2024 New York Yankees

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:42 am

So the Yankees just traded for a guy who has put up an OPS+ in his first 3000 plate appearances only rivaled by Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Fox, and Mike Trout while giving up very few of their top prospects (like, almost none).

Juan Soto, welcome to the Bronx!

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:23 am

A la Trea Turner for the Dodgers. Renting him for 1 year but he's got quite a resume. Boy, the Yanks sure will have a lot of pop in that line-up.

Forgot to mention the addition of Verdugo (Tucson boy) who I have always liked and Grisham who can come in for late inning defense. Nice outfield line-up.

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:26 am

Love seeing Hal finally open up the check book that used to be the Yankees biggest advantage, even if it is just for one year.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 6:09 pm

Unfortunately Boras probably won’t let him get extended but I’d love for them to lock him up long term.

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:32 am

I am still convinced this is a one year thing before Hal goes back to penny pinching next year, hoping that the results from this year appease fans for awhile.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:58 am

Yamamoto???

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:12 am

Cole & Judge are hurt so if anyone needs me I’ll be drowning myself over at the creek.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:51 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:52 pm

5-0 is a great start.

5-0 on the road against a perennial rival and last year’s NL World Series representative is just about enough to give a man some hope.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:19 pm

Thank you DBacks for bringing me back down to earth. This is still a fundamentally flawed team.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:23 pm

Chi - I have Judge on my Fantasy team.

Sorry about that…

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:21 pm

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:23 pm Chi - I have Judge on my Fantasy team.

Sorry about that…

He came through today. He just needed to hear you apologize.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:25 pm

Yankees are on pace to win like 135 games.

I still don’t see them winning more than 90.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:41 pm

Longtime radio play-by-play man John Sterling has retired due to health reasons.

Personally, I was never a fan. Listening to him and Suzyn Waldman do a game is like listening to George Costanza’s parents argue over paella. But any end of any era is to some degree a sad one. Hope he is able to recover from his health struggles.

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:47 am

Last night was a bad bad loss, stranding multiple runners nearly every inning, and an awful series split at home against the lowly A's travelling across country. Series like this are the difference in a stacked tight division like the AL east.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:20 pm

Aaron Judge is just straight up bad right now. Missing completely hittable pitches.

I wonder if his spring training injury has lingered.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:21 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:20 pm Aaron Judge is just straight up bad right now. Missing completely hittable pitches.

I wonder if his spring training injury has lingered.

What did I tell you? Players on my Fantasy team mysteriously turn to shit.

I’m a MLB cooler…

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:40 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun May 12, 2024 6:12 pm

For as much shit as I talk about this team (and how weak I truly believe them to be), they keep winning series.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed May 15, 2024 7:23 pm

Won another series on the road.

And Judge is fucking BACK.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun May 19, 2024 3:04 pm

Hammering the bad teams and splitting with the good ones is a recipe for a 100 win season. White Sox just ran into a buzz saw.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat May 25, 2024 8:39 am

All three are on a heater. Here’s hoping they don’t go cold in the second half.

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Thu May 30, 2024 10:16 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 8:39 am
All three are on a heater. Here’s hoping they don’t go cold in the second half.

Put Judge and Stanton in a padded room until mid August as a safety precaution.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jun 07, 2024 8:20 am

If Soto is really hurt, the Yankees only hope is that Jasson Domínguez is ready to go and can come in and do his best Juan Soto impression.

And here I was just starting to get optimistic. Silly Chicat…

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:37 am

Chi - I’m going with my son who is a huge Yankee fan Sunday night. He will be wearing his Yankees gear while I will be sporting Dodger blue.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:42 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:37 am Chi - I’m going with my son who is a huge Yankee fan Sunday night. He will be wearing his Yankees gear while I will be sporting Dodger blue.

Awesome

Might be a great pitching matchup!

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Jun 07, 2024 11:17 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:42 am
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:37 am Chi - I’m going with my son who is a huge Yankee fan Sunday night. He will be wearing his Yankees gear while I will be sporting Dodger blue.
Awesome

Might be a great pitching matchup!

Yep. Looks like Glasnow vs Gil.

Plunking down $500 for tickets and told my son it’s coming out of his inheritance.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Jun 09, 2024 4:01 am

Soto gets hurt and they immediately revert to last year’s form. Ugly…

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun Jun 09, 2024 6:17 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 4:01 am Soto gets hurt and they immediately revert to last year’s form. Ugly…

And I’m sure he will play tonight when I attend…

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Jun 10, 2024 7:37 pm

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 6:17 am
Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 4:01 am Soto gets hurt and they immediately revert to last year’s form. Ugly…
And I’m sure he will play tonight when I attend…

Took the third day off but unfortunately my Yankees treated your Dodgers rudely.

Went to KC and won tonight without starting Judge, Stanton, & Rizzo. I like that a lot. Rizzo especially needs to sit. He’s been awful.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Tue Jun 11, 2024 2:46 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 7:37 pm
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 6:17 am
Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 4:01 am Soto gets hurt and they immediately revert to last year’s form. Ugly…
And I’m sure he will play tonight when I attend…
Took the third day off but unfortunately my Yankees treated your Dodgers rudely.

