After a hesitant season start and a discreetly important shopping companion (an explosive combination if you're the Yankees and you're dealing with the New York press), the season has improved after about 17-18 games when the new coach Aaron Boone's work he started to give his first fruits. When we talk about the Yankees the first topic to be dealt with is always the attack and in particular the numbers concerning the power of it, with the arrival of Stanton in pinstripes there were even better statistics at the team level than those of ' last year and so it has been so far. The Yankees lead the MLB in homeruns, runs batted in, base on balls, slugging% and OPS with a more than respectable sixth place in the ranking of the batting average. The new purchase Giancarlo Stanton after having touched the bottom coming to beat .085 managed to mesh and return to an already more acceptable .262, numbers similar to those of last year in Miami where he finished with the title of MVP and leader in homerun. Aaron Judge after a season over the top in the 2017 campaign is keeping himself at good levels and despite continuing to end strikeout too often has improved the eye by earning already a fair number of basic on balls. Good news has arrived in the majors from the farm system in the name of Miguel Andujar 3B and Gleyber Torres 2B, young people able to provide immediately a valid contribution, the most worrying are the performances of Gregorious, Sanchez and Gardner. They are all sub-comedies and in particular Gregorious is in free fall after a first month to remember, in New York they are still all confident that thanks to the time and the work of hitting coach Marcus Thames will manage to get out of this slump phase.
As for the Yankees pitching stuffs the department is divided into two parts who are performing very well and who for nothing. In the first category there is the excellent Luis Severino, a powerful launcher who has shown to be also improved in the command, Aroldis Chapman who in the role of closer is keeping high expectations, Chad Green and AJ Cole both able to be effective in the intermediate innings . In the second category (more crowded than the first) there are: Masahiro Tanaka with an ERA of 4.95, Sonny Gray with an ERA of 5.48, the two set up man Betances and Robertson almost never able to provide security in the seventh and eighth inning and finally the number 5 starter of the German rotation that does not seem at all able to sustain this role for a long time.
The Yankees are a strong team at the moment that in my opinion you have yet to complete and knowing the Steinbrenner family within the trade deadline this will be done, surely you need a starting pitcher of a certain level, maybe two if Gray and Tanaka will continue this step. In addition, it will also serve a first base able to provide a higher beat average of Walker and Austin, perhaps a left-handed able to give alternation to the already many right batsmen present in this lineup.
If this is done I would say that the title number 28 is within their reach, otherwise seen the problems encountered so far I see it hard when especially the temperatures will drop and count a lot, perhaps too much on the points resulting from homerun would result in a roulette , a fortiori with a rotation of discontinuous starting pitchers.
As for the Yankees pitching stuffs the department is divided into two parts who are performing very well and who for nothing. In the first category there is the excellent Luis Severino, a powerful launcher who has shown to be also improved in the command, Aroldis Chapman who in the role of closer is keeping high expectations, Chad Green and AJ Cole both able to be effective in the intermediate innings . In the second category (more crowded than the first) there are: Masahiro Tanaka with an ERA of 4.95, Sonny Gray with an ERA of 5.48, the two set up man Betances and Robertson almost never able to provide security in the seventh and eighth inning and finally the number 5 starter of the German rotation that does not seem at all able to sustain this role for a long time.
The Yankees are a strong team at the moment that in my opinion you have yet to complete and knowing the Steinbrenner family within the trade deadline this will be done, surely you need a starting pitcher of a certain level, maybe two if Gray and Tanaka will continue this step. In addition, it will also serve a first base able to provide a higher beat average of Walker and Austin, perhaps a left-handed able to give alternation to the already many right batsmen present in this lineup.
If this is done I would say that the title number 28 is within their reach, otherwise seen the problems encountered so far I see it hard when especially the temperatures will drop and count a lot, perhaps too much on the points resulting from homerun would result in a roulette , a fortiori with a rotation of discontinuous starting pitchers.
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