This Week on the Blog
Yankees: I will never not believe that the 3-1 pitch that was ball 4 to Hicks, but was called strike 2 buy the Homeplate Ump, is the only reason we are playing again today. Now, anything can happen in a game 7, but I think the Yanks will pound them. If they don't it's been a great season and we are well ahead of schedule with more and more great young players coming up and a system that is the best in baseball again. This was true from the `30s-`50s and early to mid `90s, so it's nice the be there again and the offseason, win or lose, will give us tons to dream on. But let's keep playing. Go Yanks!
Giants: Going into the season, we thought the Giants could beat everyone, but then found out they couldn't beat anyone. They won convincingly last Sunday, and will have another chance to confuse us again tomorrow against Seattle. They might get Sterling Sheppard back tomorrow, who'd be a great complement to Evan Engram, and we'll see if they can run again. Can't really seen them going far without OBJ, but it would be nice to establish a few new weapons.
Rangers: The Rangers just won only their second regulation game of the season today, and Chris Kreider finally scored a goal. Had they lost today, I thought it might force the coaching change they so desperately need. They still didn't look particularly good, but Hank made some saves, and they held on for the win. We'll see what happens next, because they are going nowhere with AV.
Knicks: The Knicks play at the same time as the Yanks tonight. So only the Met fan component of their massive, and strangely, to the league, unimportant fan base will be watching. Frank got hurt again, so no Frank, and for some reason, Willy's not currently in the rotation for which leaves us all guessing. So we have to hope that KP scores another 30+ and Hardaway shows chemistry with KP and big value. They did play a several minutes of good D the other night, so maybe they can expand it?
Alright, the key thing is GO YANKS! Have a great night and a great week!
posted by Kalel9 @ 1:01 PM
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Ultimately, the Yankees’ inability to win on the road is what did them in.
-Mike K.
I'll have more to say about this tomorrow and over the coming months. But no team can beat another team and the umps and that was the Yankees task in this series. Desicable and a black eye for baseball. Enjoy your shitty series.
The umpiring is a problem that probably deserves an entire thread by itself. MLB has to address it when the technology becomes available to do so.
Not to beat a dead horse, but I hated not bringing in Chapman before Kahnle fully imploded, hated his over reliance on changeups (almost certainly dictated front the bench), hated first pitch swinging rather than grinding. People may say the Yankees over achieved so Girardi should be back. It’s not like football and basketball where a coach must develop schemes to make the whole bigger than the parts. He didn’t put the talent together. He is inflexible and reactive.
Girardi is a weird one for me. I'm not as down on him as everyone else, but I do wonder if he's the best the Yankees can do. (Though if he were to step down for family reasons — which the NY media has hinted is possible — then you'd have to think they'd just go out and hire someone similar given their analytical approach to everything.)
I definitely question if some on his staff are the best the Yankees can do. Are Ray Searage or Don Cooper available as pitching coaches? And while I think the passed balls by Sanchez are blown out of proportion, I would like to see improvement in that area. Can the current coaches get through to him?
Get a manager who can think and rethink on the fly. Not Thompson, who Jeter can gladly have. I like Phil’s Butterfield idea more and more. In fact, not hiring him would be dumb.
Also, I am really on the fence about Hicks reaching his ceiling.
Girardi killed the pen by getting relievers up multiple times but not bringing them in. Would the Joe is Great bunch defend that?
Feel like the leadership sort of failed in game 7. This ended up reminding me more of 1995, when they had that crazy series with Seattle, than of anything else.
What do you guys like about Butterfield specifically?
From everything I’ve read, he is smart, he’s a good judge of talent, and he has an analytics background. Just checking, he is significantly older than I had thought. I kind of wanted someone 40ish
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/69713750/attention-to-detail-red-sox-third-base-coach-brian-butterfields-calling-card/
Butterfield was in the the Yankee system for a long time, and always had good reviews.
I see. If Girardi’s heart isn’t in it anymore (understandable after being in NY for 10 years), then I don’t want him back.
It’s his head that concerns me...;)
I want him gone, but I think it's become a sentimental thing. Wouldnt mind seeing Butterfield as the new 3B coach, since our's sucks. Also woulnd't mind him in Denbo's old job. We could start seeing some movement on these issues this week.
Knicks interested in Bledsoe. No freakin 1s.
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