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posted by Kalel9 @ 8:53 PM
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Saturday, October 06, 2018
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posted by Kalel9 @ 8:53 PM
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Happy for Sanchez given the mostly down season he's had.
Tanaka is easily one of Cashman's best signings.
The way Tanaka can command the four quadrants of the strike zone when he is on is a thing of beauty.
Found this elsewhere:
From Fangraphs:
Zach Britton experienced a sea change of data usage when he changed teams in July. As the Yankees reliever put it when I talked to him prior to last night’s ALDS Game Two, “There’s a gigantic difference in how we use analytics here compared to Baltimore.”
As you might guess, that difference is to the lefty’s liking.
“I’d never been exposed to that amount of information,” said Britton, who was drafted by the Orioles in 2006. “And it’s not just ‘Here’s a stack of stuff to look over.’ It’s (targeted) to each individual player. I don’t want to get into specifics, but some of it is how my ball moves, both my sinker and my slider, compared to different hitters’ swings. It kind of opens your eyes to things you maybe didn’t think of when you didn’t have that information.”
Supposedly CC wants to come back. Some think that should be the first thing they do; I disagree. Determine the big things first and depending upon what they want to spend, if there is money left over, then they they can talk. They have some big decisions to make, his return isn’t one of them.
They need to upgrade every spot in the rotation sans Tanaka and Severino. Love CC, but like with Gardner, it’s time to thank him for his services and part ways.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/10/02/fbi-investigation-mlb-atlanta-braves-los-angeles-dodgers
Boone seems strangely chill.
Severino wet the bed. Lets see if they can force a game 5 tomorrow night.
No doubt but why did the manager let him do it for so long when it was apparent since the first inning that he lacked command and a little velo.
Angel Hernandez level managing.
I chalk up Severino’s second-half struggles to fatigue, but I still hope he goes back to Pedro in the offseason.
Mark Carig: “Boone says he wanted to steal some outs from Severino partly because Betances was available for only one inning.”
This, unfortunately, is Boone in a nutshell. Instead of making the correct move, he tries to see what he can get away with.
Boone is so bad that if Cashman wants to bring him back they should both be fired.
Axisa: ...I can’t stress enough how terrible Boone was last night...
Boone's gotta go. Welcome, Carlos Beltran.
They need a new pitching coach as well because we can’t say with metaphysical certainty that Severino is going to be the pitcher he was in the first half.
This has been so bad that I would take Girardi back in a freakin heartbeat if he was the only other choice.
Girardi was stubborn and kind annoying. Boone is terminally clueless.
1. Aaron Hicks (S) CF .248/.366/.467, 4.9 fWAR
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF .278/.392/.528, 5.0 fWAR
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS .268/.335/.494, 4.6 fWAR
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH .266/.343/.509, 4.2 fWAR
5. Luke Voit (R) 1B .322/.398/.671, 1.9 fWAR
6. Neil Walker (S) 3B .219/.309/.354, 0.1 fWAR
7. Gary Sanchez (R) C .186/.291/.406, 1.4 fWAR
8. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B .271/.340/.480, 1.9 fWAR
9. Brett Gardner (L) LF .236/.322/.368, 2.5 fWAR
Team Total: 26.5 fWAR
I am back gents. I had some family issues that caused me to leave. I apologize for my abruptness in leaving, I was more sensitive than I should have been, and I apologize for that. I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment, Boone is lost. Rotsdhild is long past his usefulness (if he ever had any). Beltran should have been the choice for manager, sadly I think Boone is back. I’ll hold my thoughts on the off-season until we are through with this season. I think it’s safe to say changes are coming no matter what the final outcome is.
Boone will be back. No way Yanks let him go after a 100 win season. I can see an experienced bench coach and a new pitching coach.
Without Boone they would have won 105. He was a net negative.
Glad things are good Michael.
Thank you Rich, I appreciate the kind words. Boone was a net negative, can’t argue that. Not sure right now which of our teams is the best run,. They all have some serious question marks...
Boone is late again.
We've got a long offseason ahead of us. Will maybe talk tomorrow.
