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[Hoch] The Yankees have officially dismissed hitting coach Dillon Lawson. Brian Cashman has never fired a coach in-season. He once told me that he doesn’t believe in doing so, and that you need to evaluate each season in full. Clearly, he’d seen enough.

  • July 9, 2023


[Hoch] The Yankees have officially dismissed hitting coach Dillon Lawson. Brian Cashman has never fired a coach in-season. He once told me that he doesn’t believe in doing so, and that you need to evaluate each season in full. Clearly, he’d seen enough.

48 comments

  1. Cashman has a lot of balls being the one to fire him. He’s the one who constructed the roster.

  5. Probably the correct move, but I’m just apathetic at this point.

    I don’t have faith in the process Brian Cashman has of running a baseball team and I have no reason to believe this specific roster will magically hit better. Hard to care when Hal keeps running it back after failure

  6. He can afford to fire one of them midseason because we got like 4 others who sit in the dug out and call themselves hitting coaches. What happens when we come back from the break and don’t improve? You gonna fire the rest of them or keep complaining about how you were really unlucky with injuries?

  7. Lmao, that one guy in the GDT called it.

    Hes gonna be scapegoated but the next guy to come in is gonna do the same shit…EV and LA because thats what cashman wants from the roster

  8. Just a scapegoat like Thames was, he’s just teaching Cashman’s philosophy. If you want real change fire Cashman

  9. For all we know Cashman was told from ownership that a move had to be made.

  11. This is a step in the right direction. Albeit a small one.

    If he did have a plan, he was horrible at communicating that to anyone.

    And I feel like there’s no way this move gets made right now without player buy in. Fingers crossed we see something better out of this team.

    But also Boone next.

  15. How dare the hitting coach take German out at 74 pitches of 1 hit ball!

  17. This sub kills me sometimes with how they complain about this not being Cashman gone. This is a great move. We’ve seen multiple instances of our hitting coach(es) doing nothing. Judge has his own hitting coach. Volpe had to have a minor leaguer tell him his swing is off. I’m sure some other guys aren’t getting the help they need. Is the going to save the Yankees? No, but it’s a step in the right direction. I’m no Cashman bootlicker and still think he’s a big problem but having guys hit their career lows here, year after year points to something else as well. At the end of the day, I like this move and want to see how tye Yankees respond. I still think the team has no heart and not sure what fixes that.

  19. This is definitely the right move. In all my years watching the Yankees, I don’t ever remember a stretch where the hitting this bad. There is no plan at the plate. Yankees barely work pitchers and only seem to swing for the fences. Something had to change there.

    Edit: this all falls on the people who hired him as hitting coach too. Here’s looking at you Cashman.

  21. i doubt that JD is hitting .125 because of the hitting coach. Scapegoating 101 – these are not people who are serious about winning a championship.

  23. i appreciate the gesture of showing they see and consider what the fanbase says

  24. Nothing against the guy but Austin Wells fixing a major issue with Volpe’s mechanics was a major ooof moment

  26. Clearly Lawson wasn’t doing enough to cover up Cashman looking bad for “sticking to the script”

  27. I think we need to reevaluate the guys who have been doing the same thing over and over again for 20+ years and expecting the rest of the league to not catch up. Starting with Cashman.

  28. If we’re lucky Cashman will be standing right next to him in the unemployment line

  29. what’s with the cashman hate? 5 alcs appearances since the 09 ws wins. literally got cheated out of a title. knows how to build a pitching staff. always right there. no rebuilds with this team, unlike even other major market teams. sox, mets, lad all have had LOSING seasons in the last decade. yanks haven’t had one in about 3 decades.

  37. I think it’s probably more roster construction than hitting coach, but that would require self evaluation.

  40. I can see Hal recycling the same press release after the season – changing the names – and parting ways w Cashman and Boone if things do not turn around.

    I mean Cashman said the team was not playing up to its potential. And how a new voice was needed as a result

    If that’s not putting yourself in the cross hairs , then I don’t know what would be . Because if this change doesn’t fix the production issues Cashman is referencing – then by his logic it’s the roster itself that’s the issue .

  41. OK step one. Step two, how about this team tries something DIFFERENT for a change.

  42. The problem is not the hitting coaches. The problem is that the analytics nerds for the professional team keep trying to turn every hitter into a pull happy home run hitter. They’ve practically ruined Gleyber and they would have ruined Volpe had it not been for chicken parm.

    If Gleyber ever gets traded, he will become a perennial all star.

  44. Who is he going to replace him with ? I’m going to go out on a limb and say all the good hitting coaches currently have jobs. It will just be another puppet. The problem wasn’t Cashman’s philosophy, it’s that he didn’t execute it well enough.

  45. It’s a start. I think this club needs to fundamentally rethink how the team is built offensively. We have one player with an average over .260 and just expect people to mash at the plate.

  46. Hope this means he feels like he’s on the hot seat. Accountability isn’t very common wth the NYY. Hopefully cashman gets a taste of it soon

  47. When a guy in the minor leagues was able to identify and communicate what was wrong with Volpe’s swing before Lawson. That should have been the first sign to fire him

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