The offensive talent just isn't performing, man. Take a look at the stats.
The Yankees are hitting .217 with an OPS of .655. With Judge, Stanton and Torres all healthy.
Stunning.
Truth be told I follow most games on Gameday now as I'm multi-tasking.
Seeing bad calls on Gameday can be ever more unsettling than seeing them live. You receive two pieces of blatantly contradictory information.
So many head-scratching moves of all sorts. On defense, they have DJ, a second baseman, playing first, Torres, a second baseman, playing short, and Odor, who should be out of baseball, playing second.
To date, Cole has been outstanding, Montgomery has been pretty good, the rest of the rotation has been awful. Their bullpen is fine.
Their offense is in a huge funk.
Their defense is an abomination.
Something about baseball makes me crazy superstitious.
With regard to the 4/4 mojo, after we won a couple I noticed that 4/4 is Groundhog Day (2/2) times two. But I didn't want to mention it and jinx anything.
Yes, but as you say, it might be Cash making these decisions.
Nelson said afterward he was informed Thursday night he would be starting on Friday, and he had to remind himself how to prepare. You can't make this stuff up. It's reminiscent of the disaster against the Rays in the playoffs last year when they used Garcia as an opener and then Happ. And Happ afterward said he wasn't really in favor of the idea.
It smells like total systemic dysfunction.
It's still too early to say. Kluber or Taillon might start to click. They're getting back Severino and Britton.
Don't get me wrong, I'm hopeful that they continue to 'underachieve'.
The fact that their offensive 'depth' is Bruce and Odor is making me very happy at the moment.