The Harsh Reality Of The New York Yankees…

The Harsh Reality Of The New York Yankees…

Darke, let’s go, baby. Let’s go. Oh, the New York Yankees have done it again. 16 straight Major League Baseball seasons with no World Series victory. And we’ll see how Yankees fans feel about this video. Last year when I made this same video and said that the Yankees were not good enough to win moving forward, I actually got a lot of support from Yankees fans, which was very surprising. I wonder if I’m going to get the same response to this video. But it’s clear that the Yankees don’t have enough to win the World Series. They just don’t. Once again, the New York Yankees are not the powerhouse that they were in the early ‘9s and the ‘7s and the ’50s and the ’60s. They’re not the same team. They can spend. Sure, they can definitely spend, but they can’t even outspend their cross town rivals. I mean, how many times in recent years have the New York Mets outspent the New York Yankees? And that showed in this series against the Toronto Blue Jays. They just lost three games to one in the 4-ames series. And it was clear they were missing a guy like Juan Sodto. Aaron Judge actually showed up in this playoff series, which is a really big scary thing for the Yankees because I think he batted around 600 this postseason and they lost. They didn’t win. They didn’t win. They beat the Red Sox, which still hurts me a little bit. I am a Red Sox fan. They beat us. However, I’m not trying to make excuses. Our lineup sucked and we had a lot of injuries and it was basically an AL Central lineup, which is all the New York Yankees are allowed to beat in October. The Yankees just continued to get shut down. There wasn’t enough contributors outside of Aaron Judge on this team. Jazz Chisum Jr. was awful the entire playoffs. He made an error which really cost them in this final game. He did hit a go-ahead home run which ended up being the game-winning home run in game three. That was big. But Jazz was terrible. Cody Bellinger didn’t do much either, and he made a bad defensive play in game three, which made it look like that game was going to be ran away by the Blue Jays. The Yankees came back in that game and ended up winning, but Trent Gisham hit 30 home runs in the regular season. And he just didn’t show up in October like basically everyone else on the team. Paul Goldmid didn’t. Austin Wells didn’t. Anthony Vulpi didn’t, of course, because Anthony Vulpi isn’t a good baseball player. Remember when the Yankees decided that they weren’t going to sign Cory Seager because they had Anthony Vulpi? Remember that? I wonder how that worked out for those two teams. Did one of them win the World Series? I can’t remember. Well, if one of those teams did win the World Series, either the Texas Rangers or the New York Yankees, it wasn’t the New York Yankees because again, they haven’t won for 16 straight seasons. 16. The Yankees are just not that iconic franchise that they used to be. They’re not the prestige of Major League Baseball. They’re not the club that everyone is so afraid of. They’re just not. If you put the ball in play like the Toronto Blue Jays did, they’re going to lose. All the Yankees can do is out home run you. All that’s all they can do. They can out slug you in their tiny minor league stadium, which by the way is not nearly as good as old Yankee Stadium. And they can outexit velocity you. They can’t really do anything else. Sometimes they might be able to out pitch you because their rotation is pretty good, but what else can they do to beat you? They can’t put the ball in play. They can’t play defense. And they can’t manage to save their lives. This is not a good baseball team. Again, if they weren’t wearing the pinstripes, what would you think of this team? Would you even think that this is a playoff contender coming into next season? Would you think that they’re a World Series contender? Cuz I don’t think that you would. This team is only the brand that it is built on. I went to Italy over the summer and I counted how many Yankees fans I saw, how many Yankees hats I saw. It was around 250 in a week. Those people in Italy, they’re not Yankees fans. The New York Yankees as a brand is more focused on being a fashion statement and an iconic identity rather than being a baseball team that wins baseball games. How Stein Brener is not going to fire Aaron Boone. He’s not going to fire Brian Cashman. And year after year, these two men combine to not be good enough. I don’t know where this team thinks that they’re going to be able to win. Again, they’re