November 10, 2025

151 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Cashman refutes Jeter, A-Rod: ‘I’ve never picked the lineup’”

  1. Again a reminder that Cashman put out a book saying they have an analytics team up the tunnel and they relay information to the manager frequently during games.

    Cashman may parse his words and say that he isn’t directly calling anyone… because that violates MLB rules, but no one for a second was implying that Cashman was making the call… just that there are front office influences and input on all decisions… like he himself detailed in the book.

    The lying and PR spin this team put out is the most infuriating thing. The stories about how it’s the fans fault and that players don’t want to come to the Yankees because of how they are treated by the fans. Or the internal evaluation of themselves that yield the shocking result of “We think we are great and aren’t doing anything wrong.” or the countless other examples… The Yankees should spend less effort on PR and more effort actually doing better.

    3. One of my earliest handles on replacementlevel back when i still bothered to switch them around was Jew For Montero. It wasn’t that clever but I was so bought into the hype and thought that guy was the future of the franchise.

      Anyway, it brings me back to the first time a prospect was called up and I saw that they were younger than me and I thought “wow, am I old”, and how of course that was a looooong time ago.

      You see, the new job’s a hassle and the kid’s got the flu, but it sure is nice kvetching to you, fam.

  4. The NY press basically let Cashman get away with saying he’s sticking with a bad manager [Boone] because every manger would be criticized just shows how out of tune Hal is. Very unserious people run this team. Cashman is a saboteur.

  6. Mutts interested in Skubal. My prediction with Kershaw retiring and Conforto’s contact up LA gets Tucker and Skubal both on team friendly contracts.

    1. Can’t see Tucker giving a team friendly contract. Skubal is arb eligible, and a FA after the 2026 season. No reason for him to give a team friendly deal either.

    3. But he’d get to play for the Dodgers!
      Odd to see that from the other side, isn’t it.

  7. This is unfair.

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    As a designated two-way player, Shohei Ohtani does not count against a team’s 13-pitcher roster limit for the postseason.

  12. I remember all of the trite comments about Steinbrenner “Would you rather have chaos in the front office? a new manager every six weeks?” etc. The pendulum has swung so far to the other side it seems unfair.

    Pendulum doing pendulum things I suppose.

    1. I think the Jays might give them some trouble, but hard to see any outcome but Dodgers winning

  15. Riding the LIRR and I see an ad for Tyrwhitt shirts showing Anthony Volpe swinging a bat.

    Unless the goal is to sell a shirt that will make you strike out I have no idea what the point of this ad is.

    3. The Volpe bar, I’m guessing, is something to use in a game of limbo, as you chant: “How low can you go, how low can you go?”

    1. It is to lessen Judge’s record of 62. They’d never do it if Ohtani had set the regular season record.

  23. Fuck the Jays. Fuck their townie like attitude. Yankees deserve to have their pathetic ALDS performance exposed.
    Vlad “I told everyone the Yankees were finished. This is Toronto’s era now, and New York can keep crying to Sinatra.”

    Go EXPATS.

  24. Sabre Politics: Per Split Ticket’s Wins Above Replacement (WAR) score, Peltola’s 2022 win over Mark Begich was the 6th biggest overperformance (out of 2,134)

    Who knew

    2. Yup. That was one terrible at bat. At 2-0 he swung at a pitch in the dirt that wasn’t close. Would have been nice to see the Big Dumper get a chance …whatever.

      I guess I want the Dodgers to win because I hate Vlad and it will just help prove the point that with no Salary cap baseball is stupid.

    2. Agreed. It also takes the winds out of the owners’ sails a bit when they lock the players out. “What do you mean, the fucking BLUE JAYS just won a fucking title.”

    1. Why would the Tigers trade him though? Maybe at the deadline if they’re out of it but they can compete again next year

    2. Yes, if by “others” you mean Cashman, Levine, Trost, and everyone in Baseball Operations. (Boone would be fired as soon as Cashman was replaced with someone accountable for their performance.)

    1. He [Ohtani] had a great game in the clincher against the Brewers, so naturally after he did nothing the first three games of the series, they still named him MVP of the NLCS.

    2. I mean, when you have one of the greatest games of all-time in a four game sweep, you’re GOING to get the MVP award. If he had gotten that if the series had gone 7, and he hadn’t done anything in the other six games, then okay, fair complaint.

    3. If it had gone 7 and he did that in the 7th game, you’d HAVE to give it to him.

  34. Klapisch: Theory One has merit. Weaver himself acknowledged he was giving away clues and needed to clean up his delivery.
    But the Yankees believed Weaver never fully grasped the severity of the problem, and he failed to address it earlier in the season.
    He told the media after getting knocked out by Toronto, “(It’s) pretty late in the adjustment period,” even though coaches and teammates, including Gerrit Cole, had been working with Weaver since mid-.summer. Yet the tipping lasted into October.

