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

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Boone is always so damn late to make changes its obvious Weaver should be closing put Williams in games when we're trailing until he get his shyt together damn :mjtf:
 

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Volpe is hitting just .197/.295/.408 over 76 at-bats, including a .703 OPS. His strikeout rate has ballooned to 28.9%, despite sitting in the 80th percentile for chase rate and 83rd percentile for barrel rate. That’s a fancy way of saying he’s swinging at the right pitches and hitting the ball hard—when he hits it at all.

Pitchers have figured out the plan: go high in the zone and avoid leaving anything down where Volpe can drive it. It’s working like a charm. He’s hitting just .100 against breaking balls this season and struggling badly with fastballs up in the zone. Every swing seems like a guess, and more often than not, it’s a miss.
 

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Volpe is hitting just .197/.295/.408 over 76 at-bats, including a .703 OPS. His strikeout rate has ballooned to 28.9%, despite sitting in the 80th percentile for chase rate and 83rd percentile for barrel rate. That’s a fancy way of saying he’s swinging at the right pitches and hitting the ball hard—when he hits it at all.

Pitchers have figured out the plan: go high in the zone and avoid leaving anything down where Volpe can drive it. It’s working like a charm. He’s hitting just .100 against breaking balls this season and struggling badly with fastballs up in the zone. Every swing seems like a guess, and more often than not, it’s a miss.
He’s gotten better at laying off stuff outside the zone, but he whiffs on basically everything above the waist and that’s what concerns me most. He misses badly on fastballs deep in the strike zone which means poor bat to ball skills. A strikeout rate of 29% is almost Joey Gallo territory.
 

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It angers me so much when Judge swings at the low far outside pitches. :heh: But I do the same in The Show with sliders.
 
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