October 8, 2024

72 thoughts on “Yankees (86-63) vs. Red Sox (75-74) Sunday, September 15, 2024, 1:35 PM EDT

  1. 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.

  2. 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!

    1. 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?

    1. 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.

  3. 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.

    1. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

    1. 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)

    2. Stanton is pretty stiff, I can’t see ever developing the flexibility or nimbleness that 1B requires.

  8. 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.

    1. Well, 20+ years ago, a bunch of those guys were juicing. Probably only Tex wasn’t among the ones you mentioned.

    2. 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.

    3. 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!

    4. Why would those adjustments be made by fiat and not via an equation keying them to year-by-year performance?

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