Yankees Offseason Blueprint (ft. Andy Martino)

Yankees Offseason Blueprint (ft. Andy Martino)

Just wanted to talk that’s all. Welcome back everybody. Welcome back. The off season continues. Unfortunately, we were just talking. Welcome to uh Andy Martino. He was he was mentioning how much he he misses working on covering the off season. Andy, is this a tough time to watch baseball and not be in the ballpark? Look, it’s it’s so much more fun to be there. Last year, I was bouncing back and forth, round after round for the Yankees and the Mets, you know, both teams that I cover. And uh like, oh, the Yankees are playing at home tonight. I’ll catch this one, then I’ll drive to Philly for the DS the NLDS tomorrow. And then, of course, beyond the Mets elimination, the Yankees ending up in the World Series. And that’s great action. It’s great fun. I I we’re told when we cover or in your case root for regular season games like oh it doesn’t matter it’s one of 162 and the thing about the postseason is they can’t pretend that it doesn’t matter every pitch every decision every every moment is worth scrutinizing and so that’s really a lot of fun to follow a team around the country and and do that. So like we were saying before we went on I have different reasons for being down about it. I’m not a Yankee or a Met fan, of course, but uh I’m a fan of covering great baseball, so rather be doing that for sure. Well, I will say this, some of the best baseball that we’ve seen in recent years has happened this postseason. I mean, that game between the Tigers and um yeah, and the the the M’s was amazing. Uh and then, you know, Blue Jays M’s has been good so far. Uh, but I want to talk a little bit about the Yankees. Uh, because this is a a Yankees podcast and we’ll start in the outfield because there’s been a lot of talk already about, you know, Cody Bellinger. He opted out. He opted out. He had a good year, makes a lot of money. Kyle Tucker is a free agent. We know that the Yankees have had their eyes on him for a long time and he’s got great metrics, but his statistics were not quite as good this year as Cody Bellinger, which is worth noting. Um, how are we how are we looking at this winter? Do you think the Yankees going to be aggressive in trying to bring back Cody Bellinger or do you think that they’re going to maybe try and get a little bit younger and go for the bigger star uh who is Kyle Tucker? I know they want Bellinger. That doesn’t preclude necessarily them wanting to consider a Tucker as well. Uh but I will say this, Derek, that the I I mean I don’t think they’re going to have sign both, but I don’t think it’s it’s at this point this early. And and I want to stress, we’re talking at a time when uh the Yankees haven’t had their pro scouting meetings yet, which is the beginning of every offseason, which is when they really kind of formulate their plan for free agency. I mean, they’ve had meetings internally on free agents since probably August, September is for normal. But when they really set the course for an offseason, the pro scouting meeting. So until they have that, I feel like I can’t really ask my sources definitively, who do you like, Tucker or Bellinger? Because they haven’t discussed that. So, I want to put that out there for every every kind of topic that we hit in one way, shape, or form because they haven’t had those scouting meetings yet. Having said that, Bellinger is the absolute perfect ideal of the way the the good ways in which the Yankees have remade themselves over the past couple of years. You know, Omar Maniah, who’s not the only person that deserves credit for this, but has come in and has really been pounding the table with Brian Kman and the rest of the front office about getting more athletic. And you know, long gone are the days when we’re watching Glaver Torres throw to Luke Void in the infield uh or we’re watching Stanton in the in the outfield for the most part or you know they’ve really become uh a team of better athletes which is where the game is going uh more broadly and something that Omar personally has stressed with the Yankees. They became better by losing Sodto, strangely enough. And part of that is because of the athleticism and the defense. Uh, all of which is a rather long-winded way to say that Cody Bellinger fits them absolutely perfectly. And Tucker is a guy who’s a corner guy now who you could be having a DH conversation about within a few years. And that’s not where where the Yankees need to go. He Tucker is an upgrade offensively over the course of his career. you correctly mentioned this year when he was injured in fairness uh for some of it numbers weren’t as good as Bellingers, but you’re probably looking at offensive upgrade there, but I think it’s a real slam dunk that it’s not worth the uh downgrade in defense and not to mention it’ll cost more. Yeah, I agree with you. If it was my money, and it’s not, uh I would probably go after Cody Bellinger. I I like that he changes his approach with two strikes, something not a lot of Yankees do. you saw a lot of those two strike base hits, just a line drive over the shortstop, you know, that’s that’s what we used to see and that’s what I appreciate. And and also the