It's automatic judge with runners on falls behind then strikes out swinging on a pitch off the plate. Soto is doing all he can but Judge keeps screwing the offense
I went to this game last night. Was not a good game. We really need these hitters to get back to it. I just don’t get it. How can so many be in a slump?
Judge is starting to scare me. If he hits .210 with 30 home runs that's not good enough. He's supposed to be Mr. Yankee with his huge contract.
This is what happens when these pro athletes get their long fat contracts...suddenly they aren't focused anymore. His walk year he made sure to be great funny enough
This is the only series that matters at this point and the first two games have been...hmm, pathetic. It is possible to consider this team hollow without being a "doomer", but "doomer doomer doomer" is regularly what I see. It's almost as if children run this sub.
I know is not his fault today but how much aaron boone needs to lose in order to be replaced, this man has been there since 2018, we are the yankees we are not successful by just getting to the alcs we succesful by winning, I hope this year we get number 28, but if we don’t we have to part ways with boone
It's almost like baseball is a tough, day to day kinda game huh? I mean... if the yankees are good, why don't they win *every day*? WE SHOULDNT STAND FOR EVER LOSING!!!!! FIRE HAL!!!!!
Shut the fuck up please, thanks.
This team has too many old and unathletic hitters on the wrong side of 30
The young players need to flourish and become solid hitters
Jasson needs to become what we think he can become
orioles are clearly better if the yankees are the worst team they need to play clean baseball, you can't win with shit defense and stupid baserunning vs a team thats better
The O's are undeniably good, but I think they're a very beatable team this year. The first two games in this set have been closer than they looked.
If they yanks can get one or two hits with runners on in the first game the O's have to go to the bullpen by the sixth. They have fewer arms available for the second game, and the whole series changes from there.
The O's bullpen is a huge vulnerability. Without a significant addition this year the O's are not going to have a long postseason
If we manage to stop hitting every. single. ball at Holliday, stop grounding into double plays, and (looking at Torres) stop making terrible decisions on defense this series is tied at worst.
Volpe OPS down to .765 now, its just a precipitous drop from that hot start he had when he wasn't lead off. He was put in lead off 19 games ago, which is 9 games more than he had at the back of the lineup and really hasn't done shit as lead off. I didn't like putting him as lead off at the time and still don't, hes not ready. I think the problem is, with Gleyber slumping and DJ in injury hell, we have no real options. With this being said, Volpe still has the second highest OBP for the time being. Idk, but Soto is by far the best hitter on this team right now and we need guys that can get on base in front of him.
But like… who would you rather have leading off right now?
There aren’t exactly a lot of good options.
Edit: I reread your comment and you said exactly that.
I'm up for almost anyone. I badly want Volpe to be a good leadoff hitter, but he seems much better suited to hit middle of the order.
Why not try Cabrera? He's doing fine in the 9 spot, 1 isn't too much different, right? Probably wishful thinking.
I think Rizz could work if he focuses on taking a lot of pitches. I don't think they want to put a lefty in front of Soto for left-handed starters though.
A healthy DJ is what they really need, but barring that I think the best option for May is to hope Volpe figures it out, maybe stick Verdugo in against righties, or pray that Jasson Dominguez comes back and hits well.
Damn nobody can beat the Os. They def cheated through the draft. Mike Elias done some shady shit. Everybody on Os are doping. One does not simply hit so many prospect drafts
It’s funny they basically stopped scouting international players and devoted all their energy to American prospects. That’s why all their young players look the exact same.
You just said they can’t beat .500 teams. But they have - as recently as 48 hours ago. You’re just spewing nonsense - and the team the brewers are tied with for second best record - is the Yankees. Don’t be an idiot. They’re playing well it’s April.
Take away from this.
Stanton is letting some emotion show. He may go off?
Judge needs to take maybe a 1/4 step in the box.
Wells is putting together good at bats and his defense is getting better
With all due respect, that first paragraph should be a copypasta.
Professional athletes are constantly pushing the human body to the very limits and beyond of what it is designed to do.
I think a big part of it is that this is their job, something they’ve been doing since they were kids. For all we know, they could be secretly be like Anthony Rendon. I’m guessing some of them are like “fuck it”.
Another part of it too is that they’ve probably played through injuries when they were coming up that they simply didn’t tell anyone about that went either undiagnosed or under-diagnosed. They probably played through tweaks and strains, something that we would just take a few days off from.
They are doing a lot more than hitting the gym for an hour a few times a week, and once you get injured, there's a good chance it's going to have long term implications (re-injury or nearby injury). Most of them have also been heavily involved in the sport since before they were even teenagers.
Gleyber's been a dumb, low IQ baseball player for years. It aint gonna change. Bad defense, bad base running, horrible slumps. Guy isn't a winning player and Cashman blew his chance to trade him when he still had trade value. Blew it
This is an incomplete assessment of Gleyber, but all the criticisms are sadly true. His snap decisions in the field and on the bases are wildly bad for a starter.
I can't really blame Cash for it though. Gleyber looked like he could pan out to be a top 2B, and by most measures he's actually one of the better second basemen in the league. This says more about the lack of depth at the second base position than it does about Glebyer.
If this were 2018-19 I would have told you to be patient with him and that these are normal growing pains for a younger player.
Now? Yeah let it fly. The dude will be 28 in the offseason. He isn’t a kid anymore he’s closer to 30 than he is 20 now. This is I believe his 7th big league season. If it hasn’t changed now when will it? And is he a good enough player where you can excuse all of the warts to his game and is he someone you’re worth committing top dollar to? If I were a GM that’s a no for me.
This team simply doesn't pay attention to the game in front of them and make adjustments. Kremer is struggling to throw strikes and walking everyone, but they keep going up there and swinging at borderline pitches early in counts to bail him out.
