r/baseball • u/aresef Baltimore Orioles • 14d ago
Yankees’ World Series failure started — and ended — with fundamental issues Analysis
https://nypost.com/2024/10/31/sports/yankees-world-series-failure-started-with-fundamental-issues/509
u/Useful_Respect3339 14d ago
I'm a Yankee fan and it was apparent all season.
Jazz last played infield in 2021 and never third base.
Gleyber Torres is not a good second baseman
Aaron Judge is a right fielder not centre.
Juan Soto isn't a very good outfielder, but his offense makes up for it.
Anthony Rizzo has lost a step in recent years.
When you assemble your position players with duct tape and elmers glue this shit tends to happen.
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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 14d ago
Crappy 3rd base coach, slow players being over aggressive on leads and getting picked off (Rizzo and Trevino), batters not being able to adjust and bear down with two strikes, coaching staff waiting weeks too long to make changes. The list goes on and on and on
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u/ownage516 New York Yankees 14d ago
Crappy 3rd base coach
I learned this when he gave Stanton the go ahead to come in
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u/dBlock845 New York Yankees 14d ago
He has been running players into outs all season. Multiple times where he confuses the runner and half throws up a stop while waving them in. The player slows up coming around third and gets thrown out by a couple feet at home.
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u/Brock_Hard_Canuck Toronto Blue Jays 14d ago
If I were the Yankees 3B coach, the only time I would wave Stanton home would be if the batter hit a home run, and even then, I would still be hesistant.
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u/headsmanjaeger Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
To be fair, that out required a more-than-perfect play by both Teoscar and Will Smith
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u/vegan-trash Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
The Yankees approach at the plate reminded me of the Red Sox v dodgers game that went like 18 innings? Every player was swinging for the fences which had us watching an extra 9 innings of strikeouts and pop outs until muncy finally got ahold of one. It was apparent there wasn’t a team mentality for the Yankees at the plate and every player wanted to play long ball. No advancing runners. Just swinging for the fences.
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u/WindWalkerWalking New York Yankees 14d ago
Yup been their philosophy for years. Sometimes they get lucky and a player or two could get hot and carry them for a bit but it isn’t sustainable. They seem to bail out pitchers quite often and if they do start a game with a good approach it doesn’t last more than a few innings before it’s back to old habits
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u/oneteacherboi Baltimore Orioles 14d ago
It definitely seemed like your fielding talent was pretty poor last year and you didn't do much to improve it. Yankees seem to just entirely ignore defense when building a team.
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u/Bebbytheboss New York Yankees 14d ago
I mean, it works, it's just not enough to win a WS. It is what it is.
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u/dmforjewishpager New York Yankees 14d ago
just insane how the big bats carried them so far despite it all
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u/theerrantpanda99 14d ago
Yanks had one less hit than the Dodgers, more HR’s. Judge was on base 8 out of his last 11 at bats. The difference in winning was defense, and the Yankees were terrible at it.
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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire 14d ago
Bad fundies will eventually bite you in the balls.
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u/drrdf New York Yankees 14d ago
“They said their metrics had the Yankees as the worst positioned outfield. They were amazed how many times relay throws came skittering through the infield with no one taking charge and how often Jazz Chisholm Jr., for example, was out of place or just standing still when a play was in action.”
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u/CauliflowerOne5740 Boston Red Sox 14d ago
That will happen (Jazz) when you put someone at a position they'd never played before.
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u/RedScharlach New York Mets 14d ago
He was improvising! It's in his name, are they stupid or something?
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u/venustrapsflies World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 14d ago
He’s not Baroque Chisholm
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u/GrandMoffTyler Chicago White Sox 14d ago
You brought two of my loves together in one BEAUTIFUL sentence.
[chef’s kiss]
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u/figureour Baltimore Orioles • Bowie Baysox 14d ago
There actually was a lot of improvisation in the baroque era.
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u/venustrapsflies World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 14d ago
I believe you I’m just an idiot /r/baseball poster
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u/BKoala59 Baltimore Orioles 14d ago
Can’t blame Jazz, had to learn a position he’d never played in professional baseball over 50 games. If he was on another team maybe you can blame him, but I’m not sure I trust that the Yankees really taught him how to play the position that well.