fact that he can play four positions well defensively, I think is something that that is rare and it has a lot of value. I mean, if somebody needs a day off, it allows you to reconfigure your lineup a little bit and still not lose a lot defensively, which is important. I want to talk about Judge. Um, he conquered his his his postseason demon statistically. You know, he had a big home run. He also had a big strikeout or whatever, but the thing I’m mostly concerned about is the elbow. He missed some time this year. They were gingerly treating that. But he did throw a ball 92 miles an hour in the playoffs. Like he was kind of just showing the world, okay, I can do this still. But we don’t know how he feels. We don’t know how the Yankees necessarily feel about it. Do you suspect that there’s a chance he could be getting surgery this off season? He made it sound like it on on the on the way out after they lost in the division series. He didn’t make it sound like it was going to be a major surgery necessarily, but he was asked directly about that and he said, uh, oh, we’ll probably, I don’t remember the exact quote, but it was along the lines of like, yeah, we’ll probably do something. We’ll have to look at that. I’m not a doctor. You know, sort of not really answering the question. Not, “No, I’m good. Healed. I’m fine.” That’s definitely not what we heard. Uh, so the Yankees and their fans of course just have to hope that that’s a a little bit of a cleanup or something and and not anything to do speculatively speaking with ligament or whatnot. And the reason I’m even comfortable using the word ligament when when there’s nothing there to suggest that’s what’s going on is because when this first happened in July, the Yankees brass kind of thought the judge was having Tommy John. That was the real fear in in Yankee land for a couple of days until the tests showed well, we don’t know exactly what the test showed. So, let’s be clear about that. But, they at least showed that he didn’t need Tommy John immediately. Uh, I’m not saying that that’s on the table right now. I’m just saying that we don’t know exactly what’s on the table. And it’s not just reporters either. Judge doesn’t like to talk about his health uh or injury updates in season with the coaching staff, the manager, the front office, anybody. It’s like how you what I’ve heard is it’s like hey Judgy how you feeling today? I’m good. I’m fine. Like let’s let’s go work. So I I can’t even say that internally they have a great perception of how he felt uh through this process of of being back on the field. So I would say it’s fair for Yankee Land to await uh if not anxiously await the where the actual news drops on on what he needs to do. It’s worth it’s worth keeping an eye on. Uh, another thing we’re keeping an eye on is Anthony Vulpi. Now, you wrote an article the other day that I read and and um I kind of agree with the Yankees have a tough decision to make with Anthony Vulpi. Now, he he played a lot of the season with a torn lab. They say it’s kind of an old injury and he had a a really down year in terms of batting average and getting on base, which is something that, you know, like it or not, fans look to whether or not the Yankees think much about those statistics. uh uh he played better against Boston. He played great defensively throughout the entire postseason, but the ALDS is what’s going to be fresh in people’s mind. One for 15 with 11 strikeouts. And really, when you got to two strikes against Anthony Vulpi, it was kind of an automatic out. I mean, it was just he he didn’t look confident. The swings were not good. I don’t know how many times he threw his bat, more than once. Uh so, what are your thoughts on whether or not the Yankees will consider Anthony Vulpi the starting shortstop? Is it one of these situations where he’s going to basically have a chance to to be like a rookie again where he has to earn the shortstop job in spring training? And who else could be out there to compete with him? We know Lombard’s not ready. He’s still a couple years away. He didn’t exactly tear the cover off the ball in the minor leagues. You know, Cabayro is a guy with an under 700 ops despite having a ton of stolen bases. So, that doesn’t jump off the screen. What are your thoughts on the whole situation? Well, my topline thought is Anthony Vique shouldn’t be assumed to be the shortstop of the future of next year. And the Yankees in those pro scouting meetings need to have a real honest, frank discussion with each other about is this really the direction we can keep going in. That’s fair. Anthony Vulp’s earned that unfortunately or or whatever the opposite of earned is, you know, from from his performance. It’s time to have that thought and have that conversation. But, uh, as you mentioned, there it’s it’s not so easy is to be a a fan can be like, get rid of this bomb. That’s the fan’s job. The the front office’s job, of course, is to be like, okay, what are we going to do that we’re better? I I I mentioned in that article, too, like he 20 home run hitting shortstop with decent defense, except, you know, there’s obviously some defensive issues this year, but overall an okay defender. Um, I wouldn’t call him a gold