I hate the Yankees

[Frobby]

46 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Posnanski is always talking/whining about how the Yankees get guys like this and have them perform out of their minds.  You also forgot Maybin, who, as Posnanski wrote the other day, is finally performing like the Ken Griffey Jr. he was hyped as being 12 years later.

I have Maybin in my post you quoted.   Very surprising to see what he’s doing.    But at least I’ve heard of him, unlike a few of the others.    

[Moose Milligan]

2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I have Maybin in my post you quoted.   Very surprising to see what he’s doing.    But at least I’ve heard of him, unlike a few of the others.    

Ah yup, you sure did.  My bad.  

I agree, he's the only one that I'd heard of before this season.

[weams]

 

[AceKing]

Oh Boy!  More records will fall today.

4-1 early.

Hate.

[LookinUp]

I had never heard of Gio Urshela before this year. Now he's like the best player I've ever seen. So I looked him up. Many years in the minors. Usually in the .600s or .700s OPS. One year at .825. This year with the NYY he's at .940. I can't find him on any team's top 30 prospect list.

Seriously. What are they doing to these guys? They have 4 guys with over a .900 OPS this year. I had never heard of two of them. The other two are Cameron Maybin and DJ LeMahieu. The mighty Luke Voight's OPS is .885. Maybin has been in the MLB for decades it seems like. He hasn't achieved a .700 OPS in 7 years. He's at .921. 

Mike Tauchman did have an awesome OPS in the PCL once, but I cannot find him on any Rockies top 30 prospect list for MLB pipeline. He's at .960 in almost 200 ABs. 

LeMahieu had a great 2016 in Colorado, but has been under .800 every other year of his career, including in the minors absent a 33 game stint the year he was called up.

This is madness. We need to hire away their batting coach and performance enhancement drug specialists.

[tntoriole]

8 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

I had never heard of Gio Urshela before this year. Now he's like the best player I've ever seen. So I looked him up. Many years in the minors. Usually in the .600s or .700s OPS. One year at .825. This year with the NYY he's at .940. I can't find him on any team's top 30 prospect list.

Seriously. What are they doing to these guys? They have 4 guys with over a .900 OPS this year. I had never heard of two of them. The other two are Cameron Maybin and DJ LeMahieu. The mighty Luke Voight's OPS is .885. Maybin has been in the MLB for decades it seems like. He hasn't achieved a .700 OPS in 7 years. He's at .921. 

Mike Tauchman did have an awesome OPS in the PCL once, but I cannot find him on any Rockies top 30 prospect list for MLB pipeline. He's at .960 in almost 200 ABs. 

LeMahieu had a great 2016 in Colorado, but has been under .800 every other year of his career, including in the minors absent a 33 game stint the year he was called up.

This is madness. We need to hire away their batting coach and performance enhancement drug specialists.

Sometimes it is what Lola wants that matters...check the souls on those guys..

 

[AceKing]

1 hour ago, LookinUp said:

I had never heard of Gio Urshela before this year. Now he's like the best player I've ever seen. So I looked him up. Many years in the minors. Usually in the .600s or .700s OPS. One year at .825. This year with the NYY he's at .940. I can't find him on any team's top 30 prospect list.

Seriously. What are they doing to these guys? They have 4 guys with over a .900 OPS this year. I had never heard of two of them. The other two are Cameron Maybin and DJ LeMahieu. The mighty Luke Voight's OPS is .885. Maybin has been in the MLB for decades it seems like. He hasn't achieved a .700 OPS in 7 years. He's at .921. 

Mike Tauchman did have an awesome OPS in the PCL once, but I cannot find him on any Rockies top 30 prospect list for MLB pipeline. He's at .960 in almost 200 ABs. 

LeMahieu had a great 2016 in Colorado, but has been under .800 every other year of his career, including in the minors absent a 33 game stint the year he was called up.

This is madness. We need to hire away their batting coach and performance enhancement drug specialists.

Like we struggle to get even ONE player that plays above their potential like that.....but the Yankees seem to be able to make every player play well above their ceiling.

 

And teams just GIVE these guys to the Yanks (Urshela, Voit, Tauchman, etc...)

 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Happy Yankees Elimination Day!

[Moose Milligan]

Pulling for the Nats to win it all (whatever, don't wanna hear it) so I thought the Yankees represented a slightly better chance for them to win.  

But seeing Chapman getting taken deep to end the Series is very gratifying.

[OFFNY]

o

 

That Game 6 in an indoor stadium in Houston was not quite as epic as was the Game 6 at the Astrodome was back in October of 1986, but it's up there.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU198610150.shtml

 

o

[Uli2001]

Where is the everyone is dancing thread?

[TonySoprano]

The Yankees lose
THHEEEEEE YANKEES LOSE !!

Pitching match-ups in this Series should be something to watch.

[raypetty]

Yanks losing during the post season is a runner up to the O's making the playoffs.  Way to go Astros!

[Maverick Hiker]

LOL This is great! The Yankees losing on a walk off HR with their star closer Chapman on the mound. Reminds me of the 1980 ALCS when KC Brett hit a game winning HR off Gossage in the 9th inning to defeat the Yankees.

The day the Yankees are eliminated is always one of the happiest days of the year for me because I never liked Steinbrenner buying a championship and the Yankees always found a way to use their market size and revenue to win.  But the extra round of playoffs eats them up and  has seemingly  ended any chances for another Yankee dynasty.

 

[JR Oriole]

The Twins must watch these games in total shock thinking: other teams can actually beat New York?  How is this possible?  We've spent 20 years trying to solve this mystery.