losing Cody Bellinger and Trent Gisham in free agency as of right now. Obviously, they can bring them back, but let’s see what Trent Gisham was making. Trent Gisham was making just over 5 million. Jazz Chisome was making just over 5 million as well. And there’s a few other players that are making not nearly as much as they’re going to be making in 2026. The 2026 payroll is already high. It’s already over 200 million before even adding in arbitration numbers, which again are going to be very high. Garrick Cole will be coming back, but I don’t know what you’re going to be able to get out of Garrick Cole. He’s old and he’s coming off of Tommy John surgery. He’s already 35 years old. He’s going to be pitching his age 35 season. Do you really think that he’s going to come back and be this all-time good pitcher like he was before getting injured? Because in 2024, he already was kind of taking a little bit of a step back. There’s no guarantee that him coming back off of Tommy John is going to be a huge addition to the rotation. I hope for his sake that he is healthy and he is a contributor next year at some point. I don’t think it’s going to be opening day and I don’t think he’s going to come back and be that flamethrower that we saw him be for all those years. John Carlos Stanton is injuryprone. We all know that. Aaron Judge, he had another healthy season and this guy is just absolutely incredible. I don’t know if he’s ever going to hit an age wall. It doesn’t feel like he’s going to at this point, but at some point he can’t hit 50 home runs every year, you would think. And I’m not sure what they’re going to do with that elbow over the off season. They might get a Tommy John surgery on the elbow. I’m not sure if they do that. It’s kind of concerning what his season’s going to look like next year and if he’s going to be able to play the outfield. If he gets Tommy John, he won’t be able to play the outfield and he’ll have to go to first base. And again, if he goes to first base, that’s a problem because what are they going to do with Ben Rice and Austin Wells and all of these players that they have already? Baseball Reference projects them to be at around 54 million in arbitration costs next year. And if everyone opts into their contracts, which Cody Bellinger probably won’t, I can’t imagine. And then maybe you can save 5 million on Lisa, you will be at 265 million. However, you can shave 30 million of that off. But you’re losing Cody Bellinger and Trent Gisham and you’re already only 10 million below the luxury tax. And in 2027, it gets even worse. And in 2028, it gets even worse again. You’re going to be sitting at 154 million in arbitration projections in 2028. These guys are all going to be on arbitration 3. Guys like Luis Heel, Anthony Vulpe, Fernando Cruz, who knows if he’s going to be here, but there’s a lot of guys that are going to be sitting in arbitration and it’s going to be very bad for them. And that’s before they even add anything. I’m sure they’re going to go out and they have to find a way to replace Cody Bellinger and Trent Gisham’s home runs again. All they can do is hit home runs to win games. So now they need to replace around 60 home runs. Trent Gisham hit 30 and I believe Cody Bellinger hit 30, didn’t he? Yeah, Cody Bellinger hit 29 home runs. So that’s over 60 home runs that you’re going to have to figure out a way to replace. And Carlos Rodon had a really good season, the best of his Yankee career. But can he do that again? I don’t know. Max Freed had what felt like a career year, but can he do that again? I don’t know. But nothing improved. What improved with the 2025 Yankees? Nothing. I can seriously what improved. And they have more free agents, too. It’s not just that. Cody Bellinger, who was really good against lefties this year, he’s a free agent. Devin Williams, who was not good for the Yankees this year, but he was really good in the playoffs. He’s a free agent. Luke Weaver, who also wasn’t that good this year, but he was really, really good for them last year. Free agent. Ahmed Rosario, their lefty killer, free agent, but they can probably bring him back again. Trent Gisham, Cody Bellinger, both free agents. That’s a pretty big free agency class when you don’t have money to spend. I don’t know how Steinbrunner said that he doesn’t go over $300 million in luxury tax thresholds. So, they’re only working with a little over $50 million to spend. Cody Bellinger alone is probably going to be almost 30 $35 million. Trent Gisham will probably get 20 million from somebody and with that that’s all your