Aaron Boone Talks About the Yankees Bad Stretch | 901

Today is May 1st. It's a new month and a new Yankees team. Whoa Maybe hopefully please let's talk some Yanks Boone's on the show sharp stats Jake's here Hello and welcome to talk in the Yanks episode 901 the Yankees are in last place in their division first place in our hearts. Hopefully maybe we want them to be It's tough. It's brought to you by SeatGeek. My name is Jimmy. 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So go to blast motion comm B L a s t M o t i o n comm enter code talking at checkout to save $10 on blast Baseball personal swing trainers and swing analyzers Jake. How are you doing on this fine Monday afternoon James? Davis I'm doing all right. I'm doing all right the You know these Yanks Jim I'm interested to see where we get to like, you know in theory the second half of the lineup keep can't keep continuing to be basically null and void I Don't know. I you know, the Yankee vibe around the office is weird. Like it's it feels like less important Oh People are searching for a distraction right like Joe's McFly said he was gonna start like playing video games during the Yankees game yesterday and it's just um, I don't know the I'm very interested to see how we look back at the 15 and 14. Was that like who thank God. Yeah, or was that like Was was that good So, I don't know. I think the Yankees are in a funky day It was it's pretty wild to think that we were gonna talk to boonie today and and be up first And yeah, I don't I don't know if we want to get in front of it because the boon interview is coming But all of the intense questions that if you listen to yesterday's talking yanks You're listening today's talking yanks. Nice to see you again. Max Manis said yesterday's was his favorite episode of the season a Lot of the hard-hitting questions The answers demanded wouldn't be for Aaron Boone a lot of the roster stuff or a lot of the who's there a lot of the I think the guys in the clubhouse right now are the guys in the clubhouse and Let's be honest is is there is there a lineup that boonie could put out right now that you'd be like Whoo? Not really. Not really. Not really We there's guys on the team that can go that can make us feel better about it But all boom can do is write them in the lineup So I I don't know if you're happy you're looking for another like last week where we tried to kind of like I don't know press We were just didn't have an innocence not it's it's if Cashman wants to come on if we can get cash once a week the questions Are for him and the front office. So if you're coming here, I'm gonna listen to these guys. Just give Boone hell That's not what we went with we went with questions We actually wanted to have conversations about find the answers pressure on the young kids Severino You know judge stuff like that and did a little trivia at the end still good conversation, but yeah Boone's doing what he can with what he has which is like nothing So yeah, and I mean especially as we await a judge update in my goodness That's where that 15 and 14 gets a little he he baby. All right, so let's kick it right to the Boone episode We're doing that first this time around and sharp stats will be happening afterwards the Boone Interview or conversation or the Boone banter whatever is brought to you by Vizio They have award-winning TVs and sound bars at insane prices Jake's going in a special place with Vizio this Friday I believe with Joe's that's a nice distraction. We're talking big 4k screens for under $500 and you can catch baseball are you all year long with Vizio TV? If you got an MLB TV subscription you link your MLB TV account to your Amazon Prime account You stream the games live on Amazon Prime video app Vizio Watch free plus also offers MLB Network totally free right out of the box So head over to Vizio comm and check out how you can elevate your viewing experience all season long Whatever your budget or the size of your home Vizio has you covered with the perfect TV and sound bar combo Kick it. I Booney, thanks for joining us. Are you you're back east or Or Are you at your home? This is a new setup Dominique stadium you just in a new room or this is a cool room. You got wine or something behind you No, it's my office. Is that new have I been blind to it every time? I've been I've been most the first couple we've done. I've done from my office at home. Ah Okay, that's so the that's cool. Do you choose all those bought bottles or is there like a decorating? department Most of those are from like quenching series or divisions or playoffs. Yeah trophy drinks Yeah, does it ever get tempting? You know a couple a couple tough games. Do you ever start looking at the bottle? I know I've been there Tough games good games It's a lot of a lot of reasons that glass of wine drink to remember drink to forget Jake, you know It's his life motto tattooed on my ribs. Yeah, cool. All right Well, I wanted we want to ask one the last lineup we saw well we had the two rookies one and two which understand the lineups right now and the injuries and players and There's a lot going on there but more so it was kind of a reminder of more like a kind of a exclamation point like ----, these young kids now are being Asked to not just hit at the back of the lineup like we kind of thought they maybe would be and and and You know just go with the season and not the pressure of Volpe Barraza as Waldo They're kind of being put into the spot of like we need you guys and we wanted to ask about managing the expectations for these young kids that now they're kind of being really leaned on with the injuries around them and I don't know how you guys handle that what you see out of them or everything Yeah, so I mean with the three guys you're talking about so Volpe Barraza and Cabrera like You know like makeup wise and what they can handle. I don't worry about any of the three of them You know like they're you know, they'll sink and swim wherever they are. They're not overwhelmed by anything. They're confident So I feel really good about them being able to handle, you know, whatever ups and downs Whatever, you know situation is we're in a team obviously a little beat up right now So, you know, it's opened a little bit of a door here for Oswald, you know playing some different positions and being in there a little more regularly So but you know, those guys are quick to handle that and I think they're just excited to go out I guess peraza like you're saying like we knew as Waldo was gonna play in a lot of different roles this year I mean Volpe going back to Cashman says you got a chance to win it. He goes out and wins it and then you know Volpe fever is taken off I guess for peraza in particularly is there anything to I don't know I guess the managerial side of things of you know, he starts in the minors and he might you know Who knows he I don't want to say he wasn't the biggest fan of Volpe man Yeah, he wanted to start and play for the Yankees. So do I? But now he's got the call and he's hitting second. Do you give him a little like, you know? This is what you wanted like let's get it or I I guess genuinely not knowing how to manage a baseball team How do you handle that? Yeah, I think one thing this is done You know when I look at a peraza, it's it's been a really good character reveal for me, you know A lot of times when this happens and obviously gets sent down at the end of camp and now it's Volpe You know, what is gonna be his reaction? It was everything you hoped it was Yeah, I I got things I can work on and still need to get better at obviously but at the same time I'm confident in my ability and I'm gonna go down and and just play and You know You hear players and us talk about things outside your control there are a lot of things outside so all you can handle is your business between the lines sometimes and Throughout it all Really impressed with how he's gone about it And then when he came up here, not only was there a readiness and a willingness to do whatever I feel like he's gone out between the lines and handled himself. Well, like even though You know You know, he's not hitting for a big average yet Like I feel like it's the bats have been better this year than they were back in the last season I feel like he's completely handled himself in the field throwing him in at third now a little bit too. He's He'll play second tonight He's handled all that and he's done it with With some joy and with like a smile on his face not like this Chip or you know like Excited to be a part of the team and confident in his ability to go out and help us. So I've been really pleased with what I've been. I think it's been a nice Character reveal on Oswald Parraza through you know, a little bit of a difficult circumstance certainly start this year I'll pivot to the question. You're gonna get asked I probably every three hours of your life until there's a finite answer, but any update on on the big guy on judge No Well, you know probably probably make the decision one way or the other today Well, I would guess you're leaning IL then if I have to read which I'm not like just to being No, I'm not. And the one thing, you know, you've been talking with Aaron, you know, it's just like I'm I'm open to what? Where he's at. Like if I feel like there's a risk and a Significant risk at that then then yes but if if he doctors feel like he's in a good place to go out there, then we'll be open to that so Really waiting on the next couple hours to see how he comes in and and we'll all get together and make a call on it With guys like judge who always want to play and they're always gonna tell you I'm good. I'm good. I'm good How do you read between the lines, you know? Do you ever just want to like lie detector test them or bring in like, you know a mental coach just like hey Was he what do you think or is it up to you? There's a couple guys. I call up like you're the biggest liar on the team. You know, they're always good good good. Yeah No, but you do and look the one thing with Aaron. He's so tough He does always want to go and always ready to post But I also like You have a different relationship with all of them. I have a different relationship with Aaron I feel like a really strong one and one where you know, we've gotten better and better over the years that communicating and and kind of knowing where we both stand on things and And getting to you know