Will Warren (#98, 25, RHP, 0-1, 11.17) vs. Davis Martin (#65, 27, RHP, 0-1, 3.65)
YANKEES
LF Alex Verdugo L
RF Juan Soto L
DH Aaron Judge R
C Austin Wells L
2B G. Torres R
CF T. Grisham L
SS A. Volpe R
3B O. Cabrera S
1B DJ LeMahieu R
WHITE SOX
SS Nicky Lopez L
CF Luis Robert R
LF A. Benintendi L
DH A. Vaughn R
1B Gavin Sheets L
3B M. Vargas R
RF D. Fletcher L
C C. Robinson R
2B B. Baldwin S
It’s this weird Catch-22, where you’d obviously prefer Warren, if he has to pitch, to pitch against the worst team in baseball, but you also don’t want to waste what should be a gimme win by using your worst pitcher (which is saying something with how bad Stroman and Nestor have been).
Let’s just hope Warren avoids his current pattern of allowing three to four run home runs every game.
That should count for yesterday. Shame the leadoff hitter never gets on base. Thats four straight PAs.
Four straight at-bats, not plate appearances, right? And yeah, has anyone ever hit five home runs in five straight at-bats?
And yes, holy shit, stop batting Verdugo ahead of Soto! Just leadoff Judge!
Martian with his first home run since returning against former Yankee James Kaprielian
Be nice if someone besides Soto, Judge and Wells could birth runs.
35 pitches through 3 innings. Not really working the count against this guy.
Soto is stealing Judge’s HR’s.
Boston scores like 7 runs a game and we can’t score against the worst MLB team in the last 25 years.
Cashman is an unserious man. No serious man would [allow] Verdugo to hit leadoff with his trash OBP since May 1. Hal is the greater fool, though.
e to, Levine
I love how much Warren fits in with the other Yankee pitchers in his insistence on constantly nibbling before giving up a big hit.
Warren had a 6 era at Scranton. Hard to expect much.
He’s clearly got talent, he just doesn’t seem to know how to PITCH. He is just kind of throwing, but since he has good enough stuff, he can sort of get through shitty hitters.
Six guys in the lineup OPSing under 700 including 1 semi regular under 600 who’s signed through 2026!
Gavin fucking Sheets against the Yankees is apparently Aaron Judge, but better.
Gavin Fucking Sheets would be our everyday first baseman and bat 5th or 6th.
Why is LeMahieu starting at first against a righty?
I was wondering that myself.
First pitch groundout. Oh my god, can’t they just send this fucker to the moon or something? Play Waldo in left, and play Peraza at third.
Or play Judge in left, and Grisham in center. Grisham is at least a plus center fielder, and he has a SLIGHT pulse at the plate.
I hate Verdugo. Cashman signed him and helped Boston take his money off the books. In what world does he bat leadoff?
He should’ve been DFAed for this. Alex Verdugo said the bunt attempt he had was a decision he made on his own.
“I kind of didn’t really want to bunt but I was already kind of out there. I just got a little lazy with it and popped it up. That’s, like, the first bunt I’ve ever popped up. It happens.”
I didn’t mind acquiring him (they gave up NOTHING for him), what I DO mind is that he’s treated like he’s a ten-time All-Star who can’t possibly be taken out of the lineup.
That was a nasty 3-0 pitch, but then he walked him anyways.
This ump has just invented his own strike zone. It’s insane. Strikes are balls, balls are strikes, it’s pathetic.
Fuck, Wells keeps hitting fucking lasers RIGHT AT PEOPLE.
Vertigo is 1/28 with RISP since 6/29. phenom is 1/29 (a lucky infield hit) and 3/35.
No serious GM would allow this.
These pathetic losers (not you, Wells, that was hit well) just let other teams walk Soto and Judge in front of them and do nothing about it.
I have NO Idea why you take Martin out here. The idea that he wouldn’t get Volpe out is just silly.
The White Sox have the next to worst team ERA in the MLB and they look like the 96 Braves.
Hey Ruocco maybe he looks impressive because 6/9 hitters in the lineup are replacement level or worse. Ruocco and Flash make Kay and anyone look good.
I don’t mind letting Volpe play through it, but why would you not bat him 9th? Even with LeMahieu in the lineup, Volpe should be batting behind him until he shows SOMEthing. That was my concern when they moved him up in the lineup after he had some hits in the nine hole. Just keep him at #9.
