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Thank God they won last night. I don't want to get grumpy Boone
coming up on the show. So Aaron will join right around
10. Yeah, obviously the games moved
up today. We were going to have them to
10:30 and we would have had a little bit more time.
So I've got to get right into this and you know, I no tap
dancing with booty. We got to get into a couple of
the topics that that I deem incredibly important.
And I'm sure by extension, you guys feel the same way.
So we'll get into that little housekeeping note quickly.
Heads up for tomorrow. There's going to be an absolute
blast as soon as the schedule drops.
Episode #8 myself and Jake Aspen, Rich Cimini, The Jets
Collective in the house, the three of us breaking down all
the games and we'll see where they're going.
You know, going to be on the road week one, who they're
playing Yeti primetime stuff. That's going to be a lot of fun.
I'm actually excited about The Jets this year.
I think you guys know that we got the Cavs in the Pistons
tonight while the Knicks get to chill a little bit here.
So to me, like if I'm listening to to Aaron Boone speak today, I
want to hear there's probably three things now.
There's probably 10 things that we can get into.
I get it. You know, we can regurgitate the
the lead off hitter thing. That is what it is until it
changes. He knows where I stand on
Grisham. I don't even know if I need to
bring it up. And by the way, Grisham did hit
a big bomb last night. Goldie did a good job as well.
Yankees do get the win. Warren really battled.
You know, I thought he really wiggled off the hook.
So I was good to see to get back on track with him.
But to me, like, say, if I'm just driving around and you
know, I I don't do what I do for a living.
And I'm just like you. I'm I'm I'm all right.
Aaron Boone's on with BT Here's what I got to hear.
To me, the three most pressing issues.
And there's a lot of good in the Yankee universe, despite the
four-game losing streak where many of you thought here we go
again. You know, the sky is collapsing
and yesterday's show. I just said, relax, guys.
Yankees pitching staff is going to be on lock all year.
They're going to get it on the bullpen arm.
You know that. And I really, really do like
this version of the Yankees. Now, it doesn't mean that I'll
necessarily be right, but I'm definitely more bullish on the
Yankees that I have been outside of the Soto year in years.
Having said that, obviously got to get in a Volpe and and I
think what's going to be incredibly interesting now is
like what do you do with that fifth starter Garrett Coles got
probably two more rehab starts to go.
We threw 77 on Sunday over the weekend, at least one, probably
2. And I, I know we hit 98 on his
last pitch. Garrett Coles basically
basically ready. But the fact that the Yankees
are playing well, not that they would rush him anyway coming off
Tommy John, but and they've got a, a really deep bag of
starters. You know, the urgency or, or the
potential desire to maybe get him back a week before you
really need to. That's not going to be there.
But what is going to be there is a, is a really tough
conversation with either Weathers or Will Warren.
So to me that is really interesting.
Who's going to the pen? One of them's going to the
bullpen. So we'll get into that with
Aaron Boone, the Volpe stuff for sure, and the Jazz Chisholm
stuff. Like to me, those are the three
most pertinent Yankee issues. From a negative point of view.
There's obviously a lot of good. The way Ben Rice's look, the way
Caballeros played so far, the starting pitching, the record
plus 72 run differential, a lot of good things.
So Boone's going to hop on from Camden Yards in about 5 or 6
minutes now. Once Aaron's done, we'll
obviously react to that. We'll get your chats up.
We'll have a fun conversation with that.
We'll get some calls as well. But after that, I want to get
into David Stearns Yesterday, what he said, not now, J Rod,
but I know that not many of you believe in David Stearns.
And I get it. Like, it's one thing for me to
think the Mets made a great hire when they brought David Stearns
in, which pretty much everybody but Joe Beningo thought like we
all thought, all right, you know, here's the young boy
wonder who did, you know, some magic in Milwaukee with not much
of A payroll. What is he going to do with
Steve Cohen's checkbook? Well, here we are.
And even with the win last night like this, nice to see you and
get his first knock, a triple that was he can fly, man.
It's good to see him up there. And Peralta was pretty good.
He battled as well. And who knows, maybe the Mets
were about to take off, but we'll get to the Mets later.
But the one thing that struck me right without even revealing
now, if I agree with what Stern said about the character, like
the requisite character and the the the right amount of talent
that he believes are going to turn this around.
We'll have that conversation after.
To me, David Stearns comes across as incredibly arrogant.
Like, dude, who do you think that you are to tell the New
York media, even though the New York media didn't really bite
back, which I in the matter in which I would have hoped that
they they would have. Like, dude, you're not setting
the rules right now. Dude, you're 16 and 25.
You got a bloated payroll. Your team stinks.
All right, every other week it's about, you know, the the job
security for the manager and he he told me the media, Hey, I'm
not talking about this every couple of weeks here.
No, no, you might have to because if the Mets, you know,
say if they lose two or three to the Yankees or they drop the
next two in this series, like it's not going away.
I understand what Stearns is trying to do, you know, trying
to re establish a little continuity and quiet the noise.
I get that and I respect that. I really do.
But understand where you're at here, Stearns.
You know, once you know if and when you know Mendoza is is ever
relieved of his job, there is nobody that you can pull in
front of you to shield yourself from the shrapnel that is
already coming your way in, in in mass quantity and rightfully
so. I just thought that that was
ridiculous. Like, listen, when you're a
general manager and it's and Cashman, it's funny, Cashman,
not to get into the roster construction, but Cashman over
the years has been a little arrogant.
And you know, that's it's rubbed some of us a little bit the
wrong way. But you know, Brian Cashman's
got a boatload of championships. He's been here for 3540 years.
Even when he started, you know, under Bob Watson, he's got some
equity here. Stearns hasn't done a damn thing
except RIP the RIP apart a team and that's seemingly going
backwards. So again, we will have the
conversation. Do I think that the Mets could
turn this around? You know, but I I that jumped
off the page to me like he's just he's got that smirk and
he's like this smarmy. I don't know, like he's talking
down to people. Dude, relax.
Like you're the last dude. And if you think about all the
teams right now, right, I mean, listen, if Joe Shane knows
what's good from Joe Shane's not going to say a word.
I mean, Joe Shane's lucky he's still here.
But there's good energy with the Giants.
There's good energy with The Jets and Mooji coming off the
draft and you know, some positivity there.
I mean, the Knicks are running the show right now.
The Yankees, despite the four-game skid, the Yankees have
been terrific this year for the most part.
And you know, I mean, David Stearns is up there yesterday,
you know, looking at the media, basically trying to re establish
the rules. Don't work that way, buddy.
I, I really thought that he missed the mark there and to the
point where if I am Steve Cohen or I don't know if it's somebody
in PR would do this, you know, maybe, maybe if Jay was still
there, Horwitz, he would, he would do this.
But I almost think that he's got to repurpose and, and, you know,
redirect and re channel some of the, the energy.
What he admits. Like you, you got to come in the
side door, buddy. Things ain't going well for you,
Dave, and you're up there telling the media.
Don't ask me about it. We'll ask you what we want to
ask you. Who the hell do you think that
you are? Don't ask me.