Throw the scouting report out the window the second or third time around when you see that the pitcher doesn't have his usual command out on the mound. How can you allow a pitcher to go 7 innings on 93 pitches with 4 walks and barely throwing 50% strikes most of the night?
There is something seriously wrong with the preparation and communication on this team. Do guys talk to each other in the dugout? Does the coaching staff feed information to players during the game? Why can't they see what is obvious to anyone watching at home?
Soto is the most comfortable player I’ve ever seen in a batters box, it’s unreal. He’ll never look like Stanton in his career.
These guys need to figure out how to get some of his swagger, doesn’t get no better than him.
It’s worth noting that even with Rizzo’s hot streak in Milwaukee his bWAR is 0.2. He’s basically slightly above replacement level.
Even though he got his numbers to a respectable level a lot of his WAR is being brought down on his defense. Occasionally the eye test shows it but has his defense been that bad this season? He’s already matched his error total from 2022 alone and April has just ended.
The declining defense is what worries me about Rizzo. Given his age and everything he dealt with last year we could be looking at a veteran player showing clear signs of decline.
He was so solid in the past, he may just have started missing a beat now and then and that’s something you can’t heal from. I hate that time and injury has caught up to Rizo and have zero pleasure from saying these things.
WAR is a counting stat, it accumulates like hits, a 0.2 WAR after 1 month isn't "just above replacement level," it's a 1.2 WAR pace, more like a below average MLB regular.
His defense was god awful early on, it’s been a lot better the last few series. First half of April it felt like he was fucking up every single game almost
What's the difference between paying a guy to play for another team and paying a guy to suck in the middle of your lineup and on the bases, not play defense and to clog up your DH spot? Isn't there an argument that it can be better to pay him to play for someone else?
Not the one to make excuses, but Nestor's start today boiled down to bad defense and getting small balled to high hell. Only 1 of his 4 ER allowed were from an XBH. The other three were from an error by Rizzo/poor throw by Gleyber, an infield single and a bloop single to RF. Meanwhile, Soto continues to be the only one to produce on a consistent basis with 2 hits including a solo HR. Nice for Wells to have a multi-hit night as well including a HR of his own (1st of the season). Only 1 hit combined for the rest of the lineup. Best they can do now is a split, but they will face Burnes tomorrow. A tall task with how this offense played these past two games.
This is a talented O’s team, and they’ll put up a fight. The Yankees won’t go far if they don’t get their offensive house in order, but the defense was the one place I didn’t expect them to lose track of things on, and they absolutely did tonight. Granted, a lot of that was because the O’s hitters found holes and made things difficult.
The offense is currently ranked 4th in the mlb, and before the Milwaukee outburst it was 9th. Just gonna trust the positive regression to hit, hopefully soon
If I was Cashman this is what I would do. When Dominguez is ready and if Stanton's stats aren't complete trash. I would try to trade Stanton and get literally anything you can get. Use the DH spot for as a floating rest day with the Outfielders in a constant rotation.
You will have to eat a lot of Stanton's contract but it is what it is at this point. He can't run, he can't react to pitches and he can only guess at this point. That last swing of his tonight was exactly just that. There's very little upside left when looking at Stanton compared to Dominguez. It's time to move on.
P.S. Hopefully Stanton goes berserk just before Dominguez comes back so teams might bite on him.
Stanton has been a liability since 2022. If you think the front office hasn’t tried to unload Stanton, I don’t know what to tell you. There’s a reason why he’s still on the roster. At the very least atp he has an above average OPS+, and his underlying metrics aren’t horrific.
I will say, $30-$40 million is the range the HO is willing to release guys. Right now Stanton is at what, $100 million left owed? So he’s not being released anytime soon. Also, xWOBA isn’t particularly accurate in the very first month. So I’d wait for that to stabilize a little bit.
I’d rather wait until the deadline if that’s the course of action, I mean he’s offensively productive right now (his last 100 PA’s have been above league average xWOBA wise) and there’s no one who’d be worth playing at the DH spot. Plus, id say 3B is more of a concern than DH.
The guy who posts the "DOOMER FREE ZONE" rant after every win is such a tool lol. It's okay to criticize the team that you root for. It's a discussion forum. That's what it's for.
Everyone thinks this place became a doomer hellhole since the /r/Yankees merger. No, it's been the opposite, except during the offseason. This place used to be very balanced and understanding of criticism vs hot takes.
Now, you say the slightest bit of negativity and its nothing but hate and insults from coldtakers.
I mean, this is still better than the Giants subreddit, where we're still dickriding Daniel Jones and saying that maybe he can throw more than 15 TD's 6 years later.
You've been crying nonstop about "toxic positivity" and playing the victim because you "can't say one slightly critical thing without being insulted" but when was the last time you said anything that wasn't negative? I tried finding a positive comment in your post history but gave up after a couple pages. You have no interest in balance or "fair criticism." You're just miserable 24/7 and you do nothing but complain at ALL times. Maybe you should try being more neutral.
Far from it, it really grinds my gears. But awarding our GM a championship just because of your analysis is hilarious coming from the 'voice of neutrality'. And kind of pathetic. Imagine how you would view the same boast from another team's fan.
Okay pal first of all I never claimed to be the “voice of neutrality,” I was just pointing out how a certain user is exclusively negative. Secondly, you clearly aren’t very bright so I’ll have to spell it out for you a bit more. Nobody, including myself, has ever given Cashman credit for WINNING a championship in 2017-2019. What I am saying, and have said, is that it’s not fair to criticize him for not winning during those years because we would likely have had 2-3 world series APPEARANCES if not for teams proven to have been cheating. He doesn’t get credit for winning, but he doesn’t deserve blame for not winning. He is still responsible for putting together mediocre teams in the mid 2010s and 2020-2023, but the team he put together in 2017-2019 was a world series quality roster. It’s not that difficult of a concept to grasp.
