October 8, 2024

14 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Soto stuns Sox with first walk-off in pinstripes

  1. Judge hit three balls really hard and had four outs to show for it while his weakest EV went for a single. Hardest hit ball of the night went to Jasson at 108.5 mph.

    Nestor seems to have finally broken out of his funk, only two stinkers out of his last six starts and one appearance and in the other five, he’s given up a total of 2 runs in 30 IP.

  2. Yeah, I think Cole, Rodon, Cortes/Gil is the post-season rotation. Schmidt and Stroman in the pen. Stroman can at least get groundballs.

    Rizzo, man. The Yankees have paid $50m for him to produce 2.7 WAR, which includes -2.7 dWAR, over 4 years and 359 games. At some point Cashman has to stop paying a premium to try and squeeze a good season out of the last gasps of a name.

    1. I don’t know how much we can judge Rizzo’s performance when he had a major brain injury last season. Right up until the major injury to his brain, he was having an excellent season. Since the major brain injury, he’s been terrible. I don’t think you can realistically predict whether a guy is going to suffer an injury to his brain, so I think the contract he got was reasonable enough.

      And since it wasn’t something clearly measurable like a back injury or whatever, we really didn’t know WHAT he was going to be like this year. As it turns out, he now just sucks.

    2. Sure, the concussion did not help matters and it was a stark change, but last April/May is still a small sample size and he did the vast majority of his damage in Yankee stadium. His home/away splits in April and May are pretty stark. Away (98 PAs) he had a 97 wRC+ slugging .364 and at home (127 PAs) he had a 191 wRC+ slugging .625.

      He was clearly no longer the same hitter when the Cubs decided to move on from him. His last five OPS: .924, .755, .792 (Cubs)/.785 (Yankees), .807, .706, .617

  3. Stanton last 14 days 171/659 last 7 095/317
    Rizzo 177/517 143/451
    phenom 209/427 136/267
    OTOH
    Verdugo 282/702 294/839
    Waldo hitting left handed 725 for the season

  4. After Sundays loss, The Tennessee Titan coach said that had his team punted on first down every series in the second half they might have won.
    The yanks are similar. Had they cut Rizzo and DJLM and replaced them with random freely available minor leaguers they’d be in much better shape.

  5. Hoch Marcus Stroman is moving to the bullpen for this turn of the rotation, as Nestor Cortes will make his next start. Aaron Boone said that they could go five-man rotation the next time through as well.

    Stroman would be available in relief on Sunday.

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