Like that's where you know. And listen, I I know a lot of
these like Mike Vaccaro, Steve Serbi, I mean, you know, Zach on
the St. John's beat, you know, Rodger
Rubin on the St. John's beat from new.
Like I know a lot of the report. I don't know some of the younger
guys, some of the newer guys, but I know a lot of the old
guard and they're as good as it gets.
But, and I don't even know who was in that room yesterday, and
I'm not even directly casting aspersions at an individual, but
I was surprised that the big, bad New York media didn't say
anything to him. I'm like, you know, I'm not
going to talk about it. No, I'm be listen there.
Come on, Stearns, if you don't start winning, you're going to
talk about it. All right, Well, we're going to
talk about right now is the New York Yankees and we are joined
now. I know he's getting set up
there. Like I could see him in the
backdrop there, so I'll let him. I don't know if he is he in
uniform yet? Has he got the batting practice
gear on? He's got the lid on.
What's he rocking? Let me get my guy.
Aaron Boone, Of course, the manager for the New York Yankees
and booty is looking to be sitting the camera.
He's got his Yankee. Look at.
Come on, You look like Jazz with that hat.
Would you fix your hat, dude? What are you trying to look like
Jazz? Jazz in their booty?
Hey, what happened? I don't know.
Hold up. We got him there.
Can you hear us? Yes, I got you.
What's up there, Skip? How you doing, man?
We're good. All right?
Did you hear what I said about the hat?
You look like jazz. Chisholm.
What are we doing? You're old school.
Pull that thing down, Booney. I'm going up this morning.
I got it till I get dressed. I understand man.
Hey, listen, first of all, I really appreciate you doing
this. I know we were supposed to have
you on at 10:30, would have had a little bit more time but they
move the game up. Some bad weather down in
Baltimore. So thanks for hopping on me.
How you doing bud? You good?
Yeah, I'm doing well. How you doing?
I'm doing great, man. It's, it's been a while.
We, we've obviously communicated a lot off the air, but the last
time I saw you was at the BT and Sal live show, which was great.
For the record, I, you know, we did handle the, I beat you in
the baseball card game. So I beat you again, just for
the record there. You beat Sal though.
You did beat Sal. The dropping of Sal.
Yes, you, you, you did wipe your wipes out a little bit.
So, OK, because we don't have an hour, so we got about 30
minutes. I want to jump into some things
here. The to me, and this is actually
a good thing, Aaron, but I'm very curious how it's going to
play out Weathers. I mean, the way he's looked, he
obviously looks like somebody who deserves to be a starter.
Same with same with Will Warren. Now, this is ultimately a good
thing, but ultimately you're going to have to have a very
tough conversation with one of those two men, unless it might
be somebody else, which I doubt. Are you already in your mind
playing this out? Like, do you have a sense of
those two guys who might right now be more quick to go to the
bullpen? That's a tough call, man.
I still it's, it's still a couple weeks away at least.
And then and, and I just feel like, you know, that's still in
the baseball world a lifetime away, like it's, you know, that
that decision may be made for you before then.
So I try not to get too far ahead of myself with that
because ultimately we'll sit down if we have to make a
decision and make it. So the good thing like you said
is you know, in in the case of the guys you mentioned like
they're throwing great. They're they, they are really
good starting pitchers obviously and a big part of what we're
doing. So if we have to make a
difficult decision when the time presents itself, which is still
a ways away, we'll make it. You know, I've talked about this
a lot, obviously anticipating the return of Gerrard Cole.
Now, you know, we get so wrapped up and and when when we were
growing up, when we were younger, certainly the symbolism
of of the opening day pitcher. You know, Carlton's going,
Sievers going, Gooden's going, Guidry's going, you know,
Saberhagen, guys like that. It's a little different.
I remember a couple of years ago.
Good list. You just rattled.
Listen man, you know there's a reason why I handle you in the
baseball card cave, buddy. I know my names man, and that is
a good list there and the the symbolism of taking the ball on
opening day. There's there's great value,
great respect and we all know what it meant growing up.
It's a little different now. Nestor started a couple of years
ago in Houston based on the workload and when guys were
ready. So I like we look at a rotation.
We labeled this guy's the ace. This guy's the two.
You can always manipulate things with off days.
I get that. But my question would be
whenever Garrett comes back, you know in whatever order you going
to put them Freed 1, Cold 2, Schlit 3, rolled on four and
then either Warren or Weather is five.
Do you have any aversion if it is weathers?
Because I thought about this having 60% of the rotation being
lefties, is that a factor? No.
Not at all, Even with all the righties.
All the right you hit, Really. Yeah.
OK. Is it because they have like
reverse splits or it just doesn't matter at this point?
No, I mean like, look, if if someone has to go to the bullpen
that they become an interesting option on on days to, you know,
follow somebody and even piggyback and even go close the
game for for on that day. You know, like, like I think of
the Michael King role when before he entered the rotation,
like he was an absolute killer in some 3 inning stints.
So, yeah, yeah. Where where it would be a day,
we'd give our closer the day off because King would take it to
the finish line for us. So that'll work again, that'll
work itself out. What makes the most sense?
Lefty, right? He doesn't probably factor in
too much. So whomever it is and and again
is going to play out over time and and think about some of the
situations like if we were having this conversation as you
and I did, you know, on the phone during the winter, like,
hey, is, is, is Dominguez going to make the team or we're going
to see Spencer Jones? Well, you don't know that even
though he gets hurt a lot, with all due respect to big G, but
Stanton gets hurt. That opens up a door for a for
Spencer Jones a little bit or or Dominguez and and then Spencer
and then, you know, obviously with the injury opens up the
door for Caballero. So you're right.
The one thing about baseball is that if you plan too far out in
advance, it's usually kind of a waste of.
Time and there's nothing to plan for right now.
True. Like, not like we're getting
somebody ready. Like it's just going to happen
if it does. Understood.
See, I look at Weathers and I put this out there and I see now
that he's throwing more strikes and he's healthy.
Two things that plagued him a little bit Miami.
And I think organizationally, you know, you listen, you know,
I've had some issues with Cashman along the year but
years, but I think he does a great job finding pictures and
revitalizing some of these reclamation projects and weather
seems to be the latest example. I don't know, Aaron.
I look at somebody and I know you love Bednar and I like him,
but I look at somebody like Weathers and and I see a guy who
come out of the bullpen in the 9th inning throwing 99.
If you trusted he's throwing strikes.
Does he have that high leverage? If he's the guy, and I'm not
going to, I'm not saying that he is, is he a high, a high
leverage late inning come in a man on upper run something like
2 on two out. Like you see him making that
transition maybe easier than Warren if it comes to that.
Not necessarily. And I don't look at them through
a traditional lens. If you're talking about a
starter going back there, I look at guys that can on a given day,
you know, every 3rd, every 4th day go out and dominate the back
end of a game for three or four innings after, you know.
So I look at it's not so much like OK, we're just implanting
him in A1 inning situation. I think it's a different kind of
role and I would liken it to Michael King, but and not even
saying we're going to do that with those guys, but that that's
how I look at it more. What did you see from Rodriguez?
Obviously you know, some nerves and didn't really command the
zone early on. He's got pretty filthy stuff.
