The Official 2024 New York Yankees Thread

[ihatepants]

Aaron Boone and the entire coaching staff need to be fired. They suck at all the fundamentals

 

[superjohn]

Kind of glad it's over, deserved to lose.

Bummed for Giancarlo.

 

[Dove]

Simply had to cover first base. A basic fundamental play run in Spring Training. But nope, Cole just stands there and points at the bag.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

F%$#ing embarassment. Fifth game of the world series and they look like a bad little league team.

Jim Tressel interviewing Danny Hurley is on the men's basketball forum (I highly recommend it). At one point Tressel talks about when he was coaching Youngstown St they made it to four straight national championship games and they recruited better talent as each year passed. The fifth year, when he felt they should havce had a better team than any prior one, yet they didn't win half of their games. He and the staff started analysing everything to see what happebed and discovered that from year to year they would spend more and more practice time on adding new things to the offense and defense and less and less on fundamentals. By the time they were in year five, no players that had sufficient time practising fundamentals was left on the roster.

Cashman has demonstrated for far too long (most glaring being the Gleyber at shortstop experiment) that he doesn't value fundamentals. The fifth inning tonight was the result if that.

 

[superjohn]

Judge finally woke up in the playoffs after being historically bad and then he turned into Steve Bartman in the 5th inning.

They weren't winning the Little League World Series with an inning like that.

 

[superjohn]

Simply had to cover first base. A basic fundamental play run in Spring Training. But nope, Cole just stands there and points at the bag.

Sure, Cole didn't cover which is a fundamental mistake but what the hell is Rizzo doing? After Giancarlo who is an all-time Yankee playoff performer now, Cole is about the only other guy I'm not mad at. Dude pitched his heart out as everyone else was letting him down.

 

[uconn13]

Sure, Cole didn't cover which is a fundamental mistake but what the hell is Rizzo doing? After Giancarlo who is an all-time Yankee playoff performer now, Cole is about the only other guy I'm not mad at. Dude pitched his heart out as everyone else was letting him down.

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IDK, maybe Rizzo has 2 broken toes in addition to his 2 broken fingers. Sure looks like he was close enough to get there since Cole wasn’t bothered to. Yanks are swell dugout dancers, though.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Aaron Boone and the entire coaching staff need to be fired. They suck at all the fundamentals

ihatepants- - you're right, but the organization relying on analytics to teach baseball is insane!
That's why they suck at fundamentals!
As long as Steinbrenner owns the Yankees they'll never win a World Series again!
They over achieved this season!

 

[huskeynut]

ihatepants- - you're right, but the organization relying on analytics to teach baseball is insane!
That's why they suck at fundamentals!
As long as Steinbrenner owns the Yankees they'll never win a World Series again!
They over achieved this season!

As long as Hal runs the show, Cashmn will be GM. With Cashman as GM, Boone stays as manager.

Analytics run the Yankees from the minors to the majors in both pitching and hitting. The game has passed the Yankee management by.

Hal is content to make the playoffs. It makes more money, especially this season. And he's happy. He does not really want to do was is needed to win it all. There - I said it.

 

[Hunt for 7]

Probably the worst loss in Yankee history. Why would Soto come back.
Volpe….choke
Judge…choke
Rizzo….choke
Cole ….not sure I will call it choke but cover freaking first base.

After the first game I will admit I thought we were done. So I kind of watched the games…..but after the 5th…..it was over for me. Watched the end of the Knicks game and woke to see what I already knew Yankees Lose….Yankees Lose…..Theeeeee Yankeeees Lose.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

We need to bring Buck back into the organization in a high level administrative role, responsible for ensuring baseball fundamentals are properly taught throughout all levels.

I know Cashman isn't fond of Showalter but Buck knows fundamentals as well as anyone in the game.