glove defender, even though that’s literally true. Uh but uh they have to make sure that there’s that they have a better alternative and they might get caught in a little bit of a no man’s land there because like you mentioned I don’t think they have anybody in the organization certainly that’s not Lumbard is not ready. I think there’s a reason a we should look as far as Kabierra goes really closely at why wasn’t he the starting shorts stop in the playoffs because even though there were even some people in that organization that would have done that but the reason that Aaron Boon decided to stick with Vulpi through the playoffs was a little bit of faith in Vulpi I guess but mostly about we’re the we’re the best team he’s thinking when Vulpi is starting and when Caviierro is my Swiss Army knife on the bench the pinch runner the defensive replacement, the guy that can play third sometimes, you know, the the guy that can do all kinds of different things. And if you lock him in as your starting shorts stop, what’s Vulpey? He’s not accustomed to any of those roles. So So the best thing even if Vulpi is suboptimal, is to have a starting shortstop and Cabayro. That’s that’s I think the best way to use Cabo. And I you’re absolutely right to mention the fact that he’s never been a hitter, Cabierro. But what he is is a a guy who knows how to play shortstop. It’s a shame that Oswwell PZA didn’t develop because he’s that guy too. You put him on a shortstop, you’re like, whoa, what was that throw? You know, like after watching Vulpi for a couple of years and there’s just a presence at that position that Vulpi doesn’t always have. So, the Yankees need to look around. Uh there’s no obvious free agents. Obviously, there always trade possibilities that we haven’t thought of. Uh but I I think they need to be open-minded and exploring that this winter for sure. Maybe it ends with Vulpi is our best option, but they need to look into it. Yeah, I’m I’m leaning towards the same thing. I think that they might just be forced to give him one more shot. You know, you mentioned the arm strength. That’s something that really stood out to me when the Yankees picked up Cabayro is it was like a pinball machine. Ground ball is short and boom, it takes off towards first base. Whereas Vulpi, it really seemed like he he had to put a lot of effort in the throws to get it across. Whereas, you know, some of those guys, you know, PZA, you mentioned, just a nice loose arm motion and the ball just sails, you know, chest high across the infield. I think that’s something that um you Yankees could benefit from, just a little bit more of a natural fielding shortstop. A lot of people have always felt that Vulpi profiles better as a second baseman, just his body type, you know, coming up, he kind of had that Padroya look and he has that Padroya type of approach where he’s swinging very, very hard. Are there concerns about his ability to like what type of hitter he wants to be? Like, you know, I I know fans would prefer he did something like hit 250, 260 with less power, right? And get on base and use his legs, whereas the Yankees are really looking at, you know, we think this guy can hit the ball 430 ft. Let’s let him try and do it. Look, they want him to have more of an approach. Of course, he’d be a better player if he did. But to hit 250 260 with fewer home runs in order to ask Anthony Vulpi to do that really commit to that they’d have the Yankees have to change the entire pay structure of the sport, right? I mean you’d be pretty stupid to chase batting average at a time when home runs get you paid. I hate to say it but that that that’s like there’s no incentive to become that player if you’re any player. Uh about winning that guy you just uh that’s not an incentive. The expensive money is I think that’s the problem there with the modern game. Winning not an incentive. But you know I’m being somewhat facitious but truly uh if you if if you’re looking to earn your living in the game and you could chase batting average or chase power, 9.9 guys out of 10 are going to choose the latter. and and a team might there are teams that would make the argument that that’s also you out home or another team you win. So I’m not making it as binary like as winning versus money. But but when we talk about batting average at a time when that’s never been less value to the sport, that’d be a tough thing to have him have them go after go after. I think I want to talk a little bit about the first base situation because somebody who really stepped up this year was obviously Ben Rice. 26 home runs, had a big home run in the postseason. Uh metrically, uh he looks amazing. I mean, he’s near the top of the chart in almost everything. This is a guy who could have a real future. Now, he also catches. Uh they have Austin Well, so I I I think that they’re probably aiming towards him being the everyday first baseman, but you’re losing something with Goldmid, right? Because he hit lefties very well. Rice doesn’t hit lefties quite as well. Who do the Yankees potentially see as somebody who could supplement Rice as the first baseman? Maybe against some of those tough lefties. Is there someone out there that could do the job? Is this