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There are a fair amount of corner IFs likely to be moved, so I think the Sox definitely snag one to play 1b. I also wouldn’t be surprised if you grabbed an outfielder to shift Kike to 2b and not rely on Marwin at all

Barnes on the open market gets at least $15 mil AAV and likely gets a 3 yr deal. This is a total steal

Britton to IL, Loaisiga went on Covid IL, and Green was unavailable. O’Day just went back on the IL too. Cessa was extended from the German root canal game. They literally had Albert Abreu, Brooks Kriske and Chapman.

Cole is more durable and is heading into the ASB.

2 year extension with an $8 mil club option. $7.5 mil annually with a signing bonus. $18.5 mil guaranteed. It’s a steal.

Not sure if this is a blip or real, but Nestor was drafted as a low velocity guy who barely every reached 90. He had to get by with location and multiple pitches, but the last game I saw, he was topping out at 95. Reminds me of when the Yanks had Jose Quintana in their minor leagues and let him walk for nothing. A lefty with great accuracy, a deceptive motion and tons of pitches finally unlocks more velocity. You gotta keep this kid and see him through

Cole is an elite starter without sticky stuff. Today’s biggest annoyance is that we couldn’t hit the Astros pen after Greinke left. Cole can’t throw every day. We have to score more.

No Yankee fan on here is saying to blow the team up. I think all of us are united in wanting the management and corporate team blown up. The Yanks don’t need a full scale tear down, they need to have some impact left handed additions to the offense and starting rotation depth behind Gerrit Cole. I wouldn’t mind if they sold off some pieces that are redundant (Sanchez, Frazier) but the core of Urshela, DJ, Judge and Stanton aren’t going anywhere.

16 shutout innings. They suck

Someone made a comment on here about the Yanks having a remarkable run of being over .500. In the new era of baseball since the lux tax actually meant something, the Yanks have only gone "all in" once and it won them a title in 2009. Since then, they never blew the top off the lux tax, they never sold the future. They stayed good enough to either come close to or make the playoffs, which I am sure sold them a lot of tickets. But in the interim, they lost their way. The Yanks ALWAYS went all in. And if today's game means going all in creates a cliff, then so be it. You gain more by dropping down for a few years and retooling your farm than you do by winning 85 games and narrowly missing the POs. Cashman's style has always been to make the Yankees "good enough", never to make them unstoppable. The Yanks now aspire to be the Dodgers, a team with home grown talent and the power to bring in top notch talent from the outside, yet never seem to draft well for their position or seem to get the most out of their raw INTL signees. The Yanks have been lapped by the sox who have gone all in for maybe half the seasons in the 21st century and walked away with 4 titles. Now the Yanks hated rivals have a guy at the head who is poised to make the Sox more like the Dodgers and that will not sit well with Yankee fans. The team pushed forth for 2021, admittedly, should be better than this. But the paralysis at the top is obvious. They don't have the right leader in the clubhouse, rather an automaton who is essentially a GM puppet, yet the GM won't make the change. It is time for the Yanks to have a new direction. To reach down and remember what it is like to be the most valuable franchise in the game and actually show it. To not care if they owe a lux tax. To actually stress winning above all. It starts at the very top. I think it's time for the last remaining Steinbrenner to be more like his dad. The Yanks need a Boss level house cleaning.

Boone, in his Neanderthal thinking, still won’t pull him from the closers role. Here’s what I’d do. Tell Chap he’s gonna get some low leverage appearances to get his form back and the reinstall him as the closer when he gets right. You don’t continue to bring him into the 9th inning in close games we can win. Wake up

Chappy has these runs where he loses the zone and then leaves the ball in the middle of the zone. He will pull out of this tailspin.

I hope they lose every game the rest of the way. Mediocrity gets punished. If you’re gonna suck, then suck hard

And Chapman blew it again

This team gets a 3 run lead with their ace on the mound and he gives it back. They are done

I’d take Correa in a heart beat. Baez is not someone I’d target. I have a feeling the Yanks stay under and then go hog wild this off-season. I’d deal off Gleyber and see if someone else can fix what we screwed up. I’d deal off Voit as well and try to find a good lefty swinging 1b. I’d also deal Sanchez tomorrow while his value is high

The Boss was always trying to make things better, he just got tremendously greedy. When the Yanks dynasty days were going, he wanted all his minor league clubs to win as well rather than be a feeder to the big club. This also prompted the removal of Stick Michael and the absolute ignorance of the draft or anything amateur, even though the Yankee prospect machine (and their dollars) allowed for the building of some of the best teams of all time. The drop in minor league talent and the late adoption of draft manipulation allowed the Sox to take a foothold by generating a phenomenal farm while winning titles. Instead, the yanks kept picking from the top of the FA pile until the Lux tax fines got tok rich for their blood and George got too feeble to do anything about it

Fan is short for fanatic. It often leads to a lack of reason in blindly following the team you love and overlooking their weaknesses. I truly do not believe that my thoughts were incorrect at the season’s outset. I do not think this demise was predictable. I truly don’t believe this team should be in the position it is in. But we are now at half season and the Yankees are dead. They just came off a second series sweep vs the Sox and then come off a crushing collapse in their last game before Noah and his ark were summoned. After a dreaded vote of confidence from the owner and a widely publicized players only meeting, they come out and get no hit for 5 innings, watch as the last pen addition allowed the game to get out of reach and watch as another game vs a hated rival ends in defeat. This team has been exposed. The loss of the rocket ball hurt this team more than anyone else. The loss of stickem turned a rotation strength into a weakness. It was all a mighty turn of events that will prove fatal for this club. This is a below .500 team full of muscle bound right handed bats incapable of staying healthy and a rotation that still appears to be using the rocket ball once their sticky binky was removed. This team should not be added to. It should be consciously maintained and only the redundant parts sold off with an eye towards a major addition over the winter. This team needs an injection of life and a new direction. It also needs leaders and not talented kids with zero direction. My hope is Cashman goes and heck, maybe a certain Astros Exec deserves another try at the top job. Boone and his lack of leadership needs to go. I don’t think it would be all that surprising if the yanks retooled and become contenders again next year, and heck, maybe my post is just another fanatic’s early conclusion, but I don’t think I’m wrong here. This team looks lifeless and I think they’re done

And now the Sox have the best record in the AL and are about to pick 4th next weekend. Bloom ate Cash’s lunch

And now we are being no hit by Taijuan Walker

This is the Yankees. They’re operating like the Cubs. The Red Sox have been more Yankee like over the past 15 years, going after the very top players in trades, spending past the thresholds, and winning titles. Once George went into the ground, the Yanks have been acting like a business and it’s pissed off the fan base. Cashman had done well given his constraints, but he flubbed this year.

That’s the thing. This seems very 2019 Red Sox where the team was immensely talented yet played like s***. We just don’t have the benefit of just having won a title

He’s in big trouble now. Good chance he sticks in Dodgerland for the duration. Probably kicking himself that he didn’t take the longer Mets deal. I honestly have no sympathy for anyone who uses the “rough sex” defense. Throw the book at him

Chapman sweats like a fiend. My bet is he’s a sticky guy too. Either way, pathetic team

Me too. I’d take Phil Nevin as interim. He’s a no nonsense guy who I think the players respect far more than Boone