- Yankees general manager Brian Cashman isn’t beating around the bush about the performance of the Bronx Bombers.
“We suck right now,” Cashman said ahead of Tuesday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium. “As bad as we can be.”
However, for the third time this season, Cashman offered support behind manager Aaron Boone and the coaching staff.
“This is not an Aaron Boone problem,” Cashman said. “This is not a coaching staff problem.”
Cashman shifted the blame away from Boone toward himself.
“It’s easy from my chair to say, ‘Let me throw something overboard to just satisfy the masses.’ It’s harder to actually stick with what you’ve got because you believe in it,” he said. “These people care. They’re working their ass off. They’re really good at what they do. We’re not getting the results. I’m the head of baseball operations. That’s more on me than them.”
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1. Walt Davis Posted: June 29, 2021 at 07:28 PM (#6026923)The reality pipe is filled with sort of an angry sludge. It is being smoked by Hal Steinbrenner.
The yankees are somewhat lousy. Take a deep breath. Soak it in.
Their winning percentage is .519...exactly what it was in 2014 and 2016, so it's not like this some historically disastrous season like 1966 or 1990. Hell, half the fans in the league (including me) would kill to have their team at 41-38!
edit...in full uniform...and she threw out the first pitch.
How about the Diamondbacks?
That Lovullo still has his job is amazing.
I will say this - I think it’s a good team if Gallen and Bumgarner come back. They’ve actually got some good ball players and play hard (if ineffectively). I think the core team is a .500 team. Don’t know why they have collapsed so badly.
I remember Bill James saying once, "They'll forgive a terrible manager, but not a mediocre one". If a team is, say, 75-87, it's easy to find six games that they could've won to get to .500...but if they're 52-110, what can you say?
No clue, I will flat out state, that arguably the worst managing I've seen in my life of watching baseball was this three game series against the Diamondbacks with Lovullo managing. There are really no words to describe his actions. And remember I watched a decade of Whitey Herzog, and had Torre as a manager of my team... so I've seen bad managers trying to over think, or bad managers trying to let the players play.... but never seen what I witnessed with Lovullo this week. (I mean Vern Rapp was always my go to as worst manager I've ever seen... and I'm pretty sure the D-backs manager was worse than that)
In '82 he basically had a rotation of two guys, Andujar and Forsch, who started on a regular schedule and five other guys who made spot starts to fill the other 3 days of the rotation. Don Zimmer would look like a drooling zombie in five minutes (well, even more like one) if he tried to figure out how to do that. John McNamara would've complained that the organization was setting him up to fail. You think you know bad managers?
A plus trolling here by a cardinals fan
Really chef’s kiss on this
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