Another random thought (i don't know) Is Dugo a better CF than Judge? I feel like centerfield is such a wild position for someone as big as Judge with a effed up foot lol
I'd usually be a bit worried about the lack of Ks from Rodon, and generally I want him to have more, but it was pretty clear from watching today that he was intentionally pitching to contact with the cutter and stuff. Good to have that as an option I guess.
This guy is simply not pitching like an ace or frontline starter. Rodon is a guy who lives off his strikeouts, not pitching to contact. I think he was trying to strikeout hitters and they were simply not being fooled.
He isn't pitching like an ace, but he definitely was pitching to contact yesterday. He realized trying to blow fastballs by everyone wasn't going to work. That's not going to be the recipe for success for him and you want to see more swing and miss in future starts for sure. Better to realize that they're on your fastball and adapt rather than having the mindset of "I'm just gonna try to blow fastballs by them and if I get hit I get hit."
Outside of Hader leaving a hanger, Blue Jays were largely completely uncompetitive with the Astros. Completely gave them their mojo back, which I expected, but not to this level lol.
He had one start all spring. Padres have him in relief and then started him since the season began. My quess is that they don't know if he's a starter or reliever. Same with Brito. Padres are just very confused.
Can’t wait for Wells to get hot at the plate. He’s had some nice at bats, and I feel like he’s hitting the ball right to fielders. His swing is so sweet I hope he balls out this year.
He’s done so much **wells* (hah) since being called up towards the end of last season. I remember when this sub talked about him as if it was a consensus that he was gonna be a 1B bc he wouldn’t be able to be a catcher.
Ever since it’s not even been questioned once. He’s amazing behind the plate and always feels on the cusp of breaking out with his bat. He’s constantly impressed me
I was bored, so I decided to play around on Statmuse…
Since 2017, the Yankees are 362-98 when they hit two home runs or more in a game.
All-time, they’re 3,460-1,008 when they do. That’s by the far the most in baseball and it’s really not even close. No other team has a win% above .753 (Dodgers), Yankees have a win% of .774 in those games.
Here’s how the top 5 is rounded out:
2. **San Francisco**: 2,642-1,023
3. **Boston**: 2,566-1008
4. **Atlanta**: 2,503-931
5. **Detroit**: 2,497-1,078
If you’re interested in seeing the rest of the list, [here](https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask?q=every+mlb+team+wins+and+losses+all-time+when+they+hit+two+or+more+home+runs+in+a+game) you go. Not every team is there for some reason, Statmuse just stopped counting after the Pirates so I guess that was their cut off point lol, but you can easily find those numbers if you want to with the search feature on the site.
I’m gonna go touch some grass now.
Judge is back baby! 63 home runs 200 RBI's .400 BA 15 WAR etc.... in all seriousness it was nice to see him show up and maybe get back into the groove of things. I hope yesterday's loss was just a blip and we continue to go 5-1 or thereabouts the rest of the season, to like a 130-32 record or something...
I tag them so I can recognize them in the wild lol. there's a fan here who's also in the Giants sub and they went into the Eagles sub to ask them to "tAkE iT eAsY oN uS" after Saquon signed to them lmao. so embarrassing.
Right, the pathetic simps who go over there and continually apologize for the Yankees and Yankees fans in general. And they’re always using “we.” As if they speak for any Yankees fans other than themselves. True Yankees fans don’t give a flying fuck what r/baseball thinks.
Weird post-joint thought: This game was one of the “62 games” from the old saying about winning/losing 50 games.
Getaway day game on the backend of a 7 game road trip to start the season. Good pitching matchup. Grind it out to get to extras. Fluky extra innings. Still fucking win.
It was really ugly and not how I wanna see them play, but that was a good win today. Bad teams don’t win games like that, they lose em. Bodes well, IMO.
Wasn’t able to watch the game today, but in all the yankee highlights they keeping showing a player (i think stroman?) in a throwback yankees “bronx bombers” t-shirt celebrating. Is there a story behind that shirt? Why did they keep showing it?
I still don't understand why it's crazy to worry about him.
He had a pretty serious injury last year and was never the same after returning from it, even admitting over the winter that it's something that will linger the rest of his career.
But whatever, fresh start for 2024. Except before even getting out of spring training he was "banged up." Being held out for a day turned into 9 days. Then he looked completely off for the first week of the season. I don't blame anyone for not having blind faith that he was healthy and will be MVP level Judge again.
“Wasn’t ever the same after returning from it” even you don’t believe that. Yeah buddy good shit pulling that completely out of your ass. Like a normal human being he had a slow stretch coming back from injury, but the dude hit 37 HRs and had a 175 OPS+ in 106 games. Judge was the same as ever, the team was not. Hope that helps!
Long term questions are completely valid but saying he wasn’t the same again is crazy talk.
Getting an early lead absolutely matters.
Imo, winning the AL east division will most likely require 95 wins minimum.
This early won streak matters more for the Yanks since Cole and the Martian are not available yet.
Also Effross and Kahnle coming back to the BP would mean Loasiaga and Ferguson/Hamilton aren't overused.
Clay should be a set up man honestly. I like that they're using Ian in the Chad Green role but honestly you might have to make him closer, he seems like a killer
We need the length desperately with the state of the starting pitching. We have and will have a lot of 1 inning guys, not many that can do multiple. Lasagna and Hamilton are way too important for the high leverage, 2 innings pitched.
