WEBVTT - The Yankees are in Trouble. 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.520 Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake myself a hobbit from 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:09.000 the shire BBD on his birthday. He's seventeen. Folks, be 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:14.280 careful in the comments. Hope you all had a good weekend, 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.000 like long extended weekend too. How about that fourth of July. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.319 I hope you got to go to the beach your griller. God, 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.279 it was a jealous pool weekend. I know BBD got 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.360 some of that in that. I was definitely craving some 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.400 of that. It was gnarly hot, muggy gross in the Northeast. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.159 That conditions were perfect for that. I watched a lot 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:43.160 of sports, including soccer. How about the Copas euro Cup, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:48.400 Copa America No USA and some shots fired at Brazil 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.000 coming in this episode, which we'll talk about in a 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.240 little bit. But we're going to talk a lot of 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:59.400 baseball because that's what goes on here and people might 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.040 know him in New New York Yankees fan. There's a 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.080 Derek Jeter hype poster behind me. Not self conscious at all? 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.919 The New York Yankees. Is it five and fifteen? Now 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.240 five and sixteen? That's the worst one I can get. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:18.760 There, I know. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.440 Jimmy mentioned after the show five and fifteen, and that's 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.840 like three games worse than anybody else in that period. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.440 But I think the stretch extends longer than that. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.520 The New York Yankees that were off to an electric 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:37.319 start forty nine and twenty two, fifty and twenty two. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.600 How about we go there, the first team in Major 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.480 League Baseball to fifty wins. That makes the matth easier 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.720 for us. That would be five and fifteen, because they 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.000 are now fifty five and thirty seven. The Orioles have 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.320 a three game lead in the Al East. The Boston 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:59.520 Red Sox have now beaten them in back to back series. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.680 The Boston Red Sox as of today are in the playoffs. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:06.200 And I want to dive. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:11.280 Into the reality or the try to find some truths 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:16.160 and some fandoms in the Yankees swoon because this is 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:22.200 now three straight years, three straight years the Yankees. Last year, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.000 it does line up with Judge getting hurt, who he 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.560 has been incredible this year and he has done nothing 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.440 but proof since kind of when he got called up slash, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.320 especially since twenty twenty two that he is on a 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.320 different mode than any other player. So last year Judge happens, 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.680 it's oddly revealing to how thin the Yankees lineup was. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.320 You know what was it? 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.560 I guess in twenty two was when we first found 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:53.840 out how thin the Yankees lineup was. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.240 That's when they traded Monty for Harrison Bader. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.959 Right those During the twenty two season. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.520 The Yankees had a historically bad August, one of the 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.560 worst months in franchise history. And it was kind of 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.880 like damn like DJ got hurt. Matt Carpenter, who had 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.560 been amazing for the Yankees and his if you did 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.520 numbers and his minimum games played, he was one of 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:22.640 the best hitters in baseball, which was insane that the 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.880 Yankees hitting just entirely collapsed. I think that was sad 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.280 Glabor Torres after he thought he was traded that. I 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.920 think he had a historically bad August. The Yankee shortstop 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.840 conversation was up in the air that whole time they 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.560 traded for Andrew ben Tende. He got hurt that the Yankees. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.840 It was what it was like, It was a good 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.720 It felt like a good case study on man how 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.560 quickly injuries and just how a season can change on 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.960 a diamond baseball That last year, the Arizona Diamonbacks hit 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.160 the playoffs. They are running. Their lineup feels deep. They're 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.400 getting Brandon fott Is giving incredible pitching performances. That they 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.080 were the example last year of like, hey make the dance, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.480 play some good ball, let's see what happens. They took 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.800 down the Dodgers that had owned them for that regular 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:20.719 season slash the past decade. That the twenty two Yankees, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.919 it very much felt like, Wow, boy, did the injury 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.239 bug roll in? This is tough. The lineup fell apart. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.320 That's life, Frank Sinatra. What they should play when they lose, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:38.279 that's for another time. Twenty twenty three last season, I 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:43.040 mentioned Judge gets hurt. We have a live party during 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:48.200 that game, and it felt innocent at the time. Judge's 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.080 toe goes into the wall. The big fellas out. The 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.719 season falls apart. The lineup always felt thin. It was 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.520 the question mark coming into the season. We were laughing. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.880 I think we have a newspaper in our office that 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.640 was like, who's gonna be in the Yankees lineup? Which 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.479 often is not a questions. It's a little spoiled Yankees fan. