November 1, 2026

177 thoughts on “Yankees.com: ‘It’s a failure’: Yankees’ championship drought extended to 17 seasons”

  1. After a season of paying less attention than I have in 55 years (yes I’ve been here since Horace Clarke, Roy White and Bobby Murcer) here are some thoughts that make me happy today
    1) for the next few weeks I can dream that they’re finally going to fire Boone.
    2) that Judge cannot be blamed for this disaster
    3) I’ll never have to see Grisham in CF again

    Feel free to add your own!

  2. I will say, a far better strategy than winning the AL East would be to win the AL West or Central. You get the 3/6 winner instead of the 4/5 winner.
    With the way Game 2 went I do think there is an outside chance of them firing Boone. That would be a huge positive.

    About that outfield, they have to think good and long about moving Judge to DH if not next year then soon. 35 year olds just don’t play the field. I guess as is you use Ramos in the field against leftys. Even if not, they need another outfielder, Bellinger/Jones also will need either off days of DH days. Stanton is an odd decision, he obviously isn’t playing any RF, but if we assume they buyout McMahon (how does he not have a Smellsbury style nickname on this site?) are they really going to buyout two players? But how can you excuse giving 2 spots on the bench to OFs if Stanton is a full time DH, you can only really excuse it if one of those bench OF is DHing or allowing Judge or Bellinger/Jones to DH. Unless Cabby becomes an OF againsts rightys, but he’s a right-handed himself and a silly platoon for Ramos.
    The IF is odd, I guess they can try to teach Garcia 3B. Volpe at 2B and Cabby is the supersub I guess.
    A real RH catcher, ideally one that starts over Wells, but at least one that can platoon with him.

    C Austin Wells/FA
    1B Ben Rice
    2B Volpe/Cabby
    SS George Lombard Jr.
    3B Garcia?
    LF Cody Bellinger/Ramos
    CF Spencer Jones/Bellinger
    RF FA
    DH Aaron Judge

    So they have to go get Ryan Jeffers (ops 814) or Tyler Stephenson (ops 727) and move Wells to backup. At OF there are some actually good players if they shift Judge to mostly DH and buyout Stanton plus spent good money. Randy Arozarena would be the classic Cashman wanting a guy who beat them years ago. Taylor Ward was a huge bust in Seattle but chalk it up to sample size and bring him here? Issue is as usual giving one of those guys 7-10 year deals. And LA is going to sign them all anyway.

    1. I think Judge can play right field fine. Just tell him to stop diving so much.

      But even there, diving isn’t the issue so much as him hiding the injury for a fucking MONTH.

      I truly think this was a month IL stint MAX if he just told them he was hurt when he was hurt.

  4. Somehow, I don’t find any of that too inspiring.
    Except the starting staff, one year older.
    What’s good:
    I have zero worries about Judge in right field, but I’ve always been mystified by how people here suddenly decide collectively that pretty good fielders suddenly just can’t possibly be allowed onto the field. Judge isn’t there. Stanton wasn’t there for a few years where everybody treated him as if he were, and the team would have been better if they’d played him. Not an option anymore, of course.
    Garcia was shockingly not just good, but genuinely tremendous at first base, for all that he arrived with a rep for awful fielding. Yes, I’d *love* him to be the solution at 3B, but I’m not sure that the best move is to take a really good hitter for whom you’ve finally found a position he’s terrific at and immediately move him to the kind of position where he built his rep as an awful fielder. But I’m pretty happy with Garcia as my 1B.
    I might be pretty happy with Wells, too. Something was OBVIOUSLY wrong with him in the first half, and in the last third of the season he’s been pretty good as a hitter and fantastic behind the plate. If you don’t get a flat-out star, I’m actually not that worried about catcher. I wouldn’t even be thinking about platooning him.
    I’m happy with Bellinger, so long as he’s not supposed to be Superstar #2, but more like your 4th or 5th bets hitter.
    So I think they’re set at 1B, shortstop, and an OF of Judge, Spencer and Bellinger, and even at catcher.
    I am *not* sold on the infielder who cried wolf, though. In fact, this might your last window of convincing illusion to actually get something for Volpe in a trade (they won’t).
    I like Caballero a lot as a super-sub, but he just hasn’t shown enouigh to make you start him.
    I have zero interest in Ramos.
    Jazz’s personality plays great if he’s a natural genius, if he just can’t hold back all his talent, but just face it – he’s not that. If he breaks out somewhere else, so be it.
    I don’t know what you do with Stanton. Grisham has to be gone.
    They need at least one more offensive force – and for that you have pretty much DH, 2B and 3B.
    The elephant in the room, of course, is the organization itself.
    Do you trust them to finish the puzzle?
    Can they build a team that isn’t shamefully inept on the bases, in bunting, at all the 3B questions (when to run, when NOT to go with the contact play)?
    Can they make a change and get a manager who is only one of the worst in the game today, and not surely the worst ever – in terms of in-game decisions, team preparation, helping players be better here than they were on previous teams, etc., helping hitters not sink in their slumps for MONTHS on end?
    I’d buckle up for Boone’s 10-year extension. Cash, with a lifetime contract, doesn’t need an extension. And a few moves that make you think maybe they’ll help a little but that will not put them over the edge of anything.
    But they can always have a lucky year, a bunch of key players can accidentally get hot (finally) in the playoffs and mask/over how drearily bad Boone’s world will still be.