I just didn't think he could really use his slider as much as
he wanted to because he couldn't jump ahead.
What did you see in the dugout on the mound?
Like under the hood kind of stuff as as a, as a young player
getting the call and and just kind of trying to fit in.
Yeah, just he just, he didn't throw strikes like he does and
and will, but I thought he did a good job of not imploding
either. Yep.
Like like lesser guys that go sideways when you're not, you
know, you're you're up there for the first time and you're kind
of find your way and you're not commanding it like you like you
normally do. And he didn't, he didn't flinch.
So I liked his poise. I love the stuff.
I like his makeup and what I think he is going to be long
term. Like I think he's I think he's a
starter in the league for a long time.
So, you know, there were some struggles in there in those two
outings, but there were some some promising things that he
showed in in kind of the in the fire, if you will, early in some
games. Yeah, Also, I mean, listen, this
is just the way it worked out. I mean, kind of a tough look,
the poor kid going out there against the same team twice.
I mean, so you don't think that matters much?
Maybe a little bit, but I think if he throws well, you know,
he's, you know, the biggest issue for him was just not
throwing enough strikes and not commanding it like like he
normally does. But I think, I think making
those two starts, I think there's a was really valuable
because because he could become a very important piece as early
as this year for us. So to get up and get some early
experience and stack a couple starts, I think there's a lot of
value in that. I remember, I remember where I
was sitting, I was getting ready to go into one of my one of my
kids rec basketball games during the winter.
I think it was right before he went down to Tampa and we were
catching up a little bit and I said, hey, I said Ben Rice going
to have like like A9950 OPS. You're like, whoa, whoa.
I love that you remember that. I love the kid, but let's go 950
stuff. I think I undersold it.
Aaron and I know the advanced numbers last year when he was
not, when the stats weren't there, but he was hitting the
ball hard. You knew it was there, kind of
like Grisham a little bit this year who's starting to, you
know, now get rewarded for hitting the ball hard.
What what, what makes him different from other young hit?
I know he's 27, but in terms of experience from other young
hitters, what? Why is he different?
You know, I think the big thing with let me go back real quick
on, on Benny, I think the big thing was 24 more so than even
last year. The underlying stuff like he, he
came up and did some good things for us in 24.
And then if you recall, there was about a month stretch where
he really struggled statistically punched out a lot.
But through that was really hitting the ball hard.
So he's hitting 180 or whatever. But it was like that's when you
saw like this guy's got a chance to really hit.
And then obviously he has a great year last year and still
hits some tough luck thinks he does, man.
I think his he's obviously hits the ball hard.
I think I think has a real simple swing in how he gets
loaded on his backside and build speed.
So that he, when I say build speed, guys do it in different
ways, but he doesn't really well where he's building speed and
his swing subtly, that allows you to obviously impact the
ball, but then it also just as importantly allows you to shut
down and have brakes, brakes on a on a so you're go, go, go, go.
But I've built speed and I can stop my swing to take pitches
that are balls. So added up, he controls the
strike zone tremendously. He hits the ball incredibly hard
and he's just he's a really good preparer.
He's very detailed. He wants everything and he
processed like, he processes like.
All right, I know this guys forcing ride breaking like he he
wants to know real specifics and he he's able to go up there and
apply that really. Well, interesting You talk about
building speed and I'm just envisioning it's only you trying
to create this momentum. And if you're not perfect with
it or if it's not in your comfort zone and you're trying
to become that kind of a hitter, I could see you being out in
front a lot on your front foot, out in front of change ups and
and soft stuff. So to build the speed and then
stop on a dime with the pitch recognition, right?
But there's, there's, you know, within that there's a shortness
to a swing. There's not a lot of head
movement. He's loading up on the backside
really well. So he's getting started on time
or even early to like ultimately, which allows you to
make a really good swing decision, which he does.
All right, now I don't think we need to spend a lot of time on
this, but I want to at least jump around and hit a bunch of
things here. So I'm going to be honest with
you. You couldn't see me because you
said it over the phone and I'm like, here we go.
And you know, you know, I support you and I believe in
you. But when you said this, I'm
like, come on, man. You were talking about Ryan
McMahon and you said there's more in there.
And I'm like, and I even said I'm like, really?
I'm like, I mean, the guy was in Colorado 7-8 years.
You didn't nothing, you know, they had one Goodyear whatever,
like just leap below league average.
Some of the measurables. I'm like, I I don't see it.
And you said he's he's working on stuff and it's not going to
happen right away, but he's going to be unlocked a little
bit this year, you know, without speaking over our heads and you
know, too deep of the baseball vernacular.
What is different? What is he doing differently
here? Booney.
I mean the last few weeks. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
He's hitting well. So to me, he's he's, he's
getting to his backside better, which which is allowing the bat
in the zone longer because he's got real juice like he can, he
can juice the ball to left center.
He's got real pop. He's got some strike zone
knowledge and control. But I felt like, especially the
first couple weeks of the season, you know, there was a
little forward movement and a little steep in and out of the
zone. Now it to me, it's pretty
noticeable and and he hasn't changed his stance or anything
like that or Yep, you know, but but he I feel like he's maybe
for lack of a better way of putting it behind the baseball a
little bit. More that makes sense,
therefore. He's in the zone and so there's
some margin for error there, which I don't think he was
giving himself early on. Can you send Austin Wells to the
same school? Come on, man.
I'm about. Listen, Booty, I'm waiting on
this kid. I know he's on base a little
bit. I know he's got he's got juice.
He's going to hit 20 something home runs.
But I thought for sure that he would be a more advanced or
sophisticated hitter. He's just he's just an out
machine too much. What's going on with Wells?
Yeah, Yeah. I do like the fact that he is
walking a little bit this year, but we got to get him going.
I mean, I like you like expect a lot out of them, expect more out
of them. Even what he's done his first
couple years, I feel like there's more in there and we,
you know, we haven't totally been able to unlock that yet.
His I know in in even talked with the hitting coaches the
other day. His work behind the scenes has
been really good and really consistent to where he's a guy
like building speed. Like I want him to have a little
more of a load and a little bit more of a move.
So you're making then you're making good swing decisions.
You're recognizing secondary as you, you know, load and get
started. He's catching his butt off.
He's doing a great job there. You know, one of the things is
we've gone through this stretch the last like since G's been out
and then you know, we've obviously been very left-handed.
So there's been some games where they've been able to run some
left-handed relievers through us where that makes for some night
in and night out, tougher match up.
So but we got to get them going because I feel like him right,
especially down towards the bottom of the order can be a
real factor with some pop and and getting on base a little bit
so. What, what did you see from
Jones in terms of makeup? But I, I, you know, before you
answer that and listen, the power is ridiculous.
I mean, he, if he sticks around, you know, this year, he's going
to hit a couple in the upper deck.
I don't know what the average will be, but his power is
immense and he's a good fielder. That batting stance makes me
nervous, man. I just, I can't get behind it.
I know that's how he hits. I know, I understand that right?