John Harper: “I get the A-Rod comparisons for Stanton. But A-Rod was a much more complete hitter who simply couldn't get out of his own head for years in post-season. Stanton more flawed, in terms of approach, pitch recognition, chasing outside the zone.”
Stanton was never as good as A Rod, who was uniquely great.
Stanton was very good for 3 or 4 months then reverted to sucking.
The trade based on year one was was not good, in fact, it sucked. He may be hurt, who knows? I do hate his approach at the plate.
Cashman is a good GM, but not great. They could really use fresh eyes after hiring the worst manger I have ever seen, by far.
He has never built a great or even strong rotation.
Hal won’t care. Both will be back.
This thing needs way more than tinkering if Sev, Sanchez, and Bird are not what we thought.
A very strange season. The win total masks big issues.
Sabathia stopped his postgame press conference to rail on home plate ump Angel Hernandez. Said he shouldn’t be anywhere near a playoff game. “He’s always bad. He’s a bad umpire.”
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Yes. Not why they lost.
Still passed. I have no confidence in anything Yankees related if Boond stays
If they can move on from Girardi after reaching the ALCS then they can fire this baseball fool.
Pissed
Boone's not why they lost. Can't win when you can't get a hit with any men on base.
We won 100 games with Judge missing 1/3 a season, Gary being terrible when he did play, Chapman out and integrating 2 rookies into every day role...
Boone left Severino in 1 batter too long in both of his starts (WC/ALDS) -- And he had no business bringing in Lynn with bases loaded over Green/Robertson. Matheny did this in the WS a few years ago and same result.
I think Boone is brought back and hopefully learns from some of the tactical mistakes he made this year. Agree that Rothschild needs to go and they need someone with experience as a bench coach.
Also, the moves worked for Cora but they easily could have backfired. Last year sox brought in Sale from pen and he gave up 4 runs in 2/3 of an inning....
Either way, our offense no showed in 2 home games. Boone was slow with his hook and bullpen mgmt but we can't expect to win when we didnt get a single hit with RISP in 2 games.
Boone was awful. He has no feel for the game whatsoever. He didn’t even learn from game three to game four about when to remove a pitcher.
There were two seasons :first half good and second-half bad.
Injuries hurt (pun) but they have too many inconsistent hitters who are too intent on hitting HR in every count and game situation.
That shows the absurdity of this they hit too many homeruns canard. No, home rubs are great, but you don’t try to hit a hr all the time.
i don't think Boone is a tactician or a leader. I know Carlos Beltran is at least a leader.
FWIW, Sweeney Murti said the Yankees will wind up with one of Harper or Machado, and his lean is Harper.
Pass on Harper. If we need one than its Machado.
Andujar needs to be moved off of 3B and shifted to LF where his strong arm will play well.
No 1B.
I always feel good when I disagree with Axisa about almost everything. I would consider resigning Robertson if it is healthy, but some of his other suggestions like how good Rothschild is, and I want some of those drugs.
And seriously if they keep Boone, Cashman is a clueless clown.
He isn’t firing Boone, but they really do need to revamp the coaching staff. Way too many defensive miscues and dumb decisions, and it seems clear that someone is needed to stay on Sanchez. And while I think Severino’s issues were mostly fatigue related, I would still like a new pitching coach.
They won’t fire Rothchild either unless maybe if Boone demands it. He probably has a lot of clout because Cashman won’t fire him and he knows it.
I think there’s a reason they have only been to the World Series once since 2001, and I think Cashman is the primary reason.
They left at least a couple of World Championships on the table in the mid-2000s, due to a combination of lackluster starting rotations and A-Rod's postseason struggles (it always seemed like everyone else was waiting on him to get the big hit instead of doing it themselves).
Since 2010 they've been plagued by subpar farm systems, an inability by ownership to let go and allow a true rebuild and some mistakes in free agency — until recent years, anyway. Cashman has had his blunders, but so has every other GM. Glancing the Mets' way shows me things can be much worse. Still, he really needs to finally put together an A-plus rotation, and I hope his willingness to evolve extends to the obsession with launch angles, because I do feel like it has a lot to do with the team's trouble with hitting situationally.
The Mets spend $100m less a year though.