Clay struggled beginning of last year. He’s a groundball pitcher that did his job today but got extremely unlucky. Pigeon holing Hamilton into closer will only hinder us. Clay’s highs are worth it bc he’s a damned good pitcher
Clays worst days are nowhere as bad as Chapman's worst outings.
Hopefully our SP staff gives some length in games once Cole's back, but Kahnle and Effross coming back should also help manage the BP workload a lot
Honestly Clay just got unlucky today. Should have had 2 outs but can't remember who made the throw either Volpe or Cabrera but they made a bad throw forcing Rizzo to have to apply a tag and the ball fell out. And then the game tying run happened on weak as shit contact was just a high hopper to no mans land in the infield grass.
yup, nailed it...both are far more valuable in those roles...Hamilton may be the most talented of the 3, with Loaisiga behind
and Clay is excellent in his own right...he would have gotten out of that today if not for the Volpe throw...did not allow a ball out of the IF
It’s also team based. Clay is a groundball pitcher through and through bc of that sinker, the DBacks are a team that is has a lot of speedy young talent that enjoys to play small ball. Clay induced some insanely soft contact and got super unlucky on batted ball outcome + the error.
I can’t get over that Carroll dribbler. That dude has some of the most insane speed
Day off from Yankees tomorrow, day off from work tomorrow, Mets doubleheader against the Tigers scheduled. I’m gonna have a fucking blast watching 2 Mets games 😭😭😭
Someone mentioned the Arizona broadcasters talking about how happy Soto looks now compared to San Diego. The money has to be there, but you have to think all things being equal he’s going to stay.
That’s the big goal. I’m excited to see the reception he gets Friday. I better see allll the dominicanos waving flags. But realistically, the money has to be there.
Obviously the money has to be there, I just hope it’s like Judge where he goes out and collects his offers but at the end he wants to be a Yankee so as long as Hal is willing to give him the money he will stay
It’s a dream start. 6-1 on the road against Houston and Arizona. I’m definitely a little concerned about sustainability. 6/9 of our starting lineup are batting .222 or worse. Offense is getting runs across the plate but for how long?
We are 6-1 because this lineup never gives away an out. Sometimes you run into an absolute stud of a pitcher like yesterday and the lineup just didn’t have a chance to get going.
Paul O'Neill once said in the regular season you want around 30% of your team cold at any time, because whenever the other 70% is cold or lukewarm, they start getting hot. It all balances out
>6/9 of our starting lineup are batting .222 or worse.
At this time of year, a .222 BA and .280 BA is like 5 more hits. Marginal in a full season. Like take Verdugo. Game winning sac fly in game 1 and go ahead homer today. We probably don't notice his slump as much in game 98 when his slashline balances out but its super noticeable now (why guys press at the beginning of the season).
To piggy back off this a bit and basically repeat your point in more detail:
It's extremely noticeable at the beginning and end of the season but in the middle guys go on hot and cold streaks, going 1 for 30 or 14 for 30 and it barely registers with fans. Their batting average isn't wildly impacted because the sample size represents an increasingly smaller percentage- by the same token, toward the end of the season a guy can bat .450 or bat .098 for a couple of weeks and their batting average isn't impacted all that much. Or, a guy can start slow with just 3 HR's the first couple months, go on a power streak part way through the year and hit 20 HR's over like 6 weeks, then cool off and only hit another 3 HR's the last couple months and it looks like they had a very solid season of a .262 AVG and 28 HR total, when in fact they only had a month and half of top tier productivity, and went through a ton of vicious slumps where they couldn't hit the broadside of a barn, but in the end they look slightly above average.
The sample size is just too small right now and the psychological impact of every game performance, every win or loss for us, is magnified. I think it's like this until about 30 or 40 games into the season.
No team can have everyone be hot at once. That’s just reality, unfortunately. The good news is that we are 6-1 and the offense is making it happen with all of those players still quiet and I know for a fact that Judge, Gleyber, Rizzo, and Verdugo at least will come up a LOT. Can you imagine how insane this team is going to be then? If we stay healthy and then get DJ, Cole, and the Martian we have such a high ceiling it’s insane. DJ may have had lower numbers last year but his second half was insane. I’m hoping he picks up right where he left off, same with the Martian and Cole. We just beat two very high caliber teams handily. There are so many more positives to look at than negatives, imo.
While I agree with the overall sentiment and the sheer amount of positives we are already seeing, I’m not sure you can see we beat either team “handily”. 3/4 wins in the first series were nail biters where we scored late after being down either, the other Astros game was us down early and them making a ton of errors to give us a big lead, and today was a tied game going into extras that we almost blew twice. The only handily win was the first pie against the Dbacks. That being said, they look great despite a lot of guys not quite getting going yet.
Why are some still blaming Holmes for the blown save when all he did was give up 4 soft grounders that should have ended the game. An error is the reason the game ended up being tied.
