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Post by azbob643 on Jul 15, 2024 14:31:49 GMT -5
He has to be disappointed to not have debuted in some capacity. I actually thought Gleyber might sit a couple of games… Gleyber ended up having a good series 4-8. I though Jorbit would play some 3B or DH. Jorbit has shown he can't play 3B...doesn't have the arm, among other deficiencies. |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Jul 16, 2024 7:47:44 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Jul 16, 2024 10:29:47 GMT -5
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Post by JEGnj on Jul 16, 2024 11:47:28 GMT -5
It's starting become a thought NEXT SEASON Soto is gone and we are being told we are closer to the goal and running it back again with a healthy Stanton, DJL, and Rizzo.
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Post by ypaterson on Jul 16, 2024 18:55:16 GMT -5
I've long felt that dumpster diving is what Cashman does best. I do not say that to disparage the guy. Finding guys who can contribute on the cheap is a valuable skill. Cashman inherited great roster when he got the job in '98. He did locate players over the next several years that contributed to Yankee championships. His shortcomings starter showing when he could not replace the core guys. But he has always shown an ability to find contributors on the cheap |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Jul 19, 2024 20:12:05 GMT -5
From MLB Rumors 7/19/24
Yankees Sign Thomas Pannone To Minor League Deal
By Darragh McDonald | July 19, 2024 at 4:10pm CDT
Left-hander Thomas Pannone has signed a minor league deal with the Yankees and has been assigned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, per his transactions tracker at MLB.com. He had previously been with the Cubs on a minor league deal but was released earlier this week.
Pannone, 30, was working out of the rotation for AAA Iowa prior to his release and was putting up decent numbers, so it’s possible that he triggered some kind of opt-opt. After signing a minor league deal with the Cubs in the winter, he has logged 90 2/3 innings over 19 starts with a 4.37 ERA, 22% strikeout rate, 8.1% walk rate and 42% ground ball rate. The run-scoring environment in the International League has been pretty strong this year, with pitchers in the IL having a combined 4.90 ERA. Pannone’s 4.37 ERA mark is 12th out of 29 qualified pitchers in that league.
The Yankees have a strong rotation at the major league level right now but their depth has taken a few hits. Though Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodón, Nestor Cortes, Marcus Stroman and Luis Gil have the 5 big league spots, guys like Clarke Schmidt, JT Brubaker, Cody Poteet and Clayton Beeter are all injured. Schmidt went on the injured list in late May due to a lat strain and still hasn’t begun a rehab assignment. Poteet landed on the IL about a month ago due to a right triceps strain and he hasn’t started a rehab assignment yet either. Brubaker was rehabbing from last year’s Tommy John surgery but was recently shut down with an oblique strain. Beeter has some kind of shoulder issue and might be done for the season, per Greg Joyce of the New York Post on X.
Since Pannone has been in decent form this year, the Yanks will bring him aboard to replace some of that missing depth. He has 118 2/3 innings of MLB experience with the Blue Jays and Brewers with a 5.46 ERA in that time. He also spent parts of 2022 and 2023 in Korea, tossing 165 innings for the KBO’s Kia Tigers with a 3.49 ERA. If Pannone is added to New York’s roster at any point, he is out of options.
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Post by desousa on Jul 20, 2024 8:06:09 GMT -5
I think it's only a matter of time before they move Wells into the cleanup spot. He's been a lot better lately and isn't so predictable as Verdugo.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 20, 2024 9:44:40 GMT -5
I think it's only a matter of time before they move Wells into the cleanup spot. He's been a lot better lately and isn't so predictable as Verdugo. Sooner than you think!  |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Jul 23, 2024 13:36:52 GMT -5
How far can Cole, Yankees go? 'Our destiny is in our hands'
Ace talks where N.Y. stands, his relationship with his oldest son and his time away in Q&A
1:21 PM EDT Bill Ladson@ladsonbill24
Before facing the Mets in the Subway Series this week, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole had a recent chat with MLB.com and answered a wide range of topics, from the biggest thing he learned while being sidelined with a right elbow injury to his oldest son, Caden, getting attention on TV.
MLB.com: You have reached the six-inning plateau in your last two starts. What is the goal the rest of the way from a pitching standpoint?
Gerrit Cole: Get deeper in the game. I have to be more efficient. There are opportunities to get outs quicker. In this game, sometimes you get one shot to execute a pitch. If you don’t, it takes 2 or 3 more pitches to get the job done. So being crisp with every opportunity the game presents you is what ultimately allows you to get deeper in the game.