Cashman is polarizing: great v suck.
I think he is good, above average. But people get stale in one place for so long.
George King is reporting all of the coaches will be back. I understand Boone, but what have they seen from the others?
I think it fits in with the same thought I had about Cashman being here too long. No one has the requisite distance to see things objectively.
Just so no one accuses me of Monday morning QBing, I’m against signing Corbin. He’s coming off a career year and would be moving to a better hitting division. If you’re gonna spend big money on a pitcher, it needs to be a 1/2.
Rich., we are on the same page, Cashman like Sarher has been here far too long. I know expectations for the Yankees are much higher than the Rangers, however they by their own standards have not lived up to them. They predictably kept the coaches. So now I guess we wait and see what moves they will make. Personally, I wouldn’t pay Didi, and try and trade him for pitching. If you’re going to shell out he big bucks I’d rather it be for Machado over Didi. Not sure how well Corbin would fare in the AL. Lots of movement to come I’m sure...
He’s done a better job and Sather, who in my opinion sucked. He hasn’t drafted as well over his entire term, but he hasn’t done as many stupid things.
I would say Cashman‘s biggest failure this year was that he was unable to integrate another home grown starter into the rotation. Yes Montgomery got hurt, but that’s not an excuse. There should be more than one option.
Starting rotation is the reason that they have had one World Series appearance in almost 20 years. In most businesses when you have that kind of payroll that might matter the boss, but not here
Machado is certainly a better all-around player than Andujar right now, but is he $30 million better? I'm not sure he is, even if you account for Andujar's defensive struggles, which I think can be improved upon with good coaching and dedication on Andujar's part.
If you told me Corbin would be Pettitte 2.0 I would feel much better about giving him the $20M he's likely to earn. I'd also feel better about it if they didn't give him a NTC like they're apt to do with just about any free agent signing. (Drives me crazy they hand those out like candy.)
I'm hoping Tetsuto Yamada gets posted at some point over the next couple of seasons and the Yankees sign him to play second, moving Gleyber to short.
Cashman has championships on his resume, where Sather has none. One of my longtime friends was talking with me about the Rangers, and said their biggest issue is poor drafts, compounded by stupidly trading picks for washed up veterans. Since Cashman has taken over complete control, our system has gotten better, Rangers have nothing to show for the moves they made. I think one of Cashmans biggest weaknesses this year , is exactly what you said, failure to develop another homegrown arm for the majors. I’m just leery of spending big dollars on any free agent, especially pitching, I think one of the mistakes makes why many get over paid, is they are getting paid for what they did, and not paid for projecting what they will do. Thus the long 8-10 year contracts that have you scratching your head about 1/2 way through. I hope patience, and prudence are used for this off-season. I do get this sense that they aren’t putting money back in their pockets and it will be spent.
Sherman is off base in my opinion
https://nypost.com/2018/10/11/70m-for-gregorius-five-questions-yankees-should-mull-early/
The good news on the pitching front is between King, Loaisiga and German, they have starter depth. I really think they should go after Yusei Kikuchi when he’s posted — at absolute worst, he’s a dominant closer in MLB.
Kikuchi has an injury history.
But hey, Rothschild is a great pitching coach, steeped in analytics.
Jon Heyman of Fancred.com now reports some Yankees officials are convinced Severino was tipping his pitches in ALDS Game 3. From Heyman:
"The Red Sox had his pitches," one Yankees person says, flat out.
Red Sox broadcaster Lou Merloni pointed out that he noticed there was a tipping issue, and it appeared Red Sox hitters were able to lay off Severino's biting slider consistently. At one point, NESN noted that Jackie Bradley Jr. mouthed "fastball" on the bench to Mookie Betts on an 0-and-2 pitch to Brock Holt.
By the end, Severino appeared to go away from his slider entirely, so he may have suspected as much. Severino lasted only four batters (and no outs) into the fourth, and many suggested he shouldn't have been out there even that long, in the 16-1 Yankees defeat. Yankees people say they heard the "chatter" from Red Sox people about pitch tipping, and they all seem to believe there was something to it.
Didi needs tommy John surgery.
New Yankee post about Didi.
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