a situation where maybe Judge takes some reps at first base and and and you play him at first next year that saves the arm a little bit and it allows you to maybe get some some more flexibility in the outfield? Uh what’s the solution that you think that the Yankees should look at for first base? Knowing the Yankees, I don’t know if they’re going to be as concerned with platoon uh splits at first as they will be with defense. And uh so in the Yankee way, so to speak, which is literally a a ranking that they developed in the 80s of the most important tools for each position and have tried to keep as their northstar in the 40ome years since. They believe that first base defense is really important. It’s the third highest quality, I believe, for a first baseman. and a lot of teams would maybe put it fourth or fifth. Uh the one time the Yankees really got away from first base defense in a long-term way was Jason Giani because they felt that his on base, his power, his leadership made that a worthwhile tradeoff. They got away from it a little with Voit obviously then pivoted to Rizzo because of what I’m talking about. Um so they also know like any smart team knows that defensive metrics are not ready yet to be taken very seriously. So you could look at Goldmith’s defense and say that he wasn’t a plus defender at first this year at Baseball Savant, but he was like, we watch the games. He’s good out there. And Rice is learning. All the credit in the world to Ben Rice. Oh my god, he’s learning first base in the major leagues over the past couple of years. It’s it’s incredible. Uh but the Yankees can’t make him their everyday first baseman. Well, they can, but they they it would be against their value system of of a sneaky way you win is by having a guy that can pick it at first base. So, the the answer there, I think, is to have Rice keep working at it. He really was not uh very good at the scoops on the low VP throws. It all comes together, right? It all connects this the different parts of the diamond. Vulpi’s arm is short. Goldmid’s playing. Vulpi doesn’t have an error. Uh Rice is playing. Bulby might maybe has an error because Rice doesn’t scoop it as well. He got better at that. He works hard. He might be able to get better continuously over the course of his career with this. So, I think the way to do that is to replace Gold Schmidt with a guy that can play defense at first. Uh, I mean, maybe as a defensive replacement type, maybe Bellinger is that guy. I understand there’s not a platoon advantage there, but you could always move Bellinger to first base in the late innings or give him the occasional start at first base. He’s a plus defender there, too. Came up as a first baseman, as I’m obviously, you know. Uh Rice probably is suited to the role that he’s in now, which is back a weird role. You are the backup catcher slash most of the time first baseman slashdh. It’s it’s it’s not a common job in baseball, but I actually think it works for him. And and and that’s how the Yankees should probably think of it. Am I crazy to think Ben Rice has 40 home runs in him next year or soon thereafter? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Crazy. No. He This guy’s a legit middle of the order major league bat. We see how hard he hits the ball. He’s got a plan up there. Good at bats. Hits it hard. They got to find the at bats. But I think it might be, like I said, might be less about settling in like, all right, let’s figure out what his long-term position is and settle in there versus, hey, this works what he’s doing now. It’s not norm. Your backup catcher is usually a JC Asscara type. not usually the guy who sometimes catches and also hits 40 from first base, but yeah, hey, this is who Ben Rice maybe is. He’s a bat who you got to find it best for. And I don’t love him every day at any position, so why not move him around? It’s a great take. Uh, one thing the Yankees definitely need to work on is improving the bullpen. I think it would it would just given the state of, you know, the coronary situation in America, a lot less heart attacks with a much more reliable bullpen. Uh Devin Williams got off to a bad start, no doubt about it, but there’s also no doubt that he was tremendous in September and he had some really big outs in the postseason. Is there a chance the Yankees bring him back and to solidify this bullpen? I mean, are there internal options? Do they maybe take a couple of these young starters like a Lrhee, like an Elmer Rodriguez Cruz? Take some of these guys that are starters and do the old Mariana Rivera trick and put them in the bullpen as power relievers, the Phil Hughes trick, you know, that type of thing. I think they’d rather find the answer to both of your questions is they’d rather find more under the radar guys. Uh I mean really starting with I guess Chad Green, the Yankees pro scouts and analytics people and then pitching like Matt Blake and the pitching staff have been unbelievable in their collaboration with finding relievers and turning them into studs. Sometimes it lasts uh like in the case of Green or Tommy Kanley. Kingley was a veteran when they got him, but they really got a lot out of him for a couple of stints. Some guys don’t