MLB.com: The one thing I noticed about you is, you are very hard on yourself. Why? You are not going to be perfect all the time.
Cole: I think it’s just part of my drive. I do work on not being quite as hard on myself, I will say that. I give myself some grace from time to time. It is part of what I enjoy, striving to be as good as possible. It’s part of who I am.
MLB.com: With you being back on the mound, we also get to see your son, Caden, on TV when the Yankees are at home. How good is it to see him back in the spotlight?
Cole: He loves coming to games. He is very happy that I’m back. But, to be honest, he was happy I was home a lot, too, while I was rehabbing [my elbow]. Leaving for the first couple of road trips was kind of a change for both of the boys’ worlds for a little bit. They got used to the way of life for a few months there. But in the end, Caden loves coming to games. He loves seeing Volp [Anthony Volpe], [Aaron] Judge and all the players really. He is thrilled.
MLB.com: Caden is 4 years old. He is bright. I saw him on TV singing “God Bless America.”
Cole: It’s one of his favorite songs along with the national anthem. When he comes to games, it’s an impactful moment where everybody stands and a lot of people around him are singing. I think, probably initially, he just wanted to fit in. But he genuinely loves the songs. He sings the songs at home, and he knows the words. Sometimes, for a lullaby, he will ask for “God Bless America” instead of “Rockabye Baby” or “Brahms' Lullaby.” He enjoys the songs. He likes singing. He wears a full uniform, so he takes his hat off and puts it over his heart.
MLB.com: What has impressed you the most about him?
Cole: His emotional intelligence is really high. He seems to be able to get along with kids younger and older than him. When he comes into the locker room, he is respectful of the guys. … It makes him comfortable dealing with a lot of things.
My mom has told me he is more emotionally intelligent than I was at that age. He is wonderful to travel with. He is very helpful to his mom with the little bro. Those are probably the most impressive qualities.
MLB.com: I noticed you are a little emotional when you talk about Caden. I see the welling in your eyes.
Cole: Yeah, I love him. That’s my guy.
MLB.com: Can you talk baseball lingo with him?
Cole: My wife spends more time watching baseball games with him than I do. To be honest, most of his baseball lingo comes from her. She is proficient, obviously, with her brother [Brandon Crawford] being in the Major Leagues for 14 years and her playing softball [at UCLA]. She does most of the education. If he says anything about baseball, it comes from his mom.
MLB.com: When you were out for those 2 1/2 months, what did you miss the most about the game of baseball?
Cole: I think just playing and the team camaraderie -- being in the flow of the season and feeling like you are contributing. That’s probably what I missed the most.
MLB.com: What did you learn about yourself during the period you were on the injured list?
Cole: I came to the field often with a different perspective than I normally had in years past. When the club came back from the road, I was removed from the highs and lows of winning [and losing]. … I was waking up at 10 a.m. doing rehab, putting kids in bed and things like that. So I came in with a fresh perspective than I normally would when I was playing all the time and you are in the thick of it. … It was more important for me to relax for recovery. In that sense, taking that mindset and watching some of our great players -- I’m not going to say taking it for granted, but it was like, today, I got to watch Aaron hit from 25 feet away, then Juan [Soto] and big G [Giancarlo Stanton]. Then I have my rotation mates -- my 5 guys -- asking me for help. They are making me feel like -- in some way -- I’m contributing to something. I learned I need to keep that perspective a little more often while I’m in the cycle of pitching and getting ready for the next game and feeling the emotions of the wins and losses. There is an appropriate time to be relaxed and just enjoy what you are doing and where your feet are. I think it has a positive effect on other people, too.
Gerrit Cole on his first win of the 2024 season, more
MLB.com: Everyone was talking about how you were coaching your teammates, especially the pitchers. After your playing career is over, do you want to coach?
Cole: I want to coach my kids. I don’t know if I want to coach in the Major Leagues. It’s a lot of travel. I miss my kids a lot already. I’m not really trying to coach. I’m trying to be a sounding board or just be another resource. Like I said, I have this wealth of experience and I can recall situations and different viewings, how I’ve navigated those things successfully and how I failed. If there is something that could be helpful to somebody else, regardless if it’s a pitcher or anybody else, I want to make sure that people feel that the ability to communicate with me on those types of things are there. Some of it is solicited. Some of it is unsolicited. Our coach at UCLA always talked about how good teams communicate. Good teams have each other’s back and they are always on the same page. I try to take that throughout my entire career. I just had nothing else to do for 2 1/2 months but just talk. I’m very glad to be throwing and throwing more [now]. So the talking and throwing ratio has balanced out.
