Bronx Bombers 2017 Season Thread

Going into Cleveland series after losing last 2 to a bad Tigers team and staff is a recipe for disaster. Quite disappointed how this team finished the Home stand. Listening to Girardi it's obvious he has no clue or answers.
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What do you want him to do, is it his fault that Judge is back to last years Jude? Or they as a team can't hit?

They can get whoever they want on the pitching staff, but if they don't hit, yhey won't win.

I don't see how it's the managers fault if they can't hit, but yeah the players have guaranteed contracts so they can't get fired, so it's the manager who goes bye bye.
 
Pathetic effort at the plate and in the field. This anemic offensive performance has become common under Girardi's reign. Especially moving runners around. Really needs to light a fire under this team once and for all. Girardi admits the team is sluggish. Well, stop coddling these so-called processional hitters.
 
unless its didi or gardner or sanchez, i have little hope in any other batter getting a hit. red sox look strong.
* It has been an ugly start to Sonny Gray's Yankee career, but it mostly hasn't been his fault. The Yankees made three errors in the first leading to two runs. First baseman Chase Headley and second baseman Tyler Wade each mishandled grounders, while on a single to right, Clint Frazier airmailed a throw over the head of 5-foot-6 third baseman Ronald Torreyes. Gray was late backing up third, allowing a second run to score. Gray only gave up the one hit, to Jose Ramirez, that brought in the initial run.
*In his debut for the Yankees, Sonny Gray lost, but it wasn't his fault. Indians' ace Corey Kluber threw nine innings of one-run ball in the Indians' 5-1 defeat of the Yankees. Gray was pretty good, going six innings and allowing four runs, but just two earned. Kluber struck out 11 and the only run he allowed was a seventh inning Gary Sanchez homer. The Yankees have lost four of their last five games.
 
Nothing more to say but this is a DEAD team right now. Another absolutely horrible performance in every area tonight.
 
bravo monte, the pen, & headley.
bravo the gloves - have not said that in a long while - good catches in 6th & 9th; great catch in 9th - all with runner on.
*Aaron Judge was 1-for-4 with two strikeouts in the Yankees' 2-1 win over the Indians on Saturday. Judge has struck out 141 times this season and is on pace to become the first rookie in major league history – in addition to becoming the first Yankees player – with 200 strikeouts.
*The NYY sabotaged Sonny Gray's first start with their defense, but in the ninth inning tonight, 2 great plays to hold a 2-1 lead
*After his second strikeout today, Aaron Judge is now 12-for-72 (.166) since the All Star Break, with 32 strikeouts. The Yankees right fielder has lowered his batting AVG from .329 to .299 during that span.
 
They're finally breaking out today, well actually the last 2 innings, with 2 big hits:
Jacoby's 3rbi triple and Judge's 3-run HR.

Severino pitched a great game 6.2 (I would have give him 1 more hitter to see if he could finish the 7th, but he has thrown 107 pitches.) He should go to 9-2 allowed 2hits and a walk while striking out 9.
I'll take a split at Cleveland. I know still 2 more innings but if the pen can't hold a 7 run lead then they don't deserve to make the post season.
 
bravo severino - comeback player of year. bravo lineup.
they beat a good pitcher/team.
*The Yankees beat the Indians, 8-1, to leave Cleveland having split the four-game series. They have to feel very good about it after losing the first two and with the Red Sox continuing to win. Boston began the day up three games in the AL East.
*All-Star Luis Severino had another impressive start, going 6 2/3 innings and allowing just one run on two hits. He struck out nine and walked one. Servino's ERA dropped to 2.91. He is the undisputed ace of the Yankees right now.
*Aaron Judge with a three-run homer in the seventh to give the Yankees an 8-1 over the Indians. It went the opposite way, just sneaking over the wall. It was Judge's 35th homer of the season.
*Jacoby Ellsbury launched a bases clearing triple to break a tie in the sixth between the Yankees and Indians. Ellsbury, who has been relegated to the team's fourth OF, nailed a Carlos Carrasco pitch off the base of the wall.
*Yankees manager Joe Girardi on catcher Gary Sanchez' benching on Sunday: "The start is not the message. The message came from us verbally that, ‘Your defense needs to improve. That you need to get better. You need to work at it.' We have stressed how important it is. There are certain situations that some people may not think that something that happens in the game effects the next game. It could if it leads to 10 extra pitches for a reliever."
 
a take on the yankees chances to make the wild card.

*New York Yankees

Record: 59-51, holding first Wild Card spot, two games up.

Playoff projections on MLB.com: 74.7 percent

What's at stake: The Yankees still haven't finished below .500 since 1992 -- a truly astonishing feat -- but they missed the playoffs last year and haven't won a postseason game since Oct. 12, 2012. This season, they've gotten their fans invested again through youth, smart Deadline moves and, of course, a 6-foot-7 rookie named Aaron Judge. If they somehow fail to make the postseason, the whole Yankees Carrying Unstoppable Upward Momentum narrative would be stalled. The Yankees are at last buyers again. At the very least, they need that Wild Card Game, and they probably need to host it.

Fans' reasonable optimism level: High. The Yanks are still in a competitive division, and they still somehow have 10 games left with the Red Sox -- a fifth of their remaining season -- but according to Baseball Reference's Simple Rating System, they've been the third-best team in baseball this year behind the Dodgers and the Astros. They have to be considered the Wild Card favorites moving forward … unless they end up winning their division.
 
I'm surprised they sent Jordan down, I thought he's atleast be a long man out of the pen, there has been no mention of inning limitation for him this year. He threw 115 innings so far this year, he threw 152 innings last year, so you'd think they'd try to get him up to around 175 this year.

winning 2 of 3 and ending the road trip above 500 would be huge, and they'd have momentum (wiining 4 out of 5) heading into a huge 10 game span (6 vs. Boston and 4 vs. the Mets).

On August 14th we'll have a better idea of where this team is at, the athmosphere is gonna be crazy.
 
Then we get to the pitchers themselves. Sabathia and Tanaka work at a regular level of, let’s say, DEFCON 3, given Sabathia’s age (37) and the slightly torn UCL in Tanaka’s right elbow. Gray came to the Yankees at such a reasonable price because of his recent injury history. Garcia dealt with the dangerous thoracic outlet syndrome (just ask Matt Harvey) in 2014. And Severino, 23, and Montgomery, 24, face innings limits and common-sense limitations; Girardi decided to utilize six guys this time around in order to give Severino another day after his 116-pitch effort in Monday’s victory.

http://nypost.com/2017/08/02/what-y...-like-like-now-that-gray-and-garcia-are-here/
 
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