August 12, 2026

74 thoughts on “Yankees (66-52) vs. Mariners (56-63), Tuesday, August 11, 2026, 7:05 PM EDT”

    2. I think I’d prefer Jones over Jazz at this point. Just flip them in the lineup. Jones would have made out, too, that’s fair.

      What I really want, though, is to flip Garcia and Ramos.

  19. An important thing to keep in mind is that it certainly appears as though MLB has fucked with the ball.

    Home runs are down across the board in the second half at a rate where it’s basically impossible for it to be a coincidence.

  22. Rowson is really impressed with the strides Spence has taken. Last 15 182/265/432, last 7 087/192/174. Maybe Rowson doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about.

  26. So all this is totally on the players? Rowson and Boone get no blame. I can understand the Yankee sucking but when they’re even worse with RISP that tells me either they have no approach (Rowson) or they’re tight when hitting (Boone).
    If the hitting coach doesn’t matter why pay for a “good one?” Anybody can hit fungoes or run drills.

    1. That was broooooooooootal.

      But hey, at least they had a good inning still.

      I continue to ABHOR Ramos batting third. Let the guy fucking earn the spot in the lineup, dipshit Boone.

    1. Stanton returning, hopefully, and then them letting Garcia play second against lefties.

      Is there ANY chance Garcia plays second for this team?

    1. Yep. Also better than everybody trying to hit a home run all day and nobody ever gets on base so even if one guy does connect, it’s just a solo shot and you lose.

  51. From Katie S —

    Yankees have 26 wins scoring 4 runs or fewer this season. That’s the 3rd most in MLB.

    Last year they had 28 such wins the entire season.

  54. Someone mentioned on social media that Boone said that Garcia was getting some reps at third. I guess the theory would be that you just cut Rosario when Stanton comes back, and have Garcia play third against lefties?

    2. Garcia might legitimately just be TOO bad to play second. But I really don’t want to lose his bat.

      Here’s the current bench:

      Rosario
      Goldy
      Sanchez
      Caballero

      They have three guys coming off of the IL. Let’s say Belli returns first. Who goes? Cutting Rosario probably makes some sense then, right? But I imagine they’d probably just send Jones down.

      I believe Cabby actually still has options, so do you send him down if Judge returns to keep Rosario?

      Then, when Stanton returns, you almost assuredly will be past September 1st, so the roster will be expanded.

  55. This week’s Bronx Beat podcast has a good, far-reaching discussion of the utility and limitations of various metrics in the context of roster construction, player development. They make an interesting argument that the Yankees’ FO and organization take an erroneous approach to analytics, focusing on physical parameters (statcast measurables etc) and ignoring the fact that minor league pitching makes it a lot easier for a hitter to optimize those metrics through approaches that don’t work against major league pitching. They also touch on the utility and limitations of expected stats – noting that xwOBA is most useful for predicting regression, though they mention that Grisham seems chronically to underperform his xwOBA. Hearing this reminded me of how Mo chronically outperformed his FIP because FIP doesn’t account for quality of contact and Mo had specific, idiosyncratic approaches to getting weak contact (location, late movement). The broader takeaway for me is, context-independent stats and process-based stats are like Pythag. If you optimize for them then you’re necessarily neglecting the actual outcomes in favor of an assumed correlation. Since baseball is a game of situations and players need to learn how to help a team win ballgames in a given situation, I think there’s something to be said for following outcomes-based stats at the minor league level.

    1. On that note, the facile argument against RBI – that an individual’s counting stats shouldn’t depend on the opportunities afforded by teammates – has always seemed easily correctable by making it a rate stat. Dividing the number of RISP driven in by the total RISP, and you’d have a decent record of how the player got the available runs in.

      And while I’m being contrarian, pitcher wins aren’t totally useless, and there is such a thing as pitching to the score.

    2. re: minor leaguers over-attenuating to flavor-of-the-month stats in the minors and getting their ass handed to them in the majors, doesn’t that seem to be the minor leaguer path most take anyway – you demolish minor league pitching then are up against a steep learning curve against MLB pitching? I’m largely happy with how the Yankees’s farm system has sneakily improved over the past few years and the organization’s overall use of the farm to supplement the actual MLB roster unlike years ago where it was simply a source to plunder. I will admit, though, that the inconsistent approach to more borderline players like Dominguez in terms of playing time concerns me not only in terms of player development but in terms of recruiting international amateur FAs and some domestic amateurs in terms of providing clear defined paths to the majors and playing time once there. The org really needs to improve in that area. I’m reminded of Bernie needing a few years, etc etc.

  56. Katie S Ryan McMahon now has 5 go-ahead RBI in the 7th inning or later this season, the most on the Yankees.

    The only player in MLB that entered Tuesday’s games with more was Brice Turang (6).

  57. Katie S Brent Headrick has 51 scoreless appearances this season, the most in MLB.

    Brent Headrick’s 51 scoreless appearances are the most by any Yankees pitcher through 119 team games in franchise history.

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