Game Thread Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankees ALDS Game 4 Wednesday October 8th 7:08pm

Maybe people will stop claiming that Judge never shows up in the PS.

And what bothers me the most is that Cashman's failure to properly construct the roster has wasted Judge's best years. (he'll be 34 in April)

 

My God man YOU CRUSHED IT!!! Those are very laughable bad jokes that somebody should have lost their voting ability!!

Very interesting and compelling stats, a mind-blowing stat at that, which proves that gold gloves are just, or rather can be nothing more than a popularity contest, where those with the vote stroke each other's balls! What a crock of shit eh?

On the other hand I wouldn't want to take not even one of Brooks Robinson's gold gloves away, or God forbid Donnie baseball, of which both are in those a very elite class of great vacuum cleaners with the glove, a bullseye arm, and then an intuitive sense of where the ball is going to be before the bat makes contact, moving towards the swing with the pitch.

 

As they should have.

The Yanx have never won a WS with a roster that was created solely by Cashman. Even the 2009 Champs were still driven by the "Core 4" of Jeter, Mo, Posada, and Pettitte.

Boone was a bad hire and during his tenure the Yanx lost too many winnable games. And this year's June and July when their record was 25-27, and their record vs Boston and Toronto was abysmal, if the Yanx had won just 1 of those games that they lost they would have won their division and would have had the bye and would have been in a better position to succeed. But how many times did we watch Boone's ineptitude lead directly to a loss by pushing the wrong buttons? And how many times this year did Boone stubbornly stick with Devin Williams as the "closer" when it was clear that he was not up to the task and blew multiple games?

I've half-heartedly mentioned Mattingly and Jeter as replacements, but I definitely think they'd be better suited for the jobs than what we have...I'm sure Mattingly would be open to the idea of coaching the Yanx but no idea if Jeter would be interested in the GM position. But Derek must be fairly smart because after all, while at Miami he was smart enough to know that the Stanton contract would not age well and duped Cashman into the trade.

 

Yup, analytics have their purpose in certain situations but they are not a panacea...plus, Boone is way too "buddy buddy" with his players.