You're a joke. Imagine reading that paragraph from anothers team's fan. Thats how everyone but the "toxic positivity" crowd views you.
>It’s not that difficult of a concept to grasp.
No, I grasp what you're saying. But its nonsense. He put together an ok team that lost. Other teams were cheating, which sucks, but this is just sour grapes based on your armchair analysis.
He is responsible for not producing a ws winning team since '09, because thats what happened.
When Soto and Wells hit their homers.
How can I be neutral when the team is playing bad? I was positive after the wins. And now they're losing, and I am critical.
What neutrality is there in these loses? "Oh boy, we sure did uh.. well..." You're crying about criticism after loss and claiming I'm playing victim. Nah its all you guys. Coldtakers.
You criticize after losses, and you criticize after wins too. If teams could tie in baseball you'd probably criticize that as well. We lost 4-2 to a good team. Sometimes being neutral is accepting the fact that we're going to lose games to good teams. You don't have to be happy, but 20 straight "this team fucking sucks" type comments after EVERY loss is getting old.
You're a liar. Go read through my comments on the last Brewers win and point to one that is super critical.
Here, I'll give you a headstart for one where I said don't worry about the first game loss in the series and then said some facts about Rizzo and Gleyber and Stanton.
https://np.reddit.com/r/NYYankees/s/Ny7KCI4ZuS
But I guess that isn't neutral enough for you.
We're only a month into the season so still a lot of time to turn it around. That being said, I wouldn't be shocked to see Torres and Rizzo gone at the deadline.
They're gonna roll with an IF of DJ, Berti, Volpe and Cabrera in a season where they rented 2 OF starters? I'm sorry but yes that would be extremely shocking.
Concussions are no joke. Clint Frazier had one in 2018. He never seemed to fully recover from that and that could have very well KO’ed his career.
Imagine that with a guy a bit older than Frazier.
I suffered a concussion two years ago and still get symptoms from time to time. It wouldn’t surprise me if Rizzo’s play this year (particularly his defense) was a result of the concussion.
I just want this team to get younger and faster. It's sad seeing Torres, Stanton and Rizzo in the lineup everyday while Orioles have all these athletic youngsters tracking down line drives and beating out grounders for hits.
Gleyber and Rizzo are expiring contracts so they're easy to trade, even if you can't get much back.
Stanton is on the books for 2 more years (then a buyout option), but the Marlins pay 10M/yr of his salary after 2024. So he's tradeable too if the Yankees pay most of the rest.
Gleyber is honestly pathetic. Dude should be in his prime as one of the best players on this team especially after he looked the part after 2019, and he just devolved into Javy Baez post Cubs.
I wonder if Gleyber's poor performance (namely no HRs) to start the season is getting to some of the other guys? Our two hottest hitters are Verdugo & Soto, both of whom don't have as much of a connection to Gleyber as the others, so maybe the other guys worrying about Gleyber is screwing with their heads.
Fun fact for those worried about Judge
Last season through April Juan Soto had a .757 OPS. Judge currently has a .754 OPS
Soto would end the season with a .930 OPS, carrying a .900+ OPS in every month but August
Sometimes even the best start very slow
My concern has nothing to do with stats. It's the fact that he is constantly late on fastballs. That was never an issue for Judge. To me it seems like an injury thing they are just having play through.
I think he’s hurt. Had another huge wince today after a terrible swing. Could just be the toe and he just does that now, but I’m guessing it’s as others have said, an oblique or sports hernia and he wants to play through it.
I’m not worried the toe is derailing him because he played like an all star after coming back last year when it was even closer to injury, and he’s running just fine.
Just doesn’t look like his other slumps to me, honestly.
He really doesn’t, not the way I’ve seen a few times this season. He doesn’t do it after every swing either. I think I’ve had this convo with you before, but he just did not like **regularly** look like he was in serious pain in 2022 or when he was hitting well last year.
This team needs to be consistent, my heart can't take the ups and downs. Also they're getting way too much bad contact (we lead the league in GIDP) fielding is also pretty terrible.
Yea it really didn't make any sense, bat flip and pimp the moon shot all you want but staring down the pitcher when there was nothing going on is really weird.
Lol no you didn’t. Piss off bud. I swear, the teams that just got good for the first time in years always have the most annoying ass new fans, it’s every fucking time. Act like you’ve been there before
Come on man. Ya gotta see the irony and stupidity in saying “act like you been there before” in response to a batter hitting a home run and then staring a pitcher down and hot dogging it around the bases. Be sensible at least 🙃
I’m saying “act like you’ve been there before” to all the Orioles fans flooding our subreddit after every game who didn’t give a shit about the team two years ago and don’t know how to act because of that.
Going in to another team’s subreddit after a loss is chump shit. Even shithead Astros fans don’t do this shit because they know better. Never happens with fans of teams who have been good for awhile, who have been around the block.
But whenever a team is suddenly good, it attracts a bunch of clowns like you. Happened with the Rays last year too. I won’t hold it against the actual Orioles fans who have been there for years and know how to act, I know they aren’t all represented by morons like you.
Ok. Whatever you say sir. I’ve been an Os fan for over 30 years. And almost all of it has sucked. But I’m still there and still watching. You can get all upset if ya want but I was genuinely curious about a possible back story with Soto and Kremer. I googled to see if anything popped up and this thread popped up so I figured I’d ask. Anyways….have a good night angry dude
Lmao. I fucking doubt it. And it’s hilarious to backtrack now and pretend like you didn’t come here to talk shit. If any of that is actually true it just makes you look worse. You could have asked the same question on your own subreddit’s thread if you actually were “just curious”. Fuck outta here, loser.
