My Thoughts on Some Twitter (X) Posts (6/22/24)

June 22 , 2024

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MY THOUGHTS - ...And a bicycle.

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MY THOUGHTS - Not much to say to this. When you continually sign and promote guys that other teams have cast off, what do you expect? Yes, the Yankees seemed to always find a way to make the bullpen work, but just like when they found success trading for and signing fringe big leaguers who had some initial success, eventually the players become what they are. The Yankees sometimes believe in their own brilliance more than putting together the best team possible:

"We'll sign that guy and he'll be great."

"He's been cut by four MLB teams in the last 9 months."

"We can make him great. We're the Yankees!"

That plan isn't working in 2024. The question is, can the Yankees build a bullpen a different way?

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MY THOUGHTS - This is very interesting. No teams are hitting even .260. Baseball is tilted in favor of pitchers. Seems to me that a great strategy would be for the Yankees to grab as many great hitters as they can- that would set them apart.

Also, the last two nights, opponents are hitting .370 against Yankees pitching...

I still am frustrated that the Yankees didn't get Luis Arraez. "But his defense..." (As if Gleyber Torres is a Gold Glover.)

2024:

Arraez (with San Diego) = .324

Torres = .221

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MY THOUGHTS - I'm not sure what this says, if it says anything (because so often anything can happen in a close game) but it seems to say something about the Yankees' ability find ways to get it done, stay focused, and win. Good teams do the little things that lead to wins. It also seems to be anohner way to say that their bullpen is a mess. No?

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MY THOUGHTS - I think these hats are awful. Ugly. Horrible. Why can't the players simply wear their team's regular hats for the All-Star Game? Does MLB really think fans are going to run out and buy these hats? Will they? I certainly won't.

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MY THOUGHTS - At the end of last season, Aaron Boone suggested that the 2024 Yankees will be a better team because they will bunt more. It was an absurd statement. And, in practice, the 2024 Yankees haven't bunted or even tried to bunt very often. What Boone said, and what the owner repeated as a smart idea, is something they haven't even done

What's notable about this clip is that the manager, jumping in the cage, failed (miserably) in his second attempt to bunt. I'd think he would be able to show his players how to do it. Further, I would have thought that the next pitch he would have worked to lay one down - "End on a high note" type of thing. But, no.

There is something about this video that says so much without saying anything at all. It's the whole lackidasical way the Yankees have been run for so long that seems exemplified in this short clip. Get in the cage, take some swings, it doesn't really matter...

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MY THOUGHTS - There are a host of players from the 1970s and 1980s who played for the Yankees that are Hall of Fame worthy based on how they compare with others who are in the Hall. This list includes Tommy John, Thurman Munson, Graig Nettles, Willie Randolph and others. For Willie, Bobby Grich and Lou Whitaker also have great cases.

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MY THOUGHTS - I've seen a bunch of posts like this... people collecting miscut cards. When I collected, these were always considered junk, a disaster, worthless. Why would one want a card that is cut incorrectly? For whatever reason, among some collectors, these seem to be very popular. I'm very glad I do not collect or buy baseball cards any longer. That hobby passed me by decades ago.