It's evolved. It's even evolved since since
spring training a little bit. So as long as he's getting the
position early and and getting his foot down and keeping it
simple, I've actually he hasn't really gotten any results here
in this first whatever five games, however many he's played
down. You know, I felt like even from
the from jump, you know, we give him Mesirowski and and Harrison
from the left side of his first two assignments.
Not an easy task. What is it?
That quality was was solid. Like even Mesirowski punched him
out twice and he walked against them like thought he was getting
in good position, thought he was getting off good swings,
controlling the zone a little bit.
So, you know, he's been in a really, he had a really good
spring and, and, and in spring there were some days too where
it's like this is going to be a tough matchup for him.
And he went out and was stacking really good at bats even against
some of those in those situations.
Then he went to AAA obviously to start the year, got off to a
good start the first week and then for about 10 days really
struggled some, a lot of swing and miss.
Just in the last few weeks, it's been more in line with who he
was in spring training, you know, obviously earned the turn,
the call up. And so hopefully, you know, as
he gets some run here, you know, hopefully he can get on base a
little bit and, and, and maybe pop a few.
Yeah, I mean, it just looks so much more fluid.
And, you know, I, I feel terribly for Dominguez.
The irony is he gets hurt after making a really good play in the
outfield, banging into the wall. But he's a, he's a more natural,
gifted, instinctual outfielder than Dominguez.
I mean, that that's pretty apparent, right?
You guys see that as well? Yeah.
I mean, I think probably a tick above, yeah, but they're both
still a work in progress out there.
All right, help us out with this.
I'm always intrigued by this. So somebody like Lombard, you
could call them up today and he could put them in 3rd.
He'd be great, short, great second grade.
Probably throw them in left field.
He'd be fine as well. Kids already A+ defender.
I know that you needed to see him hit last year.
Mixed results this year, thumping the ball, AA, crush,
AAA, some bad luck. But the the advance stuff, he
was really good. Does he have a chance to be on
the team at some point this year?
I know, I know that you think so.
Oh yeah, I mean, he's, you know, last year when he went to AA
numbers wise, he didn't, he didn't crush it.
But like you said this, like he, he, he the underlying stuff was
a lot better for him in AA than what his what the season stats
were. And we recognized that.
So, but we wanted him to go to AA to start this year,
especially first, you know, kind of conquer AA, you know, start
of the season, it's cold like not race him to AAA right away.
He goes to AA, kills it, earns the promotion and and yeah, the
underlying stuff, even a AAA has been really good.
He's walking a ton, he's hitting the ball really hard, he's
hitting some tough luck. He can really defend.
He's different. No, he's different.
He. Really.
Defend everywhere. He's different.
He's a different kind of player. He's different.
So absolutely, I think he could be a factor for us this year.
I, I, you know, we don't want to race him up necessarily too
quick because he's just getting to AAA and he's 21 years old and
like, but he, he will, if he's, he's not far away, I'll tell you
that much. Interesting.
I was surprised and I know that you know, mixed and matched a
little bit in the short time that he was with Volpe.
And I'll get to Anthony in a moment.
Volpe is starting today, right. By the way, I didn't see is jazz
out there. I'm going to get to jazz in a
second as well. I was surprised.
I mean, listen, I I know sometimes it sounds like I I
think that I know more than you guys.
I know that I don't. But if if I'm you guys, I'm not
playing one board at 2nd at all. I'm putting Volpe at 2nd and I'm
letting Lombard play short. What was the thought process
behind mixing and matching with that experiment?
Well, look, with with obviously the situation with Anthony that
came up when it's rehab, we didn't want to just say, OK,
you're don't option yet and you're going to play this
position that like still a lot of ways, it's still spring
training and his build up and it's like go play part of
George's development plan or his, you know, the last couple
years is he has played everywhere and he's thrived
everywhere. So at least in the short term,
we felt like we didn't want to, you know, mess with that or
ruffle that or put any more on Anthony right away.
So doesn't mean, doesn't mean we won't at some point, but that
that's simple as that. Yeah, no, I get it.
And listen, I also understand, you know, Volpe's trying to
figure things out in a big way with the stick.
I mean, it's complicated coming off the shoulder injury.
So he couldn't really work mechanically on stuff for a
while. And you're right, it is still
early. I, I guess like even though the
arm strength is, is obviously favorable towards Lombard by, by
I think a fairly significant margin.
I can see why you guys would be a little reluctant to start
pumping Volpe to different positions when he's still trying
to figure things out with the stick, which gets me to this.
You know, there's there's promotions based on
circumstances and then there's promotions based on true merit
and earning it. And I don't think it's unfair to
say that Volpe didn't earn this promotion based on the way he
hit. Now I know he's done good things
for you in the past. The Grand Slam in the World
Series, I was there, the Gold Glove.
I get it. I'm more of a Volpe supportive
than not. But to me, you know, if he
doesn't play well during these X amount of games with Caballero
on the ILI mean what is the plan if he doesn't perform?
Ship them back. Again, I'm not that's first
thing the quickest copies back is 9 days.
That's again in the baseball season a long time.
Like we're not making any decision today on that we'll
make we'll make any any decision we have to make when when the
time presents itself. So right now, like he's going to
be in there and needs to be an important part of helping us win
games right now. So that's how I look at it.
Was it a tough decision to once the 20 day rehab stint was over
to to tell him and make that transaction?
You're not coming to the Bronx yet, you got to go to the
minors. What was that like?
Yeah. I mean, I think just first of
all, the respect we have for Anthony and who he is
physically, mentally, like he's just, you know, how you want
your guys to be like he's, he's team first.
He works his tail off. He's a grinder.
He's been through a lot. Obviously here at the big league
level, he's a big part of this. So, yeah, it's a tough call to
make. It's a tough thing.
But we also felt like it was absolutely the right thing to do
at that time. So you know, you're, you're,
you're making to varying degrees, difficult decisions
throughout the season all the time.
This was one of them, but one we felt convicted in.
Yeah. No, you guys made the right
decision. Listen, you've been here a long
time and I know that you know, you've got the respect of the
room, certainly, but the judge and and extending downhill from
that, which is obviously very important as the manager.
Did you think, and I know it's an organizational decision at
that point, like with a Volpee or eventually a Lombard if he
comes up this year. Did you think that or how much
did you wrestle with potentially losing not respect, but but
maybe some points in the locker room for maybe unjustly
rewarding Volpe. I'm talking about a week or so
ago and penalizing Caballero when he was playing well.
Guys know who's playing well. How much of a factor was that
Skip? Not much.
I mean, you're, you're trying to do what's right for our team
first and foremost. First and foremost, it's about
the Yankees. And then second, secondary to
that is like, so, so you're making what you feel like is the
best decision for us. That's that's where you start.
And then you also care about the individuals involved and people
involved and livelihoods and all that.
So you try to be sensitive to that and aware of that and read
the room to a degree. But at the end of the day, right
or wrong, you got to make a decision.
You're convicted. OK, All right, so let's get to
Jazz Chisholm here. So he's going to play today.
Got the night off yesterday, hit the reboot, reset a little bit.
I mean, he's he's a mess right now.
And you know that just no, the numbers are are alarmingly bad.
It's still early enough to flip this.
I guess. I like Jazz, but he he worries
me. I've been on the record with
that for a lot of reasons that I don't need to restate now.
