May 7, 2025

98 thoughts on “Yankees (19-14) vs. Rays (15-18), Sunday, May 4, 2025, 2:05PM EDT”

  7. Warren getting fucked by his defense and soft contact (and, admittedly, some stupid walks), while Bradley looks like shit out there and the Yankee hitters aren’t doing anything to him.

    1. I really think this is a pretty impressive outing by Warren so far.

    1. Yeah, they REALLY don’t seem to like Vivas, which I don’t get, Vivas looked decent out there. Granted, he hasn’t gotten a hit yet, but he seems to at least understand the strike zone.

      Reyes never looks like he’s going to do ANYthing out there. He’s pure placeholder.

      Volpe isn’t a great hitter, so it’s sad how much worse the REST of the lineup is when Volpe isn’t out there.

  21. If they didn’t score 15 runs in one game against the O’s they would have been swept in that series, and if not for Fried they probably would have been swept in this series as well.

  24. When a guy comes up with no hits is the perfect time to choose “most multi-hit games” as the stat for the moment, right?

  25. Think about this – they decided to do a bullpen game to make sure they won the series, but then decided to NOT use their two best relievers at the end, after using all of their other relievers up until that point. And they lost.

    Which then meant that they had no relievers to step in when Warren sucked this past inning.

    It’s just incomprehensibly bad managing by Boone.

    1. Just when you think he’s out of tricks – he’s the unsurpassed master of his “craft.”
      Whatever your strategy with the bullpen game, once you’re ahead in 7th or 8th, and but not by ten runs, who cares who pitched earlier? THAT is where you win the series.
      Or, you know… not.

    2. It is what he does. Old time sports writers would have chewed him up and spit him out long ago, Boone and Cashman.

  28. Judge had a remarkable 1/5 of a season, the team was 19-13 after 32 games. If a few other guys had contributed, and they didn’t have a terrible manager, they could have been 23-9 with a nice cushion to fall back on.

    1. That may have already begun, 2-4 after today in their last 6, in time for the first Mets series in 12 days. The Mutts rather embarrassed them in 2024, expect the same in 2025.

    1. Needs bolding.

      𝗡𝗢 𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗘, 𝗡𝗢 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗦. 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗣𝗜𝗗 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨.

    1. It’s like little league, he wanted everybody to have a chance to play

  49. In the pantheon of bad managerial decisions by Boone, allowing Escarra to hit may be the #1 worst of them all, but there are many contenders.

  54. At the VERY least, this will presumably, if the manager is even only SLIGHTLY a moron, mean that Vivas gets to play second base going forward. That’s something.

    Pablo Reyes is truly just a placeholder. That Boone starts him over Vivas is absurd.

    1. It’s just so, so, so, SO stupid.

      Blowing through all of your main relievers only to NOT use your two best relievers in a one-run game in the 8th inning is just, I mean, I can’t even BEGIN to fathom what Boone was thinking there.

  56. In good news the Yankees were not outscored this series so really we didn’t lose this series at all.

    Exactly why an owner would allow an idiot to cost his team game after game is beyond me. I get cashman – he needs to cover for his own stupidity and arrogance. But shouldn’t the owner get mad? If it was my money being pissed away by an employee of fire the guy.

    1. Cashman has more to answer for than just Boone. A Bad bench season after season, dreadful MiL development.

  58. He wouldn’t hit for Escarra with no outs? Huh? He would use Rice for either JC or Vivas? He said if the Yankees took a lead he would use phenom for defense.

    Q: “How much confidence do you have in Reyes?” Idiot: “A lot. If he can have that one at bat to get him going he can play a good role for us.”

  59. Also in the second with the bases loaded why did he play the infield back for Simpson who is almost impossible to double up. Simpson hit a routine ground ball to second that with the infield in probably would’ve resulted in a force at home.

    1. Yep, and his answer was as insane as you would think.

      He decided to let Escarra hit because he’s “the guy that’s been here and more experienced.”

      Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

    3. He said something like not with no outs. He had to get Rice and Wellls ABs.

  62. Since the first series of the season where they beat up on a seemingly unprepared brewer team they are 16 – 15. Sadly I think this is what they are. A team with one pitcher (6-0), the best hitter in the game, and a lot of mediocrity. Helped along by an idiot of a manager.

    1. I think they have a LOT of potential. A lot more young upside than they had in years past. My sense is that there have been a lot more games they lost that they could easily have won than the reverse. (Williams being Williams alone would have given them 4 more games!) I think they’re close to being significantly better than we expected.

  63. I’m very skeptical about Warren, he’s 26 year old and hasn’t figured it out yet. Who’s the real Austin Wells? Will Volpe ever put it together for more than 10 days at a time? Gil?

  64. Katie S Worst W-L in Games Decided by 2 or Fewer Runs This Season:

    White Sox 2-13 (.133)
    Twins 4-11 (.267)
    Rockies 4-11 (.267)
    Yankees 6-12 (.333)

    1. Imagine how bad that would be if we didn’t have Boone managing them! 🤪

  65. Passan The New York Yankees are promoting shortstop George Lombard Jr., their top prospect, to Double-A Somerset, sources tell ESPN. Lombard, 19, was hitting .329/.496/.488 with one homer, 13 RBIs, 11 stolen bases and a 23-to-22 walk-to-strikeout ratio at High-A. A real big-time talent.

  66. The previous game is the one that kills me. Once you’re ahead in the eighth with your top two relievers ready to go, who cares anymore whether the game was once a potential-punter bullpen game? You’re in the eighth with your top two relievers ready to go – that’s the game you nail down and win the series.
    …
    Boone costs them at least 20 games a year like that. Just look at how many games last year all of you easily pin on Boone. It’s not an exaggeration, and it’s a bigger difference in their record than Judge makes.

    1. I’d say more like 5/10 games because some of his 35% decisions work out. As for Saturday if he didn’t want to used Devin than he should have used Cruz, who has been unhittable, in 7/8.

      Lots of rain in the forecast all day. I could see series being pushed back a day or a double header scheduled. Tuesday’s probable starters Michael King 2.09 era vs Clarke Schmidt 5.52 era. Michael King the one that got away.

    1. I know no one likes to admit it because it doesn’t fit with what it feels like watching the games, but based on run differential, Boone usually outperforms what you would expect to get out of his teams.

      The problem with this team is the roster.

  69. Just think, again, about how insane it was that he had TWO catchers on the bench that he could have pinch hit for Escarra with, but he chose NEITHER of them, because he instead wanted to pinch hit for Vivas with one of them, who he would have to replace with an injured Volpe.

    Note, though, that he could have pinch hit BOTH and STILL had Volpe ready to come in if that was going to be his plan (with Peraza moving over to second). How is he still THIS stupid?

    1. In 2020 in a playoff game Boone opted to use Mike Ford who OPSed 496 to pinch hit instead of Clint Frazier who OPSed 905.

      From 2020: Clint Frazier slashed 265/402/510 off of righties that year. Mike Ford slashed 152/240/303 against righties.
      Frazier was 2-3 against Castillo in his career with a homer and a walk. Mike Ford had never faced Diego Castillo.
      Diego Castillo had reverse splits that season.

      The numbers said to go with Frazier, Boone went with Mike Ford

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