I think the Japanese guys were the only ones they tried to get and failed besides Soto. Everyone else was “they kicked the tires but decided against it” type of reports to keep the fans from burning the stadium down. I really want to know what they think they can do to earn back the fans trust and keep ticket sales up after the last decade.
more bobble head days!!!!!
Were there any bobblehead days in the back half of 2023 when the team was in last place and stadium was a ghost town
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Yankee security some dikkheads. They be defending shyt in the stadium like it's the Berlin Wall.
There were because I remember going to get some stuff for my cousin, but it was like Luis Severino bobble head day! Nestor Cortes bobblehead day!Were there any bobblehead days in the back half of 2023 when the team was in last place and stadium was a ghost town
With no Soto, teams can afford to not pitch to judge again, which makes him a less effective player. Outside of Judge, does anyone else on this team scare any pitcher? Remember what the back half of 2022 was like where nobody would pitch to judge unless the bases were empty? Only 21 of his 62 homers came with someone on base. That’s not good. 62 homers should lead to at least 14-16 more RBI’s than he got that year, but nobody pitched to him when men were on because he had no protection in the lineup. A near 1.000 ops doesn’t grow on trees. We hadn’t seen anyone get on base like he did aside from Judge since Jason Giambi. 41 homers speaks for itself, but a .288 average and .420+ OBP is borderline irreplaceable too. Go look at the rest of the roster. Outside of jazz, the next highest batting average was .247 and he & wells were the only other guys to have even a .310 OBP on the year. You can’t replace that sort of production and that goes double for October, where Stanton is now the only hitter on the team you can trust. If losing Soto wasn’t catastrophic, what moves do you think there are to be made that can replace him? Since 2020, the only other Yankee to have even an .850 ops on a year besides judge was 2021 Stanton. It’s been years now of them being unable to fill out the rest of the batting order. In fact he’s the only other Yankee batter besides Judge since 2021 to hit even .275 on a season.
That wasn't a final shot, it was an opportunity to match the latest offer, and if he did Cohen would've kept widening that $50m gap with the escalators. He wasn't gonna be outbid.
I don't recall ever saying this.
Okay, I get all of this. I'm not minimizing his impact. But all of this led us to basically the 2022 team, only this time we lucked into playing the AL central.
