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[Yankee4Life]

Congratulations to the Diamondbacks and the fact that they beat the Phillies was a bonus. Did you see how they won this series?

 

1.Sacrifice bunts.

2.Stolen bases.

3.Aggressive base running. Aggressive base running all the time.

4 Singles and line drive hits that advance runners and provide pressure on the opposition.

5. Consistent hustling defense.

6. Consistent starting pitching.

 

Now do the Yankees do any of this?

[Yankee4Life]

Domingo German, Matt Bowman, Franchy Cordero, Jimmy Cordero, Billy McKinney and Ryan Weber were outrighted off its 40-man roster today.

 

I don’t see anything wrong with this and it was a good move by Cashman and the Yankees. It was also an easy move on their part so we will see how well they do when the transactions and acquisitions get harder.

[Kccitystar]

2 hours ago, Yankee4Life said:

Domingo German, Matt Bowman, Franchy Cordero, Jimmy Cordero, Billy McKinney and Ryan Weber were outrighted off its 40-man roster today.

 

I don’t see anything wrong with this and it was a good move by Cashman and the Yankees. It was also an easy move on their part so we will see how well they do when the transactions and acquisitions get harder.

 

This is fine, these are all AAAA fringe guys

[Yankee4Life]

Ok, who in the hell is Yerry De Los Santos and why do we need him?

[Yankee4Life]

Hey!!! Ok!!! Spring training opens and we have already received our first exaggeration of the season. Aaron Boone just said the Yankees are "hellbent on being a champion."

 

Wooo, what do you think of that? Gives you goose bumps doesn’t it? He neglects to say that this organization is always “hellbent” on this and it seems to me he is already putting up smoke and mirrors ahead of the first rash of injuries that should happen next week or the very latest the last week of February.

 

I am conditioned now not to believe anything this guy says ever again.

[Yankee4Life]

Gerrit Cole to miss at least 1 to 2 months as Yankees ace visits noted surgeon

The Yankees will be without Gerrit Cole to at least the start of the season.

 

 

 

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole will be out at least one-to-two months and will head to Los Angeles for an appointment with noted sports surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache, The Post has learned.

 

Several Yankees doctors and ElAttrache have viewed Cole’s preliminary film, and while none has detected a tear in his ulnar collateral ligament, there’s enough concern about the ligament that ElAttrache has suggested an in-person visit.

 

Word is that the defending AL Cy Young Award winner will be out for an “extended period,” although for now, the hope and belief is that Cole has a chance to return sometime in May or early June.

 

The initial readings of Cole earlier in the week were optimistic, with the belief the issue could be resolved with rest and other conservative treatments, but ElAttrache has recommended more testing, raising the level of worry.

 

Yankees manager Aaron Boone publicly ruled out Opening Day, but it’s clear Cole will need more time than that now.

 

At the very least, Cole will need to wait for swelling and inflammation to subside, and once that does, he would need to re-ramp back up to get into major league pitching shape.

 

The 33-year-old has shown his usual excellent velocity and command this spring, but his recovery, normally no problem for one of baseball’s most dependable starters, has been an issue.

 

His most recent spring outing was a three-inning, 47-pitch live batting practice Thursday.

 

“His recovery, before getting to his next start, has been more akin to what he feels during the season, when he’s making 100 pitches,” Boone said Monday, when Cole underwent the initial MRI exam.

 

That turned out to be just the start of testing that has been going on for a few days and will continue in California with ElAttrache.

 

Former Yankees great Masahiro Tanaka was able to pitch successfully with a weakened elbow ligament, but many pitchers are not.

 

Gerrit Cole talks to the press at the start of Yankees spring training.

 

Since the start of the 2020 season, no one has pitched more innings in baseball than Cole (664), who has performed like the workhorse the Yankees believed he would be when they signed him to a $324 million contract.

 

Cole has been the rare combination of excellent and durable, never undergoing Tommy John surgery and consistently taking the ball for the Yankees every fifth day.

 

There is no good time to lose Cole, but extended missed time this year would be especially devastating.

 

Gerrit Cole will miss at least 1-to-2 months.

 

In what will be an all-in year for the Yankees — who mortgaged part of their pitching future in a trade for Juan Soto, who will be a free agent after this season — there are significant questions behind Cole in the rotation.

 

Marcus Stroman pitched just 24 innings in the second half of last season due to hip and rib-cage issues.

 

There are questions of durability and effectiveness with lefties Carlos Rodon and Nestor Cortes, both coming off seasons to forget.

 

In his first full season as a major league starter last year, Clarke Schmidt was OK (4.64 ERA) but not special.

[sabugo]

So, business as usual then.

 

[Yankee4Life]

18 minutes ago, sabugo said:

So, business as usual then.

 

Yes. They are a major disappointment.

[Yankee4Life]

It’s time for my annual who stays and who goes list.

 

Pitchers

 

Get some rest over the winter and be prepared to work on fundamentals:

Gerrit Cole, Luis Gil, Clarke Schmidt, Carlos Rodon, Luke Weaver, Will Warren, Marcus Stroman, Clayton Beeter, Jake Cousins, Cody Poteet, Ian Hamilton, Mark Leiter, Jr.

 

Enough already!

