Yankees GET HUGE NEWS| But Why? (Yankees News 2026)

Yankees fans, we have a lot to discuss here in today's video. My gosh, the Yankees lost Shelly Duncan to the Boston Red Sox. He's gone. The Yankees just lost Tanner Swanson, an excellent coach, Tanner Swanson, to the Seattle Mariners. He's their bench coach. Number one, I feel like Shelly Duncan did a good job with Scranton as their manager. Tanner Swanson was great at his job. Why in the world couldn't you find a way to keep these guys in your organization, promote Shelly somewhere on the major league staff, Tanner Swanson, promote him? If he wanted that, obviously he did. He got a bench coach job with Seattle. These guys would have been part of the solution. They were not part of the problem in any stretch. You went, and I'm not calling for anybody's job, Hal Steinbrenner, the owner of this team. Said how disappointed he was in this offense. He still had the same hitting coach. He's still there. So what's the deal, right? I understand if Swanson wanted, you know, a better, a bigger, more prolific position. I get that. Why didn't you think to give him that though, Yankees? Why did he have to leave? Now, here's why I know some of you might not think it's a big deal, but I hope this isn't how they approach their on-field product. Right now, we know Trent Grisham's gone. We know Jazz is gone. We know that they're unhappy with McMahon. He's most likely gone. Jack Curry said it himself. The Yankees are unhappy with his offensive play and his defensive play. If you don't have the stick, you better have the glove. And if you don't have either, what purpose are you serving on this team? So the Yankees seem to be leaning towards moving on from McMahon. Okay, fine. But now who's your third baseman? Who's your second baseman? Is your second baseman Volpe? Is it Caballero? You make one your second baseman, the other one a Swiss Army knife. You platoon them. I don't know what you do. And I liked what Anthony Volpe did after his AAA stint. I really did. I thought he looked like a different player, a different attitude in a good way. So I'm kind of actually, I'm one of the few people excited for Anthony Volpe. But the interesting thing about center field, when it comes to Spencer Jones, a guy who had like a 740 OPS on the team, he mashed the left-handed pitching. Jack Curry, I talked about this the other day, Jack Curry mentioned that someone within the Yankee organization said that they might rather have Cody Bellinger in center field. Aaron Judge has played center field. They even brought up Jason Dominguez, a guy who I thought the Yankees, quite frankly, gave up on. Obviously, he still has some people in the organization who like him a lot. And I'm a gigantic Jason Dominguez fan. Huge. I think with him, a lot of it is up here. A lot of it's up here. The kid has a ton of talent, athletic ability. A lot of it's up here. If he could iron that out, I think he could be a fabulous player. Fabulous. But they're mentioning him for center field. They were so reluctant to put him out there because you thought you had Spencer Jones in your system. Now you bring up Spencer Jones. You see what he does on the field. Good offensive player. Defense, you're not so keen on. I'm going in on a different subject here. But you gave up on a player, really gave up on a player. We're trying to push him to play the corner outfield spot, which he wasn't very good at. Left field, he was terrible. Right field, he was okay in Dominguez. But you refused to play him in center field. You refused for whatever reason. His natural position, by the way. It just happens, guys. I know center field, some people believe it's a harder spot to play, and it is. But listen, if you've played there your whole career and you're comfortable there, he might be much better at center than he is in left. It's just a mental thing. That's all it is, for some guys anyway. That's all it is. So now, all of a sudden, you see what Spencer Jones did for you. You don't like it. So now you want to get a new center fielder? All right, fine, whatever. But who? Who is that? So I just hope that they go in and they make the necessary moves to improve this baseball team. That's it. Now, the Tarek Sealy stuff, do I believe it? Of course, the Yankees are going to be in on him. Of course, they're going to be linked to him. Of course, they're going to call up Boris and say, hey, what does he want? The Yankees have shown so much interest in Sealy. So it makes a ton of sense to attempt to sign him. They're not going to, but it makes a lot of sense to attempt to sign him. Then if you can, if you could convince him to play here, which the Mets will outbid you, regardless, if there's no salary cap, by the way, but the Mets will outbid you, and the Dodgers, who knows? I think he probably ends up going back there. But yes, the Yankees do have a surplus of pitching that they could go and move for a position player. They certainly have that. They have a ton of it, whether it's major league pitching or guys in the system. They have a lot. A lot of guys who I like. They have a lot. There's some prospects down there. Core Jackson. I like him a lot. Roderick Arias came back from oblivion. The guy was horrific. Now, all of a sudden, something clicked in his brain. Something clicked. He began to perform like the player we all hoped he would be, at least as a prospect anyway, but he's now performing. He was promoted to AA. If you take his promotion to AA and Lombard's promotion, when it happened, Roderick Arias outperformed Lombard. Now, Lombard, the following year, opened up the year in 2026 in AA, played really great. So he adjusted, he adapted. But my point is, when Lombard was promoted, he had like a six-something OPS in AA. Arias, he goes up there from high A, and he holds his own up there. He plays well. There are some exciting guys down there in the system maybe you could trade from. Listen, I love Arias. I would love to see him through. I really would. Former top international prospect, I would love to see him through. But at the same time, you want to improve this major league team. Are you going to try to spend money? Because as far as Hal Steinbrenner goes, he's for the salary cap, right? The Yankees payroll right now. And they also need a bullpen. So you have to spend money on a bullpen because you have no bullpen. Blackburn's a free agent. Bednar's a free agent. You don't have a back end. You don't even have, you don't have anything. But got to look up the Yankees payroll right now. I want to see the exact number because it'll tell you, hey, this is what they're willing to add. Estimated payroll 2027, 267. Interesting. Okay. I wonder how much they're willing to add though. So Grisham's gone. That's 20-something million. Jazz is gone. McMahon, you're going to have to pay even if you cut him. LeMahieu, his contract is off the books now. So that's good. I just wonder how much money the Yankees are going to be willing to spend this offseason considering how Steinbrenner is for the salary cap. So if he's for it and we're supposed to have this frigging frenzy, this free agent frenzy before the lockout, that's all we're hearing. I hope we do. It's a lot of content to make. That'd be so much fun. But are you really going to spend the money since you want a cap? Your payroll is high as it is. Because if somehow, if they agree to a cap, if it does, I don't think it's going to happen. But if it does happen, if the owners get their way and the players agree to a salary cap, what makes you think any of these guys are going to spend if that's what they want? But apparently, we're getting a frenzy. So I don't freaking know. It's so damn confusing. This stupid lockout has everything going dumb. Everything. It's got me emotional. I don't want a lockout at all. I don't know what this means for the channel. I'm going to be here uploading four to five days a week for you guys like I always do. I love doing this. This is fantastic. My dream is doing this. Selfish owners. They're all, they all suck. That took a turn. Did not expect that. Guys, listen, thank you so much for watching. I'll see you next time. Take care.