last, like Ian Hamilton, uh, but he gave them some good leverage in the meantime. So that the Yankees don’t would prefer not to spend big in free agency on relievers because they think they’re good at doing it on the on on a on a budget. I would probably categorize Williams in that respect. I wouldn’t completely rule it out, but that was a pretty rough bumpy year that they just nursed him through. Maybe you feel like, “All right, we got through that challenging year with him. Do we really want to run that back?” I I could see them thinking that. I mean, it wasn’t just a start, right? He had a he recovered from his bad start and then he had a really rough patch again. Remember all the controversy? I want to say it was like August when Boone was using him in like the fifth inning and everyone’s like, “How could you use him in the fifth inning? He stinks.” Like, I’m trying to keep him out of leverage, but like, you know, he’s on the team. It was really bad late and then it got great. like you said, I’m not sure I want to go back there if I’m them. Uh, and as far as their younger guys, I think that’s a big decision converting a a promising starter into a reliever. You can tell yourself that it’s temporary, but as we know in the case of a I don’t know, a job at Chamberlain, uh, sometimes temporary becomes permanent and you’ve blown a potential starting career. So, um, that’s never the first choice, I don’t think, unless they’ve determined that a guy is going to have be like a two- pitch guy and should be a reliever. I don’t think they want to move guys in and out of the bullpen ideally. Well, one more question here um while I’ve still got you and then I’ll let you go. Jason Dominguez, um this is a guy who, you know, was a top prospect. He obviously didn’t play much down the stretch. He had that double in his final at bat of the ALDS. I’m hoping that that’s kind of a uh a foreshadow of the guy we can look forward to to playing next year. I joked that I think he’s got more of a contact approach and maybe that’s why the Yankees don’t like him. Uh I thought he would have more power. He did have the three home run game and occasionally he’ll show big time power. One thing that I think holds him back is he hits a lot of balls as a left-hander in the air to left field which is not one what you want to do as a as a a you know player in Yankee Stadium. And obviously the right-handed bat struggled. What do you sense the Yankees are feeling internally about Jason Dominguez and his future next year? Is he going to take over as a full-time role or is that something where they’re thinking, “Oh, maybe we’re not as high on him as we used to be.” Well, it’s hard to be as high on him as one used to be, right? Unfortunately, it’s been a couple of lost years and he’s had opportunities. He could have taken the job from Alex Verdugo last fall and he just couldn’t catch the ball enough to play in the playoffs over Verdugo. He had some runway this year. I mean, Trent Gisham just kind of went off. That was more about Gisham solidifying playing time in the outfield probably than it was about Dominguez. But he really hasn’t had regular playing time of course or opportunity in quite a while. He’s really talented. You just we when we see flashes of it, we know I never felt like I saw a flash of Clint Frasier that was is like when you see it with Dominguez like wow I see it. So they’re certainly not ready to give up on him. Obviously it’s a terrible time to trade him. They are maybe drifting into that zone of like, oh crap, we should have traded him when he had value if we’re not going to use him. But they’re not all the way there yet because like I said, you can see that the talent’s there. So I think the playing time will depend on I mean at the moment they don’t have any outfielders. They have Judge. Gisham’s a free agent. Bellinger’s a free agent, right? They literally like that that there’s 600 at bats right there for Dominguez. But they’re going to do something and and in in the offseason with the outfield. So until they do that, it will be hard for us to I guess identify exactly how many of bats Dominguez is going to get and where and how. But uh that’s kind of where it’s at now is that they’re not off of him, but he certainly has become less central to the conversation around the Yankees than he had than he was two years ago. There’s no sugar coating that. Well, in the words of Fox Moulder, I want to believe. So, uh, thank you, Andy Martino. Uh, go follow Andy on X, read his column on the Yankees offseason blueprint. Uh, he reiterated a lot of stuff here, but there’s some things we didn’t touch on. Andy, I’m going to let you go. I got to give a word to the sponsor, then we’ll be back to take some voicemails. Appreciate it. Hi, Derek. Thanks. All right, just a reminder that Pinstripe Territory is presented by Fox One. And all playoff coverage is brought to you by Fox One. You can watch the ALCS on Fox One right now. The Mariners beating the Blue Jays. And you know what? Right out of the gate, I was rooting for the Blue Jays, but the way they talked crap, I mean, some of you guys who called in kind of won me over. And also, I think it would be really cool. I was talking to Terrence