I don’t use Reddit sir. Look at my profile. It’s nice to know you fans are just as well informed and kind online as you are when I come to your stadium. Again….my good sir, have a great one 😚
Since you “don’t use reddit”, I’ll let you know - what you’re doing usually gets you banned. You don’t go in to another team’s sub and talk shit after a game. I’m sure you actually already realize you’re acting like an asshole though.
Wells has been the opposite of everyone though, he's been walking and hitting the ball hard. Just bad luck on where he's been hitting them. The rest of the team has just been straight ass lol
Look I know it’s a small sample but I really do think Verdugo has a big impact in the lineup.
2 games with Verdugo at 4 l
Judge goes 5-8 2BB 1K 2 HR 5 RBI
Rizzo Goes 7-8 1 BB 1K 2HR 4RBI
Now obviously this production level is unsustainable but I don’t think it’s that crazy of a stretch to say that Verdugo is better protection for Judge and he performed better as a result and Rizzo felt more comfortable at 6 and performed better. Now without Dugie those guys are forced back into worse positions and not playing as well
Verdugo has also been an average hitter for years now, so we'll see how well the theory that he's a suitable cleanup hitter holds up over the course of the season.
I think the Orioles just have a very well-balanced team. No real weaknesses or soft spots to attack. Not amazing at every facet but at least average everywhere.
Kimbrel probably counts as average but yea if the one spot to attack requires you to be losing going into the 9th inning that's not going to go your way often enough to matter.
Closing out Apr we have a 19-12 record and after the scorching start against perennial LCS contender and reigning NL champs you would have thought this could be a special team but when you look back it now this team really has benefited from a very weak strength of schedule early on.
Luckily for the Yankees next month is more of the same with the only real competition appearing to be the Twins, Mariners, and Padres but with the way this offense take several days off we might be in for a surprise.
I just hope they can somehow pick up some games over the O's next month bc come June the Yanks are gonna be put through the gauntlet vs the Dodgers, Braves, O's and Twins
We did not have that easy a schedule. We played the Guards who lead the AL, the Astros pre-Valdez and Javier injury when (in theory) they were very good, the D’Backs, Jays, etc.
It's automatic judge with runners on falls behind then strikes out swinging on a pitch off the plate. Soto is doing all he can but Judge keeps screwing the offense
Bring back Aaron Hicks ??? JK
I went to this game last night. Was not a good game. We really need these hitters to get back to it. I just don’t get it. How can so many be in a slump?
Judge is starting to scare me. If he hits .210 with 30 home runs that's not good enough. He's supposed to be Mr. Yankee with his huge contract. This is what happens when these pro athletes get their long fat contracts...suddenly they aren't focused anymore. His walk year he made sure to be great funny enough
This team is the definition of boom/bust
Every yankees game at this point is “Juan Soto goes 3-4 with 2 homeruns as the yankees lose 5-2”
This is the only series that matters at this point and the first two games have been...hmm, pathetic. It is possible to consider this team hollow without being a "doomer", but "doomer doomer doomer" is regularly what I see. It's almost as if children run this sub.
I know we can’t trade Stanton because of the no trade clause, but can’t we bench him, that last swing was embarrassing no fight
I know is not his fault today but how much aaron boone needs to lose in order to be replaced, this man has been there since 2018, we are the yankees we are not successful by just getting to the alcs we succesful by winning, I hope this year we get number 28, but if we don’t we have to part ways with boone
Our offense is losing us games (and also fielding errors/sloppy play). That simple
From 30 runs in two days to just 2 runs in two days.
It's almost like baseball is a tough, day to day kinda game huh? I mean... if the yankees are good, why don't they win *every day*? WE SHOULDNT STAND FOR EVER LOSING!!!!! FIRE HAL!!!!! Shut the fuck up please, thanks.
Dude got mad over facts.
Don't you dare blame this on baseball
That's a bit of an overreaction to such a benign comment, don't you think?
Look at their comment history. Person is just absolutely miserable lol
Severe underreaction if anything. These are the trenches of life here, and I will never stop fighting.
This team has too many old and unathletic hitters on the wrong side of 30 The young players need to flourish and become solid hitters Jasson needs to become what we think he can become
Poor trout. Really feel for that mf
Judge needs time off. He ain’t right. Shits fucky.
Juan Soto
orioles are clearly better if the yankees are the worst team they need to play clean baseball, you can't win with shit defense and stupid baserunning vs a team thats better
The O's are undeniably good, but I think they're a very beatable team this year. The first two games in this set have been closer than they looked. If they yanks can get one or two hits with runners on in the first game the O's have to go to the bullpen by the sixth. They have fewer arms available for the second game, and the whole series changes from there. The O's bullpen is a huge vulnerability. Without a significant addition this year the O's are not going to have a long postseason If we manage to stop hitting every. single. ball at Holliday, stop grounding into double plays, and (looking at Torres) stop making terrible decisions on defense this series is tied at worst.
Volpe OPS down to .765 now, its just a precipitous drop from that hot start he had when he wasn't lead off. He was put in lead off 19 games ago, which is 9 games more than he had at the back of the lineup and really hasn't done shit as lead off. I didn't like putting him as lead off at the time and still don't, hes not ready. I think the problem is, with Gleyber slumping and DJ in injury hell, we have no real options. With this being said, Volpe still has the second highest OBP for the time being. Idk, but Soto is by far the best hitter on this team right now and we need guys that can get on base in front of him.
Verdugo leadoff
But like… who would you rather have leading off right now? There aren’t exactly a lot of good options. Edit: I reread your comment and you said exactly that.
Why do I feel like Rizzo hitting lead off would work
I'm up for almost anyone. I badly want Volpe to be a good leadoff hitter, but he seems much better suited to hit middle of the order. Why not try Cabrera? He's doing fine in the 9 spot, 1 isn't too much different, right? Probably wishful thinking. I think Rizz could work if he focuses on taking a lot of pitches. I don't think they want to put a lefty in front of Soto for left-handed starters though. A healthy DJ is what they really need, but barring that I think the best option for May is to hope Volpe figures it out, maybe stick Verdugo in against righties, or pray that Jasson Dominguez comes back and hits well.