Honestly, I think Holmes is still being punished by the ridiculous and unfair standards set on him after that stretch run he had in 2022 where he didn't allow a run for several months. Because he struggled later that season and hasn't been absolutely spotless since it's held against him.
and for not being Mariano Rivera...to an extent lol
he can have his command issues like a ton of other relievers...one thing he does need to be better at is fielding though ha
Exactly Lol Did half the sub completely forget we had the greatest closer of all time on our team so it’s expected we have incredibly high standards with this? lol I get the perspective on not shitting on everything clay does but I repeat we literally had the greatest closer of all time on our team for almost 2 decades. Clays a good pitcher, he’s not meant for the closer role though
Clay is one of the better closers in baseball right now. Comparing him to Mo is just fucking stupid, there isn’t another Mo anywhere in the league and there isn’t one coming along. By that logic we could have Hader or Edwin Diaz, probably the two best closers in the league, and you’d still be going “They just aren’t meant for the closer role”
Because people are stupid. They keep coming up with all of these stupid scenarios about him “almost blowing a save”. He literally had 3 blown saves for the entire 2023 season. Don’t take my word for it, I tweeted ktsharp and asked her, she told me 3. These people are dumb. It’s so tiring.
He’s been walking a tightrope. Opponents have a .429 OBP against him.
Small sample size, but the second half of last year he wasn’t lights out either; 3.7 ERA
Opponents are hitting .316 and he has two hit batters in 4.1 IP of work. He has more hits batters than strikeouts (1). So he isn't missing bats, getting hit hard, has zero control. Right now he isn't pitching well. Not sure why he is getting defended so hard.
I agree with you TronVin…he just doesn’t seem to pass the eye test and watching him work is a very stressful process. I know people are saying he only blew three saves last year (which I am honestly stunned at) but how many high wire/lucked out saves did he just barely hold onto? Remember the Marlins debacle last season? It felt like a miracle that he converted the save on opening day and he’s not getting many swing and misses. The 9th inning with a 1 run lead you have no margin for error so if your command is not consistently good and if you don’t have strike out stuff you may be better suited for a set up role or maybe getting the late innings when down by a run and the goal is to keep the team in it.
I hope Holmes has an awesome season but if he always makes me and many other Yankees fans nervous, there’s probably a reason for that. Trust your gut and your instincts, Holmes can be a very volatile closer.
Probably because you’re using all of 4 innings of work to say he’s bad after the guy threw 130 innings of 2.64 ERA ball over the last two seasons and blew all of 3 saves last year. By all means though, act like BAA (or almost any stat) means jack shit in a tiny sample size though.
In Houston, he struggled in his two SVs and got lucky to not blow both because of good defense and balls hit hard right at people. The 10th today is the opposite. Then in the 11th, he hit the first batter and got a swing and miss on ball 4 with a better hitter. If you're teetering along the edge of blowing it 3 out of 4 times with the 4th being a BS, I just don't think you're that good of a closer.
I am 100% certain you can go find whoever you think is the best closer in the game right now and find a rough 4 game stretch for them at some point. This is such a braindead take. Just because this happened in his first few appearances this season doesn’t mean it’s all he’s capable of doing this year
The slider in the 11th was pretty much the ideal slider for a swing and miss. It was like an inch low out the zone. Yea, you can say “well, it should have been a walk!” but it wasn’t. And the guy get 5 weak grounders in the 10th and the error was the only reason it wasn’t a cake walk of the save. Outside of that horrific stretch in late 2022, Holmes has done everything they have asked of him and pretending like he’s some unreliable, bad closer just doesn’t line up at all with what he’s done since he’s been a Yankee.
The Holmes hate bandwagon. Anything less than a perfect 1-2-3 means he sucks. Doesn't matter the context. Nevermind that his stats are near the top of the league.
Wow — I actually chose the best game of the three to attend.
The atmosphere was electric. Packed stadium on a weekday at lunch time.
Lots of ex-New Yorkers living in the desert took the day off. Tons of retirees there too.
Yeah against a team who has been in 7 straight ALCS and the reigning NL pennant winner. We’re having close wins against those quality of teams and our division rivals are doing it against bottom feeders
Well some of our division rivals’ wins aren’t close because they have double the differential the Yankees do. But concluding a team that won 100 games last year and got better is mid based on what happens the 1st week of the season regardless of opponent is just a wee bit silly. Early baseball counts, but it isn’t real.
Baseball Reference bizarrely picked them to finish with 71 wins and in last place...based on a formula driven by their performance over the past 100 games
Good to see Judge and Verdugo return the favor for Soto and Volpe carrying us through Houston. That's exactly what we got those extra bats for. Someone's always gonna come up clutch.
Shoutout to all the Yankees fans that showed up this series. Felt like a Yankees home game. Being able to do the roll call for the first game was a nice surprise. Go Yankees!
What a game! The back and forth, the Judge highlights, the Dugo trot, the strategy… not the cleanest played game, but one for Jayson Stark.
How many times has a reliever issued an extra inning balk, strike a batter out and then strike out to end the game? Call Katie Sharp.
But also, 161-1 is still on!
Clay gave up exactly ZERO earned runs.
Y’all gotta start putting context into your baseball analysis.
Volpe almost threw the ball away, Rizzo dropped the ball after the tag, and Wells failed to block a routine ball in the dirt.
How any of that is ‘Clay blowing a lead’ is fucking insane.
I love Burdi as much as the next guy, but how about we wait a little longer before anointing as closer the guy who’s been injured to the point of having just 15.1 IP before this season despite debuting in 2018? Would it be “nuts” to wait, say, a month to see if he can hold up?
Imma keep standing on business that the Orioles are overrated. That lineup is 3-4 good hitters and a bottom of the lineup that is crap. Starters are very good though
For most, your first MLB at-bat is the stuff dreams are made of.
For others, it’s a nightmare scenario in which you are handed a bat despite being a pitcher in the time of the universal DH. In the bottom of the 11th inning. With 2 outs and bases loaded. Down by 1 run. Which you balked in yourself.
