Yeah batting average doesn’t matter according to Cashman.
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Well Judge is slumping and runs are tough to come by, imagine that? They have zero good hitters.
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Did you like Soto's 9th inning walk last night? That glare he gave the pitcher like, "Man, I got you!!!"
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Soto and Judge can hit, ends there. Verdugo not awful, Volpe jury is out, Torres inconsistent, Rice we can hope but nothing definitive minus the big 2.
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What is interesting and somewhat promising is the team calling up Ben Rice and now Jorbit Vivas.
Both guys are more underheralded, less flashy prospects, but also have above-average hit grades due to their high-contact skills. In fact, if you look at their prospect profiles their "hit rating" ranks as their highest tool. Even though he has trouble with off-speed stuff, Rice looks comfortable in the box, doesn't do too much and has a decent eye.
In AAA, Vivas has .258/.404/.424 splits in 132 ABs that goes along with 8 SBs, so right there, he could fit a need of a high-contact guy with decent speed.
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They won the series. Why do they need credit? The bigger issue is why is Holmes an all star. He has blown more saves in one half year than Mo did in 5. Or so it seems. He is always in trouble, rarely having a 1,2, 3 inning. Obviously the error hurt, but the bases were loaded to begin with. They need a strike out artist closer.
I don’t care that they won the series big deal a sweep kind of would’ve made up for a series loss against the Orioles earlier not to mention the horrid slump since early June. They’re not capable of winning close games, will have to hope for 4 or 5 run leads in the 9th and hope that’s enough. Holmes can’t close and the Yankees make critical with the game on the line.
Winning a series won’t fool me into thinking things have changed. I welcome this team to make me eat crow, they are a fraud team until proven otherwise.
That’s right I guess this team is awesome now all of sudden for winning a series for the first time since early June. Yankees are held to a higher standard."Okay, Scoe will not give the Yankees credit for a series win over the Birds. Noted."
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Not saying that. Offense is still horribly put together, and executed.
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For years now, Cashman evaluates hitters on launch angle and bat speed. He does not value contact hitters or batting average. That philosophy of Cashman's reaches all the minor league teams.
Ya I was gonna say I could’ve done better. I’m thinking she was on a bender that night had no knowledge of slurred speech, sounds it was more of a saving Grace announcement.
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No Holmes finishing the game last night can’t even trust him with a 5 run lead. It’s all right there for the Yankees despite the struggles you would sign up to be 1 game out of 1st place with a month and change left in the season. Exciting baseball the last 2 months.
The Yankees have looked a lot better of late aside from that 9th inning implosion against Baltimore. We’ll see what happens it’s crunch time now.
The Yankees have looked a lot better of late aside from that 9th inning implosion against Baltimore. We’ll see what happens it’s crunch time now.
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I hope the first line was sarcasm.
I've been as angry, aggravated, frustrated, etc as anyone on Cashman, how he's built his teams, the approach he prefers, as anyone.
What we need to realize is how truly spoiled we were when we had Mariano and that we won't see anything close to that (save maybe a few stretch here and there by some pitchers) again.
Holmes would be acceptable if we didn't need to use him as often as we do but if the plan is to expect five or six innings from the starter (which is our plan), we need will need six or seven quality arms in the bullpen. We don't have that.