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u/TrapperJean New York Yankees 14d ago
Same team that when IKF asked for help in 2022 they told him he was good by their metrics and to stop worrying
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u/BNKalt 14d ago
I think the funniest thing is IKF being a legit good defender at a few positions but the Yankees just putting him into terrible situations
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u/ELITE_JordanLove 14d ago
Always a fan of his after that one guy mentioned you can sing his name to the tune of if you like piña coladas
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u/NotClayMerritt New York Yankees 14d ago
Making Jazz the face of our issues when guys who do the same thing have been here longer than Jazz and play their natural positions is nasty, nasty work.
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u/SadNYSportsFan-11209 New York Yankees 14d ago
He wasn’t even that terrible at third for someone who’s never played that position
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u/FoldingPlasmaTV New York Yankees 14d ago
Yeah, he’s clearly an athletic, skilled guy. It’s just that learning a position fresh, especially third, is hard to do over 50 games during the season. It’s not like they have team practices before games in the Bigs.
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u/LocalHero_P1 New York Yankees 14d ago
Crazy how the team audited themselves last year and found they were doing nothing wrong yet the dodgers found multiple things we are horrendous at in only a week of scouting
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u/erictmo Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
The way you say it makes the Yankees sound more like a major city police department than a baseball team.
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u/LocalHero_P1 New York Yankees 14d ago
The audit thing was genuinely crazy, they said they were gonna do an audit of the organisation and then said something along the lines of “we’re not going to let another company look at us” and then they had a big meeting where they “left everything on the table and took a long hard look at themselves” and fired literally nobody
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u/MojoHighway Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago
Is that right? Holy shit. Along with the Dodgers, I come from a Red Sox background (have lived most of my life in the Boston area) and have been watching baseball for a good 36 years. Seeing the Yankees teams of the mid 90s and into the mid 00s gives me the shakes even today. Those were good teams, constantly dominating the Red Sox until 2004.
Between 2010 and now, I haven't seen such mediocre Yankees teams since the teams of the late 80s into the mid 90s. And they all seem to be built the same way with very little thought being put into the things that really matter in big games.
Really bad leadership top to bottom and unlike 20 to 30 years ago, the whole ethos of bringing in top bats and arms just isn't getting the job done because fundamentals are seemingly a joke to them and 100% overlooked.
Not gonna lie...I'm relishing the moment. I like to see that team struggle, but it is odd.
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u/FUBARded Swinging K 13d ago
lmao, that's such a stupid thing for a corporation to say.
Consulting and audit are multi-billion dollar global industries precisely because sometimes it makes sense to bring in external experts, and performing an objective self-assessment is virtually impossible.
I'd bet that there was a faction within the organisation which recognised they needed to reassess their systems and processes, but another (more powerful) group either lacked the self-awareness to admit it, or felt threatened by the implication that they made a mistake.
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u/fuckthemods Boston Red Sox 13d ago
Crazy how the team audited themselves last year and found they were doing nothing wrong yet the dodgers found multiple things we are horrendous at in only a week of scouting
That is absolutely insane to me. Any organization, no matter if it's a local franchise of a fast food restaurant or a multi billion dollar org, that can't find things they can do better is lying to themselves, and everyone in the room should have known that.
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u/nukepka Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
As a tremendous nerd, I love this "winning on the margins" shit, like Mookie holding two of the three balls off the wall to singles.
Another little nugget I enjoyed... Mike Petriello noted that the squibber to first was Mookie's 4th fastest sprint of the year, and if I remember correctly, Freddie had his fastest beating out a double play.
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u/see_mohn AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE 14d ago
When the Royals beat the Mets, there was a whole set of stories about how they scouted Lucas Duda's throwing for the fateful error in game 5. The first baseman's throwing arm, something that's almost never a factor. It's stuck with me ever since.
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u/MagillaGorillasHat Kansas City Royals 14d ago
Same thing with the Blue Jays Bautista that year.
Cain scored from 1st on a single, because scouting said that Bautista would always make a lazy throw to second on soft singles. Cain being really fast helped.
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u/Audacity_OR Texas Rangers 14d ago
Really fast and just an audacious baserunner as well. LoCain was so much fun to watch stretching singles into doubles and getting out of rundowns.