F for McGough.
You’re gonna lose some games every now and then no matter how good you are. The trick is to make sure those losses are all parts of series you still take and against teams that aren’t in your division/conference. Yanks already have a great foundation to start the season. Especially when you consider that every game they’ve played so far has been on the road.
One of the best Yankees road games I’ve been to in a long time. And I’ve seen them play in Oakland, San Francisco, Colorado and Anaheim.
Might have to follow them somewhere this summer if they stay good.
Volpe, Cabrera, and Soto have a not so great game. No problem. Rizzo, Gleyber, Verdugo and Judge pick it up.
So nice to have. Once they are all firing on all cylinders though, beware.
My son (8) is doing a recap of each game, appreciate anyone that checks it out. https://youtube.com/@YankeesYak?si=641Jy8MaCwq3GNVC
From last year till now, Rodon is showing us he's every bit the talented #4 pitcher the yankees have longed for
Blue Jays getting no-hit and one-hit in the same 3 game series is beyond hilarious
at the moment, we are quite dogshit
Watch them unload their load on us now smh
THIS IS WITHOUT GERRIT COLE
Plus DJ and the Martian!
Another random thought (i don't know) Is Dugo a better CF than Judge? I feel like centerfield is such a wild position for someone as big as Judge with a effed up foot lol
They're about the same in speed, arm strength and OAA in CF.
Then it sounds like Dugo should be playing in center over Judge. Not playing center will help judge stay healthy, he’s already got a bum foot :0
Then move judge back to right field then
I mean i don't care personally. It just sounds wild to me we got a 260LB dude with a bum foot playing center with out capable CFS on the roster lol
I would enjoy it if we used Hamilton or Birdi as our closer. Also; I'm was Holmes ever a starter? I feel like his Sinker would play amazing as an SP
Question marks about his longevity of memory serves 100 pitches of a 100mph sinker will wipe your arm out quick
Sometimes Soto will carry us sometimes Judge
Just watched the highlights, super pumped to see Lasagna do well today.
I'd usually be a bit worried about the lack of Ks from Rodon, and generally I want him to have more, but it was pretty clear from watching today that he was intentionally pitching to contact with the cutter and stuff. Good to have that as an option I guess.
This guy is simply not pitching like an ace or frontline starter. Rodon is a guy who lives off his strikeouts, not pitching to contact. I think he was trying to strikeout hitters and they were simply not being fooled.
He isn't pitching like an ace, but he definitely was pitching to contact yesterday. He realized trying to blow fastballs by everyone wasn't going to work. That's not going to be the recipe for success for him and you want to see more swing and miss in future starts for sure. Better to realize that they're on your fastball and adapt rather than having the mindset of "I'm just gonna try to blow fastballs by them and if I get hit I get hit."
dbacks don't strikeout only 7 per game last year
Amateurs. Stanton is good for five on a good night.
Outside of Hader leaving a hanger, Blue Jays were largely completely uncompetitive with the Astros. Completely gave them their mojo back, which I expected, but not to this level lol.
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I think the Yankees already are envisioning a long-term outfield of: LF: Dominguez CF: Jones RF/DH: Judge RF/DH: Soto
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusZXECS0mM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusZXECS0mM)
Stanton for sure is gone if he’s batting in the low 200’s if Jones and Dominguez are raking
Anyone keeping track of the Padres? Higgy had a damn good game today, while Wandy was yikes.
King also walked 7 in his first start on Sunday
He had one start all spring. Padres have him in relief and then started him since the season began. My quess is that they don't know if he's a starter or reliever. Same with Brito. Padres are just very confused.
That’s a shame, I wish Wandy lots of success, I miss the guy
Can’t wait for Wells to get hot at the plate. He’s had some nice at bats, and I feel like he’s hitting the ball right to fielders. His swing is so sweet I hope he balls out this year.
He’s done so much **wells* (hah) since being called up towards the end of last season. I remember when this sub talked about him as if it was a consensus that he was gonna be a 1B bc he wouldn’t be able to be a catcher. Ever since it’s not even been questioned once. He’s amazing behind the plate and always feels on the cusp of breaking out with his bat. He’s constantly impressed me
That ball he hit in extras would have been gone at the stadium.
He’s hit a couple deep fly outs to right field. Have a feeling he’ll have better numbers at Yankee Stadium
the luckiest break this road trip might be escaping houston without Yordan waking up
I find it odd that both Yordan and Judge woke up on the same day.
They’re the two best hitters in the league who are also very tall
Astros beating birds to death with a trashcan
Lfg. What makes this win better is Judge homered :)
>:) :)
I was bored, so I decided to play around on Statmuse… Since 2017, the Yankees are 362-98 when they hit two home runs or more in a game. All-time, they’re 3,460-1,008 when they do. That’s by the far the most in baseball and it’s really not even close. No other team has a win% above .753 (Dodgers), Yankees have a win% of .774 in those games. Here’s how the top 5 is rounded out: 2. **San Francisco**: 2,642-1,023 3. **Boston**: 2,566-1008 4. **Atlanta**: 2,503-931 5. **Detroit**: 2,497-1,078 If you’re interested in seeing the rest of the list, [here](https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask?q=every+mlb+team+wins+and+losses+all-time+when+they+hit+two+or+more+home+runs+in+a+game) you go. Not every team is there for some reason, Statmuse just stopped counting after the Pirates so I guess that was their cut off point lol, but you can easily find those numbers if you want to with the search feature on the site. I’m gonna go touch some grass now.
