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Monday, August 11, 2014

Yanks Lose Again

This is getting ridiculous, and it at least partly a product of the short bench the Yanks have whole Joe Girardi gets to change pitchers after every pitch if he wants to.   Just a mind boggling performance as the Yanks are indeed falling out of both the Eastern race and the the WC races with these losses.  Sure they might get hot and get back into the WC, but it's not looking like it. and they have an offense that is just too easy to shut down.

And speaking of offense, Refsnyder, Roller, Judge, Jagielo, Payton and Bridges have all homered so far tonight.

Something's got to give here.   They need a spark or two.

posted by Kalel9 @ 8:08 PM

8 Comments:

At 8:12 PM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

What made the Yankees great under Stick? The willingness to trust young players?

The unwillingness to continue to do that through the '00s to the present under Cashman is why they are in decline.

Ironically, Cashman was rewarded the few times he did trust young players, the prominent examples being Cano, Wang, and various members of the pen. I don't include Gardner because his ascension has been much more incremental.

Now, whether its Murphy, or Refsndyer, or Mitchell or Pirela,,there is a continuing desire to let even below league average players like Roberts Capuano or Prado, let alone an expensive free agent like McCann, block young players.

The result is an aging, expensive team that keeps spinning its wheels in the mud of mediocrity.

And the deer in the headlights manager makes it even worse.

 
At 4:57 AM, Anonymous MBN said...

"..Just a mind-boggling performance..."

Could not have said it better.

 
At 10:18 AM, Blogger Mike in Mississippi said...

I'm convinced Cashman wants to include guys like Pirela and Roller in a trade and doesn't want to risk exposing them to MLB pitching. That's the only explanation that makes sense in why either of those two haven't gotten a chance.

 
At 10:36 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

Mike

The only thing is, could they really bring back a lot?

And if they were called up, and were even league average, their value would be up.

So, it's possible, but I don't see a big risk/reward with calling them up, unlike say Refs.

 
At 11:11 AM, Blogger Billy Martin said...

Heard some in Yankee town think this may go down this off-season:

Severino/Sanchez/Gardner/Betances for Stanton

Thoughts?

 
At 11:18 AM, Blogger Kalel9 said...

Way too much.

 
At 11:40 AM, Blogger Mike in Mississippi said...

If they do that trade, they're dumb as hell.

 
At 11:49 AM, Blogger Lawyer in NJ said...

The problem is that they have way too many holes and way too large a payroll to do that kind of trade.

This team is a mess.

 

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