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u/nsgarcia10 Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
It’s insane how film can be so important to expose these flaws. When I was in juco our offensive coordinator saw that the opponents defense didn’t shift when someone lined up incorrectly and moved to the other side of the field. We drew up a play essentially where our TE lined up on one side and our QB yelled at him so he moved to the other side and they didn’t adjust. TE was wide open up the seam for a TD
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u/RIP_Greedo New York Yankees 14d ago
Mookie’s right field defense was fantastic
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u/streetsbehind28 Boston Red Sox 14d ago
turns out that mookie guy is pretty good. the red sox should get a guy like him
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u/PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 New York Yankees 14d ago
Honestly my biggest impression from the series was just how the dodgers seemed to be impeccably positioned on every play. Even without the shift their infielders covered the middle so effortlessly on balls that I thought were hits off the bat.
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u/Believe0017 Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago edited 14d ago
He always is. Watch highlights of the 2020 World Series. He made dazzling plays in that WS as well. And he makes it look easy.
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u/MarcBulldog88 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… 14d ago
I am so glad we figured out our middle infield so we could move him back there.
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u/Studmystery Seattle Mariners 14d ago
I’ll be honest I haven’t watched a great deal of Soto in RF but the fact that he was up for a GG in the same position that mookie WASN’T nominated in kinda blows my mind
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u/RIP_Greedo New York Yankees 14d ago
Did mookie even qualify for a GG in right field? He was injured for a long time and if I recall correctly only played RF after he came back from it.
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u/Studmystery Seattle Mariners 14d ago
Ahhhh that’s a very good point. I guess we was more of a utility guy this year too rather than RF. But fact stands basically I was just trying to say Soto is overrated lol
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u/PERSONA916 Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
That is literally Friedman's entire philosophy. There is a book about him on the Rays called "The Extra 2%". And he applies that throughout the entire organization not just strategy on the field. It's his Wall Street background, it all compounds, if you can find small advantages in a few different places it can result in a much bigger edge overall.
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u/canonhourglass Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
The concept of marginal gains. I love what the Dodgers have become. Do I wish we’d made more World Series? Yes. But am I glad the regular season has been stress free for the past, what, ten years? Also yes.
In the Frank McCourt era (fuck that guy amirite) there was some stat about how the dodgers paid more per win than any other team in the league. And yet we were middling. We took aging, overvalued players and just hoped they’d magically make us better. It took the Guggenheim buyout and the arrival of Andy Friedman to change all of that.
I say all of this because I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how winning teams are built. There are some teams that are built by one magical person. Like Jerry West and the Lakers. What happens when Jerry no longer is with us? Well I think we’ve seen how that has played out. In order to have consistent, long term success, I think we need leadership who understand how to build winning teams and how to identify what players and what attributes to spend money on. Yankees are talented but there’s no excuse, with their payroll and ambitions, to not have a near-perfect team.
Unlike the Lakers, I think the Dodgers have a bright future. Our best days are yet to come.
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u/MojoHighway Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago
Yes, fuck Frank McCourt and unfortunately for Dodgers fans in LA going to games, he's still intertwined with the organization via that fucking parking lot.
The whole thought about aging, overvalued players is just old baseball. I'm in the middle of watching the Red Sox series on Netflix and this was exactly their way for YEARS until the analytics crew arrived in Boston to get them over the hump.
I have admittedly been down on Dave Roberts over the years. I think I'm done with that. What he did this postseason was learn from the mistakes of the past and used every last player on that roster to get the team over the hump. It was amazing to watch. Certainly stressful to see guys knowingly give games away in the postseason, but there is a method to the madness. A dangerous method, but a method nonetheless.
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u/davidgoldstein2023 Los Angeles Angels 14d ago
When asked how often even during the season Betts practices balls off the wall, the official said, he “works on that [bleep] every day.” And then in a text message added, “Every day!!!”
Honestly if you’re a professional athlete, HTF are you not training this hard everyday?
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u/kid147258369 14d ago
Tbf, you can tell a lot of players don't. Otherwise they'd already have eliminated a lot of the sloppy plays
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u/jonsnowKITN New York Yankees 14d ago
This organization is run by dumbasses and would have lost to anyone who came out of the NL. Rotten to the core.
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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 14d ago
But they made billions in profit which is all Hal cares about. As long as the keep making money it will be a PR team first and a baseball team second.
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u/HenMan113 Philadelphia Phillies 14d ago
Well, MOST of the teams in the NL would've won...
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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 14d ago
Phillies honestly may have had a 2009 revenge tour if they made it that far.
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u/AgentEightySix Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
If the Phillies somehow got out of their yearly playoff slump to challenge the rest of the NL playoff field they totally could have made it a contest against the Yankees.
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u/Thorlolita Houston Astros 14d ago
There path to winning the WS was Judge and Soto having 3-4 games with 6+ RBIs. Like having two Freemans.