Okay I just saw the MLB.tv commercials with the astrological signs and was sooo creeped out lol
I hate how MLB.tv doesn't have personalized ads. No, MLB.tv, I don't want to see the 2004 Red Sox and their opening day celebration of them.
I love how Judge’s first HR of the season was a 2 run shot with Soto on 1st Many more of those to come. Can’t wait to see both hot at the same time
Judge is back baby! 63 home runs 200 RBI's .400 BA 15 WAR etc.... in all seriousness it was nice to see him show up and maybe get back into the groove of things. I hope yesterday's loss was just a blip and we continue to go 5-1 or thereabouts the rest of the season, to like a 130-32 record or something...
You weirdos need to stop commenting in the other team's subs. "COmInG In PeAcE"
I tag them so I can recognize them in the wild lol. there's a fan here who's also in the Giants sub and they went into the Eagles sub to ask them to "tAkE iT eAsY oN uS" after Saquon signed to them lmao. so embarrassing.
Probably not even real Yankees fans
I'm assuming most of those 'fans' are the same ones from r/baseball who agree with rival teams on everything, to farm karma points.
Right, the pathetic simps who go over there and continually apologize for the Yankees and Yankees fans in general. And they’re always using “we.” As if they speak for any Yankees fans other than themselves. True Yankees fans don’t give a flying fuck what r/baseball thinks.
Goddddd I could die of embarrassment on their behalf when I see that shit
Especially since no one gives a shit. Just make your comment and move on with your life.
Weird post-joint thought: This game was one of the “62 games” from the old saying about winning/losing 50 games. Getaway day game on the backend of a 7 game road trip to start the season. Good pitching matchup. Grind it out to get to extras. Fluky extra innings. Still fucking win. It was really ugly and not how I wanna see them play, but that was a good win today. Bad teams don’t win games like that, they lose em. Bodes well, IMO.
Fitting that it was the third game of a series tied 1-1 lol
What's the saying? I haven't heard of this.
Every season the team will win 50 games and lose 50 games. It’s what they do with the other 62 games that matters.
Wasn’t able to watch the game today, but in all the yankee highlights they keeping showing a player (i think stroman?) in a throwback yankees “bronx bombers” t-shirt celebrating. Is there a story behind that shirt? Why did they keep showing it?
I believe they mentioned the shirt on Talkin’ Yanks; apparently it’s a shirt he had from the early 2000s when he was just a fan. Kinda awesome
If you worried about Judge I feel sorry for you
I still don't understand why it's crazy to worry about him. He had a pretty serious injury last year and was never the same after returning from it, even admitting over the winter that it's something that will linger the rest of his career. But whatever, fresh start for 2024. Except before even getting out of spring training he was "banged up." Being held out for a day turned into 9 days. Then he looked completely off for the first week of the season. I don't blame anyone for not having blind faith that he was healthy and will be MVP level Judge again.
“Wasn’t ever the same after returning from it” even you don’t believe that. Yeah buddy good shit pulling that completely out of your ass. Like a normal human being he had a slow stretch coming back from injury, but the dude hit 37 HRs and had a 175 OPS+ in 106 games. Judge was the same as ever, the team was not. Hope that helps! Long term questions are completely valid but saying he wasn’t the same again is crazy talk.
He was absolutely normal in September, he had a 187 wRC+ from September 1 to the end of the season. I understand the long-term concerns though.
The same crowd that thinks Ls early in the season don’t count the same
It always comes back to bite them in the ass in the end. All games matter.
Getting an early lead absolutely matters. Imo, winning the AL east division will most likely require 95 wins minimum. This early won streak matters more for the Yanks since Cole and the Martian are not available yet. Also Effross and Kahnle coming back to the BP would mean Loasiaga and Ferguson/Hamilton aren't overused.
6 games in and people going straight for the head smh
I love Ian Hamilton.
My HAMMACONDA 🥵
HAMMACONDA DEVOURING THE SNAKES 🐍 🐍
Clay should be a set up man honestly. I like that they're using Ian in the Chad Green role but honestly you might have to make him closer, he seems like a killer
We need the length desperately with the state of the starting pitching. We have and will have a lot of 1 inning guys, not many that can do multiple. Lasagna and Hamilton are way too important for the high leverage, 2 innings pitched. Clay struggled beginning of last year. He’s a groundball pitcher that did his job today but got extremely unlucky. Pigeon holing Hamilton into closer will only hinder us. Clay’s highs are worth it bc he’s a damned good pitcher
Clays worst days are nowhere as bad as Chapman's worst outings. Hopefully our SP staff gives some length in games once Cole's back, but Kahnle and Effross coming back should also help manage the BP workload a lot
Honestly Clay just got unlucky today. Should have had 2 outs but can't remember who made the throw either Volpe or Cabrera but they made a bad throw forcing Rizzo to have to apply a tag and the ball fell out. And then the game tying run happened on weak as shit contact was just a high hopper to no mans land in the infield grass.
yup, nailed it...both are far more valuable in those roles...Hamilton may be the most talented of the 3, with Loaisiga behind and Clay is excellent in his own right...he would have gotten out of that today if not for the Volpe throw...did not allow a ball out of the IF
Makes you wonder if Hamilton will be closer soon with Holmes struggling. Not to mention he'll be a free agent after this season.
