The only reason the Yankees didn’t bury themselves, this past week by going 2-5 against the Rays and Red Sox is the AL East teams (Blue Jays, Rays, Red Sox and Yankees) are going to beat up on eachother. This Yankee team really hasn't hit all season, they have good starting pitching (not the real problem as of now) and that was able to mask their offensive struggles for a while. This team is last in stolen bases with 12 I believe and I have not seen the hit and run utilized much, but maybe that’s a good thing with their struggles on the base paths, they have close to 30 outs on the bases when the league average is 15. They have a great propensity to hit into the double play, a rally killer. They can’t even get a sac fly to get the run in from 3rd, hitting with runners in scoring position. Situational hitting is not in their DNA, strikeouts and home runs are. Usually you build your team around it’s home ballpark, well this line up as presently constructed has very few lefties in it, to take aim at that short porch in right. By not having lefty swingers in your line up, you create lanes where the opposing manager can bring in a right hander for all the righties and he’ll never have to face a left handed batter. If they had more lefties than just Odor, and Gardner they might be able to take advantage of the new rule where a reliever has to face three batters. Yes the Injury bug has bitten this team with Stanton (automatic out) not being himself, Voit being out and losing Hicks for the year, but they’re professionals you can’t use that as an excuse. I don’t like how this team is put together as they’ve stayed with the same core for too long and just tinkered with some pieces in the offseason. Aaron Boone won’t have been my choice to manage this team, he’s too even keeled and not fiery but this team was put together by Brian Cashman. Maybe analytics plays into this a bit as well, You can’t script the whole Game from the line up to what bullpen pitchers are going to be used you have to manage in the moment. I don’t want to rip this team, I love baseball and grew up watching the Yankees, but this is boring baseball. This team doesn't win when it doesn't hit homers, and they better start hitting homers soon or the playoffs will be a question mark. These are adult athletes that are paid to play a kids game, put it together. I’ll stick with them through thick and thin but I’d like to be watching a winner.