You know what they are. My audience knows what they are.
When he said 5050, like there's a fine line between being
confident. I'm not even going to say
delusional because that like that's supreme confidence.
I'm not trying to diss him, but when I heard that, I'm like
that's a problem because he doesn't have natural 40 home run
or 45 home run power. He's never done that talented
guy. I said to myself, this is going
to be a big issue mechanically and he's going to sell out and
the KS are going up and the contacts going down and right
now he is a, he is a mess. How when he said what he said,
did your antennas go up? Like I'm going to have to watch
this. I mean, because he does not look
like the same guy. What?
Where do we go with Jazz here, Aaron?
I think it's had zero impact. Really.
Yeah, in fact, there's days. There's days he's trying too
hard to hit it to left and keep his front shot and he's he's
been yes, mechanically off his swing is is underneath the ball
a little too much. Like the biggest thing is his
swing decisions are are in line with who he's been.
He's missing pitches that he does damage on, sometimes
swinging and miss, sometimes foul, sometimes pop up,
sometimes roll over. So and I would say you kind of
get you kind of, I know it's like he's going to go off at
some. Point like.
And he's never hit 40 homers, like hit 30 last year and missed
a month. Like that's true.
Like I'm not saying he's not a flawed or he's not he's this
perfect player by any means, but he is a dynamic, really good
player that at some point pretty soon will go off.
And I mean, look around the league, look around the league.
There are dozens of star players that are off to really rough
starts, in some ways rough. Like I, I look every night and
look up on that board and there's like pretty good players
that have have A5 in front of their OPS.
Yeah. I mean, yeah.
And he's one of them, yeah. Well, now he's got a six.
You sure all right, does he? Not against lefties, but I got
you I. Got you.
I got you, although he got a big hit the other night off the
lefty. It's about time he got to hit
off the. Left I I I not not this kind of
like it's been a struggle. And and yeah.
It has been and, and he and I have talked about it, like,
look, you're going through it. There's a lot like hitting.
I say this a lot, but it's so true.
Like hitting is so damn hard. I know it is.
And I know it's such a bear like the season, like you get
struggling, you get scuffling, like I don't care who you are.
I don't care if you're me. I don't care if you're some
scrub. I don't care if you're Ken
Griffey Junior. Like you play this game, it's
going to bring you to your knees just hitting hard and, and it's
like, man, you get in your head a little bit, you're trying to
make adjustments and then you're making too many adjustments and
you're over thinking like you got to strike that balance.
So yeah, it's like, it's like booty.
It's like golf, you know, like you fidget with the grip and the
tape back and before you know it you're hitting worm burners and
you drop in your drawers because you didn't hit it past the
Ladies Day. I know it's hard, but he's
making it look really hard. I agree, but he will, he will.
He will absolutely get it going. Let me ask you this and I know
he's going to go on a hot streak.
To his cred, I think he's his defense been excellent.
Yeah, he's he's picking the ball.
I got you on that. Let me ask you this.
So we talked about Lombard and he still has, you know, a little
work to do here AAA and this is there's a lot of variables here,
but I want to at least get a thought.
Now I've got one more for you. I know you got to go and get on
the field and do your stuff here.
So let's say Lombard crushes it for the next month at AAA and he
gets the call. Let's just say, let's say Volpe
really looks good these next 9 or 10 days, whatever it might
be. Caballero comes back, super sub
bouncing around. Is there a situation where if
Jazz doesn't get his act together, you know, Jazz could
be a part time player, maybe just against righties, like is
that on the table? Because it's been so bad?
And I know he's going to wake up a little bit, but if he doesn't,
would would everything be an option at this point?
It's. Major League sports, so there's
always of course, but you're playing a lot of play it out
hypothetical. The reality is we feel like, you
know, we feel like we have a really good team and one of the
things that we like about our team is the depth that we have.
Yes, yeah, I agree with that. I like the.
Depth and probably more depth than since I've been here that
we've ever had to where, which, which, which that is part of
that depth. That means competition, that
means healthy competition for meaningful roles.
So hopefully that continues to play out that way and and we'll
pay attention to what we're seeing and try and do the right
thing for ultimately for this. OK.
All right. Last thing now, I had Kay on the
show not about two weeks or so ago and he used the word
ruthless in a good way. I have used, you know,
variations of the word, right? You guys seem to be operating a
little differently this year and whether it's urgency, ruthless,
whatever word you want to use and maybe it's because there is
more depth and I agree, you did not have that.
You as the manager did not have the buttons to push that you
have now. All right, I'll leave it at
that. I think we all know that that's
true, whether it's Rosario, the other players they brought in
last year. Good job by cash with that, the
pitching aside, right? So to me.
Luis Seal struggles. You're in the minors, McMahon,
your loss for the first couple of weeks.
All right, we got a righty. You're sitting.
Rosario, you hit lefties real well.
We're going to throw out there against the righty.
We're going to do things that are different from what we've
done. Or the Yankees operating at a
different speed this year. Urgency, I think you are.
Yeah, I've heard this. People have asked me this a few
times and I don't think at all. I mean, because I live between
the walls for the last 8-9 years here and every year I've ever
been here, there's like that urgency, like we want to win it
all. That's what we're fighting for.
So I don't think that's the case.
I think that does a disservice to again, what we've, what we've
done in the past and what my experience has been like, we're
kind of hell bent on like trying to put a championship team
together and out there. I, I would say the difference is
we are deeper now. So it allows for those things to
happen, which looks like I guess urgency or whatever.
But to me it that hasn't changed.
Listen, I'm not saying that you guys don't want to win prior
years. You know, the payroll is very
high. I know some people get on how I
don't have an issue with how he spends a lot of money.
You know, I've said what I've said about Brian, even though I
respect him. But to me, yeah, I think maybe
behind the scenes you guys have always operated with with that
urgency. But what we're seeing is, and
I'm sure it's based on the depth, if you don't perform at a
certain level, we got somebody else that we're putting in.
And that's why that's why I asked about Jazz if if he can
maybe become a platoon player if it doesn't get going.
And the Volpe stuff and the heel stuff and the McMahon stuff and
all the Dominguez didn't make the team, which I didn't agree
with that I told you that. But when I talked to you in
February, you're like, we'll see.
And I did not think he was going to make the team and he didn't.
And I thought he did it enough last year to show that he was a
Major League player. But the fact that he didn't
start the team with the year with the bigs in the banks to me
was like just another under score of hey, we're not messing
around, man. And I I like to see it.
So I I like to see it. What I got to see, though,
coming up this week, I got to see you handle the Mets sees
here, Booney. You can't let the Mets get
going. You can't let them get going.
You can't. Let's go, dude.
That's it. Put them in the grave.
And here's one more thing. And I'm curious when you see
why. I know you got great respect for
Soto, but when you see Juan, are we dapping up?
Are we hugging or are you like this dude left us, man.
I he's great. But yo, you left us, man, you.
You do your thing. I'll give him a big hug.
It'll be good to see him. Hopefully we contain him.
But he was, he was great for us. And he was, he was great with
us. Pride.
Pride still misses us. You think so?
