Max Fried (#54, 31, LHP, 12-4, 2.78) vs. Jason Alexander (#54, 32, RHP, 2-1, 5.97)
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Do you know that Fried has allowed at LEAST four runs in almost EVERY FUCKING GAME since BEFORE the All-Star break?! And the one game where he didn’t allow four runs, he allowed three runs in five innings (one of the games he only allowed two earned runs, and one he only allowed three earned runs. But it wasn’t like the runs in those games scored ON an error. The errors allowed guys on base, and then Fried allowed big RBI hits).
Boy, has he sucked recently. I’m stunned his ERA is still under 3 (it will not last).
If they can’t score runs against George Castanza today they may as well go home now.
Peña long fly ball out. Altuve home run. First pitch swinging on Fried. Walker hard ground ball single. Fried got nothing so far. HBP on a 1-2 count.
2 on, one in, two outs – that’s a lot of action for 13 pitches.
Fried came in great. What did they do to him?
What do they do to these guys in general?
Fortunately he only gave up one. Boone asked about Fried’s struggles said first pitch strike. Stros were listening.
It would be interesting to look at what percentage of players come to the Yankees, either from the MiL or from other teams, and then play better for the Yankees. Especially discounting the very first month or three, before the local training sets in.
And then compare that to the same results for other teams.
Yankees are going to be shut down by the Halo’s reject.
Jazz our 5 hitter, 136/452 last 14 days, 192/562 last 28. Need to get Stanton in the lineup.
The core 4 Jazz, Martian, Wells, and phenom. The future is so fucked.
Is today the day this pathetic line up gets no-hit? Or one-hit?
Once you get past the 4 hitter there’s nothing to worry opposing pitchers. Boston would already have a 5 spot against this guy.
How bad is this team? Yankees with a lot of fly balls, but no hits against this sub replacement level.pitcher. I suppose they might back into a playoff spot but they’re clearly worse than the Jays, Boston, Seattle, Detroit or Houston.
Best offense in baseball, worst 5-9.
It’s a good day for dishonest ballplayers.
McMahon was hitting well the first week he was here but Rowson saw something to make him better.
The new Yankee HBP strategy
Fried once again coming up small.
I don’t think this is fried choking, I think there’s something wrong with him and sooner or later we’ll find out he should have been on the IL.
I was going back to read about the Williams trade and this caught my eye:
“Devin Williams has been on the Yankees’ radar for years, recalled general manager Brian Cashman, who said that each prior attempt to pry the right-handed closer from the Brewers met a dead end. The Bombers finally got their man on Friday.”
Cashman doesn’t get the right guy for the day, he always wants to go back to an old crush. GMs should be smarter than this. I could go on about how they don’t react to events properly, but it seems like they have an attitude that allows them to lose trades more and more because Cashman is just out of it.
You throw Durbin at 3rd for the year and we already have how many more wins?
He’s been past his use by date since 2017. Who keeps a GM around for 26-27 seasons?
Dynamite Devin
This game along with the previous Friday game where they blew 3 lead go in the 2025 time capsule.
Well, there’s your 4 runs again.
Spencer Jones with a 436-foot bomb.
https://x.com/MLBPipeline/status/1954611822088126912
So Houston gets Alexander and they figured out how to fix him. Second straight scoreless game. Maybe their pitching coach is better than ours.
Unpossible.
You have to hand it to this team, they really do know how to lose.
I don’t care about right left, I’d much rather see PGold hit than Wells the unofficial worst hitter in baseball.
Houston brought in a RHP despite two LHBs due up. That’s how little they think of McMahon and Wells.
The Yankees fear of getting hits with RISP runs deep.
Wells needs a trip to SWB.
He needs to trade places with Escarra and Rice should be the everyday catcher with PGold the everyday 1B. Wells is the worst hitter in baseball.
Another bullpen mess, not that it matters anyway.
https://x.com/ChrisKirschner/status/1954634324546072796
Absolutely fitting that King strikes out the side. phenom despite a short hot streak is down to 217/700. Wells is the worst hitter in baseball and the Martian is a 250 singles hitting mediocre fielding left fielder.
The core four Jazz, Martian, Wells and phenom may well be the bizarro version of the Yankees late 90s, early 2000s Core Four and Five. This core four portends years of second division 500 or below baseball.
Katie S The Yankees have allowed 201 runs since July 1.
The only teams that have allowed more runs in that span are the Rockies and Nationals.
Couple that with the 6th worse offense and whattya get?
The Yankees ruining more hitting prospects and nothing changes. A GM who has been around 27 seasons, unheard of.
If you’re the owner and you have a has-been GM and a never-was manager (who had shown time and again he’s clueless) why would you agree to let these guys cost him millions year after year?
Attendance is good, YES ratings are up, he’s making money. That’s the problem.
Yeah but if you’re a business owner you plan ahead. Missing the playoffs costs you profit. Miss it enough and attendance drops. Ok he’s making money but doesn’t every owner want to make more?
As mentioned above, this is the problem once Cashman desires to trade for a player. Cashman and Boone need to go, now.
https://x.com/BobbyMilone29/status/1954345299918442576
And that’s why Rivera was the greatest ever.
https://x.com/yankeeslite/status/1954210308509024406
Three out of the last 4 seasons, not three out of the last ten seasons.
I just watched McMahons AB. Looks like he got two pretty hittable pitches to drive.
Jake Bird with a scoreless inning after giving up 3 in an inning in his first Scranton game. What was Cashman thinking?
Offense last 8 games, 20 runs, 173BA, 257 OBP, 285 SLG
Boone has confidence in the offense. We’re going thru one of those little lulls (that goes back to June)
Boone is like a cross between a Presidential Press Secretary and Professor Irwin Corey.
Baghdad Boone.
54 games is a full 1/3 if a season. 23-31. Which is a 69-win pace. This isn’t a slump. This is just a bad team. Of course we can probably find 4-5 games Boone blew with terrible managing (2 in the last week) but even so that only puts them at a 500 pace for 1/3 of the season. They just aren’t very good with a C and SS who can’t hit, a rookie LF not playing great, an over the hill 1b, etc. etc
Hal please wake up before it’s 2032 and judge is retiring with no WS wins.