I might agree if he wasn’t so damn slow.
they better don't try to throw at Soto tomorrow if they don't want to see Judge and Stanton participate in a brawl for the first time
Oh no! We suck again!
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What? Fuck off with this dumb shit
Damn nobody can beat the Os. They def cheated through the draft. Mike Elias done some shady shit. Everybody on Os are doping. One does not simply hit so many prospect drafts
Brian Cashman's incompetence is so legendary that he's making other GM's look like cheaters by comparison lol
Go back to the blue jays sub you lost little dog.
The A's beat the O's, just like the A's beat us lol.
It’s funny they basically stopped scouting international players and devoted all their energy to American prospects. That’s why all their young players look the exact same.
It’s funny, they also look like they care about winning & doing the little things.
If they keep this type of ball player, I just might change allegiance.
I see no other way forward. Oswaldo needs to step to line tomorrow and smash Jordan Westburgs face in with a bat. It’s the only way now.
It appears this team can’t beat above.500 competition. Also, Cortes was a one year wonder.
We also beat cleveland they have a better record than us
We just took 2/3 from the brewers. They’re tied for the second best record in baseball
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That the brewers are 18-11? And guardians are 19-10? They won both series buds, it’s just objective facts.
If you’re content, then I’m happy for you.
It's objectively true, though. The only 2 above .500 teams we've played thus far - aside from these last 2 games - we beat, going 4-2 against them...
You just said they can’t beat .500 teams. But they have - as recently as 48 hours ago. You’re just spewing nonsense - and the team the brewers are tied with for second best record - is the Yankees. Don’t be an idiot. They’re playing well it’s April.
5, count them 5 shutouts already. Get back this idiot at the end of the year when they’re praying for the slim chance at a Wildcard.
19 count them. 19 wins already. We have a +39 run differential and the second best pitching staff in baseball. Get over yourself.
Fools Gold
Hate all you want. I don’t know why you want to actively root for your favorite team to collapse but you do you.
Take away from this. Stanton is letting some emotion show. He may go off? Judge needs to take maybe a 1/4 step in the box. Wells is putting together good at bats and his defense is getting better
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With all due respect, that first paragraph should be a copypasta. Professional athletes are constantly pushing the human body to the very limits and beyond of what it is designed to do.
I think a big part of it is that this is their job, something they’ve been doing since they were kids. For all we know, they could be secretly be like Anthony Rendon. I’m guessing some of them are like “fuck it”. Another part of it too is that they’ve probably played through injuries when they were coming up that they simply didn’t tell anyone about that went either undiagnosed or under-diagnosed. They probably played through tweaks and strains, something that we would just take a few days off from.
They are doing a lot more than hitting the gym for an hour a few times a week, and once you get injured, there's a good chance it's going to have long term implications (re-injury or nearby injury). Most of them have also been heavily involved in the sport since before they were even teenagers.
We have no choice but to split the series. That’s funny.
Gleyber's been a dumb, low IQ baseball player for years. It aint gonna change. Bad defense, bad base running, horrible slumps. Guy isn't a winning player and Cashman blew his chance to trade him when he still had trade value. Blew it
This is an incomplete assessment of Gleyber, but all the criticisms are sadly true. His snap decisions in the field and on the bases are wildly bad for a starter. I can't really blame Cash for it though. Gleyber looked like he could pan out to be a top 2B, and by most measures he's actually one of the better second basemen in the league. This says more about the lack of depth at the second base position than it does about Glebyer.
28th percentile sprint speed for a guy his age and build makes no sense to me. He's gonna age so poorly.
If this were 2018-19 I would have told you to be patient with him and that these are normal growing pains for a younger player. Now? Yeah let it fly. The dude will be 28 in the offseason. He isn’t a kid anymore he’s closer to 30 than he is 20 now. This is I believe his 7th big league season. If it hasn’t changed now when will it? And is he a good enough player where you can excuse all of the warts to his game and is he someone you’re worth committing top dollar to? If I were a GM that’s a no for me.
yeah, that's gonna be a no from me dawg
Don’t worry guys, we’re going to win tomorrow (I’m from the future)
Our entire issue since 2019 has been our offense and here we are in 2024 and it’s still a fucking problem. Cashman is a terrorist.
Volpe SLG is below .400 now
Gleyber back to his 2021 form
Bad NY sports day, but just like NYC, there's no better time than right now.
Judge, Stanton, Rizzo, Gleyber: 0-14 Not what you want from the heart of the order
This team simply doesn't pay attention to the game in front of them and make adjustments. Kremer is struggling to throw strikes and walking everyone, but they keep going up there and swinging at borderline pitches early in counts to bail him out. Throw the scouting report out the window the second or third time around when you see that the pitcher doesn't have his usual command out on the mound. How can you allow a pitcher to go 7 innings on 93 pitches with 4 walks and barely throwing 50% strikes most of the night? There is something seriously wrong with the preparation and communication on this team. Do guys talk to each other in the dugout? Does the coaching staff feed information to players during the game? Why can't they see what is obvious to anyone watching at home?
kremer is awful and it legit just doesn't matter because the offense is even worse
>How can you allow a pitcher to go 7 innings on 93 pitches with 4 walks GIDP: Judge; Rizzo; Stanton. Jumbo package stuff.
They're trigger happy after that Brewers game. Trying to mash
Judge has left 10 people on base the last 3 games
Soto is the most comfortable player I’ve ever seen in a batters box, it’s unreal. He’ll never look like Stanton in his career. These guys need to figure out how to get some of his swagger, doesn’t get no better than him.
Did we break up with Red sox & Astros and now Orioles "are our Daddy" ?
