July 13th, 2021: Cole, Chapman, Cortes, Midseason Review
Added 2021-07-13 13:44:51 +0000 UTCJust when you’re ready to believe in the 2021 Y
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Fans just need someone to blame. Boone is an easy target. Lazy attempt to identify what is really wrong with the team. Whoever is the manager after Boone, the first 3 game losing streak will bring out the same fans saying that manager now needs the axe. Weak....
KT
2021-07-15 07:16:26 +0000 UTCWhat is Dusty Baker's legacy moving forward? I understand he has to defend his players as the manager of the team, but for crying out loud how tone deaf is he to constantly try and put the blame on everyone else besides the culprits? He played this game once at a high level. Has he forgotten the what it was like to be competitive with sportsmanship . Surely he woulda been irate if the Yankees cheated to beat the dodgers in the '81 WS or if he had lost out on the MVP race to someone who cheated. Where are his old teammates holding him accountable and calling him out?? As someone who didn't seen him play but grew up with him as just a manager, I have an incredible difficult time acknowledging him as anything more than a retread and the new face of Houston's arrogance and cheating ways.
Phil
2021-07-14 17:28:39 +0000 UTC"MLB letting Torres use a metal bat".... Savage!
Damian Deuringer
2021-07-14 13:48:02 +0000 UTCI can see Epstein taking a GM job under someone. He said he was interested in getting involved at the ownership level not to long ago. GM is a demotion for him.
Michael Axisa
2021-07-14 13:35:21 +0000 UTCIndeed, the announcers inserted themselves into the mix far too much. Plus, their hyperbolic style was just annoying.
DZB
2021-07-14 13:00:40 +0000 UTCWell, I cannot comment on the likelihood of Kate Upton striking up a romance (though her husband seems like a bit of a jerk though, and I hear he will be unemployed soon), but I imagine a return to being a GM for Epstein would require just the right situation. He took two teams starved for a WS title to the promised land, and the NYY are starting to get to that point (yes, the wait has been much shorter, but the time counts more in NY). So I could see him returning to a front office and potentially ending up in NY (I really have no idea how long a stint he would intend to spend as a consultant for MLB)
DZB
2021-07-14 12:57:36 +0000 UTCAnd I want Kate Upton as my gf and my wife to stay my wife
John
2021-07-14 12:27:47 +0000 UTCThat All Star game was brutal to try and watch. Between Buck being a fool and players awkwardly being micd up, it was awful. Glad Chapman didn't pitch and hopefully Judge didn't pull an oblique or something....
KT
2021-07-14 03:22:57 +0000 UTCHaving generic All Star jerseys is one of the dumbest things MLB has done recently and that’s saying a lot
Jingling Baby
2021-07-14 00:36:50 +0000 UTCI enjoy The Athletic (their hockey coverage is good), though it's not everyone's cup of tea. Once access went away with COVID, they really suffered, because their brand is telling stories no one else tells rather than recapping games and whatnot. Craig Calcaterra's newsletter is good for daily recaps and other news of the day, and you can ignore all the non-baseball stuff if you want. He sends out a free issue every Thursday that you can check out before subscribing: https://cupofcoffee.substack.com/
Michael Axisa
2021-07-13 21:58:07 +0000 UTCSerious question: what has Boone really done wrong? Is it his lineup? The way he manages the bullpen? Is he placing his players wrong defensively? I’m definitely not saying I want him as the manager going forward but we can’t say that what he is or isn’t saying during press conferences the reason to dump him. Some say that he isn’t getting his team fired up or holding them accountable. But we 1) have no idea what he is or isn’t saying in the clubhouse and 2) shouldn’t hang his players out to dry by bad mouthing them to the press. So am I missing something? I genuinely want to know what he has done wrong? Again, I never understood the signing in the first place (no experience) and don’t th8nk he should be resigned.
Mark P in VT
2021-07-13 21:46:36 +0000 UTCI looked recently at the Sporting News - it's as bad as if not worse than ESPN so far as "journalism" goes. As for The Athletic, I have found it to be enormously disappointing.
John Ryan
2021-07-13 21:02:42 +0000 UTCOne could quibble with any of the grades given but it would mostly be a very minor difference - but not wrt management. F is richly deserved, and if there was such a thing as F- I might go there. It's worse than bad management - it's close to the total abandonment of management.
John Ryan
2021-07-13 21:00:43 +0000 UTCDon't get the Athletic
KT
2021-07-13 20:26:04 +0000 UTCget the Athletic
C Porch
2021-07-13 19:48:32 +0000 UTCMike, off topic but I’m looking for a weekly baseball publication so I can learn more about other teams besides Yankees. Years ago I subscribed to The Sporting News when it was still in print. In your opinion is it worth subscribing to now or can you recommend something else. Thanks
William Maier
2021-07-13 18:28:46 +0000 UTCThanks to digital rights I’ve missed most of the season, but I did get to see that train wreck in Houston. I can make some excuses - why invest in a team when there was no guarantee of a season, changing the ball affecting hitters, etc - but this is just embarrassing. The Yankees front office is being consistently shown up by the big blue bank in LA and the Tampa Poorboys. Yankees should have the best of both worlds - money and smarts - and it clearly isn’t working. I’m ready for a change.
Michael Darwin
2021-07-13 18:07:57 +0000 UTCI want Epstein as GM and Cash as president
DZB
2021-07-13 17:19:27 +0000 UTCIf you would have told in March that at the All-Star break that Judge and Staton would have been producing and playing 158 of 173 games so far along with Sanchez hitting at an above average pace I would have told you that the Yankees would be 20 games above .500 easy.
The Original Drew
2021-07-13 16:53:14 +0000 UTCWhat's turned out to be poor roster construction led by a bad manager is on Cashman. This team was his vision. It started out well a few years back, but it's trended badly in the wrong direction. I've been a Cash supporter, and I don't expect him to go anywhere, but he's going to need to restructure the roster this offseason. Kicking Cashman up stairs, as I believe you suggested, isn't a bad idea. Give him a President title, and bring in someone from the outside with a fresh perspective as the GM to run day-to-day baseball operations. I'll use an analogy from the publishing world. The best authors have a strong editor. That's often when they produce their best work. When they become so big that they no longer listen to their editors, their work suffers. Cashman is an author who doesn't have a strong editor. There's no one in the org to push back on some of his decisions. Now, I say this fully aware that it's Hal who has put restrictions on Cashman built around the luxury tax, but Cashman knows this. He has to build a plan that will work to Hal's budget. He hasn't with this edition.
MikeD
2021-07-13 14:23:42 +0000 UTC
