The 2021 New York Yankees thread

Goldenage · April 17, 2021 12:52PM

Looks like the sun is setting on their season already.

doubledragon · April 17, 2021 2:42PM

Goldenage · April 17, 2021 3:11PM

Someone please tell Aaron Boone that .357 is a good batting average but a horrible winning percentage.

doubledragon · April 17, 2021 3:50PM

Final:

Rays - 6
Yankees - 3

1951WheatiesPremium · April 17, 2021 4:06PM

Yanks will be fine regular season but haven't got the pitching to compete in postseason.

BLUEJAYWAY · April 17, 2021 5:48PM

@Goldenage said:
Looks like the sun is setting on their season already.

Only if they had to play Tampa 162 games a year.

USSID17 · April 17, 2021 8:43PM

I guess they're mathematically out of it!!

Goldenage · April 17, 2021 11:09PM

@USSID17 said:
I guess they're mathematically out of it!!

The question isn’t are they mathematically out of it, the question is are they emotionally into it.

tommyrusty7 · April 17, 2021 11:49PM

Either way is fine by me!

stevek · April 18, 2021 1:51AM

So my understanding if i'm interpreting the thread correctly, is that this 2021 Yankees team may not surpass the accomplishments of the 1927 Yankees team?

stevek · April 18, 2021 2:00AM

Commonly heard remark in the Yankees locker room this season:

"Sorry coach, I got a little paper cut while opening the mail for my weekly six figure paycheck, and so i just can't play today. Maybe next week when it heals up."

Goldenage · April 18, 2021 5:11AM

Reports out of the Bronx are that Aaron Boone is holding a mandatory meeting. He wants to show a motivational film to get the Yankee ship heading in the right direction.

tommyrusty7 · April 18, 2021 6:09AM

The big bats already have tons of money so don't want to waste time watching old movies!

Goldenage · April 18, 2021 6:20AM

Must win today. Gerritt Cole 2-0 with a 1.47 era on the mound.

1951WheatiesPremium · April 18, 2021 6:22AM

@Goldenage

1951WheatiesPremium · April 18, 2021 6:27AM

@stevek said:
So my understanding if i'm interpreting the thread correctly, is that this 2021 Yankees team may not surpass the accomplishments of the 1927 Yankees team?

At 125-50, the 1998 New York Yankees are actually the franchise’s ‘standard’ as they were arguably the most perfect baseball team ever constructed.

craig44 · April 18, 2021 6:34AM

i was shocked to hear yesterday that the last Yankees team to be by themselves in last place was the 1998 Yankee team. it was very early in April.

USSID17 · April 18, 2021 6:49AM

All of us "real" New York'ers know, you gotta be born in NY to be a real Yankees fan!

1951WheatiesPremium · April 18, 2021 7:01AM

@craig44 said:
i was shocked to hear yesterday that the last Yankees team to be by themselves in last place was the 1998 Yankee team. it was very early in April.

Torre was almost fired.

Hard to imagine now.

tommyrusty7 · April 18, 2021 7:04AM

I remember I was a Yankees fan back in 1950 when they had some great players but them found the Red Sox and have been a fan ever since. For a while there the Red Sox tried to be the Yankees and buy every overpriced player out there but now have stopped doing that as once they have more money than they know what to do with they stop playing hard. By the way I wish I had saved some of those players cards back then instead of using them to make noise on my bicycle. How many of you have done that when you were a kid?

USSID17 · April 18, 2021 7:16AM

@tommyrusty7 said:

By the way I wish I had saved some of those players cards back then instead of using them to make noise on my bicycle. How many of you have done that when you were a kid?

I did!

stevek · April 18, 2021 7:17AM

@tommyrusty7 said:
I remember I was a Yankees fan back in 1950 when they had some great players but them found the Red Sox and have been a fan ever since. For a while there the Red Sox tried to be the Yankees and buy every overpriced player out there but now have stopped doing that as once they have more money than they know what to do with they stop playing hard. By the way I wish I had saved some of those players cards back then instead of using them to make noise on my bicycle. How many of you have done that when you were a kid?

That flapping sound sure was cool. Made it sound like you were riding a vehicle with an engine.

1951WheatiesPremium · April 18, 2021 7:20AM

Based on the condition, these all saw some action. Which is part of what makes me love them.

Goldenage · April 18, 2021 7:25AM

Mickey was awesome.

thisistheshow · April 18, 2021 8:19AM

@USSID17 said:

@tommyrusty7 said:

By the way I wish I had saved some of those players cards back then instead of using them to make noise on my bicycle. How many of you have done that when you were a kid?

I did!

It's nice seeing you over here in Sports Talk 21W

USSID17 · April 18, 2021 8:29AM

@thisistheshow said:

@USSID17 said:

@tommyrusty7 said:

It's nice seeing you over here in Sports Talk 21W

Thanks. I'm more of an Islander fan but I can live and die with the Yankees as well.

thisistheshow · April 18, 2021 8:30AM

@USSID17 said:

@thisistheshow said:

@USSID17 said:

@tommyrusty7 said:

It's nice seeing you over here in Sports Talk 21W

Thanks. I'm more of an Islander fan but I can live and die with the Yankees as well.

I won't hold any of that against you... 😂

Goldenage · April 18, 2021 1:12PM

Goldenage · April 18, 2021 1:14PM

The Yankees team winning percentage is .333 and Brando Nimmo of the Mets is hitting .471

Is there something wrong with that picture ?

stevek · April 18, 2021 2:41PM

Tough start for a team with the highest payroll in the American League.