You don't think he's enjoying 16 and 25 and and like 5 scrubs
around them? I mean you think he misses that?
Where's Volpe hitting today? 7th, 8th, or 9th?
8th. He's hitting eighth.
OK, Where's Jazz at 6755? Drop him down a slot, make him
earn it. All right, man, I we're.
Well, we're just a little, you know, look, he was hitting six
when he was hit 3030. And you know when G comes back
and certain things, then you know you get into a good spot
there. Hey, by the way, don't be averse
to doing it all the time. I know Goldie's been very good
for you guys. I know you love him too.
Great leader. I would bad listen.
I would start against righties. I'm going Ben Rice 1 Aaron Judge
too. That's what I would do.
You don't do it enough. Why don't you do that?
But if Shohei Otani can hit first, why can't Ben Rice?
He can't, and he has before. But I mean all the time against
righty skip all the time I would do it.
But then what's the what's, what's it look like after that?
Well, that's up to you. I mean, Bell Belly three's been
great. Bellinger's great.
He's been. Really good because a couple of
these times I've like today I only got 2 righties in the
lineup. So you start hitting judgy
second and then you've just got all these patches of runs for
lefty relievers, so. Yep, Yep.
That's where you miss kind of big G in the mix too.
Well, listen, you know that. I it's in the middle.
We, we always oversimplify this. I know, I know.
It's never as easy as as as it is.
We make it seem easier than it really is.
Dude, go do your thing. I told you guys listen.
Thank God. That's a Hall of Famer.
Who is?
Right. I, I agree with that.
I agree with that, But that doesn't mean he's been as good
as, you know, as he was early in his career.
I mean, there's a lot of hold of Famers the last 10 years they
were holding on. I'm not saying Cash is holding
on. He's great out of BT.
He's he's really good at it. Great's a little bit of a
stretch. Come on, man.
Great. Hey, 2009's been a minute,
Booney. Come on.
I. Know all right, so he's good.
He's he's a hold of Famer. We we agree on that.
He's great at it right now. He's great at.
It all right, babe, Go get a win.
I appreciate you adjusting the schedule.
Thank you for your generosity. I'll see you later, Boonie.
See you man. There you go, dude.
There he is. Of course.
The skipper, the Yankees, Aaron Boone, he's got to drop that
last thing at the end. Cash is great.
That's good, that. Was awesome, yeah.
He's the he. I love him.
I do listen and people say, oh, you're not hard on Boone, dude.
I I think that you know, because of our.
Friends definitely got some. You definitely digging a little
bit trying to dig. Come on, I'm never going to fuck
around with this stuff. Like whatever needs to be asked
is going to be asked. And he knows that.
Like really. Like I'll never forget.
I was going. It was my daughter's rec
basketball game. And the phone rings and it's
him. And one thing I won't, I should
say this too. You know, I do measure people,
not just not just on wins and losses like I and I know that
that's basically the essence of my job.
But when you have the kind of character that Aaron Boone has,
I'm going to support you now. I'm not going to, you know, I
mean, if the Yankees won 81 games this year, I'd say, all
right, it's time for change, man.
Like at some point there's a point of exploration.
But when things went down, personally came into studio with
me and Sal, I mean, he's just, he's just the real one.
He's just a great freaking guy. And I know that many of you wish
you had a different manager. You know, I think one of the
things that he said right there about the option or the
optionality is a lot of these these coaches and managers like
to you or is GM's optionality. You know, part of the reason
they appear more cut throat this year.
And I do think that they are, despite what he just said, is
that there are more options. And I don't I think that that's
been part of the issue with Brian Cashman.
And that's why in terms of the pecking order of issues, Brian
Cashman has always been far ahead of Aaron Boone for me.
Like you can, you know, listen, this is not like high school
basketball where you can have some inferior team, but you
know, you can stall and you could have come up with some
elaborate game plan and there's a massive disparity and talent.
But because you're such an innovative coach and and you
know, everything's so well oiled that you can compete at a level
that you probably shouldn't compete.
This is Major League Baseball. I mean, you get to a certain
level, you either got the horses or you don't.
And and what I've always said about Aaron Boone is that there
has not been. Now, some of you disagree with
this, and that's fine that that is fine, but I don't think that
he has ever had a season where I went into the year saying the
Yankees should win the World Series and they didn't.
Now, I thought they'd have a much better chance to get there
with Soto, but we knew the Dodgers were better now that
that Yankees didn't play well where they were not buttoned up,
kicking the ball all around. Judge the play at first base
with Cole and Rizzo, Jazz, you know, in space at second,
understood the play with Volpe and Jazz at third base.
No question about that. Yankees were not buttoned up and
the Dodgers said so. And I thought that was a bad
look for the Yankees. But the, you know, the ability
to maximize a roster, you got to have some players to lean on.
Like that's why I have I'm always going to be fair.
And Cashman, the most of the pitchers he picked up last year
have stunk. They've stunk.
But Rosario, really good addition, you know, Caballero,
outstanding addition. And to me, you know, you look
back at at the Yankee dynasty now, of course they had just
better great, more great players, obviously.
But like, are you telling me Joel Torrey was a better manager
than than Aaron Boone? I would tell you that.
Now, I can't prove one way or the other, but I would tell you
that Joe Torre had a lot more options.
And I don't just mean Tino and Jeter and Bernie and Moe and
Pettit and Clemens and Posada and Daryl and Tim Rains and
Mariano Duncan. Like I'm talking about, you
know, across the board, you know, reliable relief pitchers,
Mendoza, You know, obviously Stanton guys like setting things
up for MO. I I just feel like it's always
been more mix and match with the most recent iteration of the
Yankees. So I'm not saying that Aaron
Boone is Miller Huggins and without flaw, but I just think
that so and I do think he really mismanaged the game over the
weekend in Milwaukee, right. But I you know, in terms of the
bullpen, what he did there. I think that and I didn't have
an issue with him pulling weathers the other night.
I know some of you did. I didn't whatever.
I I just think that, you know, you are so disappointed and so
disenchanted with the fact that the Yankees haven't won since
2009, that everything becomes a target, and that's fair game.
I'm not going to tell you not to do that.
The only thing that I would say is that I think you're a little
a little misguided in some of the criticisms.
OK, That's the baseball point of view.
All right, One thing about booty that many of you don't know.
So you know, me and Sal are doing the middays that the fan
like it's one thing your your Francesor and Chris or Francesa
solo or even the morning show boomer and card, whatever it
might be, like, you know, you're going to get a manager or, you
know, a a a bit like Dolan goes on with Craig.
Obviously they've got a good relationship and obviously Mike
had, you know, hooks up the wazoo, knew everybody.
I mean, Aaron Boone drove from Connecticut in his car by him.
No entourage, no Yankee PR people, right?
Drives from Connecticut and just to hang out with me and Sal, to
play the baseball card game, just to kick it around, just,
you know, shoot the shit. That's the kind of guy he is.
And you know, that's when we were still employed.
And one of the first calls I got when the news hit was Aaron
Boone. And I actually remember pulling
over to the side of the road on my last show, the one where my
dad came on. You guys remember it?
