2017 Yankees Season Thread

[jacksonianmarch]

Dmoney, who knows. His power is rare. When he centers a ball, it's leaves the yard in a hurry

[jacksonianmarch]

25% of the balls he put in play are line drives. He had averaged around that in the minors. His FB% is actually down a little bit from his MiLB numbers. If his FB% rises to his minors numbers, then the homers should actually rise! The crazy thing is how powerful he is to right field. Makes a lot of sense in YS. I don't foresee him being a .340 hitter. He likely settles in as a career .270-.280 hitter. But that power is insane. He doesn't even need to center a ball to get it way out. His K% is still higher than I like, but he cut it down by 16% from last year

[Northern Star]

Dude's got an insane .432 BABIP. How long can he keep it up?

 

He's a Yankee, so....forever.

[jacksonianmarch]

He won't keep up a .400+BABIP. But his ability to beat a shift should keep him well above the .300 mark

[jacksonianmarch]

Gary Sanchez with a 3 run bomb.

[jacksonianmarch]

With Chapman and now Warren out, we've had to rely on some kids with promise, but no real experience. We've had a lead or been tied late in all four games of this losing streak and have blown them all. Clippard was responsible for one blown lead but the other three were the kids

[bkzwhitestrican]

Terrible west coast trip. With the losses and injuries (to MLB and minor league players) last week, I don't think it could have gone any worse. The only positive I can think of right now is that at least we had built up a large enough cushion to weather a losing streak like this.. but it's gotta end this week. Back home, let's win some series!

[Kimmi]

Terrible west coast trip. With the losses and injuries (to MLB and minor league players) last week, I don't think it could have gone any worse. The only positive I can think of right now is that at least we had built up a large enough cushion to weather a losing streak like this.. but it's gotta end this week. Back home, let's win some series!

 

In terms of W-L record, it was terrible. But you lost 6 games by a total of 9 runs. Your team is underperforming its Pythagorean W-L by 5 games. Your record in one run games is 7-12, but your record in blowout games is 19-2.

 

Much to my dismay, all of that points to a team that is playing well and has been a bit unlucky.

[dgalehouse]

The Yankees have gotten a dose of reality. Injuries will deplete a roster and take their toll on you. And , West coast trips can often be rough. If they can bounce back from this , we might have a real pennant race. If not , look for the Sox to pull away from the pack.

[jacksonianmarch]

We had a lead in every game and prior to the final two games, we had a lead after the 5th in the prior 4 losses. Our suddenly stalwart pen has started leaking. Part of that had to do with Aroldis being out and then Warren. Part of it had to do with coming back to the mean a bit with Clippard. The good thing is that none of these injuries are considered to be serious. Warren was said to have potentially not needed the DL, but due to the rookie starting, they needed an extra body and needed the space. Regardless, a little home cooking should help.

 

I also think the CC injury kinda started this fiasco. CC went down right after we burned Chad Green in order to elongate Tanaka. CC goes down and we need to burn pen in Anaheim without our suddenly very reliable long man in Green. This prompts us to overuse Warren and down he goes. With Chapman already out, we start relying on kids in a typical time that we'd otherwise use veterans. It didn't help that the next 5 starts from there were pretty pedestrian to terrible. Pineda was hit around, Severino had one awful inning, JMont wasn't sharp, Tanaka got home happy again and then Cessa couldn't get through the second while limiting damage. Today they're off. Tomorrow we start Pineda at home where he's been deadly. We should have Hicks and Sanchez back in their usual positions. We have a 7-8-9 bridge again with Aroldis back and with the limited use of Betances, we could even stretch him a bit if needed.

 

The one thing I am hoping for is the promotion of Chance Adams. I know we bided our time with CC's replacement, but we now k ow he's missing a month and have seen Tanaka be entirely unreliable. I'd be intrigued to see how Chance could do in an extended role. After CC comes back, if Tanaka still sucks, I'd DL him and give Chance some run. We need to see what we have before the end of July. No need to spend prospect capital if we have the answers to our problems internally

[moonslav59]

"...I also think the CC injury kinda started this fiasco...."

 

 

 

Injuries to starting pitchers has led to several teams going through tough stretches.

 

The Astros were on fire, then...kaput!

