December 11, 2024

54 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Holy Crap, Do the Yankees Stink

    1. No words to express how much I agree with this. I’d completely accept this if it got rid of Boone.
      The only problem is the following sentence:
      BUT
      IT
      WON’T.

  1. I was a Girardi fan, of course, but obviously, the same thing that got him not asked back here led to him getting fired by the Phillies, so clearly there might be a limit to his approach. HOWEVER, it is absolutely BONKERS how much better he was as a manager than Boone, and it is kind of funny how much Girardi has taken on this sort of, like, mystique, just by virtue of NOT being Boone, ya know?

    Like, fans were ready to see Girardi go, and now, the dude trends every day on social media from fans wanting him back, almost certainly just because Boone is simply THAT BAD.

    1. I now know that my ideal manager is the preserved head of Don Zimmer.

  2. Brian, I think I agree with every word you wrote. The line-up, the approach, how transformative a few bats would be, how if you can’t get an actually good player (your Jonathan India, and you can be in charge of getting his hair cut), don’t throw away actually trade chips on mediocrities – everything.

    Thank God I didn’t watch that game. Like a fool, I did glance at the score when they went from 4-3 to 7-4.
    And yes, like you guys, I was sure they’d lose.

  3. If the Yankees continue to suck enough to get Boone fired, if that’s possible, is we’ll have to kiss Soto goodbye. He wants to go somewhere with a future, not a past.

    1. It’s possible they’ll suck enough that Soto will refuse to even consider comng back.
      It’s not possible that they’ll suck enough to get Boone fired.

    1. Probably not. He’ll need to be DFA’d. Same with Verdugo.

      I sure hope the Yankees go all in and trade the farm for Skubal and a struggling veteran on an expensive contract so they can lose to Cleveland in the first round.

    2. So, Chris, instead you’d trust them to develop talent out of their minor leagues? 😉

  4. The pitching his been abominable. The bullpen has been dreadful. Does Blake’s Magic© even tell Boone that he needs to give Holmes some work? If he doesn’t, yikes. If he does, that means Boone ignores it. Either way, what a mess.

  5. Craig Mish: Marlins and Yankees are in deep talks on a deal that would send Jazz Chisholm, Jr. to New York per source. Three prospects in return.

  6. WHAT! I don’t like this.
    :52pm: Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic tweets that the sides have agreed to a deal. Catching prospect Agustin Ramirez headlines the three-player return, according to ESPN’s Alden González

    1. Cashman telllng Hal, look I did something. Hal, nods, nice, have you seen the receipts, $$$$!

      Cashman the Saboteur©.

    2. Oof, do not like this trade. Chisholm is interesting as an athlete, but significantly less so as a productive baseball player. I mean, he certainly improves the Yankees, but what wouldn’t at this point?

    1. Midseason 50 last week. Suffice to say it’s highly likely he’ll be the best prospect moved at this deadline

    2. Damn them to hell.
      I may come to listen and talk to you guys, but I hereby renounce this team.

  7. I wrote three threads ago that I bet that’s who they get. (“Jazz”)
    And how pointless it would be.
    Jeez, they suck.
    I may have to just quit baseball, it’s torture.
    Or root for, say, the Reds. The Reds are kind of cool.

    1. As I said above, it is Cashman being able to tell Hal that he did something. And Hal falling for it.

  8. God damn I hate these people.
    Bebop wrote in this thread: “He wants to go somewhere with a future, not a past.”
    That’s really eating at me. Why do I have to continue to root for this team just because I used to like them?

  9. The more I think about it the less I hate this move. I don’t love it, or even particularly like it, but if Chisholm is the 3B going forward, it does improve the Yankees. Of course, I expect the Yankees to do a weird thing and move Gleyber to 3B and make Chisholm the 2B.

    1. If you’re going to give up value, give up more and get something really worth having.

    1. IDK what the Yankees are going to do this year, but I think Chisholm is the 2B for the next few years.

      Chisholm hasn’t played any 3B…

  10. Randy Miller I’m hearing Yankees are in serious talks to acquire Rays closer Pete Fairbanks.

    RAB Ehhh. Fastball velocity, strikeout rate, swing-and-miss rates are all way down this year. Always a price where it makes sense though.

    Sounds about right

  11. I don’t hate the Chisholm move, but yeah, for Ramirez, you’d like to have gotten India instead.

    The fact of the matter, though, is that A. Austin Wells is the Yankees catcher of the present AND future, so it makes sense to deal Ramirez if you’re going to deal someone, B. Chisholm is under team control for the next TWO seasons. That’s a lot of control, and most importantly, C
    The Reds aren’t trading India.

    1. Where’s he going to play? They need to trade Gleyber or Verdugo, or move Gleyber to 3b where he played a little in the minors, or bury Dominguez in the minors.

      Gleyber’s OPSing 1102 over the last 14 days and 850 over the last 28 days. Third base is the black hole. If he plays CF that makes Verdugo the odd man out when Stanton returns and it leaves no room for The Martian.

    2. My very slightly positive view of the trade is definitely based on this, in some way, significantly cutting into playing time for DJLM and Cabrera. If they just put Chisholm into the OF… what the fuck is the point?

    3. Yeah, I’m not thrilled about “punting” on 3B defense, but the offensive upgrade is almost certainly worth it.

    4. “The Reds aren’t trading India.”

      …until he goes to the Red Sox tomorrow for an injured player in A-ball.

    5. …or more poetically yet, to the Devil Rays in a straight-up trade for Ramirez.

  12. O’s lose again. Last year it was the easiest Over of any O/U in years. This year I had serious questions about their pitching, starters getting injured, the bullpen. Boston to win the AL East if they get a good starter at the deadline.

    1. O’s lose again. Last year it was the easiest Over of any O/U in years. This year I had serious questions about their pitching, starters getting injured, the bullpen. Boston to win the AL East if they get a good starter at the deadline.

      Last year they definitely played a bit over their heads, but not so much that you would think they’d suck as much as the Yankees, and yet here we are. It’s really fascinating.

    2. It is interesting that both teams have collapsed in similar ways at the same time.

  13. The Chisholm deal is like the Stroman deal – they’re satisfied these days with solving a problem with “okay, not really great.”

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