a good resolution so You know, I'll lean on that relationship a lot, you know and making this decision What's the what's the like? Committee that makes that just a peek behind the curtain for the fans. I don't know like What if you read between the lines or someone's like I think we can use the IL we can backdate it So it's only seven more days. Is that solely you is it the group of coaches? I mean cashman Who's let's start with a training staff, you know the training staff doctors You know ultimate call on if they're adamant about a yes or no So we'll start with that a lot of times things come up throughout the year that of course you would imagine our gray You know, it's like he could use a day or he could use a week He could use a few days like and then then we you know, then it's Who's the individual? You know, what's our history with him? What's what's his? Injury history. What's his injury history with what he's dealing with? You know, so it can it can be everything from me and the trainer to me trainer front office cash sport science Strengthening it like it can it can get really big when we're trying to make a difficult complex decision You know, but there's different levels of decisions based on how a guy is physically all all throughout see So I I know for a lot of I for almost every situation in baseball it can be specific But I we got some good news savvy is gonna get assigned a rehab assignment He's been throwing and now he's gonna rehab I'm sure you guys are gonna react and see how he's feeling you have to but I guess your guys ideal Rehab would for him would it be is it four starts and you add an inning each time or like let's let's say if everything Went clean. What? Yeah, what would that kind of timeline look like? Yeah, so he's scheduled to go Wednesday In Tampa, so that would be probably 45 to 50 pitches If that goes well, you probably talking five or six days later. So early that following week Probably in that 55 60 range and then maybe one more or we pull him Do we pull him one when he's at 70 75 pitches with us or do we want to get him up a little bit more So he's getting close He's doing really well Really encouraged with how he how he looks and feels so I would expect it if everything continues to go. Well, definitely this month but You know, obviously we got to keep keep keep taking the step So I would say he's probably got at least two or three more rehabs to go. Okay and performance in those Rehab outings don't really matter that way. I mean I mean, I mean you always like to get some results, but you're also working on certain things You're not, you know game planning at a level that you would up here You want to make sure you get certain things in so more just looking for what's this stuff look like? You know, what's the quality of his pitches? How is he feeling? How is he recovering? How is he sustaining throughout the outing? What's the next day like? Coming in as he as he continues to up the workload. So But so far so good with 70. Yeah you know, I'm rooting for him looking good and get into that 75 level with with you guys up in the big leagues because the The length from the rotation if you take away Cole hasn't been there I know it's April and a lot of times it's not fully there But we're leaning on the bullpen a ton, which is actually great number one bullpen in baseball right now results yeah, you know numbers wise but it just that that's just like gonna catch up to us at some point relying on him so much in April is there any thought to Throw in King or a Bray you or even Hamilton who's got length as an opener for some of Clark or Burrito starts or changing up at all or I mean it would be possible at some point But look, I think Michaels and King is in such a good place and the role he's in especially with as we're waiting on the Cainleys and hopefully others to get back like he's in such a good place like the other night to be able to go basically three innings and Close out the game in a safe scenario like to have that weapon every few days there In a winning scenario is has been good Again, hopefully getting Sebi back in the next two three weeks will be huge And then hopefully more more from there the one thing And obviously we need to get you know, we want to get a little bit more length out of out of the starters but at the same time I don't feel like Because the bullpen has shared the load a lot like we've we've kind of leaned on all of it like so You know, we haven't necessarily had to overuse you know X pitcher or We've been able to protect guys because we've had to right And I think you know One of the one of the positives that I'm taking away from early in the season is you know Really I feel like emerge in a more meaningful role and you can see them being in a continued more meaningful role as we move forward they pitch really important innings not only in games that we've won or in big leverage spots, but it's also Been part of them sharing the load where we've been able to stay away from somebody else because of usage. So Of course, we want to get deeper into the games. That's that's the goal More consistently, but at the same time because of how they've shared down there. I feel like it's gone. All right How much love should we give Matt Blake? He's kind of been nice to us I think he's a talking eggs John boy media fan and every year now man We get excited for the bullpen because there are Hamilton's and Cordero's and Licky's and whoever it is Like how you know scale of one to 100 how much should we be given Matt Blake love on a daily basis? You should be giving him a lot Matt Blake's really good really good at what he does He keeps getting better and better He's just got such a great way about him and understanding of Kind of you know the big picture of pitching it, you know, but he's able to dive into the you know into the all the Details and whatever however deep you want to get into things He's capable of doing that but he's got a real steady way about him And I think he's done a good job of continuing to grow and its role of kind of commanding that pitching staff in the room He's he's really good, you know, I think but but I think it's a it's a group effort to you know Like our front office, I think does a really good job of identifying Sort of diamonds in the rough or people we think that we can help a little bit, you know player development And our whole pitching crew. I feel like does a good job and and you know getting the best out of guys even Even Clarkie like even him Cleveland would be his next start. I guess they got they got lefties I think three out of the four of their first hitters or lefties like seems like that'd be a nice spot to use Someone as an opener and have him avoid that lane and come in afterwards. That's got to be a thought now I mean, I know maybe you don't want to tip your hand all Cleveland listening to the podcast, but Yeah, we'll see I mean the biggest thing with Clark is getting him to execute at that next level period If he does that he'll have success. Yeah, it looked like he was trying well He looked like cutters high and sliders low to the lefties was the game plan which worked All right for the beginning and then as soon as he put yeah Kind of got him was the first cutter he threw Bottom half of the zone and went for a homer. It's like I and that's been a problem So and he didn't mean to that. I mean, yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, can I um, dude? I'm I want to phrase this the right way. There's there's a lot of injuries I mean right now judgy Stanton and you know Bader hopefully is back soon Donaldson, you know Three three of the five guys you'd expect in the rotation And also we were talking before we started doing this, you know you guys are in kind of a sneaky nutty stretch 33 and 34 something like that does I don't want to do the Expectations change at all. I mean, I know it's day-to-day But it's also like you guys are waiting for the infantry a little bit, right? Like it is it like a little line? Yeah, like, you know not to go. We're not the biggest military show I'd have no references, but it is it kind of like hey, let's Let's hold on like let's hold on and then you know, we can run or is it is it not like yeah Yeah, so you try and have you always try and have perspective right and what's going on in the season? so You know whether it's last year you get off to flying start. It's like Alright adversity will hit us. It'll come So you really try not to get too high when things are rolling and going well and too low like We're going through a tough stretch. We just had a tough crappy road trip right where we go two and five That's that's not fun. And we're and we're missing some key guys But you know, you can't get caught up in that in my my chair or in the players chair in the coaches chair It's like no we got a job to do today We're capable with everyone out there of going out and getting a W and playing well like that's very much Possible. So, you know my reminder to everyone and our guys is just like we talked about all time I talked about it usually on the first day of spring training every year Adversity is coming for us, right? Great times are coming for us. I know that there's gonna be tough moments in the season and adversity I know is coming for us. How do we deal with that? Well You can't you can't get bogged down by it. You can't let it beat you down Like that's that's one of the biggest challenges of being a big leaguer and the big league season and we talked about the grind of 162 is you got to be able to handle it You got to be able to handle the tough times and we're in a tough stretch right now And it's like what can we make sure we control that we walk in that room every day with an edge to us? that we're gonna prepare and then we're gonna compete our asses off like handle those things right now and Good times are I know we're gonna be around the corner, but you got to grind through the tough times And I think the one thing, you know, I think the one thing You know early in the season as you look at it is You know some of the positives you take away is Obviously Garrett Cole's pitching at a tremendous level. We're finding out some really good things about some guys We didn't necessarily know about in our bullpen that we feel like can be a big role I feel like we've caught the ball really well and For the most part we've won games that we should you