September 19, 2024

49 thoughts on “Yankees (79-58) @ Rangers (65-72) Monday, September 2, 2024, 8:05 PM EDT”

    1. Ohtani is just the best player ever. A 50/50 season just because he can’t pitch this season? Get out of here.

  28. We single out a few players we just can’t watch. But can they really just cut bait on every significantly underperforming player? They’d always be selling low – and we’d be going nuts as most of them play better then somewhere else. It seems crazy that some of them are THIS BAD – and wouldn’t you expect some return to form? Well, obviously you wouldn’t, but…
    What about where a player’s significantly overperforming our expectations (e.g. Judge a few years back) – should they cut bait and get what they can, reap the benefits before performance reverts to norms?
    No one expected Vertigo or DJ or even Volpe to be THIS bad. Nobody. Gleyber, on the other hand, HAS rounded back into form. The more I think about it – it’s a crazily difficult job.

    1. They should have figured out a way to put DJLM on injured reserve and released vertugo. These guys are negative WAR players getting hundreds of at bats. There should be cheaply available minor leaguers better than negative, right?

      The Trading deadline dud was the real problem. Jazz was a good pickup, not doing nothing at 1b, LF, and RP will burn them
      In October.

      A young cashman used to make moves that helped like Justice and Glen Allen Hill. This older washed up version of cashman gets us mark leiter and de loss Santos.

      Players gets old and lose a step; so do GMs and managers.

    1. Cashman’s smarter than that. He knows that when the team would floundering under the burden of the last few years of Soto’s contract (and can’t stop playing him or even remember that those last few contract years were just the cost of doing business), he’ll be in his early nineties… and still GM. Why would he want a problem like that in what should be his peaceful dotage?

  30. Red Sox now 10 gages behind and are fighting for the third playoff spot. Go tigers!!!

    Sports radio host yesterday: yanks are fine; they still have the best record in the AL; they’ll be fine in the playoffs. Hello? They’ve played 500 ball for half a season. They were the best team in April/May; now? Not so much.

  31. Red Sox now 10 games behind and are fighting for the third playoff spot. Go tigers!!!

    Sports radio host yesterday:” yanks are fine; they still have the best record in the AL; they’ll be fine in the playoffs.” Hello? They’ve played 500 ball for half a season. They were the best team in April/May; now? Not so much.

    1. Verdugo not far behind. So many ground balls to 2nd by Verdugo calls into question the value of this stat.

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