The Yankees Are An Absolute Disaster
The New York Yankees end April in last place in the AL East. Yes I realize that everyone is hurt but the roster depth is an absolute joke. Willie Calhoun and Franchy Cordero are just terrible baseball players. Aaron Hicks somehow inexplicably still has a job on a baseball team. Other than Gerrit Cole and Nestor Cortes, the starting pitching is terrible. Somehow we’re still trying Clay Chapman as the closer. I think Volpe and Rizzo have been solid but not having Judge and Giancarlo in the top of the order with them just hurts this team too much. The bottom of the order is a deep dark black hole that just sucks down the rest of the team. Guys at the top have to press and try to make things happen and it’s just hard to watch.
I don’t fully blame Aaron Boone for this mess but when the Yankees have chances to actually win games, he usually somehow screws it up. His bullpen decisions are atrocious. He has no feel for the game at all. He relies only on analytics and doesn’t have any sense for how the game is actually going. Last night, I don’t know how you take Domingo German out of that ballgame. He gave up 2 hits all night and had less than 90 pitches going into the 9th. You can’t take him out, even after he gave up a sing;e there. you gotta ride the hot hand and not mess with the mojo he had going. That’s when your feel for the game has gotta take over. Throw the numbers out the window. The guardians obviously weren’t seeing him well all night long so you let him finish the job. Even if you have to go to the bullpen you CANNOT go to Clay Holmes, who has been shaky at best this season so far. He is not the closer for this team, he is not a reliable pitcher in a close game. He has zero idea where his pitches are going every single time.
The way this team has been constructed is just an absolute joke. They have no reliable bench players and nobody that you can hang your hat on right now to carry the team. Brian Cashman did nothing to add to this offense and now it’s biting us in the ass. They should’ve never extended Cashman. He’s been so terrible building teams every year and does nothing to change. There is no punishment for mediocrity if you work for the New York Yankees. Hicks, Holmes, Donaldson, Cashman, Boone. All terrible at their jobs but they keep getting rewarded for some damn reason. It makes no sense why guys get extensions and why guys keep getting playing time when they offer absolutely nothing to the team. Aaron Hicks does jack shit on the field. I can’t tell you one thing he brings that is positive to the team but they keep trotting him out to left field just to watch him drop at least on fly ball a game and strike out three times.
Harrison Bader is back, hooray, but he’s one guy. Hopefully Judge can come back as soon as possible because he’s the key. He is the straw that stirs this drink. I think once he is back and healthy, we’ll be competitive once again and we’ll be okay I believe. If we can keep our head above water in May, we’ll be getting a lot of guys back in June (knock on wood). Rodon, Severino, Stanton, I think will be back as well. Hopefully we can just squeak some wins out in the mean time. This offense is horrific right now so our pitching has to be better. Clarke Schmitt has to be better, I know he can be but man it’s almost an automatic loss every time out. We basically have to shut teams out to win. That might be what it takes because we’re lucky if we score three runs right now.
Thank You.
Joey C.