I don’t know if you caught this from yesterday’s Yankee game when Aaron Boone was ejected in the first game of the doubleheader. But through the combination of a smallish crowd and excellent microphones on the field, we get to hear the full exchange with the umpire starting with Brett Gardner being called out on strikes and banging his bat in the dugout. SU provides a warning to its younger subscribers that some of the language here is a bit salty.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aaron-boone-savages_n_5d313f62e4b020cd9941307a
No doubt “the Savages” and “Tighten This S**t Up” will be the new rallying cries for the team as it heads to the post-season. Good stuff.
Did you read that the Yankees may put German in the bullpen soon if they acquire another starting pitcher? SU knows that they want to protect his arm for total innings pitched this season but he has been their best starter. Surely there is another option here. Go to 6 starters? Limit his starts to 5 innings? You don’t want to roll out CC and Happ ahead of German – that is nuts. Right now, SU slots him in right behind Tanaka in the playoffs unless Paxton can be more consistent. SU says don’t overthink the situation.
Finally, SU does acknowledge that Eduard Encarnacion has shown signs of coming out of his prolonged slump but we need to see more before I say I was wrong. But happy to do it if he can earn it.
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The Yankees needed that. Things seem to uninteresting in the dugout. A little positive drama may add a bit more of a chip on everyone’s shoulder for awhile.
Gio Urshella should be our regular starting 3rd baseman and we should trade Andujar in obtaining a big time pitcher. The number of great plays he has made this season coupled with him being so productive offensively makes him better than Andujar.
There is a part of me which would like the Yankees to go into the post season with the exact team we have today. If Severino and Montgomery come back that’s fine. It will be interesting in what they could add to the table. Hiring a rentable solid pitcher will still probably happen however when you remain on track to win 106 games and have beaten everyone handily except maybe Houston it does say something about how good we are. I guess we want as close to a guarantee to win it all. I can’t blame that line of reasoning at all. Every team looks for an edge. I guess I’m quite happy in how we are doing it at this point and hope it continues. With San Francisco only a few games out of a wild card I’m sure Bumgraten is not going anywhere. Who is left that we can pick up without giving away a ton of players? I’d trade Andujar based on Urshella’s solid hitting and unbelievable fielding. He just goes about his business and consistently performs well…. and can take a walk too.