From Bryan Hoch:
As a young fan growing up in enemy territory, Ben Rice once traveled from the rocky shores of tiny Cohasset, Mass., to proudly announce his allegiance, surreptitiously scrawling “Yankees Rule!” on the right-field Pesky Pole at Boston’s Fenway Park.
Rice again left his mark on the historic rivalry on Saturday afternoon, enjoying a three-homer performance and his first Yankee Stadium curtain call as the Yankees snapped their four-game skid with a 14-4 victory over the Red Sox.
“It’s definitely a day I’ll never forget,” Rice said. “I’m just pumped that it was a big-time win for us, a good bounceback win, and over my hometown team. So it’s pretty cool.”
That was really cool. Honestly, I still want Rice batting cleanup to protect Soto and Judge, but hey, so long as he’s batting at the top of the lineup, I guess I can’t complain too much.
Man, national TV tonight AND the Red Sox, whose lineup has been giving the Yankee starters conniptions (sans Nestor). I really fear for Gil’s mental state after tonight. He’s probably going to be having panic attacks for the rest of the month.
Ben Rice’s curtain call gets the featured image. I will still always give great pitching performances the nod for featured images, but Gerrit Cole didn’t pitch that great (he wasn’t BAD, just really unlucky in the third inning, when two bloops went in for RBI, but nor was he GOOD, as he threw way too many pitches), although Tim Hill was great out of the pen. Hill is a prototypical guy that you think Matt Blake can rejuvenate (slightly older, some experience with past success, willing to be taught), and I’m pretty upbeat about him going forward (the Yankees certainly need it with so many shitty relievers on the roster right now).
“Wells catching Gil first time.
https://x.com/RiverAveBlues/status/1810028810768613635?t=QoPEW38B3YpEjghL4SFCtg&s=19”
Good to see them slowly phasing Trevy out in favor of Wells.
If Agustin Ramirez can actually play behind the plate, they might want to trade Trevy this offseason. He’s arbitration eligible for one more year, and there has to be a team that could use Trevino. Then they could have Ramirez as the backup catcher to Wells next year.
He has a very good throwing arm. Mechanics can be taught/learned/improved.
Gil over/under 3 1/3ip,4 Rs
I’ll take the over on innings pitched…but I’ll also probably take the over on runs allowed, sadly.
Again, a big game for Gil.
What would really help this team is a valuable player at 3B. I’d love a MiL for MiL trade with important pieces moving. No idea what top 3B prospects there are in baseball, but if you give a similar top prospect (or package), no reason that shouldn’t be doable.
If Gil and Rodon could pitch like they did earlier in the year we could live withDJ at 3rd. And if they don’t we will still live with DJ at 3rd like it or not.
It’s like we don’t even have a GM.
Which is a better state of affairs than we have with the manager, admittedly.
The last notable MiL for MiL prospect trade occurred almost a decade ago, and it blew up in one of the team’s faces (Trea Turner was the PTBNL in the deal), so I don’t think GMs are too keen to try them out.
Beyond that, there really ISN’T a Major League ready third baseman out there among the top prospects. The Orioles might have one, but, well, I think we can safely say that the Orioles and Yankees are not swapping Minor League prospects with each other.
So odd. If you believe you’re getting as good or better than you give, and you end up with something more at a position of need, why wouldn’t you… are they that much more motivated by fear than by their own logic?
Pretty much, yep.
Could happen just not within the division. The dumb post season format mandates that.
“just not within the division”
That logic works only if you don’t think you’re going to win the exchange. Or if you’re so afraid of losing the exchange that you’re willing to forgo it – even if you believe you’ll win it.
Which is, mildly put, pathetic.
Holmes makes All Star squad, Gil didn’t.
Asked an AI who are the best 3b prospects close to the majors.
Annoyingly, the only really promising candidates appear to be on Baltimore and (2 of them) the Devil Rays.
Another one gives this:
…3. Colt Keith – Detroit Tigers, playing at AAA level, and is anticipated to join the majors in 2024.
4. Noelvi Marte – Cincinnati Reds, who has already had some major league experience and is expected to continue making an impact.
5. Tyler Black – Milwaukee Brewers, projected to reach the majors in 2024.
Holmes as an AS is rediculous.
Nice to see my least favorite player of all time (Chappy) blowing a win in Pitts; against the Mets which annoys me but not as much as watching him stink. I hate Chappy.
Turner was only a PTBNL because of some rules shit about when he could be traded, he was always the centerpiece and everyone knew he was a top prospect.
The reason the Yankees aren’t going to trade for some mythical great 3b prospect is because if they want to improve the team this year they will get a guy who’s already done it in the majors, not someone who might shit the bed in his first taste of big league action
Oh sure, but the other guys were “top prospects,” as well, while Turner was the one who became a superstar, so the trade definitely didn’t work out well for Tampa Bay or San Diego. So I imagine it’s not an aid for teams determining whether to do a deal like that one again.
Except why would they be so certain they’d be the Pads or the Devil Rays and not the Phillies? Don’t they think they’d be the winners?
Two of those three teams would have ended up without Turner anyway, with the other prospects. They’d have exchanged prospects that didn’t turn out great for other prospects that didn’t turn out great. They’re prospects – and as we’ve seen, established big league players are no guarantee.
In other words, this logic applies to ALL trades, there’s nothing special that applies here only to prospects.