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OT: MLB Thread - Part XIX: Yankees Hire Boone. Joe Buck Still Unenthused

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Me waiting for the Yankees to score
 
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Stanton seems like he has no plan at the plate and looks to hit nothing but mistake pitches.

And my opinion only, but Bird is terrible.

f***ing terrible
 
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Stanton seems like he has no plan at the plate and looks to hit nothing but mistake pitches.

And my opinion only, but Bird is terrible.

****ing terrible
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How many guys in this lineup are hitting worse than their career averages? What exactly is Thames doing? Too many of these guys look clueless at the plate much too often.
 

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Keep telling me about all of the great offensive stats the Yankees have. Please keep feeding me the bs. They absolutely dont tell the whole story. Beating up on teams and padding stats in certain games has made the overall numbers look good and masked the brutally bad flaws of this team. FIRE THAMES. DISCIPLINE. That is what hitting is all about. And discipline does not exist on this team. AGAIN all we see is Stanton, Sanchez, Bird pulling off every pitch. Fastballs, breaking balls. Everything. There is zero approach to their at-bats. Zero. Its because they have a guy as their hitting coach who could barely stay in the Major Leagues himself. We are relying on a bordeling major leaguer to be the hitting coach of players that have 10x the talent he did. He f***ing sucked then and sucks now as the coach. These are human beings. Dont tell me the coach is not that important that the players need to figure it out. Sometimes you need another voice or pair of eyes aka the hitting coach to speak up and make changes to everything. Stanton needs to try something different. Different stance, or taking something off his swing to spray the ball the opposite way. Sanchez and Bird the same. The best way to get out of a slump is to shoot middle away forcing yourself to see the ball longer. I absolutely think Thames is intimidated by these guys because of his pedigree vs theirs that he does not want to say things to offend them. He is WEAK.
 
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Stanton seems like he has no plan at the plate and looks to hit nothing but mistake pitches.

And my opinion only, but Bird is terrible.

****ing terrible
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As I alluded to earlier in the week, Stanton and Sanchez have records of being excellent ballplayers, but Bird has spent more time being terrible in MLB than being good.
 
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Keep telling me about all of the great offensive stats the Yankees have. Please keep feeding me the bs. They absolutely dont tell the whole story. Beating up on teams and padding stats in certain games has made the overall numbers look good and masked the brutally bad flaws of this team. FIRE THAMES. DISCIPLINE. That is what hitting is all about. And discipline does not exist on this team. AGAIN all we see is Stanton, Sanchez, Bird pulling off every pitch. Fastballs, breaking balls. Everything. There is zero approach to their at-bats. Zero. Its because they have a guy as their hitting coach who could barely stay in the Major Leagues himself. We are relying on a bordeling major leaguer to be the hitting coach of players that have 10x the talent he did. He ****ing sucked then and sucks now as the coach. These are human beings. Dont tell me the coach is not that important that the players need to figure it out. Sometimes you need another voice or pair of eyes aka the hitting coach to speak up and make changes to everything. Stanton needs to try something different. Different stance, or taking something off his swing to spray the ball the opposite way. Sanchez and Bird the same. The best way to get out of a slump is to shoot middle away forcing yourself to see the ball longer. I absolutely think Thames is intimidated by these guys because of his pedigree vs theirs that he does not want to say things to offend them. He is WEAK.
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I'm afraid this is bigger than Thames. This is the third hitting coach now where we're saying the same thing. It's our culture to score exclusively on homeruns.
 
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I'm afraid this is bigger than Thames. This is the third hitting coach now where we're saying the same thing. It's our culture to score exclusively on homeruns.
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No, no this is the worst ive seen it. Sanchez and Bird are way better hitters than this. Stanton too. They are. Sure they have always been pull happy and like the long ball, but their contact has been way better. This is pathetic
 
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Machinehead said:
I'm afraid this is bigger than Thames. This is the third hitting coach now where we're saying the same thing. It's our culture to score exclusively on homeruns.
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It makes no sense because with the natural power that these guys have, the home runs will come if they focus on contact.
 
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Maybe it wasn't a smart idea to commit that much term for a hot and cold player like Stanton when we have power in abundance.
 
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Machinehead said:
Struggling to win 3 out of 4 against a team that literally doesn't have starting pitchers.
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I don't get why everyone is flipping out. They're winning while playing less than good baseball on the offensive side of the ball.

But apparently the pitching isn't sustainable, even though the sample size of them pitching well is bigger than the one where they've struggled offensively.
 
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Maybe it wasn't a smart idea to commit that much term for a hot and cold player like Stanton when we have power in abundance.
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I said as much when we traded for him but I was laughed at. He's a .260 hitter who strikes out a billion times. Not the guy that you want up in clutch spots in the postseason.
 
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I don't get why everyone is flipping out. They're winning while playing less than good baseball on the offensive side of the ball.

But apparently the pitching isn't sustainable, even though the sample size of them pitching well is bigger than the one where they've struggled offensively.
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I've never been worried about our pitching. I just don't think it's going to be enough to overcome this garbage against real competition.

The Astros and Red Sox have better pitching.
 
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