Kutter Crawford (#50, 28, RHP, 8-14, 4.09) vs. Carlos Rodón (#55, 31, LHP, 14-9, 4.15)
RED SOX
LF Jarren Duran L
2B R. Gonzalez R
3B R. Devers L
RF T. O’Neill R
1B Connor Wong R
DH M. Yoshida L
SS Trevor Story R
C Danny Jansen R
CF C. Rafaela R
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
3B J. Chisholm L
DH G. Stanton R
LF J. Dominguez S
SS A. Volpe R
1B O. Cabrera S
C Jose Trevino R
Nice of them to give Waldo a shot in a spot where he might succeed, but seriously, just get Wells a first base glove!
Which is why Judge was so clealry not on board with the coverage presuming the grand slam meant he was out of his funk.
Do we have stats for RISP fail?
Are the Yankees typical in that regard?
How about in terms of RISP performance vs. non-RISP performance?
First and 3rd no out, 2nd and 3rd 1out, 2nd and 3rd 2 out, TYMs. We suck so much.
BTW Headline reads Saturday which threw me off.
Does Trevi ever throw anyone out anymore?
Trevi -4 CS above average, Wells +1. Will Smith +10.
Such a simple magic recipe – with no one in scoring position, they can’t be stopped.
Gleyber was good, Judge was better.
Can’t believe how lost Volpe is. So disappointing.
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Judge’s HR was impressive – after all the balls hit with the right trajectory with no real force, that one was crushed.
Volpe is worse than very bad right now, 2/25 080. His OPS is 666, exactly like last year after a super hot start.
Rodon being Rodon.
impressed by that bunt call post hr. Cora is a pretty good feel manager
O’Neill is a guy Rodon should be pitching around with a in lead.
Rodon is such a loser.
yay tigers
We’re not going to score again, are we?
Why should they? Unless they pitch to Judge, and he hits his second of the day.
What is the rationale for playing Volpe every single damn day?
He’s listed at 5’9″. He doesn’t look that small but it’s nuts to run a guy out there for months on end without any days off when he sucks.
Maybe he’s tired!
They did the same in 2023. I have no idea what they are doing with him.
Volpe is not a light hitting infielder any more, hes a no hitting infielder. Can they really go into the post season with him playing every day?
They can’t be as rudderless as they were with IKF and declare him the present and future and swap him out in the post. That was kind of embarrassing and he isn’t quite the same liability. The problem was giving him the job to begin with and then not admitting that his hitting needs improvement.
His approach is not working so what is the coaching staff doing?
Trevi’s offense and defense have deteriorated
Kirschner Volpe Entered today’s game with the fourth-worst wRC+ since June 1.
is that worse than vertigo?
looked it up.
volpe is now 2 with 59. vertigo 8 with 67.
i expect if i changed the minimum at bats we’d see more yanks on the last page.
Only the Yankees would have Chisholm as their cleanup hitter.
the joke’s on cora, volpe is worse against lefties (somehow) than righties.
Walks the Martian from his bad side to face Volpe.
Contact, he made contact.
i want this guy on a steady diet of chicken parm for the rest of the year.
Volpe, so bad.
That Boone let Volpe hit is just more proof that he’s an idiot. Maybe they win and it doesn’t mean anything but it does. Because you can’t win a WS if you’re managed by an idiot.
Sure you can, if they all get hot at once.
That’s how they won in the first part of the season – everyone was so good that Boone just couldn’t find a decision that would actually hurt them.
Holmes only threw 5 pitches. Does Boone tempt fate?
Yes. Batter to batter?
O’s lose.
“You walk too fast, Michael”
“You liked it when we were walking fast in San Francisco”
Ummm
Day off tomorrow in I would’ve hit Wells for Trevi.
Waldo two hits, Volpe hopeless, Waldo back in quarantine.
Sure, why not hit the leadoff batter.
Keep changing pitchers until you find the guy who doesn’t have it today.
Should have left Holmes in to try to finish.