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.360 You usually can go around the diamond pretty good. Usually 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.479 there's one or two positions that's like, yeah, well, you know, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:20.360 they'll they'll see if they figure it out. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.600 And if they don't, it's like a known we're track 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:23.560 for somebody big at the. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.040 Deadline, right who's coming to the Yanks. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.760 Who's the best one That they got. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:34.880 To the deadline, they were so so Kate Middleton that 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.880 they did nothing, which led to one of my favorite 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.480 phrases in the company's history, jose McFly saying doing nothing 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.640 is crazy because it was you either needed to help 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.080 this crew or you need to sell on it. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:50.920 Uh. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.800 And then they like soft Cell, they dfae Baiter, they 0:05:54.880 --> 0:06:00.719 dfaid Josh Donaldson, Josh Donaldson, don't get let me started 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.839 on that. Go check out his wedding content. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.880 That last year. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.760 It was just like, damn, this Yankees lineup is thin. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.400 It felt like they misplayed the corner outfield market that 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:17.880 we talked about for a while. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.400 Felt like they got to slice. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.240 A humble pie just between some stuff in their analytics 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.880 department and the Yankees kind of just always expecting to 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.800 make the playoffs. But I don't know, there was this 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.120 looming cloud of the New York Yankees with Aaron Judges' 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:38.160 new massive contract. Garrett Cole wins the cy Young his 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.880 massive contract that it was like, okay, so we kind 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.720 of have two historic Yankees right now the Yankees franchise. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.400 Whenever we do their pitching stuff, it gets pretty shocking 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:52.600 pretty quick. That Garrett Cole, you know, he is going 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.800 to be on the pantheon of all time Yankee pitchers. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:56.920 Good for you, Garrett. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.479 Aaron Judge, he has entered the chat. Now. There's been 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.400 a lot of good time Yankees that played for a 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.760 long time, but Judge breaking the Ale home run record, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:10.000 Babe Ruth and what he's continued to do this season. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.000 You know, Aaron Judges put himself in some pretty rare 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.040 Yankee air that it's like, Okay, if we've got these cats, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.200 then what are we doing? Cause I if we don't 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.840 capitalize on their prime, there's probably gonna be a day 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.640 when they look old and not in their prime. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.160 DJ Lemayhew the Yankees go out. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.800 Juan Soto, one of the best players in the game, 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.840 one of the best players to ever play the game 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.080 in the corner outfield left handed bat. Him and Judge 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.000 one of the best, won two combos all time, Bingo 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:50.000 Banngo Bongo, Alex Verdugo filling another lefty contact need, another 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.080 corner outfield spot. One of the jokes on talking Yanks 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.400 last year was the Yankees didn't play classically trained outfielders 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.560 Willie Calhoun, Jack Bauers. We were thrown body out there. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.600 So they address those two needs. Anthony Rizzo was part 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.800 of the collapse last year that I forgot to mention. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.480 He was balling out, gets a concussion, played two of 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.760 the worst months of baseball that any player played that 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.040 he got put in time out for the year. Okay, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.160 he's coming back this year. Maybe we can bank on 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:25.280 some riz Stanton. Let's find out he got broken? Was 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.800 that last year that he was what was the la 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:28.600 dot la? 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:29.400 All started. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.040 Good first half then whatever. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.760 So there's hope in Yankee Land. Carlos Rodin can't possibly 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.880 be as bad as he's he was. Don't forget that 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.560 part of the story. That was a massive contract that 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.360 was part of the pairing with him and Judge and 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.000 was part of the Yankees all time no good, very 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.000 bad season. Naster's man, It's like, Okay, they signed Marcus Stroman. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.840 There's gotta be a few things that are gonna click 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.640 with this team, and boy they did. Would I just 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.559 say fifty and twenty two, first team to fifty wins. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:09.760 JOm jam Alama, Ding Dong, Jimmy O'Brien, John Boy on Wiki, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:17.800 no poker face, not a card playing cat that. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.120 He was putting out in episodes. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.080 He's like, I'm I believe in this Yankees team more 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.120 than I have in any team during talking Yank's history. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:26.360 So what's that mean? 