know, we've we've We've we've had a lot of winning moments in some tight games that we should have won. Those are some takeaways Obviously, we've got to get a role a little bit more offensively even with some guys down like that's part of it We got to find a way to create some runs generate some runs still, you know Be more of a factor when when when you're not at a hundred percent, you know we got to find a way to be a little more consistent in our rotation behind Garrett and You know really up up until yesterday Nestor's obviously been really good to start the year too and her mom's been more and more consistent So we got it, you know continue to tighten up burritos had one or two really struggling outings But he's represented us and got us to some middle innings and some winning scenarios so as much as some tough things have happened we've won some games and you know, the other thing is like the the link doesn't wait for any and Nobody cares what we're going through outside these walls. Like we got to find a way right now when it's a little tougher and and and try to embrace and enjoy that compete when it's a little bit hard because You know, I always know good times are coming, but we got it. We got to grind our way to those Yeah, it was a tough road trip. So I mean I'm waiting for the good times Yeah Yeah, I am. I believe in it I we're gonna end that show here to come to lift the spirits with the game a trivia trivia game I love created for you. It's called boon boon or boon and These are quite a little creative. Okay. These are we had to ease you in we played this before These are quotes from either Aaron Boone. That's you Herman Boone the coach of remember the Titans or Daniel Boone the pioneer frontiersman who apparently you're related to in some way. Yes. Let's go. Okay Water is for cowards water makes you weak Herman all you need for happiness is a good gun a good horse and a good wife Go Daniel, that was you and Daniel. I was both I said that Not on record You're having a piece of ---- start to this game I feel bad for you, but ******* get better That's one of the best opening arguments You're having a piece of ---- start to this game I feel bad for you, but ******* get better It's got everything you're honest. You're you know trying to get him to improve and destructive. Yeah Yeah We were then in a dangerous helpless situation Exposed daily to the perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts Daniel Daniel nailed it Derek told me that ghosts would show up eventually me Daniel might have said that as well. They're probably big into ghosts back then Do I have any more I think there's one more at the bottom there I don't scratch my head unless it itches and I don't dance unless I hear some music. I will not be intimidated Herman boom. Oh That's sweet. Yeah, it was a sweet It was really good, I think I took some of yours out we played this before with guests some people yeah, yeah a lot of savages both ways, you know Let's uh, yeah, I like the end and ending with trivia Okay, we can do that we can do that excited, uh, hey Booney the fans wanted us to put your head on a stake this Week, I think you guys are going through the tough times right now And I do think the green times are ahead and we'll see you there. All right. Thanks guys. Good to see y'all So yeah, there you have it boon banter brought to you by vizio I I did enjoy that the way we asked or you you asked Jake the Severino question that we got some because something we're always interested in is like what is their perfect timeline? And he gave us a pretty thorough answer. You see him looking at the counter into the calendar. That was pretty cool Yeah, 45 to 50 pitches in this first start 55 to 60 in the second and then he said in the third It would be get to 75 But maybe we just want him to get to 75 with the big league camp or we do a third start So that is I wasn't as a real answer there about what we're looking at out of savvy Yeah, that's where our you know, we have one of our socials guys kind of live tweet in the interview he's our beat reporter for that and he said two to three weeks, which I mean if Or we tweeted two to three weeks, which if if it's two starts First starts Wednesday potentially one more either five or six days Five or six days after that. So right at six weeks. Yeah, or two weeks, right? So yeah interested to see interested to see how that goes and again with savvy like, you know, nothing's Nothing's promised. But yeah, it would be good. Um Kind of where we were last night as we were recording If you could make Some of those rotation questions go away like if say Domingo starts to get rolling burritos things with the twins was just weird and he never has to see them again and Then savvy comes back in his savvy and you could say, okay Like our rotation can put us in position to win games and that was something Boone said that we thought was interesting that they've been Winning the games that they've had a chance to win which is kind of like oh, yeah, well wish and you said that before the the only one was the twins game that Clay blew it where you're like this game got stolen from us, right, but that's not a good thing No, that's equal parts