Don’t “blame this on Boone”.
Our batters didn’t show up.
Boone wasn’t given the guys that Girardi had.
Our 6th best batter in 2009 was better than our 2nd best batter this postseason.
With these stats, it’s a miracle we even made it through the wild card.
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This team is sorry as fuck
Well when all you trie to do is hit home runs it’s no surprise
Literally no one is surprised bellinger is hitting .214 and jazz is hitting under the mendoza line. Yet, a lot of fans want them back.
I don’t ever want to see Grisham on this team again. He’s only clutch during the regular season.
The awful results is a direct consequence of how bad their approach is. The HR or nothing does not work, or works only when everybody is hot, and they have proven their inability to stay hot during the postseason.
The Blue Jays just showed you that plate discipline and contact works. Whitout having a spectacular pitching, which they don’t.
Yeah this is glorious. Highlights the fundamental flaw of this Yankee team for years. We just got beat by the team with the highest batting average and OBP while having the second lowest strikeouts in the league.
There is a winning formula, Yankees just don’t give a fuck what it is
When you only prioritize hitting home runs…
it was such a glaring comparison watching both teams ABs last night. EVERY Yankee was swinging for a HR on EVERY pitch and every Bluejay was working counts and trying to put the ball in play. Nothing will change by trading for different players. This is a system-wide problem with the most prominent example Anthony Volpe. The Yankees need new management from the top down. They went all in on exit velocity and launch angle and it’s ALWAYS been a disaster in the post season.
Talkin’ Yanks’ latest episode was spot on.
Boone is the Lee Harvey Oswald of this franchise, can’t really blame him for anything
This is all on Brian Cashman, who couldn’t build a team no matter how much money and farm system prospects he had
Cashman never did shit since Day 1… inherited a team built by Gene Michael then got lucky in 2009 that A Rod had the greatest post season ever seen
How the fuck this completely inept GM is almost on Year 30… is absolutely mind boggling
His most impressive accomplishment is wasting the entire career of the greatest RHH in baseball history
Congrats!
Girardi won a World Series actually making the in-game managing decisions, and Cashman couldn’t have that! A manager who actually put together lineups and made his own pitching changes… what nonsense!
So Joe had to go, and insert Brainless Puppet
Maybe it’s being unfair because it’s a short series with a small sample size but these numbers are indicative of our issues with batting average overall. 1/3 of the starting lineup, McMahon, Volpe, and Wells all hit around .210 for the season. McMahon had the ‘best’ OBP at .308. Volpe and Wells were in the .270s.
I get that batting average is no longer held in any regard and that these guys shouldn’t be summed up solely by that stat, but 1/3 of your lineup being absolute death is not sustainable.
The home run approach is great for the regular season as everything averages out and you can rack up numbers against bad teams and bad pitchers. That doesn’t work in the playoffs because it’s only good teams. They need a more consistent approach. Fortunately judge has already adapted
The Blue Jays understand the value of singles and compact swings, and they scored 5 runs…while the Yankees are bat flipping for F9’s
Averages were higher across the league in 2009. I don’t particularly like AB, but he had the team peaking at the end of the regular season and red-hot going into the playoffs. It was satisfying watching the team eliminate Boston.
It’s not his fault that the high priced FA pitchers got shelled by a team missing one of the best hitters in the league.
I don’t blame AB for the bats going quiet(except for AJ) in this series.
The home run or nothing approach got them here. AB can only utilize the pieces the front office provides.
Comparing postseason batting averages between any 2025 team with the 2009 world series champion is as silly as comparing 2009 NBA mid-range jump shot attempts vs 2025. It should be beyond obvious there is less hitting for average in modern baseball period lol, why are you even looking at 2009 stats for comparison? This is like a 2025 NBA fan being upset their 2009 team was shooting way more mid-range jumpshots. Batting average ≠ runs and batting average ≠ success.
Second, it’s a statistical goof to care much about 2025’s 7-game postseason splits. You cant draw any conclusions comparing any ALDS-losing team’s postseason batting averages to the 15-game splits of a World Series champion team lmao. We had 162 games and 6 months to measure stats—this team’s lineup is not all that worse than 2009’s over a statistically significant sample. The Yankees got shit on by the Blue Jays over a few days span, that’s all.
Look ahead and not to the past. 2009 pitchers didnt have comparable strikeout arsenals to 2025 at all. Baseball is no longer financially [monopolized by NYY anymore](https://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm#2009payroll). It’s just not the same anymore, stop comparing teams to 2009’s champs
Wow, this sub is so great at diagnosing the team’s problems. Just imagine where we’d be if this sub voted on every move the team made!
The bottom line is the Yankees don’t make enough contact and when they face pitchers who don’t give up home runs, the yankees can’t figure out how to put the ball in play.
Home run or nothing offenses are prone to slumps.
Hitting for average is good in baseball? Huh. Whoda thunk it 😂. This team needs to be reevaluate everything they currently do, it’s not working.
Both things can be true at the same time,you’re acting as if Boone hadn’t done this over and over again.
If my memory is correct the 2009 team was also criticised for their hr or nothing approach but in the play-offs became hitting machines from 1 to 9.
Exactly right.
And 3 of our 4 starting pitchers didn’t show up either.
Hard to score when you can’t muster just two .250 hitters (even though Judge can double that alone)
Batters didn’t show up.
Starters not named Schlittler with a 14 era didn’t help either.
This isn’t on Boone specifically this series it’s on them as an organization. But I will say that Boone was absolutely a net negative for them this year, and managed them into several losses and bad stretches. If they skip a round and win the division and play the Jays at home for the first 2 is this series different? Maybe but either way the team is who we thought they were, this loss is confirmation.
They don’t play good fucking baseball.
Yeah
I keep thinking about Wells coming up and swinging at the first pitch when the pitcher was struggling and the bases were loaded.
Bloody hell Wells was 2nd in batting avg 😳
It’s not only that they didn’t hit, their approach was so bad. They were so aggressive swinging at the first pitch all postseason and it just didn’t work. I’m surprised Bellinger had their second best OPS. I thought he was dreadful. But everyone else (besides Judge) was so bad, I guess he won silver by default.
Wow Posada was arguably not doing well at .260 but he would have been one of our best today.
Seriously. The Jays hitting approach really reminded me of the late 90s Yankees. Make contact, stressful at-bats every time. Make the pitchers work.
That’s wild, 3 dudes batting well over .300.
Who do you think is directing players to swing for the fences? Cash and Boone. The roster changes and we still have the same fucking issues. It starts and ends with management.