The Travel Day

First, I want to make sure everyone saw this video below of The Genius Maker.  I missed the game (I think my DVR was filled) but saw this moment.  The guy was always a great athlete and nobody could repeat his motion like he could.  I will also say that never before or ever in the future will a pitcher be able to throw one speed and baffle pro hitters the way he did.  His movement and location were amazing.  Pro hitters knew what was coming and even where (almost always up and in to a lefty) and they still could not handle it.

Courtesy of MLB.com  This is worth watching some of Mo in the Old Timers Game

https://www.mlb.com/video/rivera-jams-in-o-neill

Wednesday, The Yanks came back from a 5-0 deficit and eventually got a walk off HR by Torres; Didi and DJ hit HR's that got us back in the game and we kept wearing down their pitchers.  EE hasn't hit well, but he is working the pitchers and he will hit better.  My main concern was how poorly Paxton threw.  his fastball was 93-95 after pitching well against Houston when his fastball was 96-98.  That makes a big difference.

Taking the fastball into account, David Hale has added a few MPH toi his fastball and that has made him reasonably effective and if nothing else will give us better innings than Holder.

While we await or London games let's look at some stats/thoughts:

Many fans were worried about how the starters coming back would mess with our mojo.  My take is always getting the best (the players one would expect to do the best) on the field.  Sometimes that may be a hot hitter/player, but one would always expect Stanton to out hit Maybin.  I think our 11-1 run shows it is better to have Judge and Didi back (and Didi hasn't hit well)

Yanks haven't been shut out in 162 games, during that time every team has been shut out at least 3 x.  The rceord is 308 by the 1931-33 Yankees.  The last team to go 160 games was Texas in 2001 so we are breaking a lot of records

The consecutive HR record is now 29 straight games

Does Judge look thinner to you?  Maybe it's just me?

Looks like Stanton will be out until August because of his knee.  The bad decision to take 3rd in that spot ended up being a terrible decision.  The Yanks called up Tauchman over Frazier.  I don't think that would be the long term answer.  Frazier has played much worse in the field than Tauchman who has been fairly solid out there, but Frazier is a much better hitter and I think Frazier is a better fielder than he has shown, even if he is just avg overall.

Looks like we got some bad news, DJ and Sanchez are starting the ASG so they will need rest afterward.  Now we can only hope that Judge, Voit, Urshela and Torres don't get invited to break up their rest time as well.

• Betances is expected to be back in August 
• Stanton is expected back sometime in August
• German appears to be ready to pitch before the ASG, but not sure if they will hold him out until after the game?
• Loaisiga is expected to be back in late August
• Maybin's calf should keep him out until August (more concerning with Stanton out)
• Severino is expected back before August
• Montgomery may be back in September (not counting on him)

Just think about adding these guys to what we have now?

OPS 

Sanchez .939 (his defensive improvement makes him incredibly valuable

DJ .906 (If he could give us an OPS of .850 I would be thrilled because of his defense)

Torres .903 (Defense has been sloppy but overall ok)

I just want to pause to point how awesome this is for your catcher and two middle infielders

Judge .900 (still our best player)

Maybin .891 (not expected to keep this up)

Voit .877 (Not a strong defender, but has been a very solid hitter)

Frazier .843 (191 AB's is enough to show he can hit in the majors - he will be back up)

Stanton .840 (could use his expected OPS of .900 in the lineup)

Urshela .812 (His defense has been great to go along with good hitting)

Gardner .744 (very pleased with his performance this year, lost a step, but thumbs up)

E. Encarnacion .718 (Limited AB's but with Stanton out the acquisition becomes more important)

Tauchman .699 (Hitting not good, but a .700 OPS with solid defense is fine until we get healthy)

Didi .685 (need to get him going and he appears to be getting his feet under him)

Hicks .668 (same as Didi, but I have less confidence in Hicks than Didi to get hitting going)

Romine .540 (his worst year, lifetime .610 OPS would indicate he should be better)

Let's get the Red Sox double digits behind us with a 2 game sweep!