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The Official 2024 New York Yankees Thread

Not a good series in Texas and the White Sox even managed to win a game in Baltimore…still a half game back.
 
This team isn't winning jack in the playoffs, I hope they make me eat crow but I just have no confidence in this team at all. Judge and Soto have been slumping they are human.
 
Scoe said:
This team isn't winning jack in the playoffs, I hope they make me eat crow but I just have no confidence in this team at all. Judge and Soto have been slumping they are human.
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It’s not the lack of confidence rather how many opportunities Baltimore has given them since late June to grab a hold of this division and try n see if they can patchwork a run together in the playoffs once they did that. This is a perfect example of baseball…the adage is win series and all takes care of itself. Not true, a few sweeps instead of series wins were needed. There’s still 3 weeks to get it and imo the yanks need home field advantage
 
cohenzone said:
If Boone ever uses Holmes again as a closer he is incompetent. He is unwatchable.

One thing you can say about Holmes. You know what you will get when he gets the ball. Very reliable
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ERAs, WHIP and K/9 since the All-Star break:

Holmes: 4.50 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 10.7 K/9
Kahnle: 1.02 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 8.2 K/9
Cousins: 3.48 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 11.8 K/9

With Effross back, Hill consistent and Gil probably moving down the pen soon (and even possibly Schmidt), the Yankees have options, but Holmes cannot continue as the closer.

Kahnle's got closer experience but honestly, with the way he's been pitching, Cousins might be the guy for now.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
ERAs, WHIP and K/9 since the All-Star break:

Holmes: 4.50 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 10.7 K/9
Kahnle: 1.02 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 8.2 K/9
Cousins: 3.48 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 11.8 K/9

With Effross back, Hill consistent and Gil probably moving down the pen soon (and even possibly Schmidt), the Yankees have options, but Holmes cannot continue as the closer.

Kahnle's got closer experience but honestly, with the way he's been pitching, Cousins might be the guy for now.
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Last night NY found a way to avoid Holmes. Use Leiter and all is cured. Could Cashman have found two worse bullpen guys st the trade deadline?
 
The best thing the Yankees have going for them is that the rest of MLB is also flawed. My biggest concern is that they are behaving as if they are programmed to lose and sadly, regardless of what matchups they end up with, it won't matter as they could get knocked off by anyone.

I would go into the playoffs with an unconventional pitching staff configuration: Game 1 Cole six innings, Cortez three innings. Game 2 Rodon six innings, Gil three innings. Game three Strohman six innings, Schmidt three innings. Back to Cole/Cortez, etc. Basically a three man rotation modified to use six pitchers. Then hope for the best.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
The best thing the Yankees have going for them is that the rest of MLB is also flawed. My biggest concern is that they are behaving as if they are programmed to lose and sadly, regardless of what matchups they end up with, it won't matter as they could get knocked off by anyone.

I would go into the playoffs with an unconventional pitching staff configuration: Game 1 Cole six innings, Cortez three innings. Game 2 Rodon six innings, Gil three innings. Game three Strohman six innings, Schmidt three innings. Back to Cole/Cortez, etc. Basically a three man rotation modified to use six pitchers. Then hope for the best.
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Just imagine if the Yankees got Jack Flaherty at the deadline, I know Flaherty isn't an ace but it would've had a huge trickle down effect on the rotation and the pen.

Your rotation with Flaherty

Cole
Rodon
Flaherty
Cortes
Stroman
Gil
Schmidt

Look how much stronger your pen would've been for the playoffs.
 
Scoe said:
Just imagine if the Yankees got Jack Flaherty at the deadline, I know Flaherty isn't an ace but it would've had a huge trickle down effect on the rotation and the pen.

Your rotation with Flaherty

Cole
Rodon
Flaherty
Cortes
Stroman
Gil
Schmidt

Look how much stronger your pen would've been for the playoffs.
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One thing that irritated me was something I read shortly before the trade deadline. The Giants were shopping Snell and, as he can and almost definitely will opt out of the contract after the season ends, were asking for a B level prospect for him. A few "experts" stated that there was little chance that he wouldn't opt out at season's end and try free agency again.

The only reason I can think as to why the Yankees didn't trade for him was a fear of an injury, leading him to not opt out. He could have helped tremendously and then walked, not impacting the effort to sign Soto in the offseason.
 
Scoe said:
Gil should be in the rotation, for this year though he should be in the pen.
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This has me baffled.

For more than a decade and a half (it was fully illustrated when we brought up Hughes and Chamberlain) the Yankees have been stricter on innings limits than many other franchises yet somehow this went out the window with Gil this season.

By mid July they should have implemented a plan (similar to the Joba rules) where they shut him down, then worked him to adjust to an inning at a time, he'd be in position now to close most games. Now we need to hope that somehow we can salvage the absolute train wreck that our bullpen has become.
 
Gil looked like the pitcher we saw for the first half of the season. Let's hope this version sticks around. He and Cole would give the Yanks a pretty impressive one-two punch.
 