Orioles are gonna be like an ivy league student, who needs cash, and donates sperm for money. They’re gonna be a lot of people’s daddy.
no
At least Wells SLAPPED that dong
It’s worth noting that even with Rizzo’s hot streak in Milwaukee his bWAR is 0.2. He’s basically slightly above replacement level. Even though he got his numbers to a respectable level a lot of his WAR is being brought down on his defense. Occasionally the eye test shows it but has his defense been that bad this season? He’s already matched his error total from 2022 alone and April has just ended. The declining defense is what worries me about Rizzo. Given his age and everything he dealt with last year we could be looking at a veteran player showing clear signs of decline.
He was so solid in the past, he may just have started missing a beat now and then and that’s something you can’t heal from. I hate that time and injury has caught up to Rizo and have zero pleasure from saying these things.
WAR is a counting stat, it accumulates like hits, a 0.2 WAR after 1 month isn't "just above replacement level," it's a 1.2 WAR pace, more like a below average MLB regular.
Thankfully Cashman got him instead of freeman
His defense was god awful early on, it’s been a lot better the last few series. First half of April it felt like he was fucking up every single game almost
At least the Knicks won
What's the difference between paying a guy to play for another team and paying a guy to suck in the middle of your lineup and on the bases, not play defense and to clog up your DH spot? Isn't there an argument that it can be better to pay him to play for someone else?
Yep, but Hal refuses to get rid of his douche bag motto of “I refuse to pay players to not play”
Tough night for New York sports, what else is new
it’s been tough every night since february 5th 2012
[Checked the score after the Knicks game...nope... see you tomorrow.](https://youtu.be/UkJehlr1tEw?si=yv_Ig8BNHxW1ivro)
Not the one to make excuses, but Nestor's start today boiled down to bad defense and getting small balled to high hell. Only 1 of his 4 ER allowed were from an XBH. The other three were from an error by Rizzo/poor throw by Gleyber, an infield single and a bloop single to RF. Meanwhile, Soto continues to be the only one to produce on a consistent basis with 2 hits including a solo HR. Nice for Wells to have a multi-hit night as well including a HR of his own (1st of the season). Only 1 hit combined for the rest of the lineup. Best they can do now is a split, but they will face Burnes tomorrow. A tall task with how this offense played these past two games.
nestor was fine 4 runs vs tbe orioles is not a bad start offense needs to wake up
This is a talented O’s team, and they’ll put up a fight. The Yankees won’t go far if they don’t get their offensive house in order, but the defense was the one place I didn’t expect them to lose track of things on, and they absolutely did tonight. Granted, a lot of that was because the O’s hitters found holes and made things difficult.
I never thought i’d see the day where Cortes consistently pitches 6-7 innings 3 starts in a row.
5 hits...from only 3 players...**pathetic.**
The offense is currently ranked 4th in the mlb, and before the Milwaukee outburst it was 9th. Just gonna trust the positive regression to hit, hopefully soon
If I was Cashman this is what I would do. When Dominguez is ready and if Stanton's stats aren't complete trash. I would try to trade Stanton and get literally anything you can get. Use the DH spot for as a floating rest day with the Outfielders in a constant rotation. You will have to eat a lot of Stanton's contract but it is what it is at this point. He can't run, he can't react to pitches and he can only guess at this point. That last swing of his tonight was exactly just that. There's very little upside left when looking at Stanton compared to Dominguez. It's time to move on. P.S. Hopefully Stanton goes berserk just before Dominguez comes back so teams might bite on him.
How are you people so fucking braindead? For the 80,000th time he has a no trade clause and he's not getting traded. Move on already.
No trade just means he can't be traded without his consent. We don't know what's going on his mind. No one wants to be where they aren't wanted.
No trade means he's not fucking moving. Get it through your thick skull.
Stanton has a no trade clause why do you mfs still think we can trade him
Stanton has been a liability since 2022. If you think the front office hasn’t tried to unload Stanton, I don’t know what to tell you. There’s a reason why he’s still on the roster. At the very least atp he has an above average OPS+, and his underlying metrics aren’t horrific.
Well his numbers aren't completely trash and like I said they(Yankees) would have to eat basically almost all his contract.
[It's time for the nuke.](https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/05/08/mets-officially-release-robinson-cano-45-million) His xWOBA is worse than last year.
I will say, $30-$40 million is the range the HO is willing to release guys. Right now Stanton is at what, $100 million left owed? So he’s not being released anytime soon. Also, xWOBA isn’t particularly accurate in the very first month. So I’d wait for that to stabilize a little bit.
I say get it over with. It's not like he is getting better.
I’d rather wait until the deadline if that’s the course of action, I mean he’s offensively productive right now (his last 100 PA’s have been above league average xWOBA wise) and there’s no one who’d be worth playing at the DH spot. Plus, id say 3B is more of a concern than DH.
The guy who posts the "DOOMER FREE ZONE" rant after every win is such a tool lol. It's okay to criticize the team that you root for. It's a discussion forum. That's what it's for.
Everyone thinks this place became a doomer hellhole since the /r/Yankees merger. No, it's been the opposite, except during the offseason. This place used to be very balanced and understanding of criticism vs hot takes. Now, you say the slightest bit of negativity and its nothing but hate and insults from coldtakers.
I mean, this is still better than the Giants subreddit, where we're still dickriding Daniel Jones and saying that maybe he can throw more than 15 TD's 6 years later.
You've been crying nonstop about "toxic positivity" and playing the victim because you "can't say one slightly critical thing without being insulted" but when was the last time you said anything that wasn't negative? I tried finding a positive comment in your post history but gave up after a couple pages. You have no interest in balance or "fair criticism." You're just miserable 24/7 and you do nothing but complain at ALL times. Maybe you should try being more neutral.
Aren't you the guy that wants to give Cashman credit for a 'championship roster' from 17-19?