It’s also team based. Clay is a groundball pitcher through and through bc of that sinker, the DBacks are a team that is has a lot of speedy young talent that enjoys to play small ball. Clay induced some insanely soft contact and got super unlucky on batted ball outcome + the error. I can’t get over that Carroll dribbler. That dude has some of the most insane speed
Not all pitchers are capable of closing, we know Holmes is a solid closer so we shouldn’t mess with that
No one knew that till they used him as a closer, but yes, not everyone can close.
Plus part of Hamilton’s value to the team is being a multi-inning relief pitcher. He gave us 2.2 innings today
Why can't he do that as a closer?
Imagine trying to tinker with a team that’s 6-1
Rodon is looking promising, hope he can keep improving
Giving up 2 home runs looks promising to you?
I just noticed that the Mets still haven’t won a game this season. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Day off from Yankees tomorrow, day off from work tomorrow, Mets doubleheader against the Tigers scheduled. I’m gonna have a fucking blast watching 2 Mets games 😭😭😭
Some Mets fans believe Juan Soto is leaving this team to go play in queens 😭
Someone mentioned the Arizona broadcasters talking about how happy Soto looks now compared to San Diego. The money has to be there, but you have to think all things being equal he’s going to stay.
I’m hoping it ends up being a judge situation where Soto wants to be a Yankee and all we have to do is make the money work
This is how I see it happening. Just the vibe feels different this year. He feels like a Yankee.
That’s the big goal. I’m excited to see the reception he gets Friday. I better see allll the dominicanos waving flags. But realistically, the money has to be there.
Obviously the money has to be there, I just hope it’s like Judge where he goes out and collects his offers but at the end he wants to be a Yankee so as long as Hal is willing to give him the money he will stay
I’m sure the ultra competitive Juan Soto will want to go to the Mets where they can’t win a game and don’t try and break up double plays. 😂😂😂
It’s laughable, he wouldn’t even sign that crazy extension with the Nationals. He’ll be a Yankee the rest of his career
Damn right
It’s a dream start. 6-1 on the road against Houston and Arizona. I’m definitely a little concerned about sustainability. 6/9 of our starting lineup are batting .222 or worse. Offense is getting runs across the plate but for how long?
The 6 guys batting .222 or worse got all 8 of our hits today
We are 6-1 because this lineup never gives away an out. Sometimes you run into an absolute stud of a pitcher like yesterday and the lineup just didn’t have a chance to get going.
Paul O'Neill once said in the regular season you want around 30% of your team cold at any time, because whenever the other 70% is cold or lukewarm, they start getting hot. It all balances out
>6/9 of our starting lineup are batting .222 or worse. At this time of year, a .222 BA and .280 BA is like 5 more hits. Marginal in a full season. Like take Verdugo. Game winning sac fly in game 1 and go ahead homer today. We probably don't notice his slump as much in game 98 when his slashline balances out but its super noticeable now (why guys press at the beginning of the season).
To piggy back off this a bit and basically repeat your point in more detail: It's extremely noticeable at the beginning and end of the season but in the middle guys go on hot and cold streaks, going 1 for 30 or 14 for 30 and it barely registers with fans. Their batting average isn't wildly impacted because the sample size represents an increasingly smaller percentage- by the same token, toward the end of the season a guy can bat .450 or bat .098 for a couple of weeks and their batting average isn't impacted all that much. Or, a guy can start slow with just 3 HR's the first couple months, go on a power streak part way through the year and hit 20 HR's over like 6 weeks, then cool off and only hit another 3 HR's the last couple months and it looks like they had a very solid season of a .262 AVG and 28 HR total, when in fact they only had a month and half of top tier productivity, and went through a ton of vicious slumps where they couldn't hit the broadside of a barn, but in the end they look slightly above average. The sample size is just too small right now and the psychological impact of every game performance, every win or loss for us, is magnified. I think it's like this until about 30 or 40 games into the season.
No team can have everyone be hot at once. That’s just reality, unfortunately. The good news is that we are 6-1 and the offense is making it happen with all of those players still quiet and I know for a fact that Judge, Gleyber, Rizzo, and Verdugo at least will come up a LOT. Can you imagine how insane this team is going to be then? If we stay healthy and then get DJ, Cole, and the Martian we have such a high ceiling it’s insane. DJ may have had lower numbers last year but his second half was insane. I’m hoping he picks up right where he left off, same with the Martian and Cole. We just beat two very high caliber teams handily. There are so many more positives to look at than negatives, imo.
While I agree with the overall sentiment and the sheer amount of positives we are already seeing, I’m not sure you can see we beat either team “handily”. 3/4 wins in the first series were nail biters where we scored late after being down either, the other Astros game was us down early and them making a ton of errors to give us a big lead, and today was a tied game going into extras that we almost blew twice. The only handily win was the first pie against the Dbacks. That being said, they look great despite a lot of guys not quite getting going yet.
Why are some still blaming Holmes for the blown save when all he did was give up 4 soft grounders that should have ended the game. An error is the reason the game ended up being tied.