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Omahabound said:
Up 2 games in the division on Sept 13, take that every year. Need some help from the Tigers this weekend.
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You'd better be at least two games up for series vs. Pirates because you're seeing Skenes one of those games. And since it's his last start, unlikely to be an innings limit.
 
storrsroars said:
You'd better be at least two games up for series vs. Pirates because you're seeing Skenes one of those games. And since it's his last start, unlikely to be an innings limit.
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If the Yankees are up 2 games going into the Pirates series, get swept and lose the division…they don’t deserve to win it. Skenes is nice and great for baseball. Livvy’s not bad either.
 
If the Yankees have to worry about the Pirates they may as well give up now.

The immediate goal should be to add one game to the lead before the Baltimore series. Then if they take two of three, they'll have clinched before the Pirate series, if they take one if three, they'll oy need to win two against the Pirates.
 
Nice come-from-behind win. Nice time for Judge to get his home run grove back. Let's hope this gets him going through the playoffs.

I was also thinking about how electric the Stadium looked and hoping being part of that atmosphere helps sway Soto into re-signing. I know that's naive, but a fan can hope.
 
This postseason should say a lot about whether or not the Yankees can win with the core of this team, currently. To resign Soto will take a lot and idk if Judge/Soto will be enough. Jazz Volpe Wells Gleyber are all the wildcards that’ll determine how far this team goes imo.
 
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billythekid said:
Nice come-from-behind win. Nice time for Judge to get his home run grove back. Let's hope this gets him going through the playoffs.

I was also thinking about how electric the Stadium looked and hoping being part of that atmosphere helps sway Soto into re-signing. I know that's naive, but a fan can hope.
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I guess Jazz remarked to Boone how fun and crazy it was after the Judge GS. Good stuff
 
storrsroars said:
You'd better be at least two games up for series vs. Pirates because you're seeing Skenes one of those games. And since it's his last start, unlikely to be an innings limit.
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His last start? I may need him one more time!!
 
Gerrit Cole today: 22 batters faced. 2 KS.

I guess he just didn't have it.
 
I'm not too worried about the (inevitable) loss today as my hope was taking three games this series and that is still in play.

If Cole can't be an ace this postseason we will have difficulty moving through the playoffs.

Right now the goal should be to match Baltimore's result in all games outside of our series with them. Then we'll only need to beat them once (although twice or a sweep would be beautiful).
 
To not have it is one thing but to intentionally walk Devers as the leadoff guy with no one on Cole got what he deserved.
 
Scoe said:
To not have it is one thing but to intentionally walk Devers as the leadoff guy with no one on Cole got what he deserved.
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That’s Boone he’s a genius. Cole wouldn’t walk anyone without being told what to do, such a BS thought even with Devers owning him. This isn’t Judge or Ohtani for kripes sake!
 
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I'm glad the Yankees are giving themselves a bit of breathing room as I'm going to the game this Sunday in Oakland against the A's and I don't have a great track record of bringing my team good luck. Joking aside, I'm a bit bummed that this will likely be my last chance to see the Yankees regularly as the A's are scheduled to leave Oakland at the end of the season. Their plan is to play the next couple of seasons at a minor league park in Sacramento until their new Las Vegas stadium can be built. Sacramento is around two hours away from me, so I suppose I could make the trek, but Sacramento gets so hot during the summer that I'm not sure if it will be worth the effort. I've been in California for around twenty years and have gone to at least one Yankee game in Oakland for most of those years. I guess all good things come to an end.
 
billythekid said:
I'm glad the Yankees are giving themselves a bit of breathing room as I'm going to the game this Sunday in Oakland against the A's and I don't have a great track record of bringing my team good luck. Joking aside, I'm a bit bummed that this will likely be my last chance to see the Yankees regularly as the A's are scheduled to leave Oakland at the end of the season. Their plan is to play the next couple of seasons at a minor league park in Sacramento until their new Las Vegas stadium can be built. Sacramento is around two hours away from me, so I suppose I could make the trek, but Sacramento gets so hot during the summer that I'm not sure if it will be worth the effort. I've been in California for around twenty years and have gone to at least one Yankee game in Oakland for most of those years. I guess all good things come to an end.
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Baseball will miss the Coliseum. Those type of character filled parks stadiums today don’t have that. The unique foul territory alone.

I agree, as a lifelong Yankee fan, there’s a lot of good baseball played there and with some really good teams.
 
Omahabound said:
Baseball will miss the Coliseum. Those type of character filled parks stadiums today don’t have that. The unique foul territory alone.

I agree, as a lifelong Yankee fan, there’s a lot of good baseball played there and with some really good teams.
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I was there for this gem during the magical '98 season. It was insane with Yankee fans running up and down the aisles high-fiving each other.

 
Up 5 in the division with 10 to go…clinch the division and they’ve accomplished all they could have up until this point. I think they have good chemistry, we’ll see if they can put it all together and win a WS.
 
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