Keep using pitchers until you find the guy who doesn’t have it.
i like the way kahnle runs in
FFS. A mess of their [Hamilton’s] own making.
Yay win. Yay judge. And Stanton. And Kahnle. Boo Boone. Yay tigers.
Nice! Yay win.
yay 3 games up
Can I gt the postgame live anywhere online?
I think only if you subscribe to YES
Off to Seattle.
for the rest of the season i’d like to see
the yanks start hitting and pitching like may
judge to hit 60
jasson to do martian things
the dodgers to get surpassed by the fathers
boone to announce his retirement
anything i’ve missed?
All the others for your last point.
Cashman riding off into the sunset.
Katie Sharp. Pretty, pretty good
Yankees 6-Out Save with 5+ K:
Luke Weaver 9/13/2024 vs Red Sox
Goose Gossage 5/23/1982 vs Twins
*since saves became official in 1969
Ben Rice after his 3HR game: 32 G, .112 BA and a .443 OPS with a 32% K-rate (and a 10.4% BB-rate).
Rizzo since coming off the IL: 13 G, .191 BA and a .539 OPS with a 19% K-rate (and a 8.5% BB-rate).
I don’t think Luke Voit is playing anywhere this season and is only 33.
Sheesh, based on this graph on Reddit, 1B is just a blackhole across MLB anyway.
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1fi4mup/mlb_wins_above_average_by_position/
Is Tony Womack available?
Or better, Miguel Cairo
Former Yankee Jake Bauers is playing 1B (86 OPS+) for a really good Brewers team.
Greg Bird is only 31, and hasn’t been seen in the majors for five years.
Moose Skowron?
Mattingly looks pretty fit.
What is the deal with Voit?
Greg Bird has a .979 OPS with Jalisco.
I don’t have anything against the Orioles, good young club, but it is extremely funny to me that they’re going to finish second
BA: Da future:Spencer Jones put his name in a chapter of the record books he’d rather avoid …
He has the most strikeouts ever by a Yankees minor leaguer.
I’ve said in the past, try Stanton at first base.
That they haven’t done this in 5+ years says that either cashboone is an idiot or Stanton can’t do it. I think it’s the former.
(Sort of like a football coach knowing his kicker might be hurt and having no backup plan when the kicker can’t kick. Grrrr)
Stanton is pretty clutzy now. I don’t see it.
Stanton is pretty stiff, I can’t see ever developing the flexibility or nimbleness that 1B requires.
I think it’s interesting how tremendously crappy 1B is in the ML. There’s Harper, Guerrero Jr., Freeman and that’s about it, the only three with a wRC+ better than 130. Alonso is meh, but he’s the only MLB 1B with more than 30 HRs. In 2019 there were 11 with more than 30 HRs and 9 with a wRC+ better than 130.
20 years ago there were quite a few elite hitters at 1B like Bagwell, Thome, Helton, Giambi, Ortiz, Teixeira etc. Now it’s mostly AAAA guys like Bauers, Spencer Steer, Michael Busch, Mountcastle, etc. eeking out 1-2 WAR seasons.
Odd. Seems like an obvious place to get ahead of the league, given all that.
Well, 20+ years ago, a bunch of those guys were juicing. Probably only Tex wasn’t among the ones you mentioned.
Haven’t looked into it, is this a multi-year phenomenon or just a 2024 thing?
If it’s a multi-year thing, I wonder if we’ll see a significant change to the positional adjustment.
I didn’t a do a real deep dive but that graph I posted above got me thinking. I found an article from 2020 that posited there was truth to the dearth of first baseman but it was a normal ebb and flow. I started thinking that maybe pro teams don’t see much of value in 1B, but the Yankees are paying good money for Rizzo so it’s not like they intentionally shied away from spending at the position.
Just interesting. I used Kent Hrbek as an answer to the immaculate grid and I was looking at his stats … he was a real good hitter!
Why would those adjustments be made by fiat and not via an equation keying them to year-by-year performance?