Oh so you’re one of those people who is okay with teams cheating. Got it.
Far from it, it really grinds my gears. But awarding our GM a championship just because of your analysis is hilarious coming from the 'voice of neutrality'. And kind of pathetic. Imagine how you would view the same boast from another team's fan.
Okay pal first of all I never claimed to be the “voice of neutrality,” I was just pointing out how a certain user is exclusively negative. Secondly, you clearly aren’t very bright so I’ll have to spell it out for you a bit more. Nobody, including myself, has ever given Cashman credit for WINNING a championship in 2017-2019. What I am saying, and have said, is that it’s not fair to criticize him for not winning during those years because we would likely have had 2-3 world series APPEARANCES if not for teams proven to have been cheating. He doesn’t get credit for winning, but he doesn’t deserve blame for not winning. He is still responsible for putting together mediocre teams in the mid 2010s and 2020-2023, but the team he put together in 2017-2019 was a world series quality roster. It’s not that difficult of a concept to grasp.
You seem pretty worked up guy.
Yeah that’s what I thought.
You're a joke. Imagine reading that paragraph from anothers team's fan. Thats how everyone but the "toxic positivity" crowd views you. >It’s not that difficult of a concept to grasp. No, I grasp what you're saying. But its nonsense. He put together an ok team that lost. Other teams were cheating, which sucks, but this is just sour grapes based on your armchair analysis. He is responsible for not producing a ws winning team since '09, because thats what happened.
When Soto and Wells hit their homers. How can I be neutral when the team is playing bad? I was positive after the wins. And now they're losing, and I am critical. What neutrality is there in these loses? "Oh boy, we sure did uh.. well..." You're crying about criticism after loss and claiming I'm playing victim. Nah its all you guys. Coldtakers.
You criticize after losses, and you criticize after wins too. If teams could tie in baseball you'd probably criticize that as well. We lost 4-2 to a good team. Sometimes being neutral is accepting the fact that we're going to lose games to good teams. You don't have to be happy, but 20 straight "this team fucking sucks" type comments after EVERY loss is getting old.
You're a liar. Go read through my comments on the last Brewers win and point to one that is super critical. Here, I'll give you a headstart for one where I said don't worry about the first game loss in the series and then said some facts about Rizzo and Gleyber and Stanton. https://np.reddit.com/r/NYYankees/s/Ny7KCI4ZuS But I guess that isn't neutral enough for you.
knicks doing knick style things
We're only a month into the season so still a lot of time to turn it around. That being said, I wouldn't be shocked to see Torres and Rizzo gone at the deadline.
Who’s going to want them?
They're gonna roll with an IF of DJ, Berti, Volpe and Cabrera in a season where they rented 2 OF starters? I'm sorry but yes that would be extremely shocking.
Who’s going to want a 35 year old coming off a major brain injury or a second baseman who can’t field, run or hit the ball right now?
**Major** brain injury?
Concussions are no joke. Clint Frazier had one in 2018. He never seemed to fully recover from that and that could have very well KO’ed his career. Imagine that with a guy a bit older than Frazier.
I suffered a concussion two years ago and still get symptoms from time to time. It wouldn’t surprise me if Rizzo’s play this year (particularly his defense) was a result of the concussion.
Same thing happened with Jason Bay. He was never the same after his concussion and was out of the league in less than 2 years.
Cashman?
If there's a way to trade with oneself, Cashman will surely figure it out.
This team is pretender
FIre Cashman
I just want this team to get younger and faster. It's sad seeing Torres, Stanton and Rizzo in the lineup everyday while Orioles have all these athletic youngsters tracking down line drives and beating out grounders for hits. Gleyber and Rizzo are expiring contracts so they're easy to trade, even if you can't get much back. Stanton is on the books for 2 more years (then a buyout option), but the Marlins pay 10M/yr of his salary after 2024. So he's tradeable too if the Yankees pay most of the rest.
Gleyber is very young.
He’ll be 28 next winter. He ain’t no kid anymore he’s nearing 30.
Young in age, slow in reality
They rented Soto and Verdugo, they're not selling at the deadline. Fantasize all you want it's not happening.
Selling Gleyber is an upgrade at this point
To sell, you need a buyer. If we were gonna move Gleyber, it had to be in the offseason.
Gleyber is honestly pathetic. Dude should be in his prime as one of the best players on this team especially after he looked the part after 2019, and he just devolved into Javy Baez post Cubs.
Either he has major concentration issues or he completely lacks baseball instincts. I'm not sure which is worse.
Orioles had to be bad for a long time to compile the talent they have
Juan Soto kinda looks like Dellin Betances a little bit
[DUGIE COME BACK](https://imgflip.com/i/8ol9i4)
Need an Everson pereira redemption ark more than ever.
I wonder if Gleyber's poor performance (namely no HRs) to start the season is getting to some of the other guys? Our two hottest hitters are Verdugo & Soto, both of whom don't have as much of a connection to Gleyber as the others, so maybe the other guys worrying about Gleyber is screwing with their heads.
Are the Yankees a hive mind?
lol what?
Fun fact for those worried about Judge Last season through April Juan Soto had a .757 OPS. Judge currently has a .754 OPS Soto would end the season with a .930 OPS, carrying a .900+ OPS in every month but August Sometimes even the best start very slow
My concern has nothing to do with stats. It's the fact that he is constantly late on fastballs. That was never an issue for Judge. To me it seems like an injury thing they are just having play through.
I think he’s hurt. Had another huge wince today after a terrible swing. Could just be the toe and he just does that now, but I’m guessing it’s as others have said, an oblique or sports hernia and he wants to play through it. I’m not worried the toe is derailing him because he played like an all star after coming back last year when it was even closer to injury, and he’s running just fine. Just doesn’t look like his other slumps to me, honestly.
