***The Official New York Yankees Thread***

[Nostalgia]

Originally Posted by mantlefan7

Yep, same crap every year. I just can’t help but think that after last night’s comeback win, his team would’ve been up to play tonight. Pretty lifeless if you ask me.

they have the worst manager in all of baseball.

a lineup that beats up on bad teams.

no protection for the greatest hitter in the game.

a bullpen thats awful.

[Nostalgia]

volpe has played 3 full seasons now and his career BA is .222 and his career OBP is .283.....do you know how bad that is???

[SkipAway]

Defense matters.

October does nothing but expose you for who you are. And year after year - after year - it exposes that the Yankees do not prioritize defense. They do don't drill it, practice it, stress it, or game it.

I am not saying they literally don't practice it (obviously...), I'm saying they don't drill it, practice it, nor value it like other buttoned up defensive teams.

They need to make it matter.

[NickyCards]

Aaron Boone needed to be fired years ago. We need a manager who isn’t a puppet. I don’t care how many times he gets ejected, they’ll never win with him.

We haven’t had a TRUE leadoff hitter since 2019 DJ. This offseason is bigger than the last. Judge proved he can show up, now let’s get someone to leadoff, and protection in the order. Stop prospect hugging, make the right trades, and open up that checkbook for Kyle Tucker and company.

[Cracktoast]

Defense was bad for sure but the starting pitching sucked ass in the Toronto series. Every top line starter was blown up in the series.

When you get outscored 34-19 you deserve to get bounced.

[ottobord]

Everyone of the Jays pitchers tonight was hittable. What a pathetic performance. Too many bad hitters on this team. I don't care how many HRs we hit in the regular season. Fire Boone. Let a new manager shape the team. The new manager can tell Cashman what he wants. If Cashman doesn't want to do it fire him too.

[SkipAway]

Originally Posted by NYRE2PECT

Brutal. Absolutely brutal.


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Absolutely can't happen. That ball was hot (and maybe deflected?), but it's a one hopper right the waist. Under no circumstance can that ball get through at this level.

Hard to blame him because defense is a systemic problem for this organization - starting all the way back in the team's developmental culture.

You are what you are, and the Yankees are a poor defensive team seemingly every year.

Time to overpay this offseason for band-aids and shortcuts... that should do the trick... since it's worked so well for the last 15 years .

[spuds1961]

Originally Posted by NickyCards

Aaron Boone needed to be fired years ago. We need a manager who isn’t a puppet. I don’t care how many times he gets ejected, they’ll never win with him.

We haven’t had a TRUE leadoff hitter since 2019 DJ. This offseason is bigger than the last. Judge proved he can show up, now let’s get someone to leadoff, and protection in the order. Stop prospect hugging, make the right trades, and open up that checkbook for Kyle Tucker and company.

Well the starting rotation will be better With Cole coming back and the addition of Schlittler but their infield needs a complete overhaul as Volpe and Jazz just isn’t working. They need a better offensive 3rd baseman as McMahon is a great fielder but they can’t have 220 hitters at 3rd and shortstop. They have lots of players they can trade but whether they get the right players back remains to be seen. I do feel it’s time to change the manager as the team is too laid back under Boone.

[hxcmilkshake]

Originally Posted by SkipAway

Defense matters.

October does nothing but expose you for who you are. And year after year - after year - it exposes that the Yankees do not prioritize defense. They do don't drill it, practice it, stress it, or game it.

I am not saying they literally don't practice it (obviously...), I'm saying they don't drill it, practice it, nor value it like other buttoned up defensive teams.

They need to make it matter.

I mean its kinda low on my list of what went wrong here, after Fried crapping the bed, no hitting tonight, but I guess what surprised me most was Jazz. He played better at 3rd last year. I thought 2B was his natural position.

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[mantlefan7]

Bright side - Hal got 5 more games worth of playoff revenue! Anyways, end of the year always sucks, but I can’t help but think about how many more prime years Judge has left. He’ll be 34 right after opening day ‘26.


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[livfreely]

Originally Posted by NickyCards

Aaron Boone needed to be fired years ago. We need a manager who isn’t a puppet. I don’t care how many times he gets ejected, they’ll never win with him.

We haven’t had a TRUE leadoff hitter since 2019 DJ. This offseason is bigger than the last. Judge proved he can show up, now let’s get someone to leadoff, and protection in the order. Stop prospect hugging, make the right trades, and open up that checkbook for Kyle Tucker and company.

Kyle Tucker and Jacob Wilson would be two great additions


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[SkipAway]

Originally Posted by hxcmilkshake

I mean its kinda low on my list of what went wrong here, after Fried crapping the bed, no hitting tonight, but I guess what surprised me most was Jazz. He played better at 3rd last year. I thought 2B was his natural position.

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That's what I'm saying... they have to make it matter. It doesn't matter to anyone there.

