Another steaming pile of garbage masquerading as “analysis” from the biggest fraud on the internet, Joshua Diemert.
The entire article is based on the flawed assumption that teams have to choose either power hitting or contact hitting to win in the postseason. This is known as a false dichotomy.
Teams that win in the postseason have elite hitters who can do both. Teams that win in the postseason have elite hitters who can hit for power and hit for average, and they can do it against elite pitchers.
Teams that win in the postseason have balanced rosters that can beat any team, anywhere, any time. Teams that win on the postseason do not rely excessively on any one method to beat opponents.
The batting order of the Dodgers is stacked with elite hitters who have demonstrated throughout their careers that they can hit both for power and for average against elite pitching. That’s one of the reasons why the Dodgers win championships, and that’s one of the reasons why the Dodgers probably will win another championship this year.
By contrast, the Yankees’s roster was full of fool’s gold for 2025. Other than Judge, the Yankees did not have many elite hitters in 2025. Goldschmidt and Stanton were elite hitters earlier in their careers, but now both are at the very end of their careers. Chisholm and Grisham exceeded expectations during the regular season, but neither has demonstrated that they are genuinely elite hitters who are capable of hitting elite pitching in the postseason. Other than Judge, Bellinger is the closest the Yankees had to an elite hitter in 2025. Hopefully, Rice will fully develop into a genuinely elite hitter next season.
The false dichotomy endorsed by Diemert is factually inaccurate and logically unsound.
Unfortunately, the analytics team of the Yankees embraces the same false dichotomy.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
The Yankees have failed to win a championship for sixteen consecutive seasons, and that will not change until they replace the current analytics team with a competent analytics team.
The Yankees are constructed of .220 hitters who struck out 3 times as much as the blue jays. It’s not about home runs.
The think pieces about the offense failing is an interesting take when the pitching gave up 10+ runs in the first two games of the DS. 7 teams (about 6%) in MLB playoff history went down 2-0 and came back to win the DS, so the pitching immediately put the team in a very difficult position.
Pitching put them in the hole, not the bats. It’s not rocket science.
I think it also had a lot to do with giving up 8.5 runs a game
If you look at championship teams the difference is timely hitting and situational hitting. During the season we consistently did not do the small things. We hit big or went home. Things that need immediate improvement are hitting sac flys, productive outs, getting guys over and getting them in. Too many times we need a hit or single and guys are reaching back swinging for the fences. The mindset needs to change. In the playoffs hitting home runs becomes a much more difficult task because you’re facing the seasons best pitching staffs that also happen to be well rested. We could benefit from some high contact hitters. Situational hitting has been the biggest issue the last few years.
Look at the Dodgers, they are so stacked and always a different guy comes through every other game. How does Kiki and Teoscar turn into babe Ruth while Ohtani struggles. Then Ohtani shows up bigger than any post season game I’ve ever seen. Next night it’s Mookie or Freddie Freeman it’s crazy but at the end of the day they are winning due to elite starting pitching. Snell, Yamamoto, Glasnow and Ohtani unreal
People want narratives, and they want everything to be for a reason. The Yankees got three bad starts from guys you would not expect to throw bad starts. At least two of them anyway, Gil was a bit of a wildcard.
Jays got three unexpectedly good starts. It really can be that simple without being a generational storyline. The Yankees matched up poorly against the Jays all season, especially in Toronto. That continued in the post season.
What would a different GM have done differently that would have changed any of that?
I agree that the offense Must adjust to the pitching. In my opinion, the Yankees are yet to develop a pitching powerhouse in this regard, smh. If the bats are not able to get runs, your pitching should be right there with you and Not giving up runs, lol. That’s one dilemma I’ve seen the Yankees face for some time. With that being said, the pitching/batting greats of this post season, seem to be on par with this so far.
But, I believe it’s comes down to players/technical staff and ofc managers dishing out their best darn game when it’s required and even then there’s still absolutely no guarantee they’ll be successful. There’s no make up game later on because we’ll meet that team again next month or two. Your regular season stats can carry you but if it doesn’t show up in the PS, well then it won’t matter much, in the grand scheme of things. That’s just what the postseason is about. Even the potentially great teams can fall prey to a lineup that is simply impenetrable on a day that it matters most.
Aaron Boone gets everything wrong, so others are entitled to be wrong too
This is absolute dogshit, as is everything written by Pinstripe Alley
Source: I used to write absolute dogshit articles for Pinstripe Alley
I definitely don’t buy the contact plays better in postseason argument at all but I don’t buy this either. It’s 5 or 7 games. You cannot draw any definitive answers to what plays in the postseason. Just field the best players and hope for the best.