December 19th and I talked to Boone for about 40 minutes and
we didn't talk about baseball once.
Like we talked about life and we talked about faith.
And so if any of you have an issue with the way I treat
Boone, that's just tough. I mean, you know, he's not
perfect, but that is a good man. And then when we decided and it
was my idea to get this thing going, hey, let's do a BT and
South show. Let's see if we could sell this
thing out and let's, you know, have a celebration and have a
live studio audience. You know, obviously, you know, a
lot of people were disappointed that we were gone from the fan
and it's all good. And and I'm like all the booty.
I'm like, hey, can you do me a solid?
He's like, Yep. He's like, give me some dates.
What you got? I'm going out of Tampa here.
I'm thinking late January. Guy shows up, guy drives from
Connecticut. We offered him a car we want,
you know, I had a nice luxury car service.
He's like, no, I'm good. I got it.
Drives from Connecticut, goes to Red Bank, NJ hangs out in the
green room, does a shot of vodka before we go on the stage.
Kicks it on the stage with me and Sal.
Sal getting them on, getting on them with Grisham, me getting
them on with Grisham, you know, some jazz stuff.
Just laughing. The guy is just an awesome human
being. Now, that doesn't mean that
you're the Yankee manager for 25 years.
You know, you got to win, but that is a good person.
And you know, I think if you knew him the way that I know
him, you would absolutely agree. And you know, think about some
of the things that we just did right?
Just to bring it back to baseball.
That is going to be a tough conversation, man.
If you are Weathers and they're still probably 2 weeks before
Garrett Cole comes back. But if you're Weathers or you're
Will Warren and you know, you get, hey, we got to talk man.
You going to Boone's office. And whether it's Weathers or
Warren, somebody's losing their starting job in the rotation.
And that's going to be a dent because Warren deserves to be a
starter in Major League Baseball.
And so does Ryan Weathers, who has looked dominant like 4 or 5
starts. He looks unhittable.
So, you know, and and I was surprised and I believe him, you
know, hey, any, any reluctance to have 60% of your rotation
lefties because you already have freed your Rodon's already back.
And if it's Weathers, you know, three out of the five guys are
left-handed pitchers and 65% of the hitters in baseball are
right-handed, right-handed. So, you know, they can play on
all the numbers, reverse splits and all that stuff.
He's like, Nah, he's like, I'm just looking for the best
pitcher. So I thought that was
interesting. Listen, what you just heard
there as well. Lombard's coming to the Bronx
this year. You could take that to the bank.
And I said that when they went, when he was raking a AA and they
moved him up to AAA as quickly as they did that told you he
will be in pinstripes this year. This year he will be a Yankee.
And what's going to be really interesting, and I asked him
about this and his answer told you a lot, If Jazz Chisholm
doesn't wake up, Jazz ain't playing every day.
Like they're not just going to keep running him out there.
Now, he is going to heat up at some point.
Weather's going to get warm. You know, he's already got what,
1314 steals? He's going to hit some bombs.
He's going to look better than he looks.
And I'm not a Jazz fan, but his track record tells you that he's
not going to hit 2O2 this year with an OPS of 599, whatever it
is. So he's going to get going.
But if he gets going and then he drops back down and Lombard gets
called up and, you know, and Volpe sticks or even if Volpe
doesn't play well, they get sent back to the Miners.
Caballero goes back to shortstop.
You're going to see Lombard at second base.
Like so there's so many things at play right now with the
Yankees. It is incredibly intriguing.
It really is. And the bullpen, you know, and
and it's not just about Weathers or Warren, It's about Rodriguez,
it's about Legrande, It's about, you know, other guys going into
different roles that Clark Schmidt, when he comes back in,
I would have to say late July or I didn't ask him about Clark
Schmidt. I'll get him back on at some
point. We'll have a little more time as
well. But, you know, I mean, this is
one of the reasons, and they're far from perfect, but this is
one of the reasons why I think the Yankees, if they remain
healthy, will represent the American League in the World
Series. I really do.
Now, I've got a lot of respect for Tampa.
You know, I'm not completely bury in Toronto.
You know, there's a couple of other.
You still got to play well, you still got to perform.
You still got to get it done. But you cannot tell me with this
starting rotation, a healthy Judge, a healthy Rice, you know,
better speed, better defensively.
I know everybody's worried about the bullpen, but stop worrying
about the bullpen. I'm not saying that you can't
react to blown saves like we've seen the last, you know, going
back to the Milwaukee series and the other night against the
Orioles and weathers gem. That sounds weird.
Weathers is, but it's but it's correct.
Weathers is Weathers gem was was flushed down the chute.
I get it. You got to react to it.
You're pissed off. So was I, I can.
We went for maybe watching no hitter to take it in hell.
Like, I get it. But it's May and the the version
of the Yankee bullpen now is going to be radically different
from the bullpen that tries to get those big outs in October.
Trust me. All right, J Rod, anything that
you wanted to chime in on there, buddy?
What did you take away from the Booney conversation?
I mean, I just find it to be so interesting how a coach
operates. I mean, obviously we had Pitino
on, but there's a much different level of scrutiny that you're
hitting Pitino with questions with versus a guy like Booney.
And so I think it's just awesome how it, you know, he has to
balance that level of like honesty, but also like sticking
up for his guys. I think that's just like the
most interesting part of this dynamic.
Yeah, and listen, you have to understand, I mean, having had
enough conversations with Aaron, you know, I, I know how he feels
about everybody. I, I just do, you know, I know
who he truly believes in. And listen, there there's things
that I disagree with. I I told, I told him straight
up. I'm like when you, when he said
about McMahon, if you had a little jiff of me rolling my
eyes, literally sitting in my car waiting to go watch go go
coach my daughter's rec game, I'm like, he's selling me on
Ryan McMahon. McMahon like as a hitter, I
don't mean as a fielder. I'm like, I don't I don't
believe it. I didn't buy it.
And the first month of the season I'm like, this guy is
even worse than I thought. But the one thing about baseball
and the one thing that's very similar to golf.
I mean, I guess you could probably apply this to
everything, but I think those two areas as a hitter, I guess
as a pitcher as well, but as a hitter and is trying to strike a
golf ball. When you overhaul, even if it's
not an overhaul, but a a fairly important tweak, when you do
that, you are invariably going to step, you going to step back
before you go forwards. It's just going to happen.
I'm not going to sit here and say that Ryan McMahon's going to
hit 273 this year. I'm not saying that at all.
But he just can't be an automatic out because too often
Austin Wells has been an automatic out and too often, you
know, in his Yankee career, Anthony Volpe has been an
automatic out. And if Volpe's playing, which is
going to be playing today and certainly the next week or so,
whatever, and maybe beyond that, if he plays well.
But you know, when, when you have Volpe at some sort of very
variation of or order of Volpe, Wells, McMahon, in whatever
order you want to jumble them up in, You know, if if you got
three guys sitting 2O2, I, you know, I understand you don't
have to be the 98 Yankees or the 61 Yankees or the Dodgers lineup
from last year. I don't necessarily need that.
I I don't or the Big Red Machine, but you just can't have
three guys who can't put the pole then play, you know.
