Donaldson gets 1st game off.
DJ at 3B
IKF gets a start -- has higher BA than DJ
Trevino squats in the day
YANKEES
Bauser, RF -- .221 (107)
Stanton, DH -- .221 (104)
Torres, 2B -- .252 (110)
Rizzo, 1B -- .265 (119)
LeMahieu, 3B -- .236 (90)
Kiner-Falefa, CF -- .238 (73)
McKinney, LF -- .310 (143)
Trevino, C -- .217 (59)
Volpe, SS -- .195 (75)
Schmidt, P -- 2-6, 4.70
RED SOX
Verdugo, RF -- .294
Turner, 1B -- .278
Devers, 3B -- .243
Duvall, CF -- .327
Yoshida, DH -- .309
Arroyo, 2B -- .240
Durran, LF -- .291
Hernandez, SS --.229
Wong, C -- .238
Ort, P -- 1-0, 5.37
Game on YES
NEXT UP: Tonight, 7 pm, at Boston
This Yankees team without Judge is not only bad its boring and unwatchable
We're getting Green Monstered. King has got to be better than this.
With Schmidt struggling in the fifth, I was curious as to how Jameson Taillon, whom the Yankees pointedly did not sign in the off-season, was doing. -0.8 WAR, 6.70 ERA, 67 ERA+, 1.510 WHIP. We can complain about roster construction by Cashman, but here was a great non-move he made.
Lead-off double and nothing, particularly thanks to Stanton striking out again. Boone should switch him in the lineup with McKinney, who is substantially out-hitting and out-slugging Stanton.
It was interesting to hear Michael Kay say during the broadcast (and this is the general quote not word-for-word):
Calhoun and Bauers have looked good with the bat, but both have played poor defensively. And it has hurt the Yankees.
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This, again, goes to the bigger point - the Yankees have tried to address left field by cutting corners and going to the scrap heap.
Usually when you cut corners, you end up also doing a less quality job.
This is my frustration with the Yankees these last many years. They try to cut corners and it ends up hurting them.