Take a Deep Breath

We got walloped!  But, it is ONE game.  At the end of the year, if we would have lost 4-3 it is the same thing.  I am not saying we don't have some worries, Boston is and has been an excellent team is one of the main ones.  The other is that we have some injuries and some guys slumping some.  Judge is our best player and he is out.  Sanchez, even with all of his shortcomings, should be a weapon and him being out and as Romine plays more, we see he is not a star and his backup is not really a major league level player.  Robertson and Greene have not been good out of the pen and our only ace starter has struggled of late.  That being said, Tanaka has looked better, we got a great arm in Britton and Torres is back.   We are a very good team that is going through a rough patch when your best player is on the shelf...it happens.

We have 9 games left with Boston and if we want to win the division we have to take 6 of them.  So the idea is to take 2 of these 3 and do the same in the next 3 games series'.  If not, we will still be the wild card barring some very strange events/injuries.

Two key moments for me in this last game were the idiotic play by Holder where he made little league mistake not running at the runner (to the forward base of the runner), even if you took just one step that way, you have him dead to rights as you see what happens.  Holder panicked and that was one of the game changers. The other may or may not have been, but the Yankees had 2 men on and 2 outs with Stanton up.  The Yankees had a 4-2 lead and their pitcher was struggling like CC did.  Stanton got 2 balls and the pitcher was really struggling when Stanton swung (waived) at 2 straight curves in the dirt.  Another one of those extremely frustrating AB's to watch by Stanton.  Then after another no doubt ball on a 3-2 pitch, he correctly took a fastball that was clearly inside (and maybe high) that the ump rung him up on.  This was a bad call that could have been the end of their pitcher and we would have had bases loaded...it was a huge bad call, that, of course, was setup after Stanton not walking when he had 5 straight balls thrown to him (technically 6 if you count the last one)

Quick trade updates...Warren for International Money and a little bit of a salary dump so that the Yankees could trade Tyler Austin and 19 year old Luis Rijo (has some promise) for Lance Lynn.  Lynn's numbers for his career are actually very good.  I can't say I know his game at all, but he was really good and then was injured for the 2016 year (Tommy John surgery).  Last year he had a solid 3.43 ERA, but got off to a terrible start this year and has been better of late, but still not as good as a 3.43 ERA.  Overall, this seems like a good move as Austin is borderline and Rijo is far away.  I have always liked Warren, but because he can't go too far and still pitch effectively, he is a bullpen guy and less valuable than he could be.  His numbers have been very solid though and I would have thought we could have received more than 1 mil + of international money?  When you think of how excellent his numbers were last year (2,35 ERA and a WHIP below 1 and an OPS against of only .491), I think we didn't get much for him.  I know it was a dump so that we could get Lynn, but value wise, we could have received a lot more for him earlier in the year or at the beginning of the year.

Take a deep breath; we are short-handed against an excellent team!