I think its pretty obvious. from 1996-2009 we were good at craps. since then we’ve been bad at craps
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Another steaming pile of garbage masquerading as “analysis” from the biggest fraud on the internet, Joshua Diemert.
The entire article is based on the flawed assumption that teams have to choose either power hitting or contact hitting to win in the postseason. This is known as a false dichotomy.
Teams that win in the postseason have elite hitters who can do both. Teams that win in the postseason have elite hitters who can hit for power and hit for average, and they can do it against elite pitchers.
Teams that win in the postseason have balanced rosters that can beat any team, anywhere, any time. Teams that win on the postseason do not rely excessively on any one method to beat opponents.
The batting order of the Dodgers is stacked with elite hitters who have demonstrated throughout their careers that they can hit both for power and for average against elite pitching. That’s one of the reasons why the Dodgers win championships, and that’s one of the reasons why the Dodgers probably will win another championship this year.
By contrast, the Yankees’s roster was full of fool’s gold for 2025. Other than Judge, the Yankees did not have many elite hitters in 2025. Goldschmidt and Stanton were elite hitters earlier in their careers, but now both are at the very end of their careers. Chisholm and Grisham exceeded expectations during the regular season, but neither has demonstrated that they are genuinely elite hitters who are capable of hitting elite pitching in the postseason. Other than Judge, Bellinger is the closest the Yankees had to an elite hitter in 2025. Hopefully, Rice will fully develop into a genuinely elite hitter next season.
The false dichotomy endorsed by Diemert is factually inaccurate and logically unsound.
Unfortunately, the analytics team of the Yankees embraces the same false dichotomy.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
The Yankees have failed to win a championship for sixteen consecutive seasons, and that will not change until they replace the current analytics team with a competent analytics team.
The Yankees are constructed of .220 hitters who struck out 3 times as much as the blue jays. It’s not about home runs.
The think pieces about the offense failing is an interesting take when the pitching gave up 10+ runs in the first two games of the DS. 7 teams (about 6%) in MLB playoff history went down 2-0 and came back to win the DS, so the pitching immediately put the team in a very difficult position.
Pitching put them in the hole, not the bats. It’s not rocket science.
I think it also had a lot to do with giving up 8.5 runs a game
If you look at championship teams the difference is timely hitting and situational hitting. During the season we consistently did not do the small things. We hit big or went home. Things that need immediate improvement are hitting sac flys, productive outs, getting guys over and getting them in. Too many times we need a hit or single and guys are reaching back swinging for the fences. The mindset needs to change. In the playoffs hitting home runs becomes a much more difficult task because you’re facing the seasons best pitching staffs that also happen to be well rested. We could benefit from some high contact hitters. Situational hitting has been the biggest issue the last few years.
Look at the Dodgers, they are so stacked and always a different guy comes through every other game. How does Kiki and Teoscar turn into babe Ruth while Ohtani struggles. Then Ohtani shows up bigger than any post season game I’ve ever seen. Next night it’s Mookie or Freddie Freeman it’s crazy but at the end of the day they are winning due to elite starting pitching. Snell, Yamamoto, Glasnow and Ohtani unreal
People want narratives, and they want everything to be for a reason. The Yankees got three bad starts from guys you would not expect to throw bad starts. At least two of them anyway, Gil was a bit of a wildcard.
Jays got three unexpectedly good starts. It really can be that simple without being a generational storyline. The Yankees matched up poorly against the Jays all season, especially in Toronto. That continued in the post season.
What would a different GM have done differently that would have changed any of that?
I agree that the offense Must adjust to the pitching. In my opinion, the Yankees are yet to develop a pitching powerhouse in this regard, smh. If the bats are not able to get runs, your pitching should be right there with you and Not giving up runs, lol. That’s one dilemma I’ve seen the Yankees face for some time. With that being said, the pitching/batting greats of this post season, seem to be on par with this so far.
But, I believe it’s comes down to players/technical staff and ofc managers dishing out their best darn game when it’s required and even then there’s still absolutely no guarantee they’ll be successful. There’s no make up game later on because we’ll meet that team again next month or two. Your regular season stats can carry you but if it doesn’t show up in the PS, well then it won’t matter much, in the grand scheme of things. That’s just what the postseason is about. Even the potentially great teams can fall prey to a lineup that is simply impenetrable on a day that it matters most.
Aaron Boone gets everything wrong, so others are entitled to be wrong too
This is absolute dogshit, as is everything written by Pinstripe Alley
Source: I used to write absolute dogshit articles for Pinstripe Alley
I definitely don’t buy the contact plays better in postseason argument at all but I don’t buy this either. It’s 5 or 7 games. You cannot draw any definitive answers to what plays in the postseason. Just field the best players and hope for the best.
I think its pretty obvious. from 1996-2009 we were good at craps. since then we’ve been bad at craps