August 27, 2025

30 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Bednar turns back Boone, completes 5-out save as Yanks snap skid”

  2. Tuesday was the first time I’ve ever thought that Cashman might finally make a move with Boone.

    I held my breath every time I checked a news site on Wednesday.

    With the day off today, it would have been perfect to flush him yesterday or this morning.

    I’m a Cashman guy, his strengths are impressive, and I’m sure the next person will be worse, but, especially with the Dodgers comments last October, and A-Rod and Jeter’s comments recently, I just don’t get how Cashman doesn’t see it.

  3. “I feel a lot better about next season knowing Bednar is there to be the closer.”

    I think we felt a lot better about this season knowing Weaver was there to be the closer. He looked like Mo when he found his cutter.
    And then he came into the season and went game after game without giving up a single run. There’s no reason to talk about “his peak last season.”
    Then suddenly everyone who was simultaneously great in the 1st 1/3 of the season suddenly simultaneously fell off a cliff into suckitude. Pitching, hitting, defense, baserunning, everything. Everything! In the blink of an eye.
    Given how statistically unlikely that would be, the most reasonable posit is that the Yankees were cursed. I mean, there are tons of people who hate the Yankees. What are the chances that NONE of them has magical powers?
    One thing that tells us is that Judge would be batting .500 with 97 home runs this year if the curse hadn’t been laid.
    The other is to ask: if Weaver suddenly went from a zero ERA to unreliable, why should anyone have faith in any other closer, including Bednar?

  4. Watching the Mets also lose again and again….maybe it’s the water in nyc? The players go home in the offseason and get healthy water, start the season playing great and then fade. Because they are drinking nyc water! It takes a while to take effect but once it does they can’t hit or pitch any more …that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it until
    Someone proves me wrong.

    1. The Mets only lost in order to help Cleveland which hurts the Yankees which is why they exist.

  12. ‪@slangsonsports.bsky.social‬
    Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw, who face off Friday, first opposed each other on September 7, 2008

    They’re the first duo in MLB history to start against each other as rookies and accumulate 3,000+ career strikeouts

    h/t @EliasSports

    1. Amazingly, that game you mentioned, they were each spot starters who had to fill in for veteran pitchers who couldn’t make those starts. Those vets? Randy Johnson (Arizona) and Greg Maddux (Los Angeles).

      So two Hall of Famers were scratched from their starts, and BOTH rookies who replaced them ALSO went on to become Hall of Famers. That’s fucking WEIRD.

    2. Also, that just reminded me that the Yankees presumably could have had Max Scherzer for Ian Kennedy. I understand that Curtis Granderson was a very good return for Kennedy (and Austin Jackson), but, well, DANG!

      (At the time, I’ll admit that Scherzer didn’t seem like some huge “get”).

  13. So the Marlins wanted either Lombard or Jones for Alcantara, and the Athletics wanted either Lombard or Jones PLUS one of the top Yankee starting pitchers in the minors (like Hess or Cunningham).

    I think Bednar was likely the better alternative than paying that price for Miller.

    1. I will agree with you strongly on this until we inevitably see them somehow ruin Spencer and Lombard when they get to the majors. Has there been a single Yankee minor leaguer in the last two full decades, excepting only Judge, who has actually become a star with the team?
      I’m bursting with confidence in their ability to handle Spencer well.

  15. I just got the latest issue of the Hall of Fame’s magazine with features on all the players who were inducted (the CC feature went with … his pit stop in Milwaukee, for some reason.)

    All the teams that were the primary spot for the guys inducted took out nice full-page ads thanking them. Pirates had a very nice one for Dave Parker, Philly did a page for Dick Allen (and even a half page for Billy Wagner).

    Yanks’ full-pager for CC was the only one in the mag that attached an ad for tickets and their social handles on the Thank You.

    Cheesedick organization.

  17. Has there been a single Yankee minor leaguer in the last two full decades, excepting only Judge, who has actually become a star with the team?

    And Judge hired his own personal hitting coach.

    1. And who can say that Judge, too, wouldn’t have been even better – or better earlier – with a team that DOES know how to develop talent?

    2. Indeed. Recall what Richard Schenck said about the poor development in the Yankees MiL system a year ago. Cashman has been past his use by date since 2017; no one keeps a GM around for 27 seasons.

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