Here is the big question about the Yankees because they are trying to make this year better than last year, which would finally mean winning a world series for the first time in 15 years:
Do you think that this year’s team is better than last year, even without Juan Soto?
The Yankees finally stopped their sequence of defeats around two rain delays on Thursday. Paul Goldschmidt struck as he did when the Yankees looked like the best HET-Down team in the American League, Trent Grisham did the same, and Carlos Rodon launched well enough for his team to finally get a victory for the Angels of Los Angeles, that the Yankees made Los Angeles look like the Los Angels.
There was no panic in this room, “said Aaron Boone about his team who finally obtained a good victory – and a good hit – after these six consecutive defeats.
But even after a solid victory like this, the Yankees did more stuff on the basics. They had the first and second, two outings, 3-2 count on the DJ Lemahieu in 6th round, the runners about to be in motion. But then Austin Wells, having for a moment Jasson Dominguez, took off second before Tyler Anderson delivered the ball to the marble, and the angels ended up nailing Anthony Volpe on the way to the third. Sleeve.
The other evening, Volpe was thrown while trying to steal the third in a match that the Yankees ended up losing by a round. After that, Boone was asked if he had a problem with Volpe trying to fly in this situation.
Boone looked surprised to ask the question.
“No,” he said. “Do you?”
Wait… .. What? I really like Boone, but the only two people who had no problem with Volpe trying to fly third there were Volpe himself and his manager. And the Yankees Acts have always offended that the Dodgers made fun of them to be weak on the fundamentals after the last World Series.
Many arrived at the Yankees after swept the royals of Welcome Wagon last week in Kansas City. They did not move the runners and they did not get goals and Volpe launched a ball on Wednesday evening which probably cost them another match. Maybe these things would not have been so blatant if Aaron Judge had not stopped hitting. But he did it. Not only will he not strike .400, but he is always human. The Yankees therefore wasted a mainly formidable week of pitching, even wasting another great outing of their AS, Max Fried.
The reality of what we saw before Thursday afternoon is that the Yankees themselves had a very bad week in the middle of a real long season, and before the first official day of the summer, and in the process opened the door widely in the American League East. They still do not have the best record in the league, because the tigers do it and – stop me if you have already heard this – but just behind them now in the East, the combatants of the alley who play the Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the Rays.
Oh, and by the way? After the Yankees finally obtained a match of the angels on Thursday, it meant that their record was exactly the same as their old friends, the Astros, who have been playing a formidable ball for some time.
The Yankees got closer as close as they did to win all last year, especially after being endowed with a dream path to the series through Patsies de l’A Central.
Even with that, there are intelligent fans of the Yankee, I know who still think that if Brian Cashman had obtained them more from hole than he did during the last deadline of the trade, even an arm of more enclosures of the more statements, so maybe they would not have to launch a Nestor Cortes à Arms à Armeau at Freddie Freeman in the series 1 of the series.
Still: their best this season, the Yankees looked like a better and more complete team than they were a year ago. Goldschmidt struck much earlier in the season and Grisham produced better power numbers than Soto with the food and Cody Bellinger. Everyone did this, of course, while Judge did his Ted Williams thing. The Yankees outperform the world and seemed to run away with the East. Not lately. Even with the way they launched during the defeats, they only looked like another team when the judge did not hit.
All this takes place in a following season where the fans of the Yankee finally brought the series back to the stadium. But these fans no longer want to hear about the number of winning seasons that the team has had. In a world where they are constantly told that the pressures and responsibilities of being yankees are somehow deeper and deeper than those of anyone, those responsible cannot turn around and sell them winning seasons instead of winning pennants and World Series.
The other day, Gerrit Cole made a great turn in the yes stand, and at one point, Michael Kay asked Cole if the expectations with the Yankees are different from those of the fact with other teams.
Cole did not hesitate before responding to the affirmative. As always, however, it was as if he was still talking about Torre Yankees, not the team that won a world series in the last quarter of a century and played in the last 15. Do you really know who really has the kinds of expectations that Michael asked Cole? The team that gave the Yankees a beat in the last World Series.
The Yankees have returned well so far, despite last week. They dealt with the loss of Soto and could have expected. But are they better? Maybe we will know better by the end of the summer.
