ccvle wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:blue and orange wrote:
That’s it just make excuses, Yankees have always been about over coming obstacles now it’s excuse. If you have to use the 60 game season as an excuse we’ll then your not a very good team.
It's not excuses. It's a short season. Weird stuff can happen and a two week stint on the disabled list, which is normally just about nothing, is suddenly a 1/6th of the season.
A good team can have injuries and have an off year in a full season.
All this stuff is chicken little stuff. Whatever. Hey, you don't like Boone or whatever. But it doesn't mean "oh noes, omg, the team is turrible"
I dont blame Boone given the roster that we have. I dont know what else he could have done better. But what is not weird is judge and Stanton getting injured and sanchez sucking. I wouldn't blame that on Boone thought.
Boone is ok/good and Cashman is good/very good.
Is Cashman error free? No.
And for the faults/injury proneness etc of Sanchez\Judge, those are internally developed players.
So, I think most of these complaints about the roster come down to Stanton, and yeah, I'd agree that already having a tall, power hitting, injury prone OF'er and then adding ANOTHER was a mistake, even though it didn't cost much in assets to get him, though of course those have to be measured in trades they could have gone out, but didn't.
I think Yankee fans get a little spoiled. They had a long run of making the playoffs/just missing, then fell out one year and made two excellent trades of Miller\Chapman, in effect retooling back into contention within 2 years.
Up until that point, the minor league system wasn't bad either - bottom of the top 3rd? But in the influx in players had it top 4 in the game, until the players starting to get promoted into major league club.
Again, Cashman hasn't been perfect, but there are 30 odd other MLB teams trying to make deals and a LOT of financial parity, so other teams can throw money and assets in to get certain players.
Again, he's far from the best GM, but I'd say he's among the better GM's.
I feel like at some random point after a start like this it's going to come out that Cole needs surgery. Am I the only one?