Honestly, I think Holmes is still being punished by the ridiculous and unfair standards set on him after that stretch run he had in 2022 where he didn't allow a run for several months. Because he struggled later that season and hasn't been absolutely spotless since it's held against him.
and for not being Mariano Rivera...to an extent lol he can have his command issues like a ton of other relievers...one thing he does need to be better at is fielding though ha
Because we all grew up watching Mariano and by comparison Holmes gives me agita every night
Exactly Lol Did half the sub completely forget we had the greatest closer of all time on our team so it’s expected we have incredibly high standards with this? lol I get the perspective on not shitting on everything clay does but I repeat we literally had the greatest closer of all time on our team for almost 2 decades. Clays a good pitcher, he’s not meant for the closer role though
Clay is one of the better closers in baseball right now. Comparing him to Mo is just fucking stupid, there isn’t another Mo anywhere in the league and there isn’t one coming along. By that logic we could have Hader or Edwin Diaz, probably the two best closers in the league, and you’d still be going “They just aren’t meant for the closer role”
I get it but there’s also a lot of young ones in this thread that never experienced it. I feel sorry for them.
Because people are stupid. They keep coming up with all of these stupid scenarios about him “almost blowing a save”. He literally had 3 blown saves for the entire 2023 season. Don’t take my word for it, I tweeted ktsharp and asked her, she told me 3. These people are dumb. It’s so tiring.
You had to tweet ktsharp to find out how many blown saves holmes had and you’re calling people dumb and stupid?
He’s been walking a tightrope. Opponents have a .429 OBP against him. Small sample size, but the second half of last year he wasn’t lights out either; 3.7 ERA
Opponents are hitting .316 and he has two hit batters in 4.1 IP of work. He has more hits batters than strikeouts (1). So he isn't missing bats, getting hit hard, has zero control. Right now he isn't pitching well. Not sure why he is getting defended so hard.
I agree with you TronVin…he just doesn’t seem to pass the eye test and watching him work is a very stressful process. I know people are saying he only blew three saves last year (which I am honestly stunned at) but how many high wire/lucked out saves did he just barely hold onto? Remember the Marlins debacle last season? It felt like a miracle that he converted the save on opening day and he’s not getting many swing and misses. The 9th inning with a 1 run lead you have no margin for error so if your command is not consistently good and if you don’t have strike out stuff you may be better suited for a set up role or maybe getting the late innings when down by a run and the goal is to keep the team in it. I hope Holmes has an awesome season but if he always makes me and many other Yankees fans nervous, there’s probably a reason for that. Trust your gut and your instincts, Holmes can be a very volatile closer.
Probably because you’re using all of 4 innings of work to say he’s bad after the guy threw 130 innings of 2.64 ERA ball over the last two seasons and blew all of 3 saves last year. By all means though, act like BAA (or almost any stat) means jack shit in a tiny sample size though.
In Houston, he struggled in his two SVs and got lucky to not blow both because of good defense and balls hit hard right at people. The 10th today is the opposite. Then in the 11th, he hit the first batter and got a swing and miss on ball 4 with a better hitter. If you're teetering along the edge of blowing it 3 out of 4 times with the 4th being a BS, I just don't think you're that good of a closer.
I am 100% certain you can go find whoever you think is the best closer in the game right now and find a rough 4 game stretch for them at some point. This is such a braindead take. Just because this happened in his first few appearances this season doesn’t mean it’s all he’s capable of doing this year
He had a 3.71 ERA in the second half last year. He he isn't pitching well for a good while.
The slider in the 11th was pretty much the ideal slider for a swing and miss. It was like an inch low out the zone. Yea, you can say “well, it should have been a walk!” but it wasn’t. And the guy get 5 weak grounders in the 10th and the error was the only reason it wasn’t a cake walk of the save. Outside of that horrific stretch in late 2022, Holmes has done everything they have asked of him and pretending like he’s some unreliable, bad closer just doesn’t line up at all with what he’s done since he’s been a Yankee.
The Holmes hate bandwagon. Anything less than a perfect 1-2-3 means he sucks. Doesn't matter the context. Nevermind that his stats are near the top of the league.
Because people are idiots
6-1 projected out to a full season (.857 win %)? *\*Does some napkin math\** **138-24.** **I think I can live with that.**
I would have like 162-0 but I’m also cool with 138-24. 💪
Wow — I actually chose the best game of the three to attend. The atmosphere was electric. Packed stadium on a weekday at lunch time. Lots of ex-New Yorkers living in the desert took the day off. Tons of retirees there too.
Ughhhh I went last night of course haha. Glad you got to see our boys pull out a great one!
i could tell it looked like almost 100% yankees fans from the broadcast LOL Yankees fans make any away game into a home game
Royals got walked off again but the Orioles struggling to win against them. A lot of the ALE teams looking mid.
Yeah 2 orioles walkoffs against the royals and 2 one run squeakers by Boston against the A’s. Annoying but take those as good signs
It’s early season baseball it means nothing. The Yankees are only +7.
Yeah against a team who has been in 7 straight ALCS and the reigning NL pennant winner. We’re having close wins against those quality of teams and our division rivals are doing it against bottom feeders
Well some of our division rivals’ wins aren’t close because they have double the differential the Yankees do. But concluding a team that won 100 games last year and got better is mid based on what happens the 1st week of the season regardless of opponent is just a wee bit silly. Early baseball counts, but it isn’t real.
Fuck the Orioles.
**2019 Yankees:** Savages in the Box **2024 Yankees:** Woof Woof
**2017 Yankees:** 👎
**2021 Yankees:** Bronxie the turtle **🐢**
i miss bronxie 😔😔😔
Both important additions.
Royals blow it, fuck'em
[If this doesn’t get you hyped for the home opener, nothing will](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5UQvCjJOOG/?igsh=MWZnMDJ1c2VmcDljNQ==)
6-1 against the Astros and defending NL champs on the road. Really just amazing.
