From Bryan Hoch:
Jazz Chisholm Jr. raised his bat high and angled his body as though attempting to steer his seventh-inning drive, savoring the ensuing celebration as his second home run of the game capped a historic weekend.
With some assistance from their new “Torpedo” lumber, Chisholm and his teammates are blasting the ball at a record-breaking pace. The Bombers cracked another four home runs on Sunday, powering a 12-3 victory over the Brewers that completed a sweep of the three-game series at Yankee Stadium.
“I love my bat, you know what I mean?” said Chisholm, who hit a two-run home run in the third inning and a three-run shot in the seventh. “I think you can tell; it’s working pretty well for me.”
Boy, do I hate this fucking bat rhetoric. Jazz Chisholm hit 11 home runs for the Yankees in, like, 40 games. The guy has power, so to try to tie his home run success to a new bat seems so silly. It just seems so dismissive of the success of the these Yankee hitters in the first three games of the season.
Especially since Judge, Bellinger, and Goldschmidt aren’t even USING the new bats!
In any event, the Yankees hitters put on another show in Game 3, disguising the mediocre pitching efforts of Marcus Stroman, who had decent stuff today, but located it terribly at times. He mentioned later on the Jake Bauers home run that he basically put it on a tee for Bauers.
I fear that the offense is going to HAVE to mash if they’re going to get past some of these pitchers. Cashman might have to make a move eventually, but obviously things will look a LOT better when Luis Gil and Clarke Schmidt are back in the rotation, and Cookie Carrasco is gone, and one of either Will Warren or Marcus Stroman (whichever one pitches the best) is the new #5 starter.
The real tricky thing, of course, is what do if Stroman IS the best #5 starter later in the season, but you sure as fuck don’t want to let his option vest for next season by hitting 140 innings. Oh well, those are problems for future Cashman.
For now, let’s just celebrate this amazing offense, and be annoyed at the dumb bat rhetoric.
The featured image is Jazz trying to sort of will his three-run home run to stay fair with his bat.
I was gonna say the bats wouldn’t be a story if they weren’t called for by the stat nerds, but of course if they came from the trunk of some chaw-spitting octagenarian with leathered skin and squinty eyes we’d have the “old school scouts out-clever the nerds” stories up to our eyeballs.
It’s just so hilarious that these bats have been with EVERY MLB team ALL Spring Training, but it wasn’t until Michael Kay mentioned something about it on YES that everyone suddenly paid attention to it.
I mean I can believe they do help, but they’re not gonna turn Oswaldo Cabrera into Miguel Cabrera. Still for a good player a marginal upgrade might have outsize results. We’ll see,
Like, I don’t have the math to think about this properly, but where’s the point at which X% more barrels becomes significant? 1%? 5%?
But has a Yankee catcher ever brought a torpedo bat to a leadoff AB?
That’s a great picture of Jazz, isn’t it?
Anyone else having the site load slowly the last couple days? Although in general it works much better than it used to
The bat sure hasn’t helped Volpe so far. Too bad that he isn’t allowed to use an oar shaped bat.
Royals 11
Brewers 1
Maybe it’s not the bats.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar is being suspended for 80 games for violating MLB’s PED policy, sources confirm to ESPN. First with the news was @mikedeportes
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https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1906827200894054580
Huh, I wonder why he had a career year out of nowhere last season…
It’s all in the lower body
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Wait a minute, wasn’t Tatis suspended a few years back? The Padres suspected nothing? 😏
Lower body indeed, Bop, that’s why athletes follow a long course of testosterone with a course of hCG…
Neither rain nor snow
NYRA cancels Sundays card due to loud music at the auto show at the casino that wont allow you to watch or bet the host tracks races.
Game’s in GREAT shape though.
Gleyber to the IL.
Crochet extended by the Red Sox. 6 years/$170 million.
Judge now has a slight edge in career WRC+ over Bonds. Wow.
But in reality, I doubt that Judge will be able to hold onto that for his career. Also, what was Bonds’ wRC+ prior to his massive body change with PEDs?
Oh, totally he can’t keep it up, but it’s still shocking.
That is shocking! I actually looked it up myself because I didn’t believe you. It is amazing how Judge’s feats are now mentioned along side the true legends of the sport.
I never believed I’d be fortunate enough to see another Barry Bonds. I feel lucky to get this version even if Judge doesn’t quite feel like the indestructible, cyborgian menace that Bonds presented at his peak.
Dominic Smith re-signed on a minor league deal.
That has to be embarrassing to have to come crawling back like that.
Yankees add Ottavino to 26 man, Devin Williams to PL.
MLB Network
Aaron Judge’s last 134 regular season games:
.358/.492/.802, 58 HR, 142 RBI
Babe Ruth’s 1927 season (151 games):
.356/.486/.772, 60 HR, 165 RBI
Wow!
Orioles acquired Cody Poteet. Grrr.
Poteet larceny.
Not to be confused with petty Larseny, which is when you throw one perfect inning in the World Series.
Congrats and best of health to Devin Williams and family. May your child also bend air.
And welcome back, Otter.
I wonder if the impending birth was in his head on opening day
Good call.
+14 run differential for… your first place Chicago White Sox
unpossible
I hate this nonsense about how now Ohtani and Judge are two of the best contracts out there. That’s just how contracts fucking work, dudes. The market keeps going up, so the previous “high” level guys, provided that they are still performing at a high level, look better. But time doesn’t work that way. When they signed their contracts, they were getting peak value. Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander got paid a LOT, just because other dudes eventually made more doesn’t mean that they weren’t making a TON of money.
Somebody should explain to Hal that this’ll be true for anyone he signs now in a couple of years.
The headline in the Post tomorrow after Burnes shuts them down on, like, one hit, better be “Torpedoed.”
Of course, we’ll get that exact same headline if they kick ass (with a picture of a frustrated Corbin).
Will Warren vs Corbin Burnes should put a heft dent in our Pythag.
Ay-yep. Won’t be hearing so much about the Yankee cheating after tonight.
Why is it that impossible that Warren pitches well?
Unlikely, but boy, it’d be awesome if he did!