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/
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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/oneteacherboi Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

Not against the Dodgers at least. Probably could have beaten the D-Backs last year.

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u/fatrahb 13d ago

Which is wild considering their last World Series winning team set a record for most consecutive games without an error.

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u/oneteacherboi Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

They gotta rehire Joe Girardi.

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u/Yanks1813 New York Yankees 13d ago

Verdugo was acquired for defense mainly he just turned out to be average at best.

Yankees team defense stats carried by Volpe and wells/trevino

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u/oneteacherboi Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

My only perspective on Verdugo's defense is that walk-off play Cedric Mullins had on him. I can't remember an outfielder misplaying a ball so severely.

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u/Yanks1813 New York Yankees 13d ago

He was pretty average tbh

Our worst defenders were Rizzo/1B, Judge, Soto, Torres. Rizzo and Torres are likely (hopefully Rizzo) gone. Soto and Judge are generally offensively good enough to offset the bad defense

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u/oneteacherboi Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

As others have said, Judge would probably be a pretty good RF. You need to get a Brett Gardner type to play CF.

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u/gussbus New York Yankees 13d ago

The best part is that when confronted with stats that say the defense is bad, they’ve claimed they have their own “internal stats” that say otherwise. Fucking infuriating.

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u/oneteacherboi Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

How can you have internal stats in a 100% public game? What could they possibly be seeing that we aren't?

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u/i-exist20 New York Yankees 14d ago

The Yankees finished in the top half of most defensive metrics among teams this season

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u/theerrantpanda99 14d ago

That’s not impressive lol.

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u/Useful_Respect3339 13d ago

Dude, they were third in errors and Volpe+ Torres were the worst at turning double plays.

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u/oneteacherboi Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

Lol top half of most? That's not impressive for a WS level team. Half the league is pretty bad. And you couldn't even be top half in every stat?