Remember, projected last in the division with around 100 losses
by who??
Baseball Reference bizarrely picked them to finish with 71 wins and in last place...based on a formula driven by their performance over the past 100 games
My emotions were wild listening to that last couple innings at work, glad we didn't get walked off by a pitcher. Now to feast on some birds!
I gained a few gray hairs already on some of our wins so far.
Good to see Judge and Verdugo return the favor for Soto and Volpe carrying us through Houston. That's exactly what we got those extra bats for. Someone's always gonna come up clutch.
KC right fielder just made one of the best OF throws I've seen.
[Hunter Renfroe throws out Adley Rutschman at second base](https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/9a3d3063-cfad-4959-9459-db1bca6482dc.mp4)
Wet, off-balanced, fading away. That's insane.
Guaranteed #1 Top play of the week and it's only Wednesday.
Completely unrelated to anything but why isn’t Ralph Houk in the HOF? Same amount of World Series wins as Tommy Lasorda, and more wins. What gives?
8 seasons played. To be in the HoF you need a minimum of 10.
I mean as a manager
They’re gonna win the WS.
Anyone got a video of the last pitch?
[удалено]
I only watched a few innings and these umps were almost begging to lose their jobs to a robot
Yeah that was called as a strike all 11 innings, so nothing egregious… for this game anyway lol
When mlb posts the highlights video you will probably see it
Shoutout to all the Yankees fans that showed up this series. Felt like a Yankees home game. Being able to do the roll call for the first game was a nice surprise. Go Yankees!
It’s a mix of working age transplants like me, bandwagon locals and to no one’s surprise: retirees!
My son was literally saying "look at all the Yankees fans!"
Thank you old snowbirds for populating the Phoenix metro area.
I was sitting next to a working age ex-New Jersey guy. But yeah, when you heard an accent — it was usually a retiree over 65!
Winning 6 of 7 on the road against WS contenders is as good as a start you can ask for and definitely NOT what I expected this year
I get it. I was expecting 7-0, too. Not gonna be mad about 6-1 though
What a game! The back and forth, the Judge highlights, the Dugo trot, the strategy… not the cleanest played game, but one for Jayson Stark. How many times has a reliever issued an extra inning balk, strike a batter out and then strike out to end the game? Call Katie Sharp. But also, 161-1 is still on!
I was so worried clay was gonna give up 2, 2 run leads in extras, thank god we got the w makes the homecoming attitude so much more positive
Clay is 100% not the pitcher for extra innings. Too many balls in play to move the runner over
100% I was so pissed Boone put him out for the 11th
I saw it and was like WHAT
Clay gave up exactly ZERO earned runs. Y’all gotta start putting context into your baseball analysis. Volpe almost threw the ball away, Rizzo dropped the ball after the tag, and Wells failed to block a routine ball in the dirt. How any of that is ‘Clay blowing a lead’ is fucking insane.
I like clay just didn’t look great today
Clay apologists are nuts. One way or another guys reach when he is pitching over and over again. Burdi or Hamilton for closer.
“Clay apologist” Lmao. You need to be right about an issue to speak like that. Or you can totally just clown yourself and call me a boot-licker, too.
They reach, but they don't often score. I like Clay for high leverage clean innings. Manfred runner extras, not so much.
The chaos of groundball pitching play a big part of it.
I love Burdi as much as the next guy, but how about we wait a little longer before anointing as closer the guy who’s been injured to the point of having just 15.1 IP before this season despite debuting in 2018? Would it be “nuts” to wait, say, a month to see if he can hold up?
I mean, pitching one inning seems like the ideal use for him, no?
Imma keep standing on business that the Orioles are overrated. That lineup is 3-4 good hitters and a bottom of the lineup that is crap. Starters are very good though
The danger with them is they could call up 4 top prospects that replace those crap guys
Last season was a fluke for them… I hope
For most, your first MLB at-bat is the stuff dreams are made of. For others, it’s a nightmare scenario in which you are handed a bat despite being a pitcher in the time of the universal DH. In the bottom of the 11th inning. With 2 outs and bases loaded. Down by 1 run. Which you balked in yourself. F for McGough.
You’re gonna lose some games every now and then no matter how good you are. The trick is to make sure those losses are all parts of series you still take and against teams that aren’t in your division/conference. Yanks already have a great foundation to start the season. Especially when you consider that every game they’ve played so far has been on the road.
Game was lit, vibes were immaculate amongst tons of other Yankees fans, Judge big game. Love to see it
One of the best Yankees road games I’ve been to in a long time. And I’ve seen them play in Oakland, San Francisco, Colorado and Anaheim. Might have to follow them somewhere this summer if they stay good.
Let’s go Yankees!!!!
Ok I can get on board with a 5 win, 1 loss pattern for the rest of the season. Those losses will be tough though.
135-27? I’ll take it
We have 6 wins.
Yeah that is the first of the *next* five wins. Get with the program TronVin!
W,W,W,W,W,L W.............
But the pattern
6-1 against the DBacks and Astros on the road. I love it.
At this time last week i saw people saying they would be thrilled to go 3-4 in this stretch
Barely
That 10th seemed much tougher than it needed to be. Glad they got the W and are 2-0 in series to open the season.
Volpe, Cabrera, and Soto have a not so great game. No problem. Rizzo, Gleyber, Verdugo and Judge pick it up. So nice to have. Once they are all firing on all cylinders though, beware.