good. You're not putting yourself in enough situations where you're like, yeah, we should have won that game But yeah, I agree with him. I haven't walked away from many of these loss and being like, yeah, we should have won that That's not it. But I'm saying that in a negative way you can say that and he was saying in a positive way Yeah, and the other thing That I thought was interesting that we just chatted with him about was The opener thing because He said like first his reaction. I thought it looked like they like genuinely hadn't thought about it but then when I said Clark in Cleveland, he kind of gave like Like I was gonna be coy cuz they better I mean they need to don't let Clark see that top half of that Cleveland Batting order with j-ram hitting lefty and then nailer hitting lefty like why don't do that what if you cannot do that don't do that, that's Very easy. Yeah, I think I think the problem is I think Cleveland can stack it with lefties However, it's sorted out. So I think they're thinking is oh I and well they would just well again. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with this. I think that they're almost thinking That they can make two wrongs there like if they could make the reliever has a bad Open they could switch out their catcher for a lefty catcher. They have three catchers on the roster I guess I mean they have to switch hitters who start regularly and they have four lefties that sorry And they have one lefty on the bench. So I think that's kind of why he phrased it as like, okay, so change Yeah, he said something along the lines of like the fact of it is they got to get better or something like that Which damn agree And then the other thing this wasn't really part of it was when he just joined us talking about the schedule June I think they can do a four-man rotation. They have six off days in June, which that would help Hopefully well you add seven, you know, and then you you move burrito as long relief and Stop them. Yeah. Yeah, they should have Seve back by then. Oh, yeah Yeah, you can go to a four-man and take one of those three out great Get the other three get it Cole and Nestor and seven as many as they can while the team is struggling Yeah, let's see where we're at I I'm I'm leaving a little bit of my window and heart open for burrito if it's just a twins thing and that becomes Very much the outlier, but yeah, and I want to see those good guys. Yeah. All right Let's move on to sharp stats start sharp stats, which is brought to you by hello fresh Hello fresh food Hello fresh takes the hassle out of meal time They deliver it to you in a box There's a lot of ice in the box and then there's all the ingredients you need and there's instructions and then they're pretty quick to cook I did this while Katie was pregnant a lot. I would get home from work and I would cook as a meal And it was hello fresh. This was before they sponsored us I was just using it a ton and it made it very easy and they're tasty And they were portion controlled. 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I'm some people what does The Queen of Stats have for us. Hey guys, Queen of Stats here And I'm recording this on Sunday night after the debacle that we all witnessed in Texas And I really wanted to have something good to say, but unfortunately, it's more bad news So last week we I know we talked about the lineup imbalance. Well, hey guys, we now have a starting pitching imbalance, too So if you look at Garrett Cole, he's the one star and he has a 1.11 ERA He's averaging six and two-thirds innings pitched allowed zero homers and the team is 6-0 in his start the other four guys a 5.29 ERA They're averaging four and two-thirds innings per start he's given up nearly two homers per nine innings and the team is 9 and 14 in the start in those starts and None of those four guys have an ERA that is above the league average So that's we now have a starting pitching problem, unfortunately But I do want to get back to the lineup because it is just so gross The couple things I can I could highlight a million things here. I'm just gonna come highlight just a couple things for you so just on a high level they scored 116 runs in their 29 games and The only Yankee team since 1990 to score fewer through this many games was that 2016 team which we all want to forget and since April 10th Now this is more than about two-thirds of the season since April 10th. They scored three runs or fewer in 14 games That's easily the most in Major League Baseball over that span The next most is 12 by the White Sox and just two two last things I want to talk about Yankee teams have always been known for controlling the zone, right? well, they have a team OVP of Two point two nine nine. That would be their worst. That's their worst team OVP through 29 games since 1972 yeah, that was the year before the DH and then another stat I want to look at is Is a walk to strikeout ratio. So right now they have 90 walks in 251 strikeouts through 29 games. That's the worst walk to strikeout ratio in team history Oh, and then one final thing is starting pitching. They have been awful against starting pitching They are 17 percentage points worse in OPS against starting