August 14, 2025

97 thoughts on “Yankees (64-56) vs. Twins (56-63), Wednesday, August 13, 2025, ?:??PM EDT”

    1. Watching the veterans do it is not a good thing for a young pitcher. I also tend to believe it is the philosophy they have, as bizarre as that may be.

  16. I mean, what the fuck ever, everyone else lost, so I can’t even complain too much about Schlittler sucking. Still annoys me.

    How do you walk the leadoff hitter after being given a fucking lead against a star pitcher?!!?

  17. The Yankees need an entire remake of their coaching staffs, not just Boone. Their philosophy seems bizarre on both the hitting and pitching side of things.

    1. They obviously have an approach, but you can’t make the pitchers do it. Look at what Schlittler was doing the first three innings. That was the correct approach. He just couldn’t keep it up because these pitchers are headcases.

      The offense, yeah, I dunno.

  19. I’m not sure the Yankees will ever beat a good pitcher other than by 1-0 or 2-1 unless the pitcher has nothing. A good, or smart, team will sometimes scratch out 4 or 5 even against a good pitcher.

  21. There is nothing more offensive than this Yankees offense, and they just keep on keeping on. The Cashman philosophy of not firing people during the season is a stupid idea. The hitting coach, if he exists at all, should have been gone weeks ago.

    1. Yeah, I’ll defend the pitching approach, but I got nothing for the hitting approach (although, even there, there’s no way that Austin Wells has been following ANY sort of approach, ya know?).

    1. The whole point of getting Bird was to let Blake fix him. He can’t fix him in Scranton. They’ll have him for three seasons after this one. Just let Blake work with him during Spring Training, like he worked on Cruz.

    1. Best pen in baseball. Yerry is good until the game is close. Another L on the pen. I probably would’ve gone Leiter but who knows.

  38. I’ll give it up to Lewis, that wasn’t even a bad pitch. That was just a nice piece of hitting. Would have been amazing to strand that runner. I could imagine they MIGHT have come back if it had stayed 3-1. 4-1, though, is dunzo.

    1. And then THAT he fucking takes. You fucking awful, awful hitter. Thank GOD he was hitting there instead of the guy who crushes lefties.

      Boone, you fucking FOOL.

    1. If they used Goldy instead of NotWell they just might’ve scored. And I can blame Yerry and I can blame the hitters. If Yerry kept the game close who knows what might’ve happened.

  64. Katie S “Entering tonight, Devin Williams had faced 61 batters this season in low-leverage situations per @baseball_ref).

    Those batters had a .098/.246/.137 line in those PA.”

    Isn’t that special?

  65. Curry: coming into tonight Yerry had faced 125 batters, only nine were in high leverage situations. There’s the problem. With a day off tomorrow and a rested pen why not go with your best relievers.

  66. Aaron Boone said that Paul Goldschmidt has a knee injury and may need to go on the IL via @BryanHoch

    There’s another RHB gone. Slater, Rosario and now PGold?

  67. Hoch Amed Rosario could be activated from the IL on the 19th. With two off days coming, the Yankees could use someone for just three games in St. Louis. That person could then be optioned for Rosario, who said he expected to miss just the minimum amount of time.

    2. I guess De La Cruz would be the guy, right? Since he’s a righty, and they already outrighted him earlier, so they obviously wouldn’t mind doing it again. The waiver guy second baseman can be DFAed to make the room.

  69. Did Baldelli know PGold was NA for the game but Kay and the Yankee press did not? Otherwise why bring in a LHP when a counter of PGold was so obvious.

    1. Their bullpen is terrible. He was the best option they had, they had a three-run lead and another lefty was after Wells. He used his one good reliever for six outs, ya know?

      But yes, I agree, it was a bad choice.

  70. Yeah I saw that miggy is back hitting. Last year too. The Yankees ruined him and it took a few years until he recovered. Sanchez never really did.

    1. I don’t think you can blame the Yankees for Andujar. It was pretty clearly the major shoulder injury he suffered. It just fucked him up for YEARS, without any sign it was ever going to NOT mess with his hitting. Luckily for him, it eventually healed up, but both the Yankees and the Pirates didn’t see any sign of that ever happening. He was out of options heading into 2023, so he would have had to make the Major League club to stick around as a left fielder only who couldn’t hit, and he obviously was not going to make the Major League club at that point.

    1. Yeah, when he was running out the double later, he was clearly limping. Why the fuck didn’t they just take him out of the game then when he hurt it rather than having him run out a double?!

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