  5. Rice is a pretty terrible defender. Keep him working at 1B, but as the fulltime DH and occasional 1B when a non-GB pitcher is starting or if they need to use the DH for someone else like Judge.

    Stanton is done and even if he has something left in the tank, it’s an enormous risk to carry someone who can’t run or field and can’t stay healthy. It’s time to let him go.

    Volpe can be given an opportunity to win the 2B job. I don’t hate the idea of Garcia learning 3b this offseason, but they shouldn’t rely on him to play there. He wasn’t a particularly good 2b and was an awful SS.

    The good thing is that, as you pointed out, the young prospects seem to be ready for prime time. They need some support. Having a Cy Young anchor the front the rotation with Rodon, Cole, Fried, and Warren/Weathers/Schmidt, plus potential AAA arms is a huge luxury. As is Blake building bullpen arms from the scrap heap. That gives them flexibility that they need to go acquire a young 3b who can play D and not be awful at the plate in exchange for a MLB arm and some combination of prospects. They’ve won world series with Charlie Hayes and Scott Brosious – they don’t need Mike Schmidt or Scott Rolen there.

    Also, fire Boone.

  6. Ha, I forgot about Rice. Where the hell do you even put Rice? You refuse to catch him, and you don’t want to waste the DH slot on a young athlete like that, and he’s not good at 1B.
    Maybe RICE can spend the winter doing endless reps at 3B?
    So bizarre that Rice is, in that way, a genuine problem.

  7. I think the thing I’m most looking forward to this offseason is the cage match between Big Fan and Huge Fan, with the winner taking on Wombat Pete

    also Stanton isn’t really a problem, if I were in charge I’d release him and be done with it, but if they don’t he’s guaranteed to be on the IL 95% of the season anyway. It’s too bad really, there’s not a lot to dislike about him except he’s Mr. Glass

  8. Rice is too young to be a full time DH but he’s smart and if he spends the winter working on his fielding I think he can be league average at least. I think Judge will be fine as an 85% RF and 15% DH. I don’t know what to make of Garcia, except for this season in Washington and initial period in N.Y., he’s been league average. I am optimistic about Lombard but dubious about Spence going forward. They need an outfielder who can hit, preferably a centerfielder, or a middle of the lineup third baseman and a defense first centerfielder.

  9. Wells had that issue with headaches in the middle of the season – which probably started early in the season but he decided to suck it up and play through it like his captain. That may explain his 4 months of awfulness. Still, a capable RH BUC wouldn’t hurt.

  10. Top FA non pitchers Jazz, Arozarena, Seiya Suzuki, Brandon Lowe, Arraez. I know nothing about Lowe but he’s been a pretty good hitter for his career.

    1. Lowe had his best WAR season in 2026 and easily his best since 2021. It just happened to be his FA season. Pass.

  11. Simple… just win the AL East.
    Something they have only done 3 times in the last 14 seasons. Only once during that time were they the #1 team in the AL… since Derek Jeter broke his ankle in the playoffs.

    2. “Yep they’ve been good enough but not that good.”
      Not that good isn’t good enough.
      In fact, that good may not be good enough.
      Too much is never enough; they don’t even have enough, let alone too much.

  12. Also, Bop is right to remember that while Rice is now a real thing, Spencer and Lombard are still nothing but promise. They’re not now players you build around, they’re young hopefuls you find a place for on the team, and that team needs to be good before you even count whatever they may (or may not) contribute.