7th most errors in 2024.
6th most errors in 2023.
24th most errors in 2022 (won division by 7 games)
4th most errors in 2021.
1st most errors in 2020.

The list goes on. It's who they are.

Then October comes, the pitching gets better/consolidated, which means the defensive plays become fewer/magnified... and one or two errors become the difference in a series.

It plagues them literally every year because they do no prioritize it, value it, and most importantly work at it. It needs to be way higher on your list of things and more importantly way higher on the owner, GM, management's list.

[hxcmilkshake]

Originally Posted by SkipAway

That's what I'm saying... they have to make it matter. It doesn't matter to anyone there.



7th most errors in 2024.

6th most errors in 2023.

24th most errors in 2022 (won division by 7 games)

4th most errors in 2021.

1st most errors in 2020.



The list goes on. It's who they are.



Then October comes, the pitching gets better/consolidated, which means the defensive plays become fewer/magnified... and one or two errors become the difference in a series.



It plagues them literally every year because they do no prioritize it, value it, and most importantly work at it. It needs to be way higher on your list of things and more importantly way higher on the owner, GM, management's list.

Well, they were better this year by not having headcase Gleyber and adding McMahon. They made some great plays in the field this playoff. Yes the Jazz misplay was rough but we got plenty of benefit from Toronto errors too, so its not everything. This year, Toronto had 8 less errors than us. And Texas and Atlanta had the fewest errors this year.

But I do agree overall with your pov, I just think there's other priorities. Volpe gone being #1 for me.




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[SkipAway]

Agreed, Toronto booted several and it costed them - and it will cost them dearly moving forward this playoffs.

Of the remaining 7 teams, 6 are in the top 12 of fewest errors this season. You don't need it to make the playoffs, or win a playoff series or two. But it's a must-have to win the WS, which I know the Yankees rightfully expect to do every year.

(The Dodgers were similar not long ago. Just bought stuff, filled their 'needs' and banked on getting hot when the weather gets cold. Then they prioritized it and invested in it, and now here they are.)

[PuddleMonkey]

Originally Posted by kidfan9

O/U on the # of days before Boone gets the ax?

Originally Posted by Nostalgia

they have the worst manager in all of baseball.

Originally Posted by NickyCards

Aaron Boone needed to be fired years ago. We need a manager who isn’t a puppet.

Originally Posted by ottobord

Fire Boone. Let a new manager shape the team.

[brothertona]

This is such a great camera pan
https://x.com/mikebeauvais/status/19...Rx-1Hmr4TKbEyQ


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[SleepyWill]

Too many errors and at the end of the day there needs to be new blood in the clubhouse.

Time to move on from Boone.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by mantlefan7

Exactly, came here to say this. Volpe’s not even taking quality at-bats. Leave him in to strike out and take out the one guy responsible for their run tonight.

JRX was close. Volpe had 3 of the 4 Ks he said he was going to have tonight.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by spuds1961

Players that didn’t show up this series.

Volpe
Grisham
Stanton
Jazz somewhat
Wells somewhat
Fried
Rodon.

Just no heart after last nights comeback. Part of that is on Boone. How does a team have a game like last night and come out so lifeless. He didn’t manage a bad game up until he didn’t pinch hit for Volpe in his last at bat which hopefully was his last one in a Yankees uniform.

Volpe - .192 this post season

Grisham - .138

Stanton - .192 and no homerun heroics

Jazz - .182 had the game winning homerun and a great defensive play to win Game 3 but sucked offensively and defensively the rest of the time including critical error in Game 4.

Wells - .227

Bellinger .214

Rodon/Fried - got rocked worse than Schlitter/Gil.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by spuds1961

Never.

Agreed. Hal will never fire this clown.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by spuds1961

Can’t say Aaron Judge didn’t show up. Unfortunately he couldn’t do it alone.

Yeah best post season he's had.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by Nostalgia

volpe has played 3 full seasons now and his career BA is .222 and his career OBP is .283.....do you know how bad that is???

You forgot about his constant defensive woes too. And Boone defends him all of the time and claims he is a great shortstop.

[fulltritty]

Aaron Judge doesn't rule out offseason right elbow surgery

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...-elbow-surgery

[Mister2Bits]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

Volpe - .192 this post season

Grisham - .138

Stanton - .192 and no homerun heroics

Jazz - .182 had the game winning homerun and a great defensive play to win Game 3 but sucked offensively and defensively the rest of the time including critical error in Game 4.

Wells - .227

Bellinger .214

Rodon/Fried - got rocked worse than Schlitter/Gil.

Most disappointed in Grisham and Stanton. Both were incredibly bad.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by Mister2Bits

Most disappointed in Grisham and Stanton. Both were incredibly bad.

And what makes Stanton look worse is that Dominguez comes into the game (finally) last night and gets a double and scores a run. I know he would never have done it because of Stanton past heroic homeruns, but maybe Dominguez should have started last night at DH especially since Toronto had a lot of right handed relievers pitch.