MLB.com: You will be pitching in the Subway Series against the Mets on Wednesday. What will you do differently? The first time you faced them wasn’t good. You were just coming back from your injury at that time.
Cole: I’m going to be in the strike zone more, for sure. We didn’t give up any runs in the first inning, but the first one was extremely taxing and that was the cause of not having many quality pitches. I’m going to try to keep the same trend the last couple of weeks in terms of throwing quality strikes -- executing in those situations where you can be as efficient as possible.
Gerrit Cole on his difficult start against the Mets
MLB.com: How good are the Yankees and how far can they go in the postseason?
Cole: I think we are one of the top teams in the league. Inside of this room, we are a little more bullish, but we are very respectful of some of the other great teams out there. I think we deserve to be in that boxing ring with them. I think we can take it as far as we want to take it. We have great players in the middle of the lineup. Our rotation has been healthy and solid all year. We obviously struggled. Learning from those struggles, I think it’s going to be key to how far we can take it. I think our destiny is in our hands.
MLB.com: You grew up a Yankees fan. Is it everything you thought it would be in your five years with the club?
Cole: It’s a special place to play. I think the Steinbrenner family surrounds us with the best resources in the league. Every year, we are pushing to compete. We are pushing to put the best product on the field. Even last year, we didn’t want to finish under .500. I know it wasn’t anywhere near what our goal was. But we are not OK with quitting. We are not going to quit.
Gerrit Cole dominates the Orioles with seven K's
The standard that the fan base sets and the energy that they bring, it’s on another level compared to everything else. As a player, once we get used to it, you become really grateful and thankful for it, because you go to other places and you see your fans show up and you see the other team’s fans and you wonder what this environment is like when they are not playing a good team. How blessed are we to come to Yankee Stadium and go on the road and have people surround us and love us? It’s a very special experience. Humbling when you think about it in the perspective of all the great players and all the numbers retired and all the dynasties that have come through here. To be affiliated with that is special.
MLB.com: Since you revealed how you feel about the Yankees, you have a chance to opt out after this season. Obviously, you want to stay?
Cole: As far as the future, I don’t have all the information -- yet -- in order to make a decision. I can’t predict what’s going to happen in the next couple of months. I’m not going to get ahead of myself in terms of that decision. I’m enjoying where my feet are right now. Most of my focus is on the Mets. I kind of owe them one.
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Post by inger on Jul 23, 2024 16:33:52 GMT -5
Yoendrys Gomez number has been changed from 94 to 92…
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Post by Max on Jul 24, 2024 11:49:42 GMT -5
Yoendrys Gomez number has been changed from 94 to 92… I like Gomez. But, are those his numbers or is it his era for the game he pitched vs the Mets? |
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Post by inger on Jul 24, 2024 12:25:48 GMT -5
Yoendrys Gomez number has been changed from 94 to 92… I like Gomez. But, are those his numbers or is it his era for the game he pitched vs the Mets? Maybe both… |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Jul 24, 2024 15:14:59 GMT -5
Yankees need reinforcements from somewhere -- and fast
11:37 AM EDT Mike Lupica@MikeLupica MLB.com 07/24/24
Nestor Cortes, an essential part of the Yankees’ starting rotation, defended his team on social media last week, saying this among other things: “Everybody wants to be us.”
Not lately, they don’t. Because lately the Yankees have looked nothing at all like the team that started out 50-22 and have instead looked way too much like the team that finished fourth in the AL East a year ago.
While the Mets -- who beat the Yankees for a 3rd straight time on Tuesday night -- have had the best record in the sport since the middle of June, only the White Sox have had a worse record than the Yankees. This has now gone on for more than a month now, which happens to equate to a third of the season the Yankees have played so far. Since they beat the Red Sox on June 14th at Fenway Park, they have played 31 games and won only 10 of them. The broader context, of course, is that despite all of this -- and despite the fact that it has mostly looked, game in and game out, like Aaron Judge and Juan Soto against the world -- the Yankees are still only 3 games behind the Orioles in the loss column for 1st place in the AL East. But that also happens to be the same number of games in the loss column that they are ahead of the 3rd-place Red Sox, even though the Red Sox had lost 4 in a row, a couple of those being gutting losses, before beating the Rockies in Denver on Tuesday night.