  14. It’s 2024 and I’m watching the offense disappear and the defense melt down.

    It’s 2025 and I’m watching the offense disappear and the defense melt down.

    It’s 2026 and I’m watching the offense disappear and the defense melt down.

  15. Of course winning the division is going to track winning the WS to SOME extent. All things that track to being a better team will track one another to a certain extent.
    At the same time, there are things that won’t track – there are things that work better in the postseason than in the regular season (of coure, 3 off days in a 5-game series negates a lot of that). And there are things that are more effective against better teams, and other that will help you trounce worse teams.
    I’m not terribly concerned with winning the division. I want a team that is built to win the post-season, and that is trained to do the things that make a difference in close, tight games.
    Really the opposite of the team we they give us.

    1. Brewers or Chi/Cle winner. If the central division team beats the Rays and is able to score3+ runs a game it might wake Hal up.

    1. Watched the video, Judge didn’t say anything of the kind – in fact, you could read it as a hint that maybe they should make a change.
      In the article, it’s CASHMAN who’s saying that he believes Boone is “a really good manager,” adding, “We’re here for a reason. There are a lot of reasons behind that, and certainly he’s part of that.”
      When he says “We’re here for a reason,” I presume he means “here, trying to explain why we were swept aside in three straight games in the early rounds of the playoffs.”

  19. I’m listening to him… you know, dude, you’ve won the championship you’re talking about exactly zero times. Sort of takes away from that sound of authority you’re trying to project.

    3. Yastrzemski, Griffey Jr, Mussina, and Lofton all have cases to rival Judge. Some based on longevity rather than peak, where Judge rivals any post-integration player.
      But none of them can rival Bonds.

    4. Excal: Ted Williams and Cobb are certainly there as the best player to not win a WS but neither won 3 MVP which was my made up criteria 🙂

    5. well his playing career isn’t over yet, I’m just anticipating he won’t

  21. This organization may understand how to develop and maintain pitching. But with position players, it has absolutely no idea what it’s doing. Doesn’t know how to keep them hitting, doesn’t know how to keep them from losing focus in the field, doesn’t know how to keep them from messing up on the basepaths. Doesn’t know how to keep them healthy, doesn’t know how to help them recover from injury.
    And sure, not every prospect is going to have prolonged success in the big leagues. But the number of young players – homegrown and acquired – who have completely petered out under this regime is awful.
    Dominguez could hit in the minors and in his first cup of coffee. Since then, unplayable.
    Sanchez was a superstar under Girardi, and never reached the same heights under Boone.
    Volpe, well, he’s been questionable from the start, even as he’s been handed every single opportunity.
    Chisholm was 40/40 in his first 162 with the Yankees, but then totally lost focus.
    Caballero was great when he had the everyday SS job, but got bad after he was supplanted by Volpe.
    Judge stuck, but only because he had his own hitting coach. Rice is sticking for the same reason.
    Rice needs regular reps in the field. Otherwise he’s going to end up like Dominguez, losing what skill he does have. And this team needs him in the field because they need Judge at DH to preserve his bat. I just don’t see Judge keeping himself from diving and injuring himself. He doesn’t know how to stay healthy, and as a fierce competitor he’s always going to try to make a play.

    Agree with Bop re: Jones and Lombard. While they haven’t yet been completely ruined by Boone, the current ML coaching staff, and the misguided directives of Cashman’s FO, they are nonetheless at tremendous risk of deterioration.

    Cashman is a washed up has-been, bordering on never-was, who rode the coattails of Stick Michael and Bob Watson to the top FO job, and for at least a decade has continued to coast on only remote success, just like the washed up has-beens that he routinely acquires and often extends for too long after their dead cat bounce in the Bronx. McMahon, Donaldson, LeMahieu, Hicks, Grisham, arguably Bellinger. (Stanton was already signed for way too long, but was a reigning MVP and a reasonable add at the time, if less complementary to Judge than adding Harper would have been.) Basically Cashman is signing overrated veterans in his own image and refusing to admit when they don’t pan out.

    Hell, I can’t tell if Grisham batting leadoff in the last game may have been Boone’s idiotic idea, or Boone’s too-clever-by-half FU to Cashman, Boone just following Cashman’s orders.

