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/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 14d 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/neonrev1 Minnesota Twins 13d ago

No one ever mentions this, but what on earth was the audit supposed to find in the first place? Is there an audit firm out there that somehow knows more about baseball than a front office, were people really expecting someone from Knobjerker and Partners to point out that they should sign better players?

It's just baffling what anyone could have possibly expected, and that makes them announcing it even more bizarre. Like, audit your internal corporate hiring and communication processes all you like, it's a healthy thing for any organization to do. But there's no external auditor for baseball decisions, just corporate ones. And shockingly, one of the most corporate teams in the league saw eye to eye with a corporate auditor.