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I also like cherry picked stats. With the Yankees, Joey Gallo's slash line is .333/.535/.867 in plate appearances where he does not strike out.

Could've been our best win of the year. Instead only like our 5th worst blown game of the year. Other teams will sure have plenty of highlights this season featuring the Yankees. Britton has been shaky all year so I don't know why he was Boone's first choice to close. Makes no sense unless Loaisiga/Green were unavailable. Burn down the corn fields.

Can't wait for Heaney to be relegated to the bullpen. Hopefully this is his last start.

Yes yankees are super lucky. Here's their current IL: SP: Cole SP: Kluber SP: Severino SP: Montgomery SP: German SP: Schmidt RP: Chapman RP: O'Day RP: Mike King C: Sanchez 1B: Rizzo 1B: Gittens 2B: Torres 3B: Urshela OF: Hicks OF: Frazier OF: Andujar OF: Locastro OF: Amburgey Almost a full team. And a pretty good one at that. I think this speaks to the depth of the team, that they can still play competitively despite this insane IL list.

0-10 with RISP. Very winnable game, just couldn't get a hit when it mattered.

Perfect timing I guess. Also I'm pretty sure Rizzo was openly against the COVID vaccine.

Yeah but Heaney's fastball RPM is over 9000!

It was barely a fair ball down the right field line, so would've been in the 10th row at Fenway ;]

Gil was a COVID replacement for Cole, so not sure he could've technically stayed. They can still call him up in a regular move without the 10 day waiting period I believe.

3 starters lost in 3 days. Funny how quickly depth dries up. Would be nice if the offense started hitting to carry the team, since the starting pitching has been carrying the offense for months.

It's like a home run derby. Dude is just tossing meatballs over the middle of the plate.

If the Yanks and Sox do face in the playoffs then I pray that they bring in Ottavino in a big situation. For us he imploded in just about every playoff appearance and eventually was unusable.

Vizcaino is more likely to end up in the bullpen, but has closer stuff with a highly rated fastball and a changeup that is rated as elite. Alacantra could end up being good, but is still a few years away from the bigs. All in all not a lot to get Rizzo and have them eat his contract.

I'm curious who they had to give up. He's just a rental so hopefully not a ton, but I guess this means Voit is gone.

Cole pitched better than his line would suggest, but overall he wasn't sharp. The only pitch he had working today was his fastball. Offense had chances early but didn't capitalize, and then just went to sleep for the rest of the game. Abreu (who was pitching in a spot where we would normally see Cessa) completely shat himself (0 outs recorded, 6 ER, 4 hits (3 of which were HRs), 2 BBs). Weird stat, the Yankees have a .385 winning % during the day and a .623 winning % at night. And they also continue their ineptness when trying to finish a sweep.

I wish they kept Otto since he could've actually helped this year. But everyone else is years away from the bigs, and the best players were probably middle infielders which is our position of most depth (in the low minors at least). Since they've now declared that they're buyers then I hope they make more moves. Gallo is a nice add but he ain't turning the season around.

Maybe the player to be named later will be Luis Castillo

German wasn't stretched out, and was pitching out of the bullpen as recently as two weeks ago. So I don't have an issue pulling him there. But it was clear early that Loaisiga didn't have anything, and since he just got off the COVID IL there should've been a quicker hook to pull him from the game.

There's been so many games like this in one season that I can't even get mad or be surprised anymore. Not even the worst loss this month.

I thought they were going to choose "Native Americans". That would have been the most PC.

Weren't any good options. Chapman/Loaisiga/Britton/Abreu weren't available, King/Cortes/O'Day are out, Luetge and Cessa were already used, and Green blew the game when they had a chance to win in regular innings. You can enjoy the win all you like, but on paper Boston should probably win every game this series. Gardner barely deserves to be on the roster and he's batting 2nd. Batters 6 though 9 are AA/AAA players. We had to bring in Sal Romano (who TF is that guy?!) with the game on the line because everyone is either beat up or overworked. This group has somehow managed to stay afloat with so many players out, but so many players getting COVID during this pivotal stretch was a huge kick in the nuts.

Rays are apparently close to trading for Nelson Cruz. No word on what they're giving up, and not confirmed yet. But looks like they're actually going to be buyers for once.

Did that actually happen? I think I've intentionally forgotten everything from 2020.

I don't blame Chapman for that last one since I still think Altuve had a buzzer under his shirt, but that's just my opinion 😆 As for Gray, he was just making excuses. They tried multiple approaches with him to see what worked, and it turns out nothing did. Does pitch mix make a guy constantly hang sliders, or miss his location by a foot? He was just another Javier Vazquez.

Gallegos - Wasn't even a notable prospect at the time he was with the Yankees. He had good stuff but no command. Who knows if he even develops if he stayed with the Yankees. Sonny Gray - Unfortunately some guys just can't pitch in NY. We've seen it with numerous pitchers regardless of who the manager or pitching coach is. Kaprelian - If Gray wasn't a headcase this could've been a good trade. Kaep looked done up until this season as he's never been healthy, and the other two prospects (Fowler and Mateo) are non-factors Ottavino - This was essentially the equivalent of letting a free agent walk. He looks good so far but let's see how he finishes the season, and if Boston makes the playoffs good luck with him on the mound Whitlock - This one hurts, but Boston took a flyer on a guy who was injured and nobody had seen pitch in awhile, and he's worked out. Would like this one back. Good farm systems produce good prospects, and you can't always hang onto every one. Boston doesn't seem to lose out on a lot of prospects, but then again they haven't produced many good players over the past decade (at least on the pitching side). And if you're dinging BC for trading good pitchers, then he should also get credit for trading for Green/Cessa, picking up Loaisiga/Luetge off the street, and signing Chapman/Britton/Cole. No GM has an unblemished track record.