Cole Ragans (#55, 28, LHP, 0-3, 3.78) vs. Ryan Weathers (#40, 26, LHP, 0-2, 4.29)
ROYALS
3B M. Garcia R
SS Bobby Witt R
1B V. Pasquantino L
DH S. Perez R
CF Lane Thomas R
RF S. Marte R
LF I. Collins S
2B M. Massey L
C Elias Diaz R
YANKEES
DH Ben Rice L
RF Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
CF T. Grisham L
2B Amed Rosario R
C Austin Wells L
SS J. Caballero R
3B Ryan McMahon L
Rain delayed, but not stopped! Let’s see if Weathers can be better than the weather.
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Volpe played 7 innings, went 2-4 with a SB.
Ok we got 2, now let’s go 4 corners.
I could get used to a leadoff hitter who can get on base.
Judge with 90 career 1st inning HRs.
https://x.com/SlangsOnSports/status/2045965642172416251
I could get used to Ben Rice batting as often as possible.
Based on their terrible strategic challenges I’d love to play poker with some of these guys.
At least Weathers got some run support.
That was awful, Judge.
Devin Williams strikes out the side in the 9th. OTOH he had a blown save raising his era to lucky 711.
Judge, first inning HR followed by three dreadful Ks.
Yeah but it’s 7-0 so who cares
I’m
Still not watching
Katie S After his 2nd inning HR, Ben Rice is now hitting .352 (6-17) and slugging .882 (3 HR, 3 1B) vs Left-Handed Pitchers this season.
In all seriousness, do you think he WILL become the backup catcher when Volpe returns? I think that has to be the plan.
I don’t think they want to do it until late Summer and get him ready to catch in time for the playoff grind. I think unless Grichuk picks it up he’ll be gone and Rosario will be the RH outfielder. Or maybe PGold will get hurt.
They HAVE been giving Rosario some outfield playing time recently.
Crochet era 7.88
Not here, but other places, people have been smugly dismissive of Weathers based on that one Angels game. It’s weird, the guy’s pretty clearly been GOOD here. 8 innings of one run ball, then 5 innings of five run ball (fifth run was a leadoff walk in the sixth inning that the reliever allowed to score), then 7 and a third innings of shutout ball, and people choose to just spotlight that middle game and ignore the other two.
His first two games also basically counter each other out (one was good, the other was bad. Neither was all that good, and neither was all that bad). So, in general, he’s been fine, and he’s 26 years old. He’s a guy other teams would be EXCITED about having, and here, he gets pooh-poohed. It’s weird.
I’ll confess to smug dismissal of Weathers, but it’s been more for punnery than punditry.
“Dynamic duo Judge (No. 9), Rice (8) make Yanks HR history in rout” Oh, wow, what did they do, Hoch?!
“Judge and Rice have combined for 17 homers, the most of any teammate duo this year. They’re also the third Yankees tandem to belt eight or more homers each through the team’s first 22 games, joining Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle (1956), plus Judge and Anthony Rizzo (2022).”
Oh. Yeah, that sure is “history” there, Hoch. Suuuuure is “history.”
Chivilli is another one of these guys with a million dollar arm and a ten cent head. You saw it with Blake coming out to talk to him. He’s the type of guy who needs a coach to tell him to gets his shit together MID-INNING. And he then got a 3-1 groundout to end the inning.
His stuff is SO good, it’s so frustrating watching guys squander their talents by simply being STUPID.
If weathers is actually good maybe I have to rethink my cashman hatred and dial it down from 100 on my hatred meter to 90.
Big Fan you do NOT need to do that
If Pereira OPS 1015 or Peraza OPS 880 both of whom we gave away for nothing are any good I’m going to hate Rowson, minor league hitting coaches, Cashman and Boone for a monumental failure.
The Rays gave up on Pereira themselves right away. And Caballero has been the Yankees everyday shortstop this season, ya know? So getting him for Pereira seemed fair enough.
It seemed fair enough. That’s not my problem. If, and it’s a big if, these guys continue to rake what bothers me is how piss poor the Yankees were at unleashing their talent.
I like Rice-Judge as a 1-2. Judge is in a bit of a funk still, but if he straightens things out, then over the course of a season those two guys are going to get on base more and hit the ball harder than anyone else. Only person I’d consider batting ahead of them would be a functional Dominguez…
Katie S Ben Rice #FunFact
Yankees with at least .475 OBP, .800 SLG and 20 Runs in player’s first 21 games of a season:
Ben Rice (2026)
Alex Rodriguez (2007)
Mickey Mantle (1956)
Lou Gehrig (1927)
Babe Ruth (1926, 1921)
Shane Spencer first 27 games OBP 411. Slg 910. Runs 18.
I would say it is fluky if Ben didn’t have one of the unluckiest seasons in baseball last year. His swing and batted ball metrics all say that this is legit.
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Against righties, I like Grisham/Rice/Judge, since Grisham sees a LOT of pitches.
I like him getting on base ahead of the other two.
Saw that Devin W blew the Gabe yesterday for the Mets and looked up his stats on b-ref. Do you know he only had 4 blown saves last year? (Along with 18 saves and 15 holds). Why did it feel so much worse?
because he sucks?
Because he got fired from the closer role pretty early on.
And he blew at least one NON save situation against Tampa Bay (four run lead).
And yes, how blowing a four run lead doesn’t count as a blown save is beyond me, too.
“Devin blew the Gabe because he sucks” is kinda redundant, no?
LOL
How can the Yankees be so consistently good with pitchers and bad with hitters and defense
Because one set of coaches is pretty good and the other blindingly obviously incompetent?
The two best home grown players in recent history had an outside coach and Rice who was largely self directed.
And yet the owner fiddles while Rome burns
Judge, now Rice, and some of the pitching have made it a slow enough burn to fiddle through.
Yes they win games and make the playoffs but we’re soon going to beat the Yankee record for longest drought with no WS wins. And judge may top Mattingly for most games without a title.
Gil vs Early tomorrow. Not good.
It’s SUCH a bad matchup that I’m legit not even going to be too upset if/when they lose it. Now, if Fried and Schlittler get rocked, THEN I’m going to be pissed.
About as good as he can do
A Rosario (R) 3B
A Judge (R) RF
B Rice (L) 1B
G Stanton (R) DH
C Bellinger (L) CF
R Grichuk (R) LF
J Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
J Caballero (R) SS
A Wells (L) C
Stanton’s in a funk and I wonder how much the pain is causing it.
If he can’t mash against Boston’s lefties, then he might as well go on the IL and rest till August…
Volpe sent to SWB to finish his rehab. Probably see him with the big team by May 1.
Who goes down or out?
I still think it’s going to be Escarra, and Rice will start catching games again. Having Goldschmidt only to never use him ever doesn’t seem to be a logical plan.