Growing Everything But The Payroll: The Official 2025 New York Yankees Season Thread

[tremonthustler1]

 

[The War Report]

All jokes aside, is this almost worst case scenario for Yankees fans regarding Cashman and Boone? Do you think there is a chance that either would have been canned if they lost in the Wild Card round, but won't be canned as they won and Judge finally showed up?

For as terrible as Boone can be, I'm almost more surprised that Cashman is still there.

Cashman and Baboone aren’t going anywhere. Just accept it and enjoy the basketball season.

 

[Nero Christ]

Matsui Da Gawd

 

[holidayinn21]

"We're gonna win the division, and then we're gonna we're win the WS"
"we're the best team in the league"
"We're the team to beat"
"We've been cruising all season"

Talk all that shyt, but then get outplayed by Ernie Clement

I've soured on Jazz. Electric player, but too unreliable, a playoff dropper, can't hit lefties, a low leverage merchant, and is soft, despite what facade he puts out there. There should be no talks of a new contract

 

[BK360NATL]

Lombard put up Volpe numbers in Double-A this year.

Right now he's not the answer to anything.

Let's take our chances with Lombard Jr or Caballero or anyone else. We KNOW Volpe ain't it.

Running it back with him is as pointless as Boone letting him hit in the midst of a potential rally KNOWING that he was 0-13 with 11 Ks prior to that at-bat. Insanity.

 

[Adonai]

Volpe has to go. Between hitting and fielding, breh has to be the worst SS in the league. How do we go from Jeter/Didi to this nikka????

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

"We're gonna win the division, and then we're gonna we're win the WS"
"we're the best team in the league"
"We're the team to beat"
"We've been cruising all season"

Talk all that shyt, but then get outplayed by Ernie Clement

I've soured on Jazz. Electric player, but too unreliable, a playoff dropper, can't hit lefties, a low leverage merchant, and is soft, despite what facade he puts out there. There should be no talks of a new contract

The problem with this idea is that unless you’re getting Ketel Marte, you’d be making a massive downgrade at 2nd base. Right now this team has a massive question about what to do at catcher, first base, left field, and centerfield while they don’t have a shortstop or third baseman and need 3 more arms for the pen. If you get rid of Jazz, your 5-9 in the batting order is 2021-24 levels of bad. Their 7-9 hitters tonight all hit below .220 on the year and 2 of them had an OBP below .280 on the year. Can’t afford to get worse at 2nd base.

Let's take our chances with Lombard Jr or Caballero or anyone else. We KNOW Volpe ain't it.

Running it back with him is as pointless as Boone letting him hit in the midst of a potential rally KNOWING that he was 0-13 with 11 Ks prior to that at-bat. Insanity.

There’d be no bigger middle finger to give to the fans and the rest of the team by continuing to play Volpe. He hasn’t just been bad. He’s been statistically the worst hitter in all of baseball since his debut. He wouldn’t start on any other team and I’m not sure any other team would even have him on the major league roster.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Volpe has to go. Between hitting and fielding, breh has to be the worst SS in the league. How do we go from Jeter/Didi to this nikka????

Same way we went from Alex Rodriguez at third to Josh Donaldson, Oswald Peraza, Oswaldo Cabrera, & Ryan McMahon. That bald fraud Hal refuses to fire.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Say what you will about who said it, but this is exactly what I was talking about last night. Organizational malpractice by the Yankees.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

The bullpen was ass. The Yankees never have everything clicking. They have 2 or 3 strong starters and a decent bullpen but can't score runs. They score runs but the pitching sucks.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Say what you will about who said it, but this is exactly what I was talking about last night. Organizational malpractice by the Yankees.

Wouldn't be the first. Tyler Austin, Clint Frazier, you can name a long list of young players the Yankees never developed. Judge has been an anomaly. Volpe is them trying to right the ship. But like Hicks, they may end up holding on to him for too long.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Wouldn't be the first. Tyler Austin, Clint Frazier, you can name a long list of young players the Yankees never developed. Judge has been an anomaly. Volpe is them trying to right the ship. But like Hicks, they may end up holding on to him for too long.

Outside of Judge, the closest thing they have to a success story in developing their own guys is Brett Gardner. A .255 hitter with a .325 OBP who averaged 10 homers per 162 games. Here’s their last success story by each position:

1st base: Don Mattingly, who turned pro in the early 1980’s

2nd base: I don’t even know since Cano and Soriano were international free agents

Shortstop: Derek Jeter, who turned pro 30 years ago as of opening day next year

3rd base: if they developed him, then Graig Nettles, which was 50+ years ago

Catcher: Jorge Posada, who turned pro 30 years ago now

Left field: Gardner, but you’d have to go back to pre color tv to find someone before him

Centerfield: Bernie Williams, who turned pro 35 years ago now

Right field: prior to Judge, you’d have to go back prior to Paul O’Neill who signed in 1993 or Dave Winfield who they brought in from San Diego in I think 1981, so also 50+ years ago.