So that was great, man. That was really, really good.
Everybody enjoy it. What?
Seems like it seems like people enjoyed it.
People have really gotten into in the chat a debate of whether
Giancarlo Stanton will be in the Hall of Fame or not.
That's what they take away from the conference.
Aaron John Carlos Stanton making a hold of fame guys get.
Your there's a lot of that. There's trade, there's focus
here. There's trade jazz, definitely.
I would trade Jazz in a heartbeat, you know, And hey,
there is a fine line between being overtly disrespectful to
the Yankee manager and and letting him know how I feel.
He knows I just I mean, I, I, I the the question about Jazz
being a platoon player, if this doesn't pick up, that is going
to be a very interesting development to this season
because I, you know, to me, and that's why I asked him.
I'm like, I was surprised that you guys had Lombard playing a
little bit of second base. I would have punted Volpe over
there. I mean, the arm strength is not
even comparable superior for Lombard, for Lombard, Obviously,
you know, and and Caballero defensively has been phenomenal
this year and not everybody wanted to hear it.
But I do think you know one thing when when Boone talks
about numbers, lot of Yankee fans roll their eyes.
All you had to do is all you have to do is watch Caballero
play shortstop on a nightly basis and the urgency in which
he attacks the ball, the arm strength.
Like there's a reason why I'm not saying I'm sitting here
watching every single shortstop across the board of Major League
Baseball, but comparing him to Anthony Volpe, he's just better.
I mean, the eye test, forget about the advanced analytics,
the eye test. He's just better.
So you know, it's options are really, really good and you
know, I think for the first time in a long time, I think the
Yankees actually have some options where if you don't
perform, we're not rolling you out there.
Where is back in the day. You know, what the hell we going
to do? All right, Aaron Hicks, maybe
he's not doing anything. Well, I I guess we got play them
all right. Anthony Rizzo is playing
concussed and he's hitting two O 3 for two months, but I don't
have anybody else got to put him at first base.
Or, you know, we don't have a left fielder for the 17th time
this century, Anthony Gallo strikes out 2 1/2 * a game.
But I mean, not Joey Anthony Gallo.
Shout out to my guy Gallo with the fan.
Good dude, big Knicks fan, big Johnny's guy.
I heard him on the air the other day, too.
He sounds good. I've told him that he's got a
chance to do some more shows. Good for him.
But the Joey Gallo, you know, striking out 2 1/2 * a night,
you don't have a left fielder. You got to run him out there.
So this is this all represents good.
Now there's no guarantee that they will navigate this
perfectly, but to me, the more options you have yes, the more
chances you have to make the wrong choice, but the more
chances you have to make the right choice.
So there you go. Let me just kind of let me see,
let me bump into some of these things before I get to before I
get to some of the stern stuff. But Willie under score, Long
Beach. Wow.
Willie Borelli's, my friends over at Borelli, shout out to my
guy Quinny over at Borelli's and the entire Long Beach family
Love loved Long Beach there. As a Mets fan, I hate that Boone
is so likable. He's just a nice guy.
That's all there is to it. I remember he, you know what he
is like. He's just, he's so approachable.
He's so down to earth. He's so grounded again that
doesn't graduate 30 year lifetime exemption.
I I get it. I remember and I always
appreciated this about Craig, Craig Cardin.
I remember when I first started on the fan with Tikis before Sal
Craig was Craig yeah, Craig was obviously still there and I
think I think this was before he left for TVI guess it would have
been yeah, yeah, cuz then Tiki moved in Yeah.
So he, he reached out and he's this was probably 4 years, maybe
five years ago, somewhere in that neighborhood, about 1/2 a
decade and he reaches out and you know, I've always gotten
along with Craig, but like never professed to have this great
deep friendship. I never had an issue and I like
Craig. I was texting with him the other
day. I actually said, I said, hey, I
said if you need somebody to come on and break down the
Johnny's that went over so well last time, let me know.
I'll come on with you and see Mac.
Those guys sound good. I catch him once in a while.
They said they sound good. Anyway, Craig invited me to go
to his home in New Jersey to watch the Super Bowl with my
wife and kids. And booty was going, Chris
Christie was going to be there. You know, that's his buddy.
And Aaron Boone was going to be there.
And he's like, I remember Craig's like, dude, just don't
berate him. Just don't.
Because, you know, I was getting, I was booty pretty hard
at that point. And like what I was saying, I'm
like, Nah, dude, I'm, I'm not just going to watch the game and
have, you know, have a couple beers and hang out, shoot the
breeze. My son will get a kick out of
meeting the Yankee manager. But anyway, his youngest son, I
think he had COVID and he had to cancel it.
But like, I mean, just think like, I don't know.
I'm not saying that Joe Torre wouldn't do that or I don't
know. But like the guys just go to
Craig's house to watch the Super Bowl.
He's just that kind of guy. And you see, he really is a
sports fan. Like he loves his Eagles.
You know, I hooked him up at a St.
John's game last year. He came to sad courts out at the
John's game. He just loves his basketball,
loves his football. Anyway, you know how my stand on
on on that. All right, So what do you mean
let's get the poll going here. People are are asking you get a
poll. They they, I mean, I know you
weren't the biggest fan last time.
Montage One wants me to drop a poll of how many people would
rather have jazz over Volpe. Jazz.
You know, that would be a very interesting poll, actually.
I mean, what a make it. I'll drop it.
I drop it. Let's just as long as it doesn't
look like it's from 1976. I mean, if you can make it look
somewhat modern and current and we could do it.
You know that woof. I am very curious about the
results of that poll there because yeah, get it up there,
Jay all. Right, I'll toss it up.
Because I think so many Yankee fans are done with Jazz and so
many Yankee fans are done with Hopi.
I think the difference, man, if I had to take a guess, I think
it would be very close. I think it would be like 5248,
you know, 53475446. I'll stop there so I don't mess
up the math. Favoring Volpe.
I think Yankee fans know he's a little bit more locked in.
I think there's a little bit of intrigue with Volpe eventually
moving to second base. If he could hit a little bit
more consistently and get on base, that could be an
interesting one. Could be an interesting one if
you guys. Are jazz is at 100%.
That they would rather see jazz than vote be at second?
Yep. I mean, how many votes One.
No, like 6 or 7 so far, but they're coming in.
They're coming. In that's book that's going to
flip. Oh, it's it's.
It's updated in real time. Yeah, yeah, here.
We go, all right, let's get a couple of calls on the Boone
spot. We'll get to that as well.
What else do we have? All right, let me get to the
Mets here. David Stearns.
Can you pop that up on the screen there?
So David Stearns met the media yesterday and here's what David
Stearns had to say. Quote, I do believe we can turn
it around, but we have not shown that yet.
No kidding. We've got the talent on the
roster and the character on the roster to make a run.
We'll get back to that in a minute.
There's a lot of season left. That's true.
I'm not going to say it's early. That's true.
It's not We're we're quarter into the season true.
It's not early anymore, true, But we have enough season left
to make a run. True.
I I would agree with that. And I think we've got the talent
and the character to do that. Where's the evidence of that?
You got the talent and the character.
What are you talking about? Yeah.
I mean, I mean, