Yankees REVEAL SOMETHING Crazy (Yankees News 2026)

This report that we just received makes you think a little bit. It's like, wait, maybe that's the reason some of these guys struggled, struggled mightily at that. Now, I will also be fair. Johnny Lasagna over there on X. It's really funny. You should go follow him if you don't, for whatever reason. He mentioned he talked about this report that we're going to share, and he said, hey, we need more context. And I agree with him. But let's just take it for what it's worth right now. Take it as is. This is from Jack Fungo. He's sharing what Gary Phillips said in his article. Per Gary Phillips, the Yankees offense is less receptive to analytics, especially compared to their very data-driven pitching staff. He cites Ben Rice, his one hitter, extremely bought into analytics, and mentions Judge, Grisham, Jazz, and McMahon as those who opposed. I want to highlight obviously the three names Judge not Judge, Grisham, Jazz and McMahon, Grisham Jazz and McMahon, three guys that we needed more production from, where Grisham had a big 2025 2026 came right back down to earth, Jazz had a big 25, he was a 30-30 guy, he was saying oh I could be a a 50-50, it's okay that's fine have confidence of course I'm all for that, but Jazz played in seven more games than he did last year and he didn't even have close to the success he had last year he had .813 OPS last year 31 homers that's the Jazz we needed this season and he wasn't that we needed that Trent Grisham who could at least hit 25, have a better OPS than .703 his on-base percentage was like 40 points lower than it was in 2025 we needed more production out of both of these guys Ryan McMahon I mean outside of Coors Field not a very good offensive player I've said this go back look at the videos that I posted on McMahon when we traded for him and I said to you guys he's a product of Coors Field I would not trade for him and he's just proving me right but you have three guys who opposed analytics who had terrible terrible terrible terrible seasons if they even had OPS is 50 points higher than what they had this year that would have been a big boost to this Yankee offense it would have and listen as I said earlier we don't know the context of it we don't know oh okay that's fine I get it but take it for how it's being reported. Okay. Ben Rice extremely bought into analytics and he had the best year of his career. The best year. Did he struggle down the stretch there? I mean, yeah, he cooled off a lot. Still hit over 40 homers, almost a 900 OPS. He bought in. If it wasn't for Ben Rice, this Yankee offense would have been so anemic without him. He was such a big part of it. He was the part of it at times but he was the one who was extremely bought into it and guys like grisham who just had a terrible season compared to 2025 jazz same thing mcmahon once again struggled now aaron judge being in this is it's it's interesting because judge some would say all right well what he had a 241 average before he went down that's not aaron judge a mid-800 at OPS? That's not Aaron Judge either. Could he have heated up? Absolutely, because that's Aaron Judge. But Aaron Judge is not embracing analytics. And listen, I'm not saying analytics that you should embrace it. However, the pitching staff embraces it, and arguably, it's the best in baseball. Hedrick, Blackburn, breakout seasons, great years, starting rotation is always very good. But the offense doesn't want to buy into it, except the one who did. Maybe others did. we just we don't know but the one who did who did buy in he had a fantastic year as i said i'm not i'm not saying you should buy into analytics if if you feel like it's gonna mess you up okay i get that but this might explain why guys like grisham struggled guys like jazz struggled mcmahon continued to struggle now here's another thing that i wanted to talk about today i just thought that, that report was so frigging revealing because the guys that didn't embrace it had poor seasons. Hal spoke a few days ago, and then I talked about it here on the channel. I'm going to talk about it here again a little bit because I was able to marinate on it a little more, think a little more, and develop more of an opinion on it. The one thing I needed to hear from Hal, and we didn't hear it, the one thing I needed to hear from him, I needed to hear about because it was evident. We've been seeing it. for a very long time now on this team, the lack of hustle, the lack of running, hustling down that first baseline. I think Michael Kay, he mentioned it like a few days ago, and I agree with him. Jorge Posada, I saw a clip, Jorge Posada popped out to second base. He hustled down that first baseline. Why? Because you never know what's going to happen. There's been so many instances where all of them are guilty of it. Every Yankee is not hustling down that line. But in the post season when they did when spencer jones did george Lombardo Jr did Anthony Volpe did more so and in jones's case though they made things happen that's why you hustle i want to see more of that that and it wasn't called out and it's been the thing that's just in in front of our very eyes every game the lack of hustle fundamentally obviously i don't have to tell you they stink that's right in front of us that's what i wanted to hear the owner say you know what that stunk we need to improve on that i needed him to say that he expressed how the offense wasn't very good and then we hear a report from gary phillips that we shared earlier on how certain players did not buy into analytics and he mentioned how the pitching staff he couldn't say a bad thing about them i mean you kind of can't but the pitching staff of course they bought in ben rice bought in who had a tremendous year a career season but Grisham Jazz McMahon did not so i wonder if that comment also had something to do with this maybe because hal did mention talking about aaron judges all in comments and cody bellinger being the only thing that you did that's kind of silly but anyway talking about judges all all in comments he mentioned he was like hey the players though also have to do their job maybe this was part of it i think it was a thousand percent go get guys who are going to buy into your system if that's how you want to do it go get guys who are going to buy in don't get guys who won't because obviously it didn't work aaron judge is a different story he's just he's a hall of famer otherworldly he's an alien but when you're not Aaron Judge, I really don't think you should be opposed to really anything, embrace it if it's going to help you, embrace it but as we said earlier, we don't know the context of it, but wow this was something to read and listen, I want to know what you guys have to say down in the comments, thank you guys so much for watching, I'll see you next time, take care