May 7, 2025

33 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Williams’ struggles return on soggy night as Yanks cough up late lead”

  1. 2nd and 3rd two out 3-2 lead. Did it occur to Boone to walk the better hitter and face the worse hitter who was on deck? Most certainly not because he’s too slow during in-Game decision making.

  2. That’s my point. Boone is slow when it comes to in-game decision making. It’s why he’s always a batter too late taking out a struggling pitcher, why he’s so often wrong on pinch hitting (the unbelievably assinine decision not pinch hitting Wells), etc.
    he’s a nice guy and players like him but he’s costing them games because he’s slow to react. He needs a bench coach who isn’t scared to tell him he’s an idiot.

  3. I’m not sure it’s a matter of speed as much as him not being a good games player. I imagine he thought let’s not put another runner on and risk being down by two instead of one. And that’s as far as he went in his analysis. Many games I’ve seen him defend his decisions and it was clear his understanding was shallow.

    1. He had literally no answer for why he sent Reyes in to pinch hit

    2. That’s what kills me about him Jomboy appearances, as he’s clearly smarter than THEM, so they can never really pin him down about any of his fuckups, as Boone just talks around them, and they never call him on his shit.

    3. In 2020 in a playoff game Boone opted to use Mike Ford who OPSed 496 to pinch hit instead of Clint Frazier who OPSed 905.

    4. Boone would absolutely fold to every river jam when the flush card comes.

    5. you can’t really expect Jomboy to hammer boone, if they make him look like a fool they won’t have the same access and it would hurt their brand.

      i think they do a pretty good job all things considered but it would be funny if they went back and asked about historical decisions like ford / frazier or some of the ones like wasn’t their a time when Voit was raking and he let him sit? or sanchez?

  4. If the Yankees had signed Soto would they have also signed Fried? Probably not but what if they signed Fried before Soto came to a decision? Wouldn’t the thought of playing with Judge on a pitching staff of Cole, Fried, Gil, Rodon and Clarke have been tempting?

  7. A different question might be to you make Rice the back up catcher/back up 1b/DH? I assume they don’t think he can hack it as a catcher.

  10. The Yanks DFAed Carrasco, and called up Yerry de los Santos.

    I presume the plan is for de los Santos to help the next couple of days, and then for them to call up Winans for Carrasco’s next start.

    I’ll agree that Carasco obviously wasn’t the answer, but Will Warren isn’t, either, so I think I’d just as soon stick with Carasco while Warren works in the minors.

    1. I think there are plenty. In year one I was hoping someone would keep a record.

    2. That Escarra one really was one for the ages, though. Why in the world would there being no outs affect whether you hit Wells or Rice for Escarra?!!?

    4. I mean Carrasco and Warren can’t go 5 either, may as well give Yarbrough a shot. He has the advantage of not being wretched

  15. Hoch: The Yankees aren’t ruling out Giancarlo Stanton being ready when he’s eligible to come off the 60-day IL later this month. Aaron Boone said his rehab will look different than most since they don’t need to get him ready to play the field.

    Translation they’ll bring him back too soon and for a month he’ll be an automatic out.

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