Yankees THIS IS INSANE! (Yankees News 2026)

What on earth is going on? What's the deal? Like just with everything right now, I mean, whatever the Yankees do for the rest of this regular season, it literally doesn't matter. They're going to be the number one wildcard team, regardless if they lose out. They can't win the division anymore, obviously, because that Tampa Bay Rays celebrated in our stadium. That was nasty, disgusting to look at. But there's a lot of Yankees fans who are just unhappy that the Yankees are going to play Anthony Volpe at third base, which I don't understand that, by the way. What's going on with Aaron Judge and Aaron Boone just not being on the same page? Aaron Boone saying that, oh, Aaron Judge won't be playing in the wildcard series, but Aaron Judge says, oh, I'm going to return as soon as I can, that he's going to play in the wildcard series. Judge what? And so Carlos Stanton, what's going on with him? We haven't seen him all year. He gets hurt April 24th. Well, that's the last time we saw him. He gets hurt, has one injury, getting healthy, gets another injury while getting healthy. Just another new injury. He's working out right now. Could we see Giancarlo in the playoffs? Let me know what you guys think about everything down in the comments. Hit the like button. That helps out a ton and subscribe if you haven't already. It's free. This is the place to be if you're a New York Yankee fan, if you love the Yankees. This is a Yankees podcast for the fans, but listen, Giancarlo Stanton, what's going on there? Giancarlo worked out over there at Somerset. It was hitting a little bit, running the bases a little bit. Could we see him return during the postseason, especially against left-handed pitching, right? Over the course of his career, he bashes left-handed pitching. Could we see him? Well, Aaron Boone said this. This is according to ESPN. You're looking more at a pinch hit scenario with Stanton. We'll see if that's even a realistic option. So I got to be honest with you. I really like how Aaron Boone's handling everything. I like it because if he says, oh yeah, if it could happen, it can happen. He's not. Aaron Boone, maybe I'm just totally off base here. He used to just say things and beat around the bush. Right now, he basically said, if it makes sense, it makes sense. But if it doesn't, no, he's not coming back. That's not beating around the bush. He's basically saying, no, like probably not realistic. We'll see if it's realistic, but if you have to say, we'll see if it's a realistic option. It's probably not realistic then. Would I like to see Giancarlo back? Sure. We needed him all frigging year and throughout his Yankee career, it's just been injury after injury after injury. After what? After the postseason Giancarlo Stanton gave us in 2024. I love Giancarlo. He received just this unconditional support from me after the postseason he had. So regardless, regardless of how anything turns out, I'm still going to appreciate what he did for us in that postseason when he tore the cover off that baseball, he did great. He hit well last year when he was healthy. He just played in 70 something games. He had over 900 OPS when the guy's good, the guy's good. And that's what makes me pissed about it all is that we haven't had them all season. We could have used them. Just sucks. Honestly, why have him run the damn bases? So I'm just being truthful here. He frigging DHS. He barely runs as it is. He doesn't play the outfield. Why haven't run at all? If he's got to run, I mean, stretch, stretch, do your thing. Run a little bit. Just whatever. So Giancarlo probably won't be playing every day playing, you know, he probably won't be in the starting lineup against Boston, but he could be available, but only if it's a realistic option. Okay, fine. What's going on with Aaron judge? What's happening there? Aaron Boone mentions, oh, it's not going to be ready for the Red Sox series. He's not healthy enough. Like it's just what it doesn't, not that he's not healthy enough. He's not in baseball shape and Aaron Boone didn't say that. I'm saying that I'm saying that now judge has a moderate grade calf strain. Boone mentioned that a couple of days ago, Aaron judge received an injection in his calf, so he won't be doing much. I believe he received an injection in his calf, September 21st. So now it's the 24th. Boone said he won't be doing much the next few days. So maybe he started working out today. Maybe not, but Aaron Boone does not expect Aaron judge to be ready to play in the wild card series. And that's fine. That's fine with me. I, I want Aaron judge fine for the rest of his career. The kind of calf injury that he has is Achilles could basically explode if, if he moves the wrong way. I'd rather just have that not happen. Any chance of that happening? I'd rather just have them completely heal up for 2027. If there is baseball, I'd rather have them just heal up. Now Aaron judge calls out Aaron Boone. It's like what Aaron, Aaron judge said, I don't know why he used those words. He doesn't know why his manager, Aaron Boone used those words. I know why he used those words. I know why. Cause as I just said, he doesn't, he doesn't want your frigging Achilles to explode. That has a lot to do with it. But I know a lot of Yankees fans want Aaron judge the play. Of course they think having Aaron judge in that lineup gives you the best chance to win. And listen, even an injured Aaron judge, even not as healthy, not as in playing shape, Aaron judge that presence, the presence he has, he holds on a lineup. I mean, it goes a lot further than a lot of players in the league. Just his presence alone makes that lineup deeper. Of course. But the Aaron judge that you want, the Aaron judge that I want is not going to be well enough in ready enough to go in there to play in a wildcard series against Boston, whether that's health, whether that's playing shape, he's not in playing shape guys, not at all. So the Aaron judge that you want, if you don't think this Yankee lineup is good enough to, to win a world series, if you don't think it is this version of Aaron judge, it's still not good enough. Then still you need Aaron judge to hit, you need them to hit and be healthy. This was supposed to be a spring training. Unfortunately he got hurt in the middle of it. You're not going to get the player that you need. So instead of him taking that chance and getting even further injured, just let him be judged. Let yourself be, let yourself live, brother. I know you want to come back. You're the greatest hitter in baseball, one of the best to ever put on the pinstripes and he is, he's one of the best he has. There's a possibility that, that he could do something that nobody else in baseball history has ever done. Let's have five 50 home run seasons. He can still do that. Maybe next year he's getting older though. He will be 35 next year and he's got to be healthy. Nobody in baseball history has had five 50 home run seasons, 50 home runs in a single season. If I make any sense there, he's had four 50 home run seasons. If you guys did that, nobody's on five and he has the chance to do 50 home runs in a year five times. No one's done that. So I want you to be able to do that next year, to have that chance to do it next year if there's baseball, right? If there's baseball, but this version of judge that, that you think that we would be getting back if he could play, we're not getting that version. It's not just not happening. He's not healthy enough. He hasn't played enough. It's fine with the lineup that we have right now, Garcia, I don't foresee him struggling like this. I know Boston has some lefties. I don't see him struggling, continuing to struggle. And honestly, I don't think our C is even in the lineup against the lefty that they would rather throw gold Schmidt and I'm okay with that. Rice will be in the lineup. He's hot right now. Anthony Volpe, I just want to touch on that a little bit here, but we talked about it the other day. I want to talk about it again. A lot of Yankees fans are throwing their hands up in the air saying, why is he going to play third base? That's stupid. These games literally don't matter right now. They don't matter at all. So if Anthony Volpe goes in there, these final X amount of games sucks over there at third base, they're not going to play him at third in the playoffs. I don't find any issue with them playing him at third base and games that literally do not matter. Think about it in this way. These games are even less important than spring training games. Anything you do, you're not a player fighting for a spot on the roster. You're not trying to make the team. The team's already done. It's already made. You're not playing for a playoff spot because you already have one. There's no way that you could lose it. You can't gain a higher seed and you can't go lower. You're at the seed that you're at and that's your seed. So Anthony Volpe playing third base is not a big deal. If he stinks, he won't play it in the playoffs. Let me know what you guys think down in the comments. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you next time. Take care.