    Now, if the Yankees fire Boone and his coaches, and replace them with Shelley Duncan and his coaches, then maybe the position players will do their jobs better. And heck, hire Jorge Posada as a bench coach, for extra clubhouse presence / focus / motivation / accountability. And heck, fire Cashman and replace with, say, Cone. And have Hal sell the team (though preferably not to private equity, who destroy everything they touch). Is that too much to ask?

    4. Agree. Cashman had a dynasty handed to him and one of the biggest budgets in baseball. So yay, he’s never had a losing season. Woo hoo. With those resources a winning season IS the minimum. Squeaking out 84-90 wins shouldn’t be acceptable let alone enough to guarantee a job for life. It’s unfathomable that he is the longest tenured GM in baseball by a decade as well as in all of the four major sports.

  22. The Yankees need fresh, young blood all across the operation. They have people who have been there a long time and are getting older. Hal is problem #1.

    1. Hal may be problem #1, but you’d better hope it fixes itself at some point, because if there’s one ask we’re not getting, it’s that one. (Unfortunately, course, there’s a lot more than one ask we’re not getting. A lot, a whole hell of a lot more.)

  23. Major League Baseball has proposed shortening its regular season to 154 games starting in 2029 and expanding the division series to a best-of-seven format.

    The proposals came Thursday as part of negotiations with the MLB Players Association over a new collective bargaining agreement.

    Yes and make the WC Series five games or even better cut the number of teams who qualify for the post season to 4.

  24. “only have 4 teams in the playoffs in each league”
    I’ll eat Werner Herzog’s shoe if they do this.
    It’s the one thing I’d want – I don’t care if they season is 162 or 154, but give me this.
    (They won’t.)

  25. I agree 162 and 4, for sure. But for MLB there’s no turning back. If MLB is o ly about the post season expand the rounds to 5-7-7.
    How long before there are 16 teams in each league and half the teams make the playoffs.

  26. They expanded the playoffs and we now get no good pennant races since the loser makes the playoffs anyway. This year was the most boring September in memory. The only “race” was the AL West to determine which mediocre team would make the playoffs.

    And it looks like reality has caught up with the White Sox.

    Still hoping for TB vs Milwakee WS.
    And Hal waking up and asking “ how is it possible that a team that spent $190m less than me is gonna win the WS?”.

    1. I’m hoping for that series because it’s a pair of teams that play fine-tuned and exciting baseball.
      That would be a series worth watching.

  27. Did Cashman really say that Bellinger’s fly out and Volpe’s double are bad luck because both of them could have been HR and that would have changed things? I can’t even begin to…

    Even our front office excuses are falling behind the curve.

    1. And Grisham’s strikeout was bad luck because if he hadn’t accepted the QO they could have signed a better play for less money who would not have struck out.

    2. Bad luck – I mean, had all the other teams hits gone directly at Yankees fielders, at least 1/3 of them might have been outs.

    3. Brilliant, john and Pete.

      So yeah, Cashman’s excuse is a fallacy. Both fly balls could just as easily have landed short of the warning track. There is no luck when it comes to past events. The past happened. Neither ball went over the fence. The observed past does not exist in a quantum state of resonance. The probabilities collapse to 0 or 1.

      Luck is only relevant as it affects the future. Luck is of no help to the present or the past. Bad luck on two plays is negligible compared to bad defense for an entire series and bad offense from all but one guy. Build a team that luck can’t deny, like the 1998 or 1927 squads.
      Statistics are for spectators. Participants care about outcomes.
      Losers make excuses. Winners win. (To paraphrase Sean Connery in The Rock.)

    5. VJ, I get your point, but I think you can meaningfully discuss luck in the past. The way we take a team’s record in one-run games as having an elevated element of luck – that is, less predictive value.
      What you CAN’T do is restrict that logic to a couple of cherry-picked plays you wanted to go differently. You have to extend it to the plays that went the way you wanted to, too. And not only to your plays, but to their plays. What about balls they hit that were caught at the wall, to take the most obvious response?
      It’s not reasonable to talk about just those two balls. It’s ridiculous. Had he argued that BABIP overall over the course of the series indicated a modicum of bad luck, that WOULD have been relatively reasonable, don’t you think?

    6. “Build a team that luck can’t deny, like the 1998 or 1927 squads.”
      Luck is relevant, but yes – THIS!