Goldenage · April 19, 2021 5:30AM

No matter how much he may want to, Gerrit Cole cannot do it all. The Yankees’ right-hander cannot get the offense going or steady the defense behind him. So, the Yankees wasted another of his strong starts on Sunday. Cole allowed three runs, two earned, on five hits. He struck out 10 and did not walk a batter. The Yankees, however, still dropped their fifth straight game, losing 4-2 to the Rays at the Stadium.

The Rays (8-8) swept the three games to take their second series of the season from the Yankees (5-10). It is the first time the Yankees have been swept in a series of at least three games since Aug. 18-20, 2020, when the Rays also swept them.

USSID17 · April 19, 2021 3:27PM

Hey-

You can tell all your friends you heard it here first: "The Yankees have the AL East right where they want them!"

I'm a true NY'er and Yankees fan. I only "start" watching baseball in October.

Goldenage · April 20, 2021 3:52AM

Brian Cashman participated in a teleconference with reporters Monday to “reinforce” that the Yankees “are not going to adjust course” after 15 games. He stressed patience over panic. Cashman, three-plus decades with the Yankees and two-plus as GM, mentioned experience has taught him to weather the annual bad stretches if you believe in your process and product.

“We know there are better days ahead,” Cashman said.

thisistheshow · April 20, 2021 5:37AM

I almost didn't open this thread. I didn't look at who started it at first, and not being a Yankees fan myself, I didn't want to read about them. Then, I finally get around to it, I am pleasantly surprised. Let's just hope the trend continues.

1951WheatiesPremium · April 20, 2021 6:40AM

@thisistheshow

Not sure if @Goldenage is a Yankees fan or not; but I don’t think it really matters either. I’m always happy to talk sports but I tend to be pretty realistic when talking sports. I’m only a part timer here in the Sports Forums, mostly here for the cards 😉

Baseball seasons are long and this start doesn’t have to end with a bad season. The next ten games will be sort of big in that Atlanta is a tough but short series, and the Cleveland and Baltimore clubs are not playing too great either and this Yankees team has tended to hit well against these two clubs in recent years. So in two weeks, a sigh of relief could be in sight as we could get right back to at or either side of .500. After the start they’re having, I’d sign for that. A game or two either of .500 by May 5.

The problem as I see it is going to be pitching. Gerritt Cole is fantastic. I could see Kluber righting the ship to be a credible take the ball every 5th day type of starter. Not an ace but a guy who can pitch into the 6th and give us a good chance to win most starts. But after that? This rotation leaves a lot to be desired. No baseball team should feel good about their staff if it’s an ace and four projects. It’s a recipe for disaster. And for the Yankees it is completely unacceptable to have a rotation like that (after Cole and Kluber, it’s Taillon, Montgomery, German, Devy Garcia and maybe Luis Severino down the line) when they didn’t have to when there were some very credible major league starting pitchers available this offseason. Once again, the Yankees seem far too content to consider making the playoffs the goal they’re trying achieve rather than winning the World Series.

It sure looks that way to this Yankees fan, anyway.

Alfonz24 · April 20, 2021 8:49AM

What is losing? Losing is a disease, as contagious as polio … as contagious as bubonic plague, attacking one but infecting all. Ah, but curable.

Goldenage · April 24, 2021 3:59AM

Looks like we caught a bird. Next bird to catch is a blue jay.

stevek · April 24, 2021 6:50AM

@Alfonz24 said:
What is losing? Losing is a disease, as contagious as polio … as contagious as bubonic plague, attacking one but infecting all. Ah, but curable.

I heard the Yankees just signed a player named Roy Hobbs.

Very strange signing a 34 year old rookie?

Goldenage · April 27, 2021 5:36AM

The great Boston rock group Aerosmith wrote a song that went like this..................

I'm back !!!!!!!!!

I'm back in the cellar again !!!!

I'm back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Went down to Baltimore to try to climb over the birds, but came up short.

1951WheatiesPremium · April 27, 2021 7:24AM

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1951WheatiesPremium · May 24, 2021 3:14PM

Half

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Back

1951WheatiesPremium · May 24, 2021 3:16PM

Goldenage · May 25, 2021 11:25AM

Are this years Yankees contenders or pretenders ?

You would think the pitching should at least keep them close.

Goldenage · May 30, 2021 11:37AM

Dem Tigers be kickin our tails.

What the heck ?

3stars · May 31, 2021 1:08PM

The 1980’s team is back!

Darin · May 31, 2021 1:44PM

@1951WheatiesPremium said:
Half

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tommyrusty7 · June 7, 2021 6:09AM

Great series with the Red Sox this past weekend! Fifteen more games to go this year . The sox need to make up for the last 2 years which were a disaster.

1951WheatiesPremium · June 7, 2021 7:10AM

@tommyrusty7 said:
Great series with the Red Sox this past weekend! Fifteen more games to go this year . The sox need to make up for the last 2 years which were a disaster.

It was a great series. I wish we had pulled one out but the Red Sox have played better baseball and it showed up this weekend.

blurryface · June 7, 2021 9:17AM

what happened to gleybs?

dude fell off a cliff.

1951WheatiesPremium · June 7, 2021 9:22AM

@blurryface said:
what happened to gleybs?

dude fell off a cliff.

Gleyber Torres has had COVID twice. Once before he was vaccinated and once after. I don’t know if that’s the reason but while he has been coming on of late, he has lost power in his swing.

Some of his breakout season was tied to fluky power against (almost historically) bad Baltimore pitching. Top of my head maybe 14 of 35 HR.

BaltimoreYankee · June 7, 2021 10:39AM

The Yankees stink! That is all....

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