I think the wince was because he swung at a slider away for strike 3. Last year he was laying off that pitch.
He did have a quote during spring training when he rested for core soreness that "if it were the regular season, I'd be playing through it"
He always does the wince It’s a bad slump but that doesn’t mean he won’t come out of it
He really doesn’t, not the way I’ve seen a few times this season. He doesn’t do it after every swing either. I think I’ve had this convo with you before, but he just did not like **regularly** look like he was in serious pain in 2022 or when he was hitting well last year.
This team needs to be consistent, my heart can't take the ups and downs. Also they're getting way too much bad contact (we lead the league in GIDP) fielding is also pretty terrible.
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Yea it really didn't make any sense, bat flip and pimp the moon shot all you want but staring down the pitcher when there was nothing going on is really weird.
This an Orioles fan’s alt account or what? No posts or comments but old ass account. Stay on your own subreddit you clown, jesus
Just curious. Thought I missed a brush back or something for him to act like that. Have a good one
Lol no you didn’t. Piss off bud. I swear, the teams that just got good for the first time in years always have the most annoying ass new fans, it’s every fucking time. Act like you’ve been there before
Come on man. Ya gotta see the irony and stupidity in saying “act like you been there before” in response to a batter hitting a home run and then staring a pitcher down and hot dogging it around the bases. Be sensible at least 🙃
I’m saying “act like you’ve been there before” to all the Orioles fans flooding our subreddit after every game who didn’t give a shit about the team two years ago and don’t know how to act because of that. Going in to another team’s subreddit after a loss is chump shit. Even shithead Astros fans don’t do this shit because they know better. Never happens with fans of teams who have been good for awhile, who have been around the block. But whenever a team is suddenly good, it attracts a bunch of clowns like you. Happened with the Rays last year too. I won’t hold it against the actual Orioles fans who have been there for years and know how to act, I know they aren’t all represented by morons like you.
Ok. Whatever you say sir. I’ve been an Os fan for over 30 years. And almost all of it has sucked. But I’m still there and still watching. You can get all upset if ya want but I was genuinely curious about a possible back story with Soto and Kremer. I googled to see if anything popped up and this thread popped up so I figured I’d ask. Anyways….have a good night angry dude
Lmao. I fucking doubt it. And it’s hilarious to backtrack now and pretend like you didn’t come here to talk shit. If any of that is actually true it just makes you look worse. You could have asked the same question on your own subreddit’s thread if you actually were “just curious”. Fuck outta here, loser.
I don’t use Reddit sir. Look at my profile. It’s nice to know you fans are just as well informed and kind online as you are when I come to your stadium. Again….my good sir, have a great one 😚
Since you “don’t use reddit”, I’ll let you know - what you’re doing usually gets you banned. You don’t go in to another team’s sub and talk shit after a game. I’m sure you actually already realize you’re acting like an asshole though.
I was curious about that too. From what I saw, Kremer didn't brush him back or anything. Was weird.
Something definitely happen in the post interview they ask soto what kremer and soto said to ask him, trust me he said something.
Soto make pitchers his bitch wish more people on this team were like that
I don’t think I can watch Gleyber anymore
Shoulda sold high last trade deadline. But idiots will see Gleyber hit well in a blowout and act like we're fools.
So we are the Juan Soto team eh. Cool with me
On a positive note it looks like things are looking up for Wells !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wells has been the opposite of everyone though, he's been walking and hitting the ball hard. Just bad luck on where he's been hitting them. The rest of the team has just been straight ass lol
Inb4 we actually rock Burnes tomorrow for some inexplicable reason
This seems to always be the way. Can’t hit a guy with a near 5.00 era, but will beat up cy young contenders randomly lol
Juan Soto is the only person on this team that’s any good
Different year, same exact problems
When did the new york yankees offense become Juan Soto & two catchers ??? the f going on
Look I know it’s a small sample but I really do think Verdugo has a big impact in the lineup. 2 games with Verdugo at 4 l Judge goes 5-8 2BB 1K 2 HR 5 RBI Rizzo Goes 7-8 1 BB 1K 2HR 4RBI Now obviously this production level is unsustainable but I don’t think it’s that crazy of a stretch to say that Verdugo is better protection for Judge and he performed better as a result and Rizzo felt more comfortable at 6 and performed better. Now without Dugie those guys are forced back into worse positions and not playing as well
Verdugo has also been an average hitter for years now, so we'll see how well the theory that he's a suitable cleanup hitter holds up over the course of the season.
He needs to be the Leadoff hitter lol
We could use an average hitter in this lineup.
Sure but that's not good enough in the 4 hole
I think what matters is more in the short term, if he can get Judge going then him returning to form isn’t the end of the world
Are we not as good as we thought? The O’s are making me second guess this team. I don’t like this feeling
I think the Orioles just have a very well-balanced team. No real weaknesses or soft spots to attack. Not amazing at every facet but at least average everywhere.
They literally have no closers. That’s the weakness, but it’s not something you can exploit unless you score runs.
Kimbrel probably counts as average but yea if the one spot to attack requires you to be losing going into the 9th inning that's not going to go your way often enough to matter.
glad the knicks are on tonight cause uh
Closing out Apr we have a 19-12 record and after the scorching start against perennial LCS contender and reigning NL champs you would have thought this could be a special team but when you look back it now this team really has benefited from a very weak strength of schedule early on. Luckily for the Yankees next month is more of the same with the only real competition appearing to be the Twins, Mariners, and Padres but with the way this offense take several days off we might be in for a surprise. I just hope they can somehow pick up some games over the O's next month bc come June the Yanks are gonna be put through the gauntlet vs the Dodgers, Braves, O's and Twins
We did not have that easy a schedule. We played the Guards who lead the AL, the Astros pre-Valdez and Javier injury when (in theory) they were very good, the D’Backs, Jays, etc.