I don’t either only because there’s no other option. But he does effing suck. And what is with Boone and Rowson? Obviously Volpe is nowhere near this bad. I don’t know if it’s his mechanics or he’s a head case but this shouldn’t be. Volpe plus Verdugo and Gleyber having career worst seasons makes you wonder about Boone and Rowson.
phenom at the plate reminds me of some of the short stops the Yankees played after Jeter got hurt one year. He’s 1/31. I’d actually rather see Verdugo or DJ hit.
Yankees 3/25 with RISP against the next to worst pitching staff in baseball.
peraza > phenom
guy needs to learn to hit.
gleyber slugging .308 this month.
so many pathetic people in the lineup.
Yankees have scored 7 runs so far in this series. Soto is responsible for 5.
DJ doesn’t just hit ground balls. And strike one was way inside.
Tell Ruocco to STOP SHOUTING.
Wells, the man.
Why, Brian, do you post the incorrect White Sox W/L numbers three days now? Did I miss some communiqué?
Ah, I see, I accidentally kept the Rangers’ win-loss totals when I changed the headers. Fixed now!
Future Trivia question who will have been the last person IBBed in front of Judge.
LOL They IBB Soto and Judge makes ’em pay. Number 300!
Just an insane decision by Sizemore.
Wells!
Everyone got brave. Imagine if the 2B had held on to the throw on Waldo’s SB?
Again, if Tonkin is the last man in the bullpen, you have a pretty good bullpen. You still need a HIGH end guy at the top, of course, but still, it’s at least a pretty good bullpen if Tonkin is the last guy.
Yay win but for six innings we looked like shit.
If you guessed the last Yankee to score from second on a sac fly was Jorge, go to the window.
Boston blew a 7-4 lead after 8.
Yankee 2017 top 10 prospects
1. Gleyber Torres, ss
2. Clint Frazier, of
3. Blake Rutherford, of
4. Jorge Mateo, ss
5. James Kaprielian, rhp
6. Aaron Judge, of
7. Justus Sheffield, lhp
8. Chance Adams, rhp
9. Dustin Fowler, of
10. Domingo Acevedo, rhp
that’s a pretty good haul , a lotta upside, injury, and adams
that crop had many enemies – opposing players, time, injury, basic reading comprehension, walls
2016 Fangraphs eval I have gone back and forth on Judge the last few years, even going as far as to think he won’t hit for more than average power with his swing and inconsistency barreling up the ball. The most pertinent thing in opposition to my earlier projections is that Judge has simplified his swing, and as a result he doesn’t show as much of the choppy path that made me worry about him getting to his power. He used to have a bigger load, wrapping the bat around his head, which forced him to have to rush back to the ball and cut down on the lift in his swing.
Hindsight and all, but – ha!
Judge did overhaul his swing after his short debut too.
Cronin-bot on full display, huh
site very slow, did you switch to azure?
Soto’s really had a visible uppercut in his swing the last two days, never seen that from him before.
yo momma
remarkable than soto and rice are the same age.
Chili Davis:Steve Kerr is most similar to –
a) the new coaching hotness:eh
b) Steve balboni: lose out on acquiring Pedro Martinez
c) jim leyritz: playoff Mike napoli
d) all of the above
the correct answer is a
Soto also has a WS ring.
you know, if the yankees instead sign Santander (and trade for Skenes, Witt, and Crotchet + sign Roki) thereby forgoing the burden of re-signing Soto, things might not be so bad next year.
I think it’s getting pretty obvious that cashman is really not good at his job. The yanks will likely end up with 92-95 wins. And at the current pace will have TWO players with 10+ WAR! Meaning the rest if this team is really not good. Sure getting Soto was a great move but when you think about it, all his great moves are simply obvious – signing CC before 2009, signing Cole. Any non-obvious move is more likely to be bad than good. Why ownership allows this guy to blow hundreds of millions of their dollars without bringing them a championship is beyond me.
It looks like holding on to minor leaguers too long is another problem, Spencer Jones being the most recent. This was the year to go for it once he traded for Soto. Not getting Corbin burnes is quite possibly going to be as bad as the Verlander miss in 2017.
And why so many of the guys he gets are hurt so often is another puzzle. So he’s both bad and cursed.
why does Cashman get all the blame when, clearly, Levine is the real decision-maker
Because everybody loves Randy Levine
I always knew you were an asset of trost
cashman, and, um, Harkey (I guess) need to seize the means of production
He refused to trade for Verlander because of the remains on the Verlander contract. That was it for me with him, the straw that broke the camel’s back moment (I had already been criticizing him before that).
Waldo last 28 days 296/872, last 14 days 333/1091. He heeds to play every day, somewhere, against RHPs.
In reality, tho not in the record books, last night was his 301st.
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