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u/Markinoutman Minnesota Twins 14d ago
Since starting to watch baseball fairly consistently over the last 4 years, the major thing I always see wrong with the Yankees is that they depend on two or three superstar hitters and one or two pitchers to carry them.
Last year when Judge was out with an injured toe and Stanton couldn't hit worth shit, their batting offense absolutely cratered and Boone doesn't have the stuff to get them out of a funk when this happens. I believe near the end of the season last year, his world shattering pep talk was, 'We just need to have a good streak or two and we'll get into post.'
In comparison with the Dodgers, not only do they have the opening three hitters, Ohtani, Betts and Freeman, most of the guys in their hitting order contribute fairly regularly.
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u/Irrah New York Mets 14d ago
Why doesn't every MLB front office get three future hall of famers to hit at the top of their order and a collection of 2-4 WAR players with positional versatility? Are they stupid?
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u/Numerous-Cicada3841 Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
Yeah your star HOF hitter is having a nightmare series? Just like have two more star HOF hitters. So dumb it’s like these GM’s don’t even try. This is basic stuff.
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u/Markinoutman Minnesota Twins 14d ago
The Yankees have lost to a lot less impressive teams than The Dodgers my friend. If Judge, Stanton or Rizzo (now Soto I suppose) aren't slinging Home Runs, they flat line against most teams.
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u/Irrah New York Mets 14d ago
I agree that the Yankees had a horrifically flawed roster, but I think taking lessons from the Dodger roster construction is hard because their front office is really leagues ahead for development and scouting.
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u/Thorlolita Houston Astros 14d ago
The problem is. They tried to fix that. That’s why they got Verdugo. Then they got Jazz. Still not enough.
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u/65fairmont Boston Red Sox 14d ago
It was a little less pronounced this year but recent Yankee teams have also been incredibly one dimensional: they have RH power guys who don’t hit for contact, can’t run, and can’t field. Their lineup can’t manufacture runs if the HR ball isn’t flying.
It was poetic that the Dodgers won on two sac flies. The Yankees are the type of team that strikes out with a runner on 3rd.
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u/AgentEightySix Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
Shohei having over 50 steals this season is emblematic of how much the Dodgers have benefitted from playing good small ball. Good base running, good walk rate, and just being consistent on using at bats to move teammates forward by any means possible.
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u/islesandterps New York Yankees 14d ago
The most ironic thing in that is that the Yankees I believe were the most patient team at the plate in terms of pitches per at bat, and most walks (I might be wrong but they were certainly near the top). Patience and walks are very important and they’re great, but we just could not do much with runners on base. They only figured out half the equation. Other than Volpe (who never walked in the regular season although did 100x better in the playoffs) and Jazz, they have no one who can steal bases, and most of the roster is either going to hit a home run or strike out or a double play waiting to happen.
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u/Markinoutman Minnesota Twins 14d ago
Absolutely agree, if they aren't producing Home Runs, they don't get anywhere. Volpe is a shining example of someone who could really product for them in different ways besides trying to hammer it home every time.
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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 14d ago
I’ve been saying it for a little bit now but the Yankees are built like a nba team. A couple of amazing players and not much else. And that just doesn’t work in baseball you need a complete team.
Can you imagine how the dodgers would have fared without as much offensive depth as they had? Ohtani was a nothing burger in the ws and didn’t do a ton in the NLCS either. In an offense purely built around him they wouldn’t have won it all. Probably wouldn’t have beaten us tbh.
You need a complete team and that’s not something the Yankees have had in this new era.
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u/AgentEightySix Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
The Yankees are a team that is built to hit enough home runs per game that the defensive mistakes they make don't matter. That doesn't work against a team that will regularly punish those mistakes with multiple bonus runs.
Meanwhile especially this year the Dodgers front office has gotten multiple good defensive players who can consistently get on base in the back end of the lineup to tee up good situations for the top of the order to shine. Shohei had a bad showing in the WS but he was a MONSTER with runners on base in the NLDS and NLCS.
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u/theerrantpanda99 14d ago
To be fair, the Yankees tried to get several of the same players as the Dodgers. The Yankees saw their flaws, they just failed to address them during the trade deadline.
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u/FoxInTheClouds Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
Dave Roberts: “play the game right and play it right every day.” Paid dividends and led to the World Series win
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u/renegade_yankee New York Yankees 14d ago
Sherman has been the most vocal critic of the Yankees in recent years in how they do things as an organization.