    8. Luck – how about that last 1/2 inning vs. Arizona with Mariano on the mound?
      Luck – how about game 4 of the series against the Red Sox, when the Yanks were up 3-0 and that ball hit down the left-field line would have given them the sweep if it were redirected a quarter of an inch.

  28. What irked me the most this season is that during that long annual horrid stretch from late May to early August, the biggest problem with this team was clearly the bullpen, and it took far too long for them to address it. There was no reason to wait until basically the trade deadline to jettison Bird and Doval.

    But note, the turnaround in early August started when Bird and Doval were gone and then when Fernando Cruz went to the IL. It was at that point that Blackburn and Headrick really stepped up. The problem could’ve been fixed at least a month earlier, and that might’ve been the difference between 1st place in the division and 2nd.

    1. It also coincides to when Spencer Jones came up and solidified the OF enough to mitigate some atrocious fielding from Ramos, Rosario, and Schulemann.

  29. Quick poll… are you as big a Yankees fan now as you were pre-covid? I’m not saying COVID is the reason (it isn’t) but I’ve lost the passion for this team. I’m still a fan, I still check in, but the passion is gone for me now. I envy the days I used to have it. I remember how excited I was to be a fan coming off the 2017 loss.

    5. as big.

      when i was a kid i fell asleep with a little radio from john sterling’s first year as a broadcaster. now i pass out with one of the podcasts.

      baseball is the only thing that has the ability to crush out the rest of my anxiety sometimes and give me any peace.

      i don’t care about any other sports at all.

      it’d just be a lot better if they wouldn’t end seasons with people like verdugo or grisham who i spend months complaining about.

      and i think that is the big difference between the yanks and winners like the dodgers.

      the yanks think they’re so smart picking up people like heaney or boot boy while teams like LA get spinal, demand, kiermayer, and other real gamer / difference makers.

      it’s really getting me down, why do they have to make such idiotic decisions? obviously they make some good ones too, but the unforced errors are crazy.

    6. Probably as big, with a caveat being that since covid has been a different kind of frustrating. I can get a team having a bad year or players being hurt. What I struggle with is the lack of fundamentals seeming to cost them seasons. Its just not fun to watch in a different way than watching Doval or Bird stink up the place. One feels like you’re supporting a team that’s going through some struggles, the other feels like the team just doesn’t care as much as the fans.

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    1. I don’t think there is any chance of it. I don’t think it is even on the table. They don’t want to and with the built in “Judge was injured” excuse (as if they haven’t failed hard previous years when Judge was healthy) and the upcoming lockout which will likely mean VERY short off-season signing period and spring training, they will have too much ammunition to defend not doing it.

    3. Yeah that’s my feeling besides the spreadsheet says not to pay Boone the $5.5 million not to work.

  32. From Katie S —

    Fewest ER Allowed by Losing Team in 3-Game Postseason Series Sweep:

    6 – Royals 1981 ALDS vs A’s
    7 – Yankees 2026 ALDS vs Rays
    7 – Reds 2010 NLDS vs Phillies

  33. MLB lockout rules “ The guidance recommends that teams avoid sending holiday cards to players once the lockout begins, spells out proper etiquette for team staff attending players’ weddings, and says MLB won’t stand in the way if players want to play in Japan or elsewhere during the stoppage that’s likely to begin at midnight Eastern entering Dec. 2.”

    1. Yeah I feel pretty sure Manfred is gonna get on the blower to every foreign league of note and strongly suggest they not sign anyone beyond the normal quota

  35. If there is a 2027 season, the pitching won’t be as good as it was in 2026, which Cashman and Boone completely wasted. Go ahead, Hal, do something.

    1. Hal will…
      …get more long-overdue sleep?
      …get more long-overdue golden yacht toilets?

  41. While I’m in NYC, I may head down to John’s – someone here (was it Bop or Don?) recommended what pizza to order there to counter the too-sweet sauce I remember without excess enthusiasm. Remind me!

    1. It was the Sorso. You could also try L’industrie on Christopher st, that’s the in place, if you don’t mind lines. Personally I prefer thin crust from Spunto

    3. seconded on L’Industrie. If you’re on the Upper West try Mama’s Too on 106th and Bway

    4. UJD, that’s amazing. You’re the only other person I know who knows that.
      That was my place, above even Koronet and all the rest.
      My favorite, barring only wherever that place on 7th Avenue went – it’s still in existence, somewhere in Manhattan, under a different name. Now I have to remember what it was called. I came the day it close, fell to my knees in front of the barred doors and roared and howled at the wind.
      Sarducci, that’s what it was called.

