Yanks Lose
posted by Kalel9 @ 7:53 PM
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
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If they want to continue to pretend to contend, they need to bring up every near ML ready arm that isn't at risk of regression if the going gets tough here. These silly Billy Eppler reclamation project shit have hit the fan.
Francesa made an amusing comment the other day. He said the test of a manager is how fast he would be hired again if he was fired, and by that test, Girardi would be hired in a second.
But obviously, that neglects his good fortune at having had the chance to manage the payroll and talent this team once had, and it neglects how he destroyed the Marlins' staff.
NYT: Girardi said he used Huff and Rogers because Dellin Betances was unavailable and Girardi was saving Shawn Kelley for the eighth inning.
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This is why he is a bad manager. Who cares about the 8th if you can't get there.
Clean house, top to bottom.
I read that quote too and was shaking my damn head.
We've lost 4/5 to the Astros this season and I don't even feel like looking up our record vs the Rangers.
The older Yankee teams were great because they DOMINATED the inferior competition, however back then there was not nearly as much parity. Even so, these teams are bad for a reason and when we look back as to why we were so far out of it, these losses are going to be the focal point.
The regression of Warren has been devastating to our bullpen.
As far as the pen goes, it's too bad Jose Ramirez has been hurt. Unfortunately, when he was up, Girardi wouldn't use him.
The real test this offseason is whether or not ownership finally realizes that they can't keep throwing money at this team and expect it to turn around quickly. The Red Sox's 2013 season happened largely because of luck, as this year has proven. It's not a recipe you can realistically expect to follow and watch it make you a World Series contender.
Whitley was sent down, and now Zelous Wheeler is up.
I get that they don't want Refsnyder in New York until 2015, but what exactly is preventing them from giving Jose Pirela a shot?
Not making the playoffs for two consecutive seasons seems likely, and really, that hasn't happened since '92-'93 because they would have made it in '94, and iirc, if there were the extra WC slot in '93, they would have made it then too.
Any way you look at it, in those years, there was plenty of room for optimism given their minor league system.
So what does Hal do?
Ideally, he cleans house, including Levine (or at least confines him to non-baseball business), and hires the best people he can find in the usual top job head hunting process.
That sounds like too much work and too much stress for Hal.
Do some of the other siblings intervene, like Jennifer (who is mature, and btw, looks like money), and sounds like she has a clue, in general.
Or do they continue to go with Cashman or Eppler? I think Eppler would be more of the same, and either will keep Girardi.
So do they sign Lester or Scherzer (nevermind what I would do), add some big bat, and then hope for the best with the declining multi-millionaires: Tex, A-Rod, Beltran, McCann, CC?
That would be my guess because the tail (revenue, ratings) is wagging the dog (on the field baseball).
The band-aid mentality reigns supreme with this lot. So bring on Lester and Scherzer, kiss half the farm goodbye for Giancarlo Stanton and get ready for more decline from the folks you just mentioned, LINJ.
Mike
As they say about second marriages, going into the offseason, it's about hope over experience.
I don't get watch day games, but I just noticed that Wheeler is the DH. Can't CC do that? ;)
This is awesome:
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2014/08/masahiro_tanaka_takes_als_ice_bucket_challenge_v.html
So the Sox are getting Castillo for a lot of money.
I have no idea if he is worth.
I do know the Yankees spent a ton a players who were very likely to decline or underperform and they have.
If he ends up being Yasiel Puig I'll be upset. But I don't think anyone is projecting him to be such, and as I mentioned before, there are other, more intriguing Cuban defectors.
That said, the fact that guys like Puig and Aroldis Chapman aren't Yankees (as well as Yu Darvish) is a major indictment on Yankees ownership.
The other question is where are the upgrades to this offense coming from, especially under 30 upgrades, at a time when offense is becoming the keys to the kingdom (<---joke).
Seriously, this team is really in offensive freefall and I don't see a path forward.
Make that a path forward they are likely to take, because they could sit their old expensive crap and play Refs and Sanchez some time next year, add in a Murphy, a Pirela, and with luck Austin, and wait for Judge whatever pops, but seriously, that is like not happening.
I expect Gardner to be part of a package for a bat. Given the need for offense with this team, I'm thinking the Yankees shoot for a three-team trade, with Gary Sanchez and Aaron Judge going to Miami and Gardner going to a third team, which will send a pitching prospect to Miami to complete the trade.
If that happens, some of the Cashman peeps will be calling him a ninja again (which may be ironic because maybe he does want to build from within; we will never know unless he leaves and says so), because to some, prospects are just prospects, and there has been a long-standing under-appreciation of Gardner by many Yankee fans.
The problem is that they have too many offensive holes for one guy to fill it, unless of course, it changes the career trajectories of the many declining hitters in their lineup. If that happens, then they will have won their bet, at least short-term.
I don't think they will trade for Stanton though because of their Beltran/A-Rod problem.
As much as it pains me to say it, look out for the Sox. It's pretty clear now that they will sign Cespedes, and possibly Lester too, and they are putting themselves in a position to have the young offensive pieces that will enable them to afford to trade prospects.
Sort of the opposite of this once great mess of an organization that we root for, that is now rudderless.
I agree. Stanton, while good, doesn't fill the numerous other holes on this team. There are simply too many big contracts for declining players.
Heyman doesn't see the Sox signing Lester thanks to the Castillo signing, but who knows? I do know the fact that they signed Castillo at all means their outfield prospects likely haven't impressed the higher-ups.
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