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OPENING DAY: Game Thread

March 28, 2024

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It's here. It's time for baseball. YANKEES BASEBALL!



Our good friend Phil isn't available today. He'll be back tomorrow.


Here is today's Yankees lineup.



Two Quick Thoughts:

  • Giancarlo Stanton has done nothing the last few years to be the team's clean-up hitter. This is an example of poor decision-making right at the start. It seems like the manager deferring to the (former) star player. In my opinion, Giancarlo Stanton should have to earn a spot in the middle of the lineup. It is this type of thinking, playing an unproductive player in an important lineup position that has hurt the Yankees for years. (Of course, if Stanton has a great game, I'll be happy to be wrong about this.)

  • Why can't they just let Anthony Volpe alone and bat him ninth? He shouldn't be in a power-hitter's position. Volpe was a below average Major league hitter last year. He should bat ninth and gain confidence. They can move him up, preferibly to first (or second) in May or JUne once he establishes his competence as a hitter. He should be batting in a spot that asks for singles, not power.

  • Also, for the record, on this site we will refer to lineup decisions, pitching change decisions, and other in-game decisions as the manager's decisions. A comment need not be posted that Aaron Boone didn't decide these things. He is the manager and it is ultimately his responsibility for those decisions.


Let's Go Yankees!!!


57件のコメント


Alan B.
Alan B.
3月29日

Sorry, I gotta disagree with you that things like the lineup and many of the in game decisions are Boone's, or whoever is in the Yankees manager. But he knows he signed up to take the blame. Most MLB clubs work that way, even Buck Showalter, the original analytics manager, had to do what he was told by the FO in Queens last year. Remember, Girardi was fired because he refused to play the patsy for analytics/The Binder.

いいね!

popsmcp
popsmcp
3月28日

Maybe not so pretty…but hey! The good guys won!

いいね!

Robert Malchman
Robert Malchman
3月28日

What an ugly, ugly game. 10 LOB, 3 GIDP, starter gives up 4 runs in 5 innings, closer comes within a foot of blowing the save. Ugly.

いいね!
fuster
3月28日
返信先
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いいね!

fuster
3月28日

the offense looks less than sharp

but potent

いいね!

tonygonz1
3月28日

Not much has changed with Stanton

いいね!
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