Juan Soto's 2 HRs, Yankees and Rays split 4 game series
So despite the fact that Manager Aaron Boone only further enflamed his frustrated fan base -- frustrated to put it mildly these days -- by once again saying, “It’s right there in front of us,” it actually still is.
Just not playing the way they’ve been playing. Early in June, it seemed that General Manager Brian Cashman, the architect of this team, might be looking to make minor additions to a club that was rolling through the division and the league. Maybe another corner infielder, once Anthony Rizzo was back on the injured list. Maybe some new arms for the bullpen, despite the fact that almost everybody in baseball is looking for the same thing.
Now, the Yankees are suddenly looking more vulnerable than ever without anybody below Judge in Boone’s batting order doing much of anything. It is a big reason why Giancarlo Stanton suddenly feels like he could be some kind of savior once he is back from another visit to the IL, in what feels to Yankees fans like years of visits since he became a Yankee.
Round the Bases: Yankees' struggles, Braves' injuries
Before Stanton injured his left hamstring running the bases, he had played 69 games for the Yankees this season, with 18 HRs and 45 RBIs. More importantly, he was providing protection behind Judge and Soto, and posing danger to opposing pitchers. In so many ways, and as fragile as the big man has been since joining the Yankees from Miami, he seems even more important to the team now than when he arrived.
On Tuesday night against the Mets, Jahmai Jones was Boone’s leadoff hitter. J.D. Davis, whom the Yankees recently got in a trade with the A’s, batted cleanup. Davis’ batting average is .216. No. 12 prospect Ben Rice, who has a 3-HR game in the books since the Yankees called him up, pinch-hit later for Davis. Rice is at .196 right now. Anthony Volpe, whose batting average has dropped 40 points over the past couple of months, is at .254, Gleyber Torres is at .230 going into Wednesday’s Subway Series game, Alex Verdugo is at .231. Austin Wells, the regular catcher with Jose Trevino on the IL, carries a .222 average. Third baseman DJ LeMahieu is at .183.
You can see why the Mets walked Aaron Judge 4 times on Tuesday night, before Judge took a called 3rd strike from Jake Diekman in the bottom of the 9th with Soto -- he’d also walked to start the Yankees' 9th -- on 1st and representing the potential tying run.
Aaron Judge walks 4 times against the Mets
It is why you'd think the Yankees might be as desperate for internal help as external reinforcements with the July 30th Trade Deadline fast approaching, for them and everybody else. They need Stanton and Rizzo to come back and exciting top prospect Jasson Domínguez -- who had Tommy John surgery a year ago, then suffered a left oblique strain with AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre -- to finally join them this season. They need Volpe, whom they simply could not leave at leadoff, to pick it up, and they need Torres to once again look like the star they once thought he would be and not somebody who seems to be playing his way out of town in a contract year.
“Look, we’ll get that middle of the order more settled in the coming days, too, and that changes the equation a little bit,” Boone said after Tuesday’s 3-2 loss to the Mets.
Yeah. They need to change the equation, and fast. They can still pass the Orioles, absolutely. Or get passed by the Red Sox before long. The wisdom on all this comes from a great old Yankee named Yogi Berra: Sure gets later early around here.
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Post by nw on Jul 26, 2024 7:41:05 GMT -5
People are starting to warm up a bit to Austin Wells but here are a few stats to back up his play:
In the last month, despite the Yankees' woeful record, Wells has hit .280 with a 1.029 OPS. His BABIP is only .257, which theoretically says he's still hitting into a bit of bad luck.
For the 2024 season, he was being platooned significantly against LHP until Trevino went down. Although his power numbers aren't there against lefties, (7 HR against RHP and 0 against LHP), he has hit for a higher average and OBP against LHP. He's definitely taking his walks against lefties.
All of the stats say that his catching is more than adequate, though he and Cole had some technical difficulties the other night.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 26, 2024 8:29:17 GMT -5
People are starting to warm up a bit to Austin Wells but here are a few stats to back up his play: In the last month, despite the Yankees' woeful record, Wells has hit .280 with a 1.029 OPS. His BABIP is only .257, which theoretically says he's still hitting into a bit of bad luck. For the 2024 season, he was being platooned significantly against LHP until Trevino went down. Although his power numbers aren't there against lefties, (7 HR against RHP and 0 against LHP), he has hit for a higher average and OBP against LHP. He's definitely taking his walks against lefties. All of the stats say that his catching is more than adequate, though he and Cole had some technical difficulties the other night. I'd like to see Wells get about 80% of the starts at catcher, even when Trevino comes back. |
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