June 6, 2025

41 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Goldy thrives in a pinch, Judge clubs No. 15 to seal win”

    1. It’s still early and there are some worrying signs. BABIP is way high, EV and hard hit% down, BB rate also a career low. He only has to be average to be a huge upgrade on the last few years, but I’m not convinced last year was a blip.

    2. On the other hand Matt Carpenter and going back a ways, David Justice and Glenallen Hill

    3. If we make a list of all the veterans cash bought here I think the bad far outweighs the good.
      Youkilis, Hafner, Vernon wells, etc

    4. I think he costs less than anyone mentioned in this thread. The Yankees paid $42m for Vernon Wells and $50m for Donaldson. Let that sink in.

      I think Cashman’s love for washed up vets is absurd most times, but Goldschmidt was a steal. He was 2 years removed from an MVP, 1 year from a 120 OPS+ season and his underlying numbers weren’t that far off his career averages.

      For a 1 year $12.5m deal, I’m surprised there wasn’t more competition.

    5. My concern with Goldschmidt is that the Yankees will think last year was a fluke and give him a 4 year 120M contract this winter and be regretting it within a year.
      Pat him on the back, let Rice/Bellinger play first and sign Tucker.

    6. Yeah that’s the fear. But I think they’ve been planning on using Rice as their everyday 1B after Rizzo, but wanted a 1 year fall back plan.

  4. Bellinger had a bad April but for May hes 286/348/452 which is a bit better than last year and in line with his carreer. If he can do that all year then it’s fine. But wow his April was terrible. 204/281/357. Putrid

    Same for Jasson who crushing it in May (273/359/606) vs April (228/317/369).
    If he’s as good as May he’s an all star. If he’s as good as April he’s a minor leaguer. Then again most of his May was from one game.

    1. It’s not Hyde’s fault that Mike Elias, despite having the okay from ownership to spend more, won’t

    2. They have a lot of young talent that isn’t showing up this season. Their pitching may not be great, but no excuse for being 15-27. The manager needs to go.

    4. Does he have the approval to spend? I’m hearing more reporting that it’s from ownership. Also, he can like, force the GM to sign some contracts you know?

    5. Saw in FG somewhere that Elias had the green light to spend, he just didn’t

  6. wheelhouse: goldschmidt real? at minimum, seems like he can hang on for a while longer if a team is willing to soft-platoon him against tougher rhp

    Dan Szymborski: Eh, there’s a lotta BABIP in there. Even giving him a higher one from his history, there’s a lot of helium

  7. HEADS UP: All games are free tomorrow including Mets/Yankees EXCEPT two games on Apple which don’t concern us. I think there’s probably still a local blackout though 🙁

  9. You know what I don’t like? People claiming that the Yankees “wasted” Miguel Andujar and Clint Frazier as trade assets. They BOTH got hurt! The Yankees didn’t “waste” shit, they both got hurt! Frazier was actively playing a big role on the team when he got hurt!

    There are plenty of dudes you can argue the Yankees should have sold high on, like Peraza or Florial, but Andujar and Frazier are the guys who get pointed to the most, and they are NOT good examples!

    1. I can’t get too worked up over not selling high on prospects. There’s too much variance and people would get all pissed off if Frazier or Andujar turned into a perennial all-star. It’s Melky+IPK all over again.

      As an aside, in 2019 the Yankees used 56 players, including a slew of young prospects during the season. Only Judge, Stanton, and DJ remain on the team.

    2. Oh, I agree that it mostly is a silly critique. Like, for instance, how the fuck could you know that you could have traded Gary Sanchez after 2017 and cleaned up and not lost much (just a single good season after 2017)? You never know how these guys will go. However, at least with guys like Peraza or Florial, you could at least say, “Oh, the Yankees could have gotten something for him in year XXXX.”

      That was never true with Andujar and Frazier, as when they were healthy, they were too important to the team to trade, and when they hurt, they had no value anymore.

    3. Before Frazier got his concussion, they did sort of jerk him around between the ML with minimal playing time and AAA for a year or so. I think there is some reasonable criticism there.

      Andujar was never really that valuable.

  12. More cashman bashing: My issue with Gary Sanchez. it would have been crazy to trade him after 2017 when he looked like a future HOFer and after 2018 his value went way down. But after 2019 they could have gotten something…And instead got the disastrous 2020 season.

    But worse; instead of just dumping him after 2021 when they could have just done addition by subtraction, they gave him another year and traded him and gio for Josh Donaldson and IKF and rotvedt. So they ended up with two more years of a high paid disaster.

    Getting DJLM was great – resigning him for 6 more was stupid.

    Getting hicks was a good move – – signing him for 7 years after one great year at age 28 was stupid. And I fear they are going to repeat that with Grisham who is clearly having a career year at age 28.

    Frankie Montas – enough said.

    Trading Montgomery for a guy in a boot.

    Letting Raul Ibanez go and signing Travis hafner for the same money instead.

    All kidding aside, what has he done? The 1998 team wasn’t his. Or 1999-2000 either mostly. Huge props for Justice trade.

    2009? Yeah when you sign the 3 biggest free agents big deal. And one of them (AJ Burnett) was a disaster in 2010-11 with one of the worst 2 year pitching lines in Yankee history.

    Highest payroll in the AL year after year; one WS appearance in 15 years. And He’ll probably get into the HOF.

    1. You should change your name to “Big Cashman Fan”. Seriously, though, I’m on the same page. Cashman could have been replaced by AI long ago and we probably wouldn’t notice. Well, except that the results would be better.

  15. No DJ

    T Grisham (L) CF
    A Judge (R) RF
    C Bellinger (L) LF
    P Goldschmidt (R) 1B
    J Domínguez (S) DH
    A Volpe (R) SS
    A Wells (L) C
    O Peraza (R) 3B
    J Vivas (L) 2B

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