My Thoughts on Recent Twitter (X) Posts (August 11)
- Paul Semendinger
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By Paul Semendinger
August 11, 2026
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(Note - I was going to run this a few days ago, but other articles took priority.)
Let's get right to it...
My Thoughts - I have heard this a lot, and by and large, I feel similarly. I have written this and stated this a lot. The Yankees only want to be good enough to be in a pennant race and make a run at the playoffs. That's all. They don't care about being great. At all. The franchise has become boring. Each season they just want to make a big run in September. This is all by design - just be good enough to keep fans buying tickets and merchandise, and sell them on the past glories and the (small) hope for glory this year.
My Thoughts - Aaron Boone never should have been hired as the manager in the first place. He epitomizes the Yankees' lack of desire to be great. He is not a great manager. Boone should have been removed years ago - and if the Yankees cared about being great, he would have.
My Thoughts - This was from a few days ago, but the point stands. Remember a few years ago when some would say, "The Yankees hit too many homers." Some of our readers laughed at that, but, like often happens, those people missed the bigger point. The bigger point was that that Yankees mostly score only when they hit home runs. They don't know how to create runs. That's the problem. They Yankees are like a boxer who can't box but has a strong knockout punch. Sure, he looks great sometimes, if he can get a good punch in, but ask him to battle a quality fighter, one who doesn't just stand there and get hit, and he looks (and is) feeble.
The Yankees are 2-9 in extra innings this year. The fact that they're so poor in games like that is a direction reflection on the manager and the roster given to him by the general manager. This has been a problem for years so the "Aaron Judge is injured" excuse doesn't hold here.
My Thoughts - I am sharing this in case some readers needed more proof of the above regarding the "home run or nothing" approach the Yankees have.
My Thoughts - The Yankees print money. When they convince fans that money is the issue with this club, that player salaries are too high, they're simply having the fans support their own excuses for failing to be great.
Here's some simple math: Yankees Stadium has 46,537 seats. If the average ticket price for a playoff game is $150.00, the Yankees bring in more than $6,900,000 per playoff game in ticket sales alone. (If the average ticket is $200, the team brings in over Nine Million Dollars for one playoff game on ticket sales alone. There is no data that tells the average price the Yankees earn per postseason ticket sales, but these number feel fair and are probably on the lower end.)
Last year, the Yankees had five home postseason games. Taking the lower $6.9 million number, that means the Yankees brought in an additional $34,500,000 just for those five games. Just think about that. We're not adding in any concessions, ads, TV rights, radio rights, and etc... We're only talking ticket sales.
If we just take the numbers above, conservatively, the following is an estimate of last year's ticket revenue:
$282,000,000 - First Half Ticket Sales
$282,000,000 - Estimated Second Half Ticket Sales (I made this the same as first half which , again, seems fair)
$34,500,000 - My Estimate (above) on Postseason Games Ticket Sales
Total = $598,500,000 on ticket sales alone in 2025.
The Yankees, it seems, by this math at least, basically doubled their salary obligations with ticket sales alone.
In short, when the Yankees state that they can't afford certain players, that simply doesn't seem true. If the Yankees wanted to build a great team, they have the financial wherewithal to do so.
If some readers have more accurate numbers, please share them, but it seems the general overall point remains. AND SEE BELOW...
JUST ADDED (8/11/26 2:30 p.m.)
My Thoughts - GLJ is off to a great start!
My Thoughts - You have to love Ichiro! He is, always, one of my favorite players.
I imagine the 10yr. window on Boone's tenure as manager might be shortened by the upcoming labor contract negotiations otherwise he is here through the 2027 season and then Cashman and Boone are gone as A B. postulates in his post. Hal is all about the money period. The coffers are overflowing and he is happy. Under his ownership tenure he has created the illusion of putting WS teams on the field the reality as noted by many is far different! The Dodgers are the only team now in ML that the Yankees used to be! All the legacy baseball franchises are emulating the Yankees.... except the Dodgers who get the best players because they spend the money to win…
Paul, extra innings is a perfect example of the overall point, They are 2-9 because of the ridiculous Manfred Mann rule. They have a hard time manufacturing runs and most oppositions don't. So giving them a leadoff double (essentially) usually ends up in a run, regardless of how good your pitching is. Yanks go to bat in the extra innings and most swings taken appear to be for the fences, not trying to move runner into scoring position. Law of averages bites them in the you know what almost every time. What they need is a completely different approach to each at bat in extra innings. Something that should be practiced and mastered because 9% of games end up in…
Finally, you admit that Boone should've never been hired. I knew that before he was hired. BC's contract is up after the season. Let's hope he's not re-signed. If he's gone. Boone is gone. It's really THAT simple.
With this Manfreds Man in extra innings, you gotta know how to bunt. I don't know who runs Spring Training, but i can almost guarantee it's an analytically based Camp, not baseball based.
RISP. That's been a problem for about 15 years now. It also coincides with them firing HC Kevin Long after the 2013 season.
GLJ is the best defensive SS they have in the organization. Since they moved Oswald Peraza out of SS for Volpe, GLJ immediately became the best…
The Athletic reported this AM that the Yankees reached a $2.6 billion deal with a private equity fund.I'm not exectly sure what that means but I suspect it results in more money for the Yankees and the Steinbrenner family.