Nestor Cortes, Clay Holmes

 

You waste of space

Jonathan Loaisiga

 

Re-sign him

Tim Hill, Tommy Kahnle

 

Hitters

 

Like the pitchers, get some rest and then be prepared in February to work on something called “fundamentals.” You can do it. I have faith in you.

Oswaldo Cabera, Jazz Chisholm, Jr, Anthony Volpe, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton

 

They deserve a decent shot.

Oswald Peraza and Ben Rice.

 

Come in early and don’t forget your glove

Jasson Dominguez

 

Get the hell out of here

DJ LeMahieu, Anthony Rizzo

 

Probably going to go.

Jon Berti, Trent Grisham, Alex Verdugo

 

More who should go.

Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman.

[sabugo]

I agree with pretty much everything except for Loaisiga. Let him heal first and then see what's left in the tank before just getting rid of him. 

[Kccitystar]

I'll tell you why Boone is unlikely to be fired every postseason exit, and this is just my hot take:
 

Aaron Boone is just following the organizational philosophy to the letter. The org/analytics team have their processes, their "lanes", and their "systems". The problem and flaw with this philosophy is that these things are way too rigid for baseball, and the organization has shown time and time again that they are not willing to adapt to real-time variables, or as people say, the intangibles. The Yankees’ system is designed to minimize the impact of human intuition and natural player instincts in favor of a process that can be consistently defended by numbers that you can repeat and get the same result every time. The problem is that refusal to account for these real-time variables means that the team is frequently blindsided when situations do not unfold as projected by the data.

If you view team decisions and situations through a "process" lens, you can become just as detached from reality as Cashman. The entire view of the organization is that as long as that game decision that you made was driven by the analytics and data that you had, or that we (as the organization) gave you, then the outcome is just the outcome, and not just the result of a "mistake" that you made. It's easier to defend failures as "bad luck" or "outliers", rather than as signals that the process that got you to that result might need a significant overhaul.  It's how EVERYONE avoids accountability up and down the organization. 

Throughout the years seeing the Boone-era Yanks play, my newfound understanding of how heavy-handed the organization's data driven approach was made every baffling Boone decision click for me. A great example is how Boone handles slumping players. A data-driven perspective might show that in the long run, a specific player is expected to rebound based on historical averages and underlying metrics. Even though this can be true, it doesn't look at immediate factors like fatigue, psychological struggles, or adjustments opponents have made that require timely, human intervention. The rigidity to “trust the process” means these nuances are ignored, and decisions that should be flexible become formulaic.

All of these things require some level of situational awareness, as they have always been factors that play into the outcome of the games. The worst part about this philosophy is how it allows both Boone and Cashman to deflect blame. When decisions don’t lead to wins, they can be justified by pointing to the data that informed them. This shields Boone from criticism since he’s merely executing a plan based on data, and it insulates the front office by framing failures as outliers or the result of bad luck. This cycle of justifying losses with analytics and variance discourages the organization to look introspectively at what they are doing wrong. They never reach a point where they question whether the overarching strategy is flawed; instead, they simply tweak the process without re-examining its premise.

 

If you look at how the Yankees lost Game 1 of the World Series, following it through as a series of "processes" and "lanes", it looks completely defensible on paper because the data says so/suggests as such. In actual reality it ignored literally all of the game context any manager who still had a feel for the game would have adapted to:

• Taking Cole out early. This was probably driven by pitch counts and matchup data. On paper, it sounds like the best move, but in doing so, it ignores literally all of the on-field stuff you see as a manager, like the flow of the game. You can see that Cole has momentum. You can see that he isn't tired and that he's locked in on the mound. He says he feels great. The Dodgers aren't hitting him as hard. By being so rigid with processes and not willing to adapt to what you see on the field, you disrupt all of the momentum Cole had all game, and your decision is going to put pressure on the bullpen to perform to get 9 high-leverage outs.
• Using Cortes, who did not pitch off a mound since September 18, again, driven by the data regarding his good numbers against lefties. It ended up giving the Dodgers the game. It ignored every real-time variable, like the long layoff, the fact that it was a high leverage situation, and the fact that Tim Hill was probably your most effective lefthander in the bullpen throughout the playoffs.
• Defensive alignments: They're all influenced by data and analytics that tell you where you should stand on the field based on batted ball data and the hitter's tendencies. If you rely solely on that data, you're not taking into account game momentum, or how a team is approaching their at-bats for that situation or for that specific game, or how likely a player's hitting tendencies might not align with aggregated data. Now you have players thinking too much on where they "should" be on the field and not using their situational awareness to respond naturally to a play as it unfolds.

The worst part about all of this is that the Yankees would never consider the overall philosophy as systemically not effective. Teams that consistently contend for championships don’t abandon analytics but instead use them as part of a holistic strategy that considers the human side of the game. The Yankees’ unwillingness to adapt to real-time variables or acknowledge that their process might need a fundamental change is why we keep having early exits in the playoffs when we're able to contend. As long as Boone follows the process, his job is safe, and the organization won’t consider these failures as reflective of deeper issues within their strategic approach.

[Yankee4Life]

KC, you may not make a lot of posts in here but they are always informative, educational, well thought out and most of all correct.

 

Thank you.