Joe Randazzo
@YankeeLibrarian • 25,775 subscribers
Proud Librarian! 📚 Covers the Yankees & Knicks for SI 🗽 Long Islander 💪 One of those plant-based diet types🪴
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The Yankees should save Francisco Lindor from the Mets so he can finally be appreciated. There's a slim chance it happens, but it would be interesting to see what that trade would even look like. Lindor is 32 and will make $32 million per year through the 2031 season. That's a boatload of money, and this would likely be a salary dump. The only thing that makes me think the Yankees would even have a shot is that the few teams that might conceivably take on that salary are in the NL—no shot they send him to the Dodgers or Phillies. The Padres probably don't want another bloated contract either. The Yankees are the team that can afford him, even if Hal wants you to think his team is a mom-and-pop shop. More important than that, though, he'd be out of the National League.
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The Yankees went 6 for 7 in challenging strikes. ABS might save Aaron Boone’s life 🤣
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Gerrit Cole might not be human. It's the only way to explain why it feels like he looks better than he did when the Yankees last saw him in 2024. In Cole's second start back, he generated 15 swings and misses and averaged 96.4 MPH on his fastball. He was able to dial it up to 98 MPH twice and 97 nine times. Not to mention its back-to-back quality starts. If this is Cole knocking off the rust, what does he look like after 10 starts? In October??
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The Yankees almost lost this game because of Jasson Dominguez, but they certainly won it because of him. Up to this point, Dominguez had seven swings and misses and a called strike against Tarik Skubal. Despite Skubal being so dominant against Dominguez, he sent this changeup into the seats on the ninth pitch of the at-bat. Huge hit. Huge win.
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Aaron Judge was so happy as he rounded the bases when he homered in his first WBC at-bat. It's the type of reaction we rarely see out of Judge unless it's a big moment for the Yankees. He didn't even get like this while he was chasing Maris. You can tell the United States team is really into it this year. The whole thing about his speech was just brain rot discourse.
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Aaron Boone keeping Cam Schlittler in for eight innings was his gutsiest as manager. It was WAY more advanced than what Alexa Cora was lauded as a genius for. Anybody can decide a Cy Young candidate and an elite closer is the best way to take a game from the Yankees. Nobody goes eight innings anymore, let alone a rookie with a handful of innings. Young players usually have a short leash, but this felt like a strategy straight out of the Michael Kay caller's playbook, where they start by proclaiming they've been a fan for 50 years. It makes up for leaving Ben Rice on the bench in game one, hah. I am finally over that.
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![George Springer thinks MLB is rigging the AL East for the Yankees. Springer has fugazi trophies, crying about the authenticity of the game. Anyway, what’s better than Blue Jays tears? Hopefully the Yanks put these guys on ice. [Via Jomboy]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1970910209066582414/amplify_video_thumb/1970910148190203904/img/0OtMPtOlzHtPF4he.jpg)
LeBron James to the Knicks, a week after getting the gig writing about them for SI, would be a top-three moment of the year for me from a creative standpoint 😆 Granted, this is probably leverage to scare the Cavaliers and Heat. It also seems doubtful that Leon Rose, who has carefully built this team after KD and Kyrie went to Brooklyn in 2019, will pull the trigger here. But I guess they did lose Mitch, while also striking out on Yves Missi, so they do need some size. From a logical standpoint they should stay away but as a writer, this could be fun.
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The Yankees are using bulletin board material as motivation this postseason: • Cam Schlittler responded to 40-year-old podcasters airing out his mom's social media accounts. • Aaron Boone went at Buck Martinez, who said the Yankees aren't a good team. This is a little different than how these Yanks operated in the past, especially under Boone. Boone employs a more stoic approach to things, which feels a little jarring in this market, but they rarely acknowledge outside noise or allow criticisms to penetrate their walls. We’ve seen them do this other times as well. Last season, Cashman looked like he was ready to go to war with the reporters during the GM meetings. In some ways, they're allowing players to voice their frustrations about things they're going through with the team as well. Look at what happened with Jazz this week. He's a competitor who was pissed he didn't start in game one of the Wild Card. He voiced it, mentioning that he used MLB The Show to work through his frustrations. In the end, his defense and base running were a huge reason they won game two. His hit in game three extended the four-run rally too. Bulletin board material is what Belichick and Brady used to do during their glory days. CC Sabathia mentioned that he did the same thing when he pitched. CC, in particular, said he picked a person out of a lineup and told himself that they were trashing him or saying they didn't believe in him. Look, whatever works. They just beat Boston, who owned them all year. If this is the edge they feel they need for a team they went 5-8 against, I love it. Keep yapping if you need to.
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