you are forced to rely on an average, at best, bullpen. Sorry, but Boone still doesn't know how to handle a bullpen.
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The bullpen was not a major problem last night The botched throw from Soto was key.
 
Dove said:
Not a good body of work.

I feel the Yankees get it to 2-2 by Tuesday.

Overall, I think they win the Series.
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Nah let’s be honest this team consistently can’t hit with runners in scoring position unless it’s Judge or Soto. Stanton in the playoffs has been good but even against the Royals and Guardians they left a ton in base. They were lucky to get here and without Judge hitting their not very good.

Might win one but wouldn’t doubt the broom comes out. Cashman has to go they need actual hitters in this team.
 
My frustration from the past half dozen years is approaching a boiling point. There's nothing wrong with a single or two every now and then and being as focused as he has been with launch angles and exit velocities (and imposing this philosophy on the entire roster) has crippled the offense.

An opposite field single in the ninth by Volpe last night would have been golden but with him opening his hips as early as he does (being drilled to lift and drive the ball) makes it impossible for him to hit anything with solid contact.

Judge is doing the same thing and has spent most of the post season swiping at pitches he can't reach, putting his rhythm out of sorts, making it difficult to correctly time a fastball or breaking ball. I'd instruct him to look for something he could drive to right field until he falls behind in the count.

All in all its difficult to knock what our bullpen has done in this series but Cole was pulled early (which left us short in bullpen arms for game one) and Cortes seeing gamrle action for the first time in five weeks in basically a sudden death situation was insane.

Finally, Rodon needs to learn that if there are two strikes on the batter, he has to avoid the meat of the strike zone. There is no excuse for any two strike home runs yet I'd wager nearly half of his come that way.

We haven't lost at home yet so.....
 
FfldCntyFan said:
My frustration from the past half dozen years is approaching a boiling point. There's nothing wrong with a single or two every now and then and being as focused as he has been with launch angles and exit velocities (and imposing this philosophy on the entire roster) has crippled the offense.

An opposite field single in the ninth by Volpe last night would have been golden but with him opening his hips as early as he does (being drilled to lift and drive the ball) makes it impossible for him to hit anything with solid contact.

Judge is doing the same thing and has spent most of the post season swiping at pitches he can't reach, putting his rhythm out of sorts, making it difficult to correctly time a fastball or breaking ball. I'd instruct him to look for something he could drive to right field until he falls behind in the count.

All in all its difficult to knock what our bullpen has done in this series but Cole was pulled early (which left us short in bullpen arms for game one) and Cortes seeing gamrle action for the first time in five weeks in basically a sudden death situation was insane.

Finally, Rodon needs to learn that if there are two strikes on the batter, he has to avoid the meat of the strike zone. There is no excuse for any two strike home runs yet I'd wager nearly half of his come that way.

We haven't lost at home yet so.....
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Exactly. Remember the beginning of the season when Volpe was successful he was hitting the ball where the pitches were, even driving the ball to RF a lot more. Now back to all pull the ball it’s Yanks analytics at its finest.

Judge is just opening up to soon period he cant stay back at all, huge slump!
 
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