 

The Sox have had to deal with starter injuries all year long, and we've clawed our way to a tie for the division lead and the second best record in the AL.

 

Based on 14 starters per 5 starters, the Sox have missed these amounts of starts from our original rotation:

 

#1 Sale: 0

#2 Price: -9

#3 Porcello: +1

#4 ERod: -4 (and counting)

#5 Wright:- 8 (and counting)

 

Starts made by our #6 and lower starters:

#6 Pomeranz: 13

#7 Kendrick: 2

#8 Johnson 4 (Now, he's hurt.)

#9 Velazquez 1

 

 

[Station 13]

Torres needs TJS.

[bkzwhitestrican]

And now Gleyber Torres is set for TJS. Which practically guarantees another full year of Headley. Sigh...

[Spudboy]

And now Gleyber Torres is set for TJS. Which practically guarantees another full year of Headley. Sigh...

 

Yanks can go get Moose or another suitable placeholder.

[jacksonianmarch]

That sucks for Gleyber. Thank goodness its an injury with a high likelihood of recovery. For a position player, he should be back to full strength come April. He doesn't have to worry about throwing sliders. This hits our depth a bit, but it doesn't entirely mean that Headley is guaranteed to stay. We have another high end prospect in Tyler Wade who is likely ticketed to be a SS or 2b at the next level. While the kid doesn't have the power potential or the arm of Torres, he does have a solid hit/speed/patience tool. He's only 22 and he has a .322/.386/.462 triple slash in AAA with 20 steals. There is a chance they bring him up and shift Castro to third or just let Wade hang at 3b for the time being

[bkzwhitestrican]

And the slide continues. The Yankees only know how to play baseball two ways: lights out domination, and s*** the bed in the middle of the night.

[a700hitter]

Yankees thudding back to reality.

[Bellhorn04]

It's a long, long season.

[a700hitter]

It's a long, long season.

They will not lose the rest of their games, but they are also not a .700 team.

[moonslav59]

Teams usually are never as good as they look when playing well or as bad as they look when playing poorly.

 

All teams have ups and downs. Moments of deep concern. Moments of joyful glee and optimism.

 

The Yanks were never as good as they looked earlier this year, but their not as bad as they look now either.

 

We were never as bad as some thought we were during our down time, but we may not be as good as we look right now either.

 

We look like a 90-94 win team. The Yanks look like an 87-91 win team, IMO.

[Bellhorn04]

Their rotation will tell the tale.

[a700hitter]

It will and it stinks.

[bkzwhitestrican]

The Yanks are in no way this bad. Their bullpen is one of their strengths, but it has been their downfall in five of the last seven games. I think the Yanks playing within themselves will look more like the .700 team than this .000 team. But yes, the Yanks are not actually a .700 team.

 

With that said, would anyone care to make a friendly wager? Yanks/Sox are pretty much even in the standings at the moment. Whoever's team wins the division wins the bet (bet is void if neither team wins the division). The stakes? The loser buys two tickets for the winner to a home playoff game in the divisional round.

[jacksonianmarch]

I am not in on that wager. The sox have the potential to have a better rotation and usually the best rotation leads to the best results.

[Kimmi]

Me taking that wager would be the kiss of death for my Red Sox.

[a700hitter]

It is a steep wager.

[bkzwhitestrican]

I was just throwing it out there. No pressure. Just figured it could spice up the rivalry a bit more. I mean I am a Yankees fan posting in a Red Sox forum and pretty much everyone is respectful and decent towards me. I feel like that would have been unheard of 5+ years ago.

[Spudboy]

I was just throwing it out there. No pressure. Just figured it could spice up the rivalry a bit more. I mean I am a Yankees fan posting in a Red Sox forum and pretty much everyone is respectful and decent towards me. I feel like that would have been unheard of 5+ years ago.

 

Yankee fans that ad value to the board are generally treated pretty well.

[jacksonianmarch]

Girardi and our D really f***ed that one up last night. Severino had no business going out for the seventh. Granted, good D would have gotten Sevy out of the inning. Betances blew that one last night, which isn't surprising since he's received almost no work during our slide.

[jacksonianmarch]

And Tanaka was brilliant last night. If we get him pitching like that, we will be very fortunate