It's hard to watch. Honestly...it's more than the Rays right now..the team is playing awful. I am sure they will go on a hot streak against the tigers and Orioles and make the playoffs only to get knocked out in the first round.
They don’t seem to have any energy, team cohesion. Not typically a problem so much in baseball but this team is lifeless.
They're adding too many ex-Pirates.
They don't have the heart, soul and fire of a baseball team that can do much. Throw in that they're stuck with Stanton, who shows-up every 5th game to hit a HR and then goes back to bed, Hicks who is a shadow of himself since his injury, and an overall .220 batting average, just...
They’re awful, they desperately need a good hitting coach. Boone has to go. I say offer Buck a decent contract and complete control of the team.
Oh yes they do, although I’m not saying they don’t need a couple better players also. They haven’t had a good hitting coach that could make a difference since Tony Pena, Mattingly, and Don Zimmer well before that. Boston was never rolling with great raw talent but their players could always hit. Don Zimmer was one of the reasons.
Agree with you on Cashman, but these guys didn’t make it to the big leagues by winning a lottery. They made it into the majors because they are or were good enough to be professional ball players. Even pros can however pick up bad habits at the plate and can allow an average pitcher at best like Matt Harvey to look like Tom Seaver. Why all of a sudden many many times does a traded player, who was hitting 235 all of a sudden start hitting the cover off the ball for his new team???? It’s a new team with coaches who can recognize what he might be doing wrong with his stance, his swing, holding the bat, stepping into the pitch, using too much pine tar, etc. I played D1 baseball and coaches teach all the time. Yankees haven’t had decent coaches since Mel Stot and Zimmer and Mattingly. Boone needs to go, along with most of the present coaching crew.
Generally agree...except I like Tauchman...at least he can play defense. I just don't get Cashman's love for Hicks. He gave him a very nice contract considering the results he had seen at that time.
imma yuge fan of mr stanton, who i feel can mimic or surpass nelson cruz's outstanding hitting career, despite most of mlb thinking that 'cruz won't repeat last year's production.' (insert any season for nelson's last 1/2 dozen or so.)
It feels like over-managing. Yes...it makes sense to rest Stanton periodically....but don't do it when he is hitting well.
and as far as team batting averages right now, the yanks are around middle of the pack (why can't any team hit?). of course, their obp is highly superior. fire the hitting coach, fire the manager, fire the gm, fire the bat boy.
mr sanchez is a perplexing question. i've always liked and supported him, but his factual record of the past few seasons is clearly not good. on the udder hand, he and mr judge both have around 120 homers in around 470 games, which is nothing to sneeze at. count me in the group that has zero idea for the way forward with him. overall, mlb has almost no catchers that can hit a homer. a very odd situation.
nope. mr 72-53 seems just like felix hernandez, he of the amazin ability to consistently not win.