about this, to see the Mariners go to the World Series and maybe even win their first World Series. That would be really cool for the city. Uh, I love their ballpark. I The one guy I just can’t stand to have any success because he always killed the Yankees was Randy Rosena, but it’s good to see him beating up on somebody else on other teams. Uh, and the Mariners, they have great pitching. I mean, they’re going to be tough to beat. Uh Yusevich started today for the Blue Jays and obviously did not have the kind of game that he had against the Yankees. He went four innings, four hits, five earned runs, three walks, four strikeouts. So that raised his postseason erra up to 4.82. Uh Vladimir Guerrero 0 for three in that game. And um Julio Rodriguez and Palano both went deep for the M. So if you want to catch all of that, you can check it out on Fox One. From MLB postseason to NFL and Fox to big noon Saturdays with Fox One, you will get it all live. Start your 7-day free trial today. Offers are subject to change. Go to fox1.com for complete terms and conditions. Fox1 streaming now. And as Doug Ralph says, their ballpark in in um in uh Seattle is amazing. I actually played an MLB franchise with them one time just because I love their their ballpark. though. All right, let’s go ahead and take a few comments here. Here’s Mac. Hi, Derek. This is Mac from Pennsylvania. I don’t know what the off season’s going to bring. I know we had a better team this year than we had last year, but I’ll just make this comment. When a team plays such fundamentally poor defense as we did this year and last year, that responsibility rests with the manager. The manager gets these players in spring training. He has several weeks to get them ready and then his coaching staff and himself is responsible for the way they play. We played such fundamentally poor baseball. There is no doubt that the person responsible for that lack of good fundamental baseball play is Aaron Boone. And um we need we need to a replacement at manager. That’s my comment. Well, um it is my understanding they’re not going to replace Aaron Boon. He’s got two years under contract. If they miss the playoffs next year, that’s always a possibility. But otherwise, I can see them letting these two years um you know, basically run out and and and maybe not firing him, but just not bringing him back the way they didn’t bring back Gerardi. That’s kind of what it looks like to me, assuming the Yankees don’t win a championship in the next two years. If they win a championship, you can expect Boone to get another extension. Here’s John from Florida. Hey Derek, John from Florida. It’s been well publicized that the Blue Jays beat the Yankees due to their uh hitting philosophy, putting the ball in play, making contact, uh putting the pressure on the defense. And um you’ve mentioned that now that the Yankees have been eliminated, you’re going to root for the Blue Jays because uh you know it’ be nice to see Donnie baseball Don Maddingley get his first ring. I think what hasn’t been talked about enough is that Matting Le’s role with the Blue Jays is as the hitting coach and as a player, he had one of the lowest strikeout rates in baseball and won a batting title simply because he makes contact and puts the ball in play. And I think that, you know, uh, it’s it’s underrated or not talked about enough how much of a significant contribution his role with the Blue Jays is playing. Okay, so I’m going to stop you right there. Mattingley is not the hitting coach. Mattingly is the bench coach. Their hitting coach is David Popkins. Now, Mattingley was the hitting coach for the Yankees back in 2004. I remember when the Yankees got A-Rod and Sheffield, the talk was, you know, how great the lineup was going to be. And I remember they asked Mattingly, “What are you going to do with this lineup? How you going to make them better?” And he said, “My job now as a bus driver. I just got to get everybody to the ballpark.” But I always liked his philosophy of you want to maximize the hot streaks and and keep them going for as long as possible and minimize the cold streaks for as long as possible. That’s how he saw hitting. And that’s in stark contrast to what the Yankees even believe now, which is they don’t believe hot or cold are a thing, which I totally disagree. Uh, which is, you know, it’s easy to see when someone’s ice cold, their swing is off balance, they’re just, you know, watch watch a red hot Stanton and watch an ice cold Stanton and tell me hot and cold don’t exist. I don’t buy it. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for watching. Thanks again to Andy Martino. Uh, like, subscribe. I’ll be back later on this weekend, uh, this week with Frankie Baseball to talk a little Yankees Mount Rushmore. Until then, we’ll see you next time. [Applause] [Music] If you enjoyed this content, please hit that like button and subscribe. Check out nydesigns.shop for some great merch. Support our sponsors. It helps keep the show going. And you can find us on all major audio platforms, so be sure to subscribe there, too. But most importantly, come back again soon. We’ll see you next time. [Music]

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