Aaron Boone said he was not going to go two innings with Clay Holmes, given that he’s already on “about an 80-game pace in April” and some of the attrition the Yankees bullpen has already suffered this season
April 27, 2024
Aaron Boone said he was not going to go two innings with Clay Holmes, given that he’s already on “about an 80-game pace in April” and some of the attrition the Yankees bullpen has already suffered this season
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That’s the right move. Last night was game-8 in a 17-game stretch without a day off. Our pen is already stretched thin, and an extra-innings game on the road in the middle of a long stretch is always going to be a punt game. Sucks we had to lose it, but maybe if 2 of our premiere bats in Gleyber and Judge didn’t go 0-9 things coulda been different.
I’m ngl. You can hate him. But I definitely understand this decision just from that.
It obviously sucks to be in that position but reliever arms are built like chips and dip, too much dip and the chip breaks. Especially for an 80 game pace from a guy that throws a 100mph sinker.
Ok but now Clay was wasted in a loss???
That’s fine. Way more annoyed with stealing outs with Gil in the 6th inning but that’s easy to say with hindsight.
I really don’t hate the decision to bring in Tonkin as much as some people. It’s a long season and we are currently in the middle of a 17 day long streak of games without a day off and burning the bullpen to maybe win one game is going to hurt us over the next 9 straight days of games we have.
Holmes is also a ground ball pitcher so I don’t know how effective he would be in holding the runner regardless. Unfortunately last night the pitching didn’t hold up enough to keep the Brewers at bay and the bats didn’t have enough to build a sizable lead.
As a wise philosopher once said: “You play to win the game!”
Boonehead missed this quote I’m sure.
Holmes through 10 pitches. 10. It’s not about innings pitched. It’s about pitches thrown. Boone knows this. He is gaslighting us. Again.
Now see, this is what Boone is good at: making a mistake and rationalizing after the fact. Holmes was *already in the game*. He threw 10 pitches. If the concern was as Boone stated, Holmes would not have appeared at all- especially in the bottom of the 9th in a non- Save situation.
It was a bad decision. I’d respect him more if he just admitted it.
They could really use a power arm strikeout guy in the bullpen.
April games count just as much as September. C’mon man. Gotta stack these W’s by any means!!!!
11 comments
That’s the right move. Last night was game-8 in a 17-game stretch without a day off. Our pen is already stretched thin, and an extra-innings game on the road in the middle of a long stretch is always going to be a punt game. Sucks we had to lose it, but maybe if 2 of our premiere bats in Gleyber and Judge didn’t go 0-9 things coulda been different.
I’m ngl. You can hate him. But I definitely understand this decision just from that.
It obviously sucks to be in that position but reliever arms are built like chips and dip, too much dip and the chip breaks. Especially for an 80 game pace from a guy that throws a 100mph sinker.
Ok but now Clay was wasted in a loss???
That’s fine. Way more annoyed with stealing outs with Gil in the 6th inning but that’s easy to say with hindsight.
I really don’t hate the decision to bring in Tonkin as much as some people. It’s a long season and we are currently in the middle of a 17 day long streak of games without a day off and burning the bullpen to maybe win one game is going to hurt us over the next 9 straight days of games we have.
Holmes is also a ground ball pitcher so I don’t know how effective he would be in holding the runner regardless. Unfortunately last night the pitching didn’t hold up enough to keep the Brewers at bay and the bats didn’t have enough to build a sizable lead.
As a wise philosopher once said: “You play to win the game!”
Boonehead missed this quote I’m sure.
Holmes through 10 pitches. 10. It’s not about innings pitched. It’s about pitches thrown. Boone knows this. He is gaslighting us. Again.
Now see, this is what Boone is good at: making a mistake and rationalizing after the fact. Holmes was *already in the game*. He threw 10 pitches. If the concern was as Boone stated, Holmes would not have appeared at all- especially in the bottom of the 9th in a non- Save situation.
It was a bad decision. I’d respect him more if he just admitted it.
They could really use a power arm strikeout guy in the bullpen.
April games count just as much as September. C’mon man. Gotta stack these W’s by any means!!!!
A win today would keep the doubters away!