December 11, 2024

77 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Cole steps up like an ace as Yanks close gap in AL East

  1. Pinstripe Alley has Ramirez as their #3 prospect behind the big dawgs and just ahead of Rice.
    Ramirez led all of Double-A with home runs while posting a borderline elite strikeout-walk ratio. Ramirez is flat-out a better hitter than Sánchez ever was, with only slightly less raw power. In all, Ramirez could be a middle-of-the-order masher regardless of what position he ultimately plays.

    Hit: 55 | Power: 70 | Run: 30 | Field: 45 | Throw: 55 | OFP: 60

    Hampton is #5 and he finally had his first rehab and it didn’t go well at Tampa.

    1. I love Ramirez overall, and I’ve even noted that they might want up consider trading Trevy this offseason if Ramirez is ready, but for a temp fill in, I still think you go Narvaez.

  2. Top 15
    OF Jasson Domínguez (Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre)
    OF Spencer Jones (Double-A Somerset)
    C/1B Agustin Ramirez (Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre)
    1B/C Ben Rice (New York Yankees)
    RHP Chase Hampton (Double-A Somerset)
    LHP Henry Lalane (FCL Yankees)
    RHP Will Warren (Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre)
    SS George Lombard Jr. (Low-A Tampa)
    SS Jared Serna (High-A Hudson Valley)
    SS/3B Enmanuel Tejeda (Low-A Tampa)
    RHP Carlos Lagrange (FCL Yankees)
    INF Caleb Durbin (Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre)
    2B Jorbit Vivas (Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre New York Yankees)
    RHP Zach Messinger (Double-A Somerset)
    OF Jace Avina (High-A Hudson Valley)

  3. Booner can decide whether to leadoff the guy with a 163/461 the last 28 days or the guy with the 194/508 the last 28 days and since the 194/508 guy is going so well as is the 2b with a 203/627 only a fool would want to play Vivas who’s only here to keep the bench warm for Cash’s find who’s hitting 077 for the Yankees.

    A Verdugo (L) LF
    J Soto (L) DH
    A Judge (R) RF
    B Rice (L) 1B
    G Torres (R) 2B
    A Wells (L) C
    A Volpe (R) SS
    T Grisham (L) CF
    D LeMahieu (R) 3B

    1. GM to Manager: “Your team lost every game this season except the last one!”
      Manager to GM: “But remember, it could be worse.”

  4. No reason to have pinch run for Trevi with a man on 2nd late and
    close!
    Hoch
    No update yet on the severity of Jose Trevino’s quad injury. He is on his way back to New York for testing. Aaron Boone said that Austin Wells will see more starts, and they also have confidence in Carlos Narvaez’s defense. Ben Rice will remain mostly a first baseman for now

  5. i wouldn’t mind if Rice could be someone’s personal catcher so he could keep developing a bit. maybe he could even throw a runner or two out?

    sitting Vivas is so typical and dumb

    1. Somehow it seems worse than typical. And dumber.
      So frustrating. Infuriating. Sad.

  6. Perfect time to give DJ and Gleyber a day off each. If Boone and Cash were in charge at the time Woemack wouldve stayed at 2b and Cano in AAA.

    1. Not having them is insane.
      There’s just no argument for getting it wrong. Let along getting it wrong all the f(*ing time. It does NOT make the game better.

  7. I mean, it’s not like I didn’t expect this, but it’s still very annoying. Given a 4-run lead, and he throws two balls to open up the 1st and then gives up a leadoff single.

    So goddamn expected.

    1. Loss of focus, which is the bane of many guys who have really good stuff but fail.

    2. And that’s where it kills me with them having a good pitching coach, because if you don’t pay attention, then what does it matter if your coach is good or not? That’s why I like the idea of just picking up no-name pitchers, see if they will listen to Blake, and if they don’t, cut them and try the next live arm.

    3. “And that’s where it kills me with them having a good pitching coach, because if you don’t pay attention, then what does it matter if your coach is good or not?”

      Gil is light years better this year than he’s ever been. Clearly, he DOES pay attention – even if he does have occasional lapses.

    4. As much as I love Blake, I actually tend to give Cole more of the credit with Gil. But yes, that he can listen to Cole IS a good sign, fair enough, my apologies, Luis!

  8. In terms of frustrating things they keep doing, I prefer their annoying habit of scoring in the first and then stopping versus not scoring in the first after having the bases loaded (and then not scoring period).

    1. The eye pointing this is a pretty standard jock thing. There’s a couple of different variations on it, like “Eyes on the prize” but also “Look at me, look at me, we’re doing this.”

  9. Robot umps would make having a good eye much more meaningful. One day they WILL do it. Why the hell have we been waiting all these years?

    Gleyber (what kind of a name is Gleyber, btw?) had a pretty good 2-strike approach.

    And all you guys are suddenly gone.

    1. Wait, why are you still in this thread? Didn’t you make the actual game thread (which I only found after everyone “vanished” for 2 innings)? ))))

    1. In all seriousness, they have two starters. When they’re pitching, you can tune in. Then just pray some crazy shit happens in the other three games, like the bullpen pitching innings 3-9 every game.

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