money. You’re already at 300 million and that’s adding nothing. And I’m sure I’m going to get comments about Spencer Jones and George Lombard. George Lombard I think is a pretty solid player. Spencer Jones at best he’s Joey Gallow like at best. And I don’t think he’s that great of a defender and I don’t think his eye is that great. He whiffs more than anyone in minor league baseball. If you think he’s going to come up into MLB and dominate, he’s not. He can’t make contact. How is that going to play when it doesn’t play in AAA against 92 mph fast balls? I understand that he crushes the baseball. I understand that his batting stance is the same as Aaron Judge. He’s not going to be an elite prospect. I will say that Cam Schlitler at least did break out. That guy’s going to be really good. And it’s a good thing for him that he won his World Series by beating the Boston Red Sox because he was born in Massachusetts and not Boston. But he says that he’s from Boston, so whatever. Good for Cam. He won his first World Series, the first World Series in Yankees franchise history over the last 16 years. Good job, Cam Schlitler. But in all honesty, he did break out and he does look like he’s going to be disgusting. They also had a couple of other prospects break out as well, like Elmer Rodriguez Cruz, who was traded for Carlos Narvz, who broke out for the Red Sox. They did beat the Red Sox in the playoffs. That’s not something that we can take away from them. They did win a playoff series once again. And for like the 31st year in a row or something ridiculous, they didn’t have a losing record. Are they going to have a losing record in 2026? Probably not. Are they going to be good enough to win the World Series? No. Are they going to be good enough to win the American League pennant? I doubt it. I just don’t know what this team can do. They are not a fundamentally good baseball team. They are a company that strives on brand recognition and not baseball talent. If Anthony Vulpi is the starting shortstop in New York next year, they will never win another World Series maybe ever again under Hal Steinbrunner. I don’t know how Anthony Vulpi could be the starting shortstop. I don’t know how that bullpen can get improved either because they have good names in that bullpen. It was awful. It was so bad again. And the Toronto Blue Jays were not projected to be a team that made it to the playoffs. You know who was the New York Yankees. And who eliminated who again? Um Vlad, can you help me out here? The Yankees lose. The Yose lose. Let’s go, baby. What you doing? Oh yeah, the Yankees lost. Okay, well that’s about all the rambling I can do about the New York Yankees. They’re not special in terms of baseball talent. They’re just not. They beat the Red Sox. They won their World Series. I get it. They haven’t done that in 21 years either. So, I understand it’s been very difficult for them to beat their so-called rivals when it’s been a pretty one-sided rivalry in the postseason over the past 20 years. But either way, I don’t know what to say. They at least they at least they got that Cam Schlitler. I’m happy for you. He was throwing way harder versus the Red Sox than he was versus the Blue Jays. If that doesn’t show that beating the Red Sox was their World Series, I don’t know what to tell you. Once again, the New York Yankees, they’re a branded giant. They’re not a baseball giant anymore. Keep saying your 27 rings. It’s going to remain 27 for a while because this team just doesn’t have it. They don’t. 27 will be remaining in New York at least for 2025 and probably for the rest of the decade because because the New York Yankees, they’re not that

In 2025, the New York Yankees, despite a strong 94-68 regular season, faced significant failures that defined their campaign. They lost the AL East title to the Toronto Blue Jays via a head-to-head tiebreaker, forcing them into the Wild Card Series. Their postseason ended abruptly in the ALDS, where the Blue Jays dominated them in four games, outscoring them 34-19, highlighted by a 5-2 loss in Game 4. The Yankees’ starting pitchers struggled immensely, with Luis Gil, Max Fried, and Carlos Rodón combining for a 16.88 ERA in crucial games, while a critical defensive error by Jazz Chisholm Jr. in Game 4’s seventh inning allowed Toronto to seal the series. Despite Aaron Judge’s .500 batting average and a key three-run homer, the offense couldn’t overcome these pitching and defensive shortcomings, extending the Yankees’ World Series drought to 16 years.

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