    1. The crowds are all for L’industrie while Village Square does little to know business.Im not familiar with Mama’s Too but it’s not on Christopher like the other two. Joe’s pizza is nearby and they do well but no soy does the business of L’industrie.

    1. Strange the highest rated pizza in the West Village on both Yelp nd Google is one I never heard of, Slicehaus on Carmine Street. Only L’industrie comes close.

  59. Ryan Garcia “Things about the Brewers that you have to respect…

    🔹9 hitters > 100 wRC+ and >250 PAs
    🔹 7 relievers with > 30 IP & 1.0 fWAR

    They’re so well-rounded and complete as a baseball team. So many useful players. Very few outright terrible players.”

    Yankees have 4 including Judge, but not Stanton.

  60. Free agency is going to be SO fucking weird this offseason. If you’re Cashman, what can you even DO if you don’t know if there is going to be a salary cap or not? I am assuming that there will NOT be a salary cap, and I bet Cashman is probably working under that assumption, as well, but that’s a pretty big risk to take when signing guys.

    So I think we’ll only see Bednar and Blackburn re-sign before the work stoppage.

    I think cutting McMahon is on the table if they are actually interesting in the Japanese third baseman (of if they sign a second baseman and move Garcia to third).

    I can see a realistic goal of being something like…

    Rice 1B
    Free Agent/Garcia 2B
    Lombard SS
    Japanese Free Agent/Garcia 3B
    Bellinger LF
    Jones CF
    Judge RF
    Stanton DH

    Bench:
    Volpe
    Cabby
    Ramos
    Goldy for one more year

    1. I think if there’s a cap it will have to be phased in somehow, the big spending teams will demand it

    3. That’s 12 position players with no one squatting behind the plate. I doubt they go with fewer than 13 pitchers so someone won’t be on that bench. With Rice, Bellinger and Garcia all capable of playing 1B I don’t see room for Goldschmidt unless the players can negotiate a 27 man roster.

    5. Can Garcia really play 2b or 3b? At 2b 23-25 he was -18 OAA and -15 runs prevented. He has never played 3b on the MLB level. I’d view him as a possible trade chip. He’s not a good fit.

  61. Yoshinobu Yamamoto kept changing the question. Jake Bauers kept finding an answer.

    The Dodgers’ right-hander used five pitch types in a third-inning confrontation that stretched seven minutes and four seconds in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series Monday night. Bauers kept the inning alive through six consecutive two-strike foul balls, making one of October’s best pitchers work for an out that never came.

    By the time he walked to first, the bases were loaded, Christian Yelich was ready, and Yamamoto had run out of room to work.

    “It just got to a certain point where it was straight compete mode,” Bauers said. “A little bit like a blackout, just kind of in the flow a little bit.”

    https://www.mlb.com/news/jake-bauers-12-pitch-walk-christian-yelich-single-yoshinobu-yamamoto

    2. I’m with Jeff Lee. Mostly because their payroll is lower and I think it will annoy Hal and Cash more than Clev getting there.

    1. YC that’s an interesting question, if Tampa wins the WS Hal can convince himself that his team
      Is great and just lost to the champs. But if they lose to clev who lose to Milwaukee…hmmm maybe that will burn him even more.

      Maybe we can ask him and the. I’ll know who to root for! For now it’s anyone but LA.

    3. No Volpe, Judge will not be happy.

      Grichuk going on 36 and off a career year in OPS/OPS+? No thanks.

    4. Time to get Arozarena, just as he’ll enter his decline years.
      Not thrilled with really any of this. And I wouldn’t take judge out of the field. I think having something to do during the game is important. And I think he’s pretty good at it.

    6. just spitballing. other catchers have made the transition to third.
      anyway, i thought it would be fun to look at a lineup that could score some runs against decent pitching for a year and add some more balance.

    1. In that he tried unsuccessfully to play through an injury, compromising his recovery and his team’s season?

  73. Cleveland winning the ALCS when the Yankees fell flat on their face deprives Boone, Cash, and Hal of the excuse of look we lost to the best team in the league.

    3. They’ll just change their bad-faith-counterargument-of-choice to “see, the playoffs really are a crapshoot”.

    5. On that note, “we lost to the best team in the league” is also a bad-faith argument when your job is to make the best team in the league.

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