From Bryan Hoch:
Cody Bellinger’s early returns with the Yankees have been a bit “disjointed,” as manager Aaron Boone put it on Saturday, with the new arrival’s first road trip having been interrupted by a sore lower back and a funky order of room-service chicken wings.
That may all be in the rear-view mirror now. Hours after Boone expressed confidence that Bellinger would soon “bang and get it rolling,” the outfielder delivered, helping lead the Yankees to an 8-4 victory over the Giants at Yankee Stadium.
Now, was it nice to see Bellinger have a good game for the first time in over a week? Sure. Was it nice to see The Martian deliver a really nice two-run single in the fifth? Of course. But come on, people, by FAR the biggest story of this game was Will Warren looking downright GOOD today, netting his first big league win.
If Will Warren can be a decent pitcher, this Yankees team is SO much better.
Fried
Schmidt
Warren
Rodon
Carrasco? Someone signed off of the scrap heap?
is not a bad rotation if Will Warren is pitching well. Warren has perhaps the second-best stuff on the whole TEAM behind Rodon (well, not counting Cole, of course). It’s very close between Warren and Schmidt (with Gil being JUST behind them), but the key thing is that all three of Warren, Schmidt, and Gil have amazing stuff. You can’t really TEACH stuff, you just have to have it, and Warren has it, so if they can harness it, this rotation could look downright GOOD whenever Gil returns.
The bullpen flirted with disaster all day long, but they basically got the job done.
They’ll likely lose to Logan Webb (and I wouldn’t be surprised if Rodon puts them in a 3-0 hole in the first inning), but 8-7 isn’t awful with a tough early schedule of some excellent opponent pitching (Arizona, Detroit, and now San Francisco – they got the best two-three starters of each of those three teams. They DID avoid Paul Skenes, at least).
Guarantee Stanton and maybe DJ will be back well before they’re ready
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Ok Carlos there’s your lead.
You know what I like?
Runs.
that’s SicSemper for you, always courting controversy
I’m basically the Morton Downey Jr. of our times.
Basically.
Ok Carlos three runs should be more than enough for a guy with your Young Cy stuff.
Adames is making $13 million thru next year but $31 million+ for age 31-35.
Carlos must give up a home run.
Has any switch hitter ever had bigger splits than The Martian?
I’ll say one thing for the Yankees – in most of the games this season, and including the last three or so, they’ve seen a lot of pitches in the early innings.
Making them work is good.
If it’ll help, I take it back!
It helped!
Nice AB, Volpe. Blah.
Fuuuck. Such a good start, but how can that ALWAYS happen? Every damned time.
No lead is safe
Well, the inevitable happened. Rodon strikes again.
They must have him going to a psychologist.
Maybe a psychiatrist.
He had it all going, and he does that shockingly often – and then crumbles at the first sign of trouble. EVERY TIME. There must be a good sports psychologist out there somewhere – for his and all our sakes!
Way to immediately strike back.
Rodon is the ultimate rat dog. If he were a race horse he’d always finish second.
Yankees are through with the what you call runs.
If Rodon goes 5 good innings, I think you just have to be ready to pull him the first time a man gets on base.
Casey “Karl” Schmitt
Home runs and walks. Why do so many starting pitchers underperform here?
I thought Goldschmit was supposed to be good
Paul Gold “Karl” Schmidt
Game looked so good.
Game looks so bad!
Our mediocre pen to finish the job. Their lights out pen for the win.
Come from behind wins have been sparse for years, outside of 2024. Or so it seems.
Walk Judge, Judge HBP = Bellinger being awful.
I really want to believe Dominguez is going to come out of this extended funk.
You got to look at his splits. He’s been ok hitting left, hopeless right.
Again, when he first came up no one worried about either side.
No pinch hitter??
Down 1 why would you not hit Wells for JC?
Who can plumb the depths of Boone’s mind?
Who would want to?
Nice loss guys. 🙁
Rodon most home runs allowed since 2024, tied most home runs allowed this year, second in most walks this year.
You’d never know what his line looked like about a second before he disintegrated.
A million dollar arm, a 10¢ head.
He’s no Steve Trout.
But he might be Ed Whitson.
Yankee pitchers leading majors in walks. That Old Blake Magic?
Yeah, well, there really is no magic, never was. Either a pitcher is mentally strong or he isn’t. As Yogi said, baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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The backup catcher had the green light in a 3-0 count down a run in the eighth? The Yankees do a lot of dumb things.
The mind of Aaron Boone, his brain should be donated to science. The sooner, the better.
Spencer 2 home runs up to 290/1034
Don’t give us hope!
I mean, do, but… damn.
And 2 Ks. His K rate is ~33% now.
And he has a 421 OBP. Judge had a 30% K/AB rate last year. Some power hitter walk a lot, hit a lot of home runs, strike out a lot and are good. Not saying he will work out, but there’s hope.
We’re talking about a 23-year-old (turns 24 in a month), repeating AA, with a K rate like that. He’s Joey Gallo to me. I mean, Judge in the same breath? Judge who had the highest all-time wRC+ by a RHB in 2023.
I have no problem giving Spencer this year. But yeah, he has to be producing in AAA by the end of the season.
Age 23 Judge OPSed 777 between AA and AAA, 681 at Scranton.. Big guys can develop late. Look I think Spencer is likely to be a bust but there’s no downside in holding out hope. It’s not like Cash resigning DJ for 6 years or Hixie for 10. It’s a free shot.
Totally agreed, bop. But he has to be contributing to AAA by the end of this season for me to have any belief in him.
Didn’t want to jinx it with a thread after they were up early, but then they blew it anyways. Blargh.
They really have to play five and fly with Rodon going forward. It’s crazy how talented he is, while being so, so, so stupid.
Exactly. If he gives you 5, you have someone shadow him, ready at all times to relieve him the INSTANT he falters.
Have the bullpen guy, warmed up, come in and sit next to Rodon before he goes back out there. Tell Rodon, I’m ready.
I seem to recall several posters, quite recently at that, dumping on Spencer Jones, now suddenly a 180º him on. Life is a funny thing. Me, I’m neutral, although his career path seems rather Joey Gallo-like.
I’ve been consistent. I said during Spring Training that I’ll give him until the end of this year. If he’s not contributing in AAA, I’m over him, but I’ll give him until then. The Judge comparison is a very important one, but Judge was contributing to AAA by the end of their comparative seasons.
Yes, you have, Brian. I’d love him to succeed, but I am not really hopeful. Particularly with the lousy track record of Yankees MiL players.
I think bop also agrees that Jones will PROBABLY be a bust, but I don’t think we’ll know for sure until the end of this season. It’s certainly good that he IS playing well lately, ya know?
Katie S Since the start of last year, Carlos Rodon has pitched 36 games regular season:
36 HR
69 walks
10 hit batters
The last Yankee to reach each of those stats in any 36-game span was A.J. Burnett (2010-11)