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.199 Twenty seventeen Upstart Punch Yankees team felt like a hell 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.880 of an amusement park ride. There were championship hopes, but 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.880 it never I don't know. It was everything right. It 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.520 was house money. We're playing roulette. We'd want a bunch 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:45.080 of bets if something cool happens either way. Like we're 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.840 walking away from the table. We've already we started with 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.280 two hundred dollars, We've got three thousand in our pocket 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.720 and we're playing with a thousand out there that if 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.199 we lose it, we lose it. We don't care. You 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.760 come to find out Houston was cheating. You didn't love 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.000 that in hindsight. But whatever, fun ride twenty eighteen it 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.720 was a socks year. It's tough to admit. I would 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.040 like to see that. Gary Sanchez ball, go out and 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.120 play a game five whatever. Congrats, socks, We'll get to 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.240 you later. Craig Kimberl Twenty nineteen was real hopes and 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.040 dreams and a good team. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:18.560 So I don't know, just pocket that. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.720 It's like twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen, the start of twenty two. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.760 The lads were off to a great start, and it's 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:32.920 something about it felt special between Judge and Rizzo. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.120 Judge Rizzo were good. I mean, DJ until the foot 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:37.600 in August was having. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.280 His best year, getting on and getting over that. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.640 There was real belief in that time, and that's where 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.800 I kept checking myself because I was, hey, I'm a 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.440 sports fan and a baseball guy and a big Yankees 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.320 fan that if the Yankees are good, I'm gonna be 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:55.280 world serious. 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:56.320 That's that's what. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.400 We need to do, even though they haven't been in 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:59.720 fifteen years. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:01.400 Won five. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.640 We're gonna have kids born getting through high school that 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:13.400 haven't seen the Yankees in the World Series, which that's nuts. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.560 The New York Yankees this year, the starting pitching was clicking. Uh, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.280 and we'll talk about that a little bit. The bullpen 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.199 never felt right. Clay Holmes deserves respect as a very 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.280 good major league reliever. Uh, there's some closer conversations that 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.520 maybe I'll get to in a minute behind that, it 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.120 was kind of sketch. Luke Weaver has been great, but 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:41.280 first year as a bullpen guy, and then after that, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.320 it was it was a lot of bodies, and I 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.680 think the bodies that Yankee fans expected to contribute were not, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:53.400 so that felt weird. Caleb Ferguson, Victor Gonzalez, a couple 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.240 of these guys they brought in. It was it was 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.680 just like, Okay, I kind of thought you were gonna 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:58.840 be the guys and they weren't. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.120 Even if you were like pessimistic on the group, we 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.880 all figured and one of these dudes will click, because 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.760 that's what the Yankees have done in the bullpen. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:10.800 Yeah, the Yankees. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.600 If they have one thing their organization deserves credit for, 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.840 it's what they've done in the bullpen. So well, we 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.880 let it ride. And that's the easiest thing to add 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.040 at the deadline too, so. 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.400 That's always available. Kind of no pressure there. Elizka hurt 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:29.360 first week, Yeah, Johnny Louisa and wow, what the lineup? 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:31.640 Go round the horn? 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.520 Rizzo, you feel like it's gotta be some version of better, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.160 and he gave us a week two weeks, I want 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.640 to say, end of April. That kind of looked promising, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.440 and it was like, Okay, if we know you have 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.880 this in the bag, we don't have to rely on 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.600 Anthony Rizzo. So that's you feel like you're gonna get 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.679 a pro MLB at batt He's not gonna chase pitches. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.360 You can just be like steady. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.240 We got a catching platoon. We got a lefty and 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:02.640 a righty. Trevy all the guy mashes lefties at a 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.640 really high rate, Austin Wells. Let's see what the kids got. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:10.720 We like the at bats. Sure, Glibber Torres contract year. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.480 One of the best players on the team the previous year. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:18.040 Most consistent. I would say Volpi. It's only up right. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.640 Guy had a kind of a tough rookie season. In hindsight, 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.160 he showed the smattering of the talent, and I don't 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:29.640 like to say smattering. DJ's coming back. Let's find out. 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.480 Right getting a lot of injuries, let's find out if not. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.199 Maybe as Waldo gets some run, which hey is a 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:42.520 switch hitting, high energy, solid defense, Maybe there's something there, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.080 whether that's asset wise or just plug in for a 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.839 month and then in the outfield Aaron Judge and center 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.480 field waiting for Jason Domingez to come back. Let's see 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.920 what that's about, surrounded by Soto and Verdugo like one 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.160 of the best outfield outfields in baseball. Still probably grades 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.160 out that way. With Stanton dhing which was a total 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.280 wild card. You know, a lot of people were, let's 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.640 pay him and cut him this offseason, Yanks. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.120 Bring him back. He looks like a threat. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.760 He was mauling homers a nice ops, not getting on 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.880 base really, but whatever, he was doing what stan was 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.360 asked to do, and he him leaving is almost right 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:33.400 in the timeline with the Yankees falling out. Judge has 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.280 been Judge, Soto's been Soto for Dugo's been lackluster for 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.360 a little bit. Let's see what that's about. Anthony Volpi 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:47.480 has regressed. Uh, he got slit up in the lineup 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.760 and ever since he did, he's been a six hundred 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.480 ops guy hitting in front of Juan Soto and Aaron Judge. 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.480 God does that sting Rizzo gets hurt and he was 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.160 bad that. We've got Ben Rice fun story kid hits 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.000 three homers only game they won in the Red Sox Series. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.840 Glaber it looks like he's feeling the pressure of a 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.960 contract year and he's been hurt. DJ looks cooked. The 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.480 catchers come and go like they've been okay. Besides the 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.280 running fiasco that Boston did to them two Sundays ago 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:22.200 or whatever it was. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.280 They it feels like there's always been one of them 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.240 kind of going and like you look at the numbers 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.400 and it's like they're they're good, but because they split 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.600 time and have never both been going, it hasn't felt 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:33.920 like that. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.760 Yeah, and they like I don't know, they don't have 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.680 carry the offense energy either way. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:39.480 Even if they're. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.360 Going well from like the eighth hole and whatever. They 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.560 they haven't been a problem, I think if everything else 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:51.240 is happening. But they're the starting pitching regress to the 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.120 worst starting pitching the past three weeks. And this might 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.160 shock you trying to Okay, so let's get back to 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.000 logic and crazy fandom. The Yankees are in the wildcar 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:06.680 they're the number one wildcard team. Currently, they are equidistant 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.560 from the Minnesota Twins in the Wildcard to the Baltimore 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.240 Orioles ahead of them, So that's new starting pitching I'm 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.320 cool with and I think if you went around the 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:22.720 American League starting pitching, you know, of the current playoff teams, 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.920 Yankees have an argument for the top spot still, like 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.200 let's see where Cole's at. Luis Heal with a bounce 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.280 back start is huge, and where's he going to be 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.960 at at the end of the year. Rodan had a 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.640 bounce back start. The Yankees' rotation can figure it out. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.280 Like Marcus Stroman has ebbs and flows, but he is 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.600 a quality MLB starting pitcher. We'll see if Clark returns. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.920 Nestor at home it's been fantastic this year, Nestor on 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:51.840 the road has not been. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.800 But cosmically like an overall view of the rotation. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.880 And they go toe to toe lately. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.760 Sure, I mean they've got burns at the top and 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.640 they have guys always figuring it out in the past 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.840 couple of years. But sure we can go toe to 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.960 toe with them. I think Seattle, you would give them 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.480 the nod just because it feels like they have four 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:18.080 guys who are the same option almost that Seattle has that. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.479 But Yankees can go toe to toe with anyone starting 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.240 pitching in the. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.320 AL playoff picture. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.280 Hitting wise, and this is this is where again, let's 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.160 see where we get stacked up Baltimore. I think they're 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:38.879 probably they're probably the guy right now. Cleveland has kept 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.520 up and if you're looking for star power or quality 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.119 talent like Stephen Kwan has been unbelievable this year. Jose 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.679 Ramirez is year in and year out one of the 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:54.960 best players. Josh Naylor has become a consistent threat, and 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.240 they've just gotten young contributions up and down the lineup. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.280 That feels like year to year with them that last 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.280 year is a bad thing. You're looking at these young 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.240 guys in the lineup and you're like, oh, what's gonna 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.320 happen there? This year looks like the opposite. David Fry 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.520 is an All Star. They called up some kid who's 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:12.920 now hitting two hole for them. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.480 What's his name? I don't even remember. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:19.000 Angel Martinez is sure six games in is one dotting. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:25.240 Let's find out, fella. Cleveland Guardians lineup wise are currently 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:29.440 heads and shoulder above the Yankees. The Minnesota Twins are 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.640 currently head and shoulder above the Yankees. Buxton has gone off, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.080 King Correa has gone nuts. He just got hit in 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.480 the hand. We'll see what the update is there, Jose 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:44.960 Miranda reading them the Miranda rights, making history, and then 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.399 their lefties have just been like league average, which again 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.440 the Yankees would If the Yankees had league average surrounding 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.400 Juan Soto and Aaron Judge, they'd be an a lineup, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.639 but they just have not had that that The Twins 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.159 lineup currently puts them under the table. The Red Sox 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.640 lineup is currently putting them under the table. Duran's awesome 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:13.200 Devers is incredible and probably gonna be all JM third baseman, 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.080 and it just feels like, maybe it's Cora, maybe it's 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.280 roster construction, but they they have a player empowerment thing 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.440 that Rob Refsnyder against lefties is one of the best 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.120 hitters in the league. They can play that card when 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:32.359 they want. You know, they've got other Rafaela feels like 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.760 he's coming into his own at the bottom of their lineup. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.360 Connor Wong has been incredible this year. 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.800 That the Red Sox lineup top to bottom takes down 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:47.720 the Yanks right now. I think for Seattle hitting has 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.200 been a problem with them. That they don't have Judge 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.280 and Soto, so I think he'd still lean Yankees there, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:57.200 but as again, playoff picture and don't make me bring 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.640 Houston into the mix as they're hunting things down them 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.479 in the Royals. I think the Royals lineup has outdone 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.760 the Yankees. Houston lineup for sure has okay, so lineup wise, 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:13.480 the New York Yankees are back amongst ale contenders, bottom tier. 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.400 That's a problem. That's a problem. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:18.760 Bullpen. 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.920 Clay Holmes makes the All Star Game whatever. Craig Kimberrell 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.120 has been incredible and is a Hall of Fame closer. 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.760 He should be in over him. They get in over 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:31.800 ken Ley too. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.000 Wasn't the I believe both of them are not in. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.080 And how did Clay get put in? It was the commissioners. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.479 That's just like the how everybody gets just how they 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.640 do it. It's a combination of player vote and hey, 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:48.600 I think and I think they all vote. I think 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.760 the votes happened like second week of June or something like. 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.240 These results have been in. Don't want to be e 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:59.960 ra slut. But ken Lee Janssen, who has an art 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.400 in as a Hall of Fame closer as well UH 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.080 two to oh one er in his thirty one point 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:11.240 one innings pitch this year he's still electric. 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:17.359 Kimbrel has been killing it two to one era thirty 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.080 four point one innings pitch if you like strikeouts fifty 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:27.919 two Uh that yeah, I mean these reliever numbers can 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:33.680 fluctuate quickly. But these two historic closers having great seasons, 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.280 getting having Clay go in before them feels a little. 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.520 Off, like like every year with the All Star stuff, 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.480 like ultimately everybody you one in is gonna get in there. Eventually, 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:47.720 the injury replacements, the guys that are gonna just not 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.560 be available for the game, so pitchers get in, sure, 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.960 but you would think those guys just had the sex 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:58.000 appeal over Clay just starting point, you would have thought 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.800 it would be an uphill battle for Clay, who statistically 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:02.960 had a very very good half. 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.800 But yeah, and I Clay is a whole other argument. 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.280 That's it's just mental hurdles for Yankee fans. We got 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.639 lost in his Entry's come out song because it's just 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.119 not closer caliber. I think if you went around the 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.920 league right now or staying in the al again, Let's 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.280 let's go to the World Series Yankees for the first 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.000 time in fifteen years. 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:28.960 Kim Roll. 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:34.560 Kegan Iiken as kind of the lefty. Although the eras 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:36.960 not great right now, but the other stats are three 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.960 eight three, so it's not killing them. YENNI, your Cano 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.040 and Jacob Webb has been great for them. I think 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:47.440 i'd take the Orioles bullpen over the Yankees bullpen right now. Seattle, 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:51.320 they got my guy Sendor Smoke back there, and they've 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.840 been a bullpen factory themselves that I think you'd take 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:59.040 Seattle's bullpen over there. Minnesota Duran on the back end, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.560 they've had a little bit of bullpen success recently. Go 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:06.399 check out your boy Griffin Jacks twirling it back there. 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.480 I think you take Minnesota's bullpen, whether you're just leaning 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:15.640 into the guy on the back end and the other 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:20.000 bodies back there, I think you take them. The Boston 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:25.359 Red Sox, man, their bullpen is looking sharp. We talked 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:30.400 about Kenley at the end of the game. Justin Slayton 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.080 has been really good for them this year. 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:33.520 I don't know. 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:37.520 I'm not fully I'm not all in chips on the 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:41.280 table with him yet. Chris Martin got hurt again. When 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.960