pitching Versus the league average that's an 83 split OPS plus That would be the worst for any Yankee team over the last 50 seasons if it held up for the rest of the season All right. Talk to you guys next week Katie kind of hitting on a lot of my pain points. They're Sharp stats. I swear I didn't text her hitting in the kitchen yeah, but but specifically the Not grinding out at bats like that that those stats. I didn't the context she added to them is jarring pretty bad because you know, they're not scoring runs and Maybe one leads to the other but it's like they're just not taking good at bats. It's not like Seems like there's a correlation there yeah, I would hope good at bats lead to more runs, but There's definitely a correlation to starting pitching. They're just letting these guys off the hook so easily starters So yeah Some tough context around all of that. The other starter and pitchers aren't doing great I kind of pulled up those numbers last episode on my own as well Two homers per nine good. Yeah, it's um, I Mean coal is coal is coal, which is really good and he even exceeded his expectation, right? Like we would look at a normal coal month and you'd want you know Kind of three elite starts one good and you give them like one kind of miss. He hasn't done that He's he's just been elite. So that's that's been massive. And again that 15 and 14 we talked about, you know, six of those being coal Changes the equation a little bit Like where Katie brought it to and I I feel like this was it's why she is the Queen people I I think it was connecting our thought processes because a Lot of the starting pitching becomes a little bit of null Because the offense has been so much nothing record-breaking Yankee Nothing the worst K to walk ratio nothing compared to the White Sox nothing who just came off a 10 game loser That if the Yankees had an offense this year Sure, maybe the ER name era numbers would be the same or a little better or different. I don't know But you know the rest of the Yankees rotation would probably be around 500. I think it was 9 and 14 Kind of without an operating offense that again when you're talking about where we've been at with our seventh and eighth starters I'm not saying it's great, but I'm not saying it has to be a bad thing either that I Don't know those those offensive numbers are scary and like a lot of people have been either tweet in or read it in or wherever you discuss your Yankees, you know, the recent one is 2021 like there was moments with that team where the offense was Felt so anemic that you were getting references and sharp stats that We're digging deep into bad numbers and then if you extend that out a little bit people go to those more recent darker years of 2013 to 2016 where it was like Yankees. What is you doing, baby? So scary Scary scary all around. I think their last six wins one two three four five Their last six wins as a team have come three of them have come on cold days So like get down this bad stretch Two and seven in their last nine. It's been it's been ugly and it's felt worse Yeah, six and eight and that stretch Half of the wins came on cold days So you need another pitcher to step up and like really step up Well as all yeah, give me two hitter. I take two hitters stepping up. I don't know. Yeah Yeah, it's it's like she said it's a double problem. The last two weeks have been a double problem You're not winning. Even if the offense is clicking you need six runs a game. Yeah, it turns in it turns into the math equation we we talked about injury wise like what's what's more hurt and what what feels worse like I Guess right now pitching wise we have our judge from last year, right? Like we have Cole who represents one-fifth of the pitching staff that Nestor up until yesterday has been a version of Nestor and Then one of those three Basically one one time through you're gonna get a good start from one of them That like I can I can make that work in my brain where the lineup It's tough man. You see a good starting pitcher on the marquee and you're like, oh Hope we get to It's a tough feeling Yeah What more than two? You're gonna need a lot just both sides of the ball stick right now catching the ball. Well Yeah, they're I mean Franchie game, but oh and Hicks. Yeah, you know Infield defense has been good. I guess if that's the question so offense needs to get good and then the pitching needs to mellow out if you if you want you just need to get to a Blend because you're not gonna the offense isn't gonna go. Okay, we're scoring six runs a game right now So if the offense can put up four runs a game Then the pitching needs to improve because they're currently averaging five runs a game that's like Meet in the middle the old score more hold them to less runs offense says we'll get what's the formula will you know get three more than we've been getting and Pitching us to give up less. It's a good place to be whenever every department needs to get better. I'm handshakes We'll do anything perfection on this always Well and With the necklace on looks pretty good All right. Thank you guys very much for tuning in. That's the episode this Monday Go Yanks. Tell them grams. Oh, yeah Go Yankees Let's go Yankees