September 4, 2025

47 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Goldschmidt nursing knee sprain, to be evaluated ahead of St. Louis set”

  1. Why the fuck didn’t they just take him out of the game then when he hurt it rather than having him run out a double?!

    This is the same team that ran Teixeira out there for some three weeks with a cracked bone in his leg.

    1. Caballero is here because Cashman’s trade-deadline apocalypse needed a fourth horseman.

      But what the team really needs is not a Horseman, but a Centaur.

  5. The other teams all losing or all winning shouldn’t affect in the slightest whether you’re pissed at the team. It’s got nothing to do with this team’s performance, for one thing. For another, if the other teams all lost, that’s a chance to actually gain ground on them, and you only get a certain number of those. By absolutely equivalent logic, you could be ESPECIALLY pissed – they had a chance to actually gain on ALL THOSE TEAMS, and wasted it, cementing themselves where they are.
    Similarly, bad hitting isn’t via some incomprehensible metaphysics justified by worse pitching, just as bad pitching isn’t saved in some way by worse hitting. We SHOULD be pissed at bad hitting and bad pitching.

    1. Clearly, the best pitchers tend to win most of their games, so when you’re facing the best pitchers, you’re probably going to lose.

      So if all your opponents also lose that same day, that’s nice.

    2. 100% the guys on TV always focus on what the other team did. We had a chance to gain. We had a chance to not lose ground. Just gotta win and not roll over and play dead every time you face a top level pitcher.
      Like Paul said yesterday about pitches you can’t hit, something like he’s faced thousands of pitches and some of the time he’s gotten hits off the best pitches. We underperform expectations against good pitchers. With a few exceptions we are not a smart hitting team.

    3. Yes, it’s nice. But does it comfort you if you lose, because you didn’t lose ground, or does it frustrate you if you lose, because you didn’t GAIN ground? Those two things are almost the same, but the second makes more sense. The central problem, after all, is you losing. Win and all the other issues go away.

    3. He hit 345 last year with RISP. It takes one year for the effect of the stink to take place.

    3. Except that bubble has burst and I was one of his biggest fanboys. In August he’s hitting 137/246/196

  14. Rice being able to actually handle the catcher position is huge for the team going forward. Wells as the BACKUP catcher is a hell of a lot easier to deal with. And you should be able to pick up a first baseman who can hit a little for cheap (preferably a righthanded one).

  15. If Volpe never improves and Wells was an illusion, then this team isn’t what we hoped.
    If Dominguez, in turn, has no power (how is that POSSIBLE!), then we need to change how we think about this team entirely.
    It is now a team has to put everything into winning next year. It’s no longer a team with a young core to develop for years to come, it’s a team that needs to win while it has Cole and Friend and Rodon and Judge, before they lose them or they age out of their primes.

    1. I second the motion. Not only that they need to go
      All in for 2026 but that the late 2020s are going to remind me of the early 1990s.

  16. Volpe is having a better year than the last two. We’ll see if it continues. Wells being the worst hitter in baseball, close with James Wood, is hard to explain. But IMO if The Martian has no power that’s on Rowson and Boone.

  17. One of the most inexplicable free agent decisions ever.

    Indeed. Spend a few more years with prime Judge, or make a few million dollars more and play with the Boys of Shea.

    1. He didn’t even make the All Star team!! He went from being one of the most popular players in the game by being paired with Judge (and also, you know, JUST making the World Series) to not even being popular enough to be one of THREE outfielders in the National League! All so he could make $51 million a year instead of $49 million a year.

      What a total dunce.

    2. It’s not like the Yankees are lighting baseball on fire though.

      How can we bitch and complain about this team and how its run and also blame a guy for walking away from it?

    3. I’m saying that for his own self, both publicity-wise, and production-wise, so long as the money was close, he was better off here. So him leaving over a couple of million dollars a year seems really foolish.

    2. Is Boston’s package light year less than that? Why would teams ask for so much more from NYA that they guarantee not getting more from them than from other teams?

  19. No Stanton
    T Grisham (L) CF
    B Rice (L) C
    A Judge (R) DH
    C Bellinger (L) 1B
    J Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
    A Volpe (R) SS
    J Domínguez (S) LF
    R McMahon (L) 3B
    J Caballero (R) RF

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