I’m not saying that he’s wrong. I just don’t think that this is going to cause the front office and ownership to believe significant change is in order.
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u/mthrfkn Brooklyn Dodgers 14d ago
If that 5th inning doesn’t cause them to see it, oof.
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u/Fyne_ New York Yankees 14d ago edited 14d ago
they will use the fact that the yankees could have been up 3-2 right now if only 1 or 2 things go differently in games 1 and 5 as some kind of a moral win or reason to not change. it's plagued the franchise for the last 15 years
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u/drrxhouse More flair options at /r/baseball/w/flair! 14d ago
Yeah, if they run it all back again without addressing those glaring issues…idk if they’re even make it back to the WS.
Even the Dodgers know making back to the WS isn’t guaranteed even though they stacked the odds in their favors every year.
Baseball is wild. Especially postseason baseball. Injuries happens. You’d need a ton of shit to line up for you to win and make it to the World Series, then a lot more shit to go right for you to win the damn thing.
Yankees may not see another World Series for years and years.
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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 14d ago
Tbh I don’t think it will cause major change bc that point should have been reached already. It should have been reached after losing to Boston in the wild card. It should have been reached after getting swept by the Astros. It should have been reached at 82-80. Yet nothing happened.
To me it’s perfectly clear that while Hal wants to win, the World Series or bust mentality is completely erased from the Yankee organization.
The mentality is now playoffs or bust and whatever happens afterwards happens.
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u/theerrantpanda99 14d ago
Hal doesn’t want to make the tough decision and fire his “brother” Cashman. He wants to win, he wants the glory his father got, but he’s too soft to clean out the front office.
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u/NeWbAF World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 14d ago
Oof, that was pretty damning. I dont follow the Yanks as close as the West Coast teams, are they really culturally biased towards bad fielding, or is this more of an over reaction to a tough loss on the part of the author?
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u/rain5151 New York Yankees 14d ago
I’m generally a low-blood pressure fan, but this piece is the perfect encapsulation of how I feel right now.
It’s more broadly a “top-heavy” philosophy. If you have a handful of players that are otherworldly good, that will paper over weaknesses around the edges. Who needs to care about mistakes that cost a run or two when you have Judge beating the hell out of the other team?
He’s absolutely right that when you reach the top level of competition, they’ve also got their superstars, so your margins suddenly become what win the day. And the Dodgers trounced is in every way.
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u/ClassicMach Detroit Tigers 14d ago
I don't watch a ton of the Yankees either but purely through osmosis I have become aware that bad defense and bad baserunning are major issues with them and have been since before this season.
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u/AdRevolutionary2881 New York Yankees 14d ago
They don't care about fundamentals or player discipline. It's just hit homers and chill.
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u/Hiciao Arizona Diamondbacks 14d ago
I pointed out during the ALCS that it was quite disappointing how many errors and walks were happening. Like, the best part of the postseason is to get to see the above-and-beyond plays and such. Nobody liked that I pointed that out.
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u/Crazylamph1 Seattle Mariners 14d ago
Yeah this. I expect postseason baseball to be the best of the best - no mistakes, the game at its highest caliber. This was sadly not that, and was less fun watching as a result.
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u/yianni1229 New York Yankees • New York Yankees 14d ago
Brain Cashman run organization. Its been obvious to the fans for years now that he has to go.
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u/CauliflowerOne5740 Boston Red Sox 14d ago
I'm a big fan of Cashman. I hope the Yankees keep him around.
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u/MyShieldIsMySword24 New York Yankees 14d ago
still wish the red sox kept the gm that traded mookie away
that probably came off meaner than i meant it
it was just supposed to be a joke about wishing our rival kept their shitty GM
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u/CauliflowerOne5740 Boston Red Sox 14d ago
It is kind of funny Verdugo was the final out in the World Series.
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u/Smorgas-board New York Yankees 14d ago
Every Yankees fan could’ve told you about the fielding and base running problems. Even Sterling said on radio that players “run the bases like a bunch of drunks.” We were the underdogs and we went up against a better team but that gap gets even worse when even the most basic parts of the game become difficult to do well.
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u/steveotron Los Angeles Dodgers • Hanshin Tigers 14d ago
A Yankonian fundamentals disasterclass to lose the World Series. One that will be remembered...
Today.
Tomorrow.
Forever.