Volpe is a case of Hal being too cheap and Cashman having too big an ego to move on even though it’s clear he can’t be on this roster by spring training.

 

[Walt]

This team won 94 games, has the MVP - a legitimate generational player, yet the team is totally embarrassing. Because the manager has the intellect of booth poster admiral crumple, and the GM has the strategic savvy of the democratic party.

After making his defiant declaration about a Toronto broadcaster he shouldn't even be thinking about, the Yankees went out and got royally trounced. The Jays hit .338 with a .974 OPS for the series. The entire team hit like an MVP candidate. That's insane. They shelled the Yankees top 2 starters, then closed them out with a fukkin bullpen game.

Jazz felt the need to bark about the Yankees being the team to beat, only to go out and hit .182 in the postseason (which is exactly what he hit last playoffs) and make a critical error in the closeout game. I know it's a ridiculous thing to say about a 30-30 2B, but I can't stand this cornball Bahamian. There's nothing more I would love to do than have a black player on the Yankees to sincerely root for.... but this try-hard-to-be-cool lame ain't it whatsoever. Get him the fukk outta here.

I watched a whole season of Volpe being an automatic out who lost his sense of fielding too. You would think that might convince the Yankees to see what a SS with elite speed might do as a tablesetter and chaos-creator. But no, Buffoone and Trashman trot out the bum and keep Caballero nailed to the bench. Volpe proceeds to go 1/15 with 10 Ks. Who coulda seen that coming?

The way they've handled Dominguez is disgraceful. I'm rooting for the kid to go elsewhere and develop into an All Star.

Baffled by how bad Wells was. He had moments last season where he looked like the future was bright. His atbats were every bit as painful as Volpe's.

McMahon is another near automatic out. Worthless deadline pickup, regardless of all the spin about his glove.

Stanton is done. I know he OPSd like a stud, but he can't run the bases or play the field and he'll be older and more prone to fall apart next season. Loved watching him hit (n/h) when he was hot (n/h) but this felt like his swan song.

Judge hitting .500 for the playoffs with a once in a lifetime homerun was phenomenal. Good for him. He needed and deserved that.

Ben Rice is a bright spot and he punishes the ball.

Beli was a revelation but I'm skeptical longterm. 'Preciate the season immensely, and best of luck to him.

As long as Buffoone and Trashman are in place, I can't have any relationship with the Yankees that is more than Hate/Love. It's depressing.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Outside of Judge, the closest thing they have to a success story in developing their own guys is Brett Gardner. A .255 hitter with a .325 OBP who averaged 10 homers per 162 games. Here’s their last success story by each position:

1st base: Don Mattingly, who turned pro in the early 1980’s

2nd base: I don’t even know since Cano and Soriano were international free agents

Shortstop: Derek Jeter, who turned pro 30 years ago as of opening day next year

3rd base: if they developed him, then Graig Nettles, which was 50+ years ago

Catcher: Jorge Posada, who turned pro 30 years ago now

Left field: Gardner, but you’d have to go back to pre color tv to find someone before him

Centerfield: Bernie Williams, who turned pro 35 years ago now

Right field: prior to Judge, you’d have to go back prior to Paul O’Neill who signed in 1993 or Dave Winfield who they brought in from San Diego in I think 1981, so also 50+ years ago.

Volpe is a case of Hal being too cheap and Cashman having too big an ego to move on even though it’s clear he can’t be on this roster by spring training.

How you gonna forget about Robinson Cano
Melky Cabrera and Alfonso Soriano (who they flipped into A Rod).

 

[ExodusNirvana]

"We're gonna win the division, and then we're gonna we're win the WS"
"we're the best team in the league"
"We're the team to beat"
"We've been cruising all season"

Talk all that shyt, but then get outplayed by Ernie Clement

I've soured on Jazz. Electric player, but too unreliable, a playoff dropper, can't hit lefties, a low leverage merchant, and is soft, despite what facade he puts out there. There should be no talks of a new contract

I'm so mad at Jazz

We were RIGHT THERE

That was not an unplayable ball in the least.

That was the game RIGHT THERE.

He fed his haters last night and you never feed the haters, you starve them out!