    Theory Two dates back to spring training, when Weaver showed the first signs of residual fatigue from 2024.
    “This was the same guy who was throwing 96-97 in the World Series, suddenly I’m seeing him at 91-92 (in Florida),” said one American League scout. “My first thought was, “My gosh, I hope he’s not hurt.’”
    The Yankees acknowledged the drop in velocity, but insisted they were unconcerned.
    “It’s going to take a little time to get it back,” Boone said of Weaver’s explosive fastball. “Luke threw a lot last October, so we were expecting it would take a little longer.”
    hamstring.
    “He was never the same after that,” the scout wrote in a text. “The mechanics looked different and his command went backwards from that point.”
    The radar gun readings, which had been climbing steadily through 2024 (95.7 mph), trended the other way for the first time in Weaver’s career.
    And it wasn’t just the numbers (95.1 mph) that caught scouts’ eyes. It was that unquantifiable asset called explosiveness.
    “(Weaver’s) ball just didn’t have the same finish it used to,” said another scout. “A guy like (Cam) Schlittler, his fastball has finish. It keeps carrying through the zone. Weaver didn’t have it anymore after ’24.”

    1. Beats a ring. I heard Hal gave all the players $100 YES stock certificates as a bonus.

  37. So everyone knew Weaver was losing it and tipping from spring training through the season and yet the Yankees kept running him out there.

    Volpe needed surgery but they kept running him out there with barely a Fay off.

    This is truly an organization not worth rooting for.

  41. Katie S Back-to-back games in a single postseason with:
    ✅9+ IP
    ✅4 Hits or fewer allowed
    ✅1 Run or fewer allowed

    Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2025)
    Steve Blass (1971)
    Jim Lonborg (1967)
    Sandy Koufax (1965)
    Orval Overall (1908)
    Christy Mathewson (1905)

    1. Hmmm
      Blass was out of baseball 2 years later,
      Koufax out of baseball 2 years later.
      Lonborg hung around but was never as good as he was in 1967.
      And Hunter was never the same after 1975 either (except for a great 6 weeks in 1978)

      Small sample size. Eh?

    1. Never heard of him but from the stats he was a darn good pitcher for 4 years; though washed up by age 30.

    4. In the offseason, he worked in Oshkosh.

      Also, what a prescient change of surname by the Ellis Island folks. His paternal grandpa was born Johannes Uberalles.

    6. Sing it with me: no one’s names were changed at Ellis Island. If changed it was before or most likely after.

    7. Godfather II wasn’t a documentary?

      Nor was it an inerrant source of truth, not just divinely inspired but written by the very Deity?

    1. his natural position, that the yanks were uninterested in seeing in ‘24.

      i am so annoyed at all the missed chances, especially with the early exit this year. ill never stop asking why they ran with verdugo and rizzo. oh well

  44. Have I ever mentioned that I hate Chapman? In a recent interview he said if he was traded to the Yankees he’d quit because of how badly the front office treated him here. Now I hate him even more. The word is “shmuck”.
    A team that traded for him when no one wanted him after his domestic abuse, gave him a fat contract, watch him pitch like a loser (giving up season ending HRs in 2019 and 2020), totally suck in 2022 (negative WAR)….then have his best season ever at age 37 (steroids anyone?) …and talk smack? Schmuck.

    1. Schmuck? Yes, certainly.
      Steroids? Quite plausibly, though I don’t think it’d be a new thing for him. He seemed pretty roid-ragey a decade ago.

    1. Double terrible. Bad call. Late call. Only the highest rated umps should be calling balls and strikes in the post season. At least in the Super Bowl the NFL only uses the highest rated officials.

    3. He messed himself up when he got caught stealing against the Yankees with an awful slide in the 2024 WS.

  83. I can’t believe I’m still up watching this. I got a better shot of seeing the ending if I go to bed now and get up in the morning in time for the 34th.

  89. Wow. Just caught up with that.
    I may not be a fan of the series or the matchup, but that has to be one of the greatest games in the history of the sport.
    And Freddie Freeman, I may not love the dude, but he has to be right there in that list with Gibson, Leyritz and so forth.
    Unbelievable.

  90. And what an incredible game by Ohtani.
    Can’t hate that guy anymore if I tried. I mean, wow.
    The Dodgers really are the Yankees.
    Hal must have a warm, proud feeling inside as he imagines George looking down/up at him and what the Yankees now mean in baseball.

  91. Ohtani reached base 9 times? Has anyone ever done that?
    Freddie with a walk off WS HR for the second year in a row? Wow.
    I read somewhere that the Yankees were in on Freddie but went with the cheaper shorter term Rizzo instead. True? If so, it’s as bad as when they cheaped out on Verlander.

    That’s the story of the last 15 years – always a player short because they are too cheap to make the final big move.

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