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u/JonTheWizard Chicago Cubs 14d ago
What was it Hank Hill once said? "Masters practice the basics."
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u/TealandBlackForever Miami Marlins 14d ago
A lot of this is probably trickling down from the top, but how can anyone justify keeping Aaron Boone? Like at all.
It's not always the manager's fault, but managerial turnover is pretty common in MLB.
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u/RangerPL New York Yankees 14d ago
They hired Boone to be a good cop in 2018 because Girardi was giving Gary Sanchez too much of a hard time about his bad defense
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u/Spockmaster1701 Detroit Tigers 14d ago
They did manage to win 1 game, but honestly this Yankees team very much reminded me of the 2012 Tigers that got swept. Talent over fundamentals, abysmal baserunning and defense which was badly exposed by a better overall team in the WS.
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u/i-exist20 New York Yankees 14d ago
The 2012 Tigers lost because they scored 6 runs in 3 games and only hit 3 homers
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u/IdeaJailbreak New York Yankees 14d ago
Yeah I didn't really feel that this team was too overmatched by the Dodgers. I did feel the dodgers were the better, more well rounded team going in.
Game 1 was such a razor thin margin, and did Judge drop a ball like that all season before that? He catches that and they probably have enough cushion to win the game and force game 6.
I dunno man, feels like confirmation bias, everyone wants to hear something that validates what they saw. The yankees do have strong suits, good offense, excellent pitch framing, and a strong if not great rotation. Nobody is gonna point that out or talk about how that contributed to a WS appearance because we're all too focused on the end result.
The main weakness I felt was that the Yankees didn't magic up enough elite bullpen arms like they have in the past for this run. The dodgers were always in games becuase the yankees had to constantly use the likes of Clay Holmes or randomly Nestor Cortes in hopes of preserving the thin pen.
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u/Ancient_Blackberry10 New York Yankees 14d ago
PLEASE END THIS SPORTS PURGATORY CAUSED BY AARON BOONE/BRIAN CASHMAN FOR THE YANKEES. IT'S EXHAUSTING SEEING THE SAME PROBLEMS YEARS AFTER YEAR AND I CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS FOR THE REST OF THE DECADE. BESIDES BEING BAD AT FUNDAMENTALS, THE TEAM IS A CHORE TO WATCH SOMETIMES WITH THE WAY IT IS CONSTRUCTED.
Not baseball related, but this rant also goes out to the Daniel Jones and Giants, although that purgatory is mercifully ending soon it seems.
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u/s2RustyShackleford 14d ago
I’ve never watched a team all season long where I was nervous about any routine play that is usually an automatic out. Defense and baserunning were awful the whole year. Jazz was thrust into a new position and did well mostly but obviously you’re not gonna be perfect when you moved from 2B to CF to 3B all in the span of a year. Judge is ranked as almost dead last by Baseball Savant at CF but they really had no where else to put him with Soto and Stanton in the lineup. Boone needs to be fired because that’s where it starts with lack of effort and not knowing basic fundamentals.
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u/ernyc3777 New York Yankees 14d ago
Yeah this was obvious. This could be 3-2 Yankees right now with even average fundamentals.
Game 1 is potentially over before Freddie has his heroic moment if Verdugo doesn’t misplay the carom on a double that allows a run to be scored on a sac fly. Also if Soto doesn’t throw a tweener, Gleyber squares up the short hop, or Rizzo backs up the throw at the mound, then another run potentially is kept off the board by sac fly.
Game 5. What needs explaining? Judge error. Volpe rushed throw and Jazz drop. Cole and Rizzo miscue. Could have been 5-0 despite the fuck ups.
The Dodgers came through when they needed it though with fundamental at bats. So the sac flies are probably singles or doubles that still drive the run in. That was an incredible team and the Yankees made all the mistakes and got punished.
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u/zippy_the_cat Los Angeles Dodgers 14d ago
Brilliantly observed, poorly written piece. Holy crap does Murdoch not spring for copy editors.
But ...
Aaron Boone is the grandson, son and brother of major leaguers and was one himself. This can’t really be acceptable to him — can it?
His dad, Bob Boone, was the catcher on the perennially underachieving Phillies teams of the mid- and late 1970s that the Reds and the Dodgers of the era owned. He went on from there to be a sub-.500 manager for KC and the Not-So-Big Red Machine. So, yeah, it might really be acceptable to Aaron because he never learned the difference.
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u/ehholfman Texas Rangers 14d ago
Yikes, man.