Went to KC and won tonight without starting Judge, Stanton, & Rizzo. I like that a lot. Rizzo especially needs to sit. He’s been awful.

Great time at the Stadium and my son was happy so not a total loss. Lot's of Dodger fans too.

Funniest moment was the fans shouting “We want Soto” when Grisham, his replacement, was at bat. He promptly hit a 3 run homer to basically win the game a moment later.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:18 am

That feeling when you single-handedly kick the shit out of your former team in their stadium and oh yeah that team just happens to be the Red Sox who traded you because they didn’t like your passion and now you’re a New York Yankee and on the first team to 50 wins…

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:56 am

He went to Sahuaro in Tucson. My son remembers him from Little League All-Stars.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jun 18, 2024 5:32 pm

Judge is hurt and just left the game.

Life is cruel and not worth living.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Wed Jun 19, 2024 3:13 am

Looks like you guys dodged a bullet unlike Betts.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jun 19, 2024 3:54 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 3:13 am Looks like you guys dodged a bullet unlike Betts.

True

Hopefully the Orioles are good at dodging fastballs up and in. They’ve hit way too many of our guys this year and last.

Actually, on second thought, I hope they’re real bad at getting out of the way of high heat.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Wed Jun 19, 2024 10:37 am

They know it’s coming tonight so if I were the Yanks I would drag it on for a while. Tough enough facing Cole in a normal situation let alone knowing a 97 mph could be whizzing by your head at any moment.

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:14 am

First real struggles the Yankees have faced this season, even with Soto and Judge still raking. They really need some of the others to step up if they want to be a real World Series contender before Hal cuts back.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:19 am

gronk4heisman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:14 am First real struggles the Yankees have faced this season, even with Soto and Judge still raking. They really need some of the others to step up if they want to be a real World Series contender before Hal cuts back.

The good news is that our slide coincides with the Orioles losing 5 straight. Otherwise we’d be looking up at them and fighting for a wild card.

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:18 am

Aaron Judge keeps raking, the Yankees keep losing. The pitching has really taken a nose dive to go along with an extremely top heavy batting order.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Jun 27, 2024 9:40 am

This stretch reminds me of last year. Sad efforts from bad lineups.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Jun 27, 2024 4:32 pm

Starting pitching is now dog shit.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:42 pm

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:21 am
Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:20 pm Aaron Judge is just straight up bad right now. Missing completely hittable pitches.

I wonder if his spring training injury has lingered.
What did I tell you? Players on my Fantasy team mysteriously turn to shit.

I’m a MLB cooler…

Aaron Judge has proven you wrong.

Unless you traded him.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:55 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:42 pm
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:21 am
Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:20 pm Aaron Judge is just straight up bad right now. Missing completely hittable pitches.

I wonder if his spring training injury has lingered.
What did I tell you? Players on my Fantasy team mysteriously turn to shit.

I’m a MLB cooler…
Aaron Judge has proven you wrong.

Unless you traded him.

Don’t jinx it man!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:47 am

Unfortunately back in the real world this is 2022 redux.

Sizzling start then Judge has to break through to 60/130 just to keep us from falling out of the wild card in the second half. It’s been ugly.

gronk4heisman · Post by **gronk4heisman** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:24 pm

In the month of June Aaron Judge and Juan Soto each had OBP of over .500, that is pretty amazing. Unfortunately the Yankees also had 6 regular starters with OBP under .280 during the same stretch. It is quite literally a two man lineup at this point. Mix in the fact that our pitching has gone in the toilet and this team is getting hard to watch even with two of the most exciting players in the league.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 7:10 pm

Time for Boone to stop being everyone’s best friend and start yelling at these guys who keep grounding out with Judge and Soto on base.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:44 am

Except last night it was Judge’s DP ground out that did them in.

I always thought the Yankees were playing a bit over their heads and they would come down to earth. They are who they are - a pretty good team with 3 studs (Judge, Soto and Cole), strong pen, good but not great starting pitching, with some question marks at a few positions.

Still 20 games over .500 is nothing to sneeze at. But they should look at adding some pieces before the trade deadline.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 5:28 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:44 am Except last night it was Judge’s DP ground out that did them in.

It absolutely was not. It was only managing to get two hits through the first 7 innings and JD Davis grounding out with Soto on 3rd & Judge on 2nd in the 3rd when they were down 2-0 and needed some momentum. He gets a hit there and the Yankees win that game going away. Had to have it, didn’t get it.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 5:57 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 5:28 am
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:44 am Except last night it was Judge’s DP ground out that did them in.
It absolutely was not. It was only managing to get two hits through the first 7 innings and JD Davis grounding out with Soto on 3rd & Judge on 2nd in the 3rd when they were down 2-0 and needed some momentum. He gets a hit there and the Yankees win that game going away. Had to have it, didn’t get it.

Point taken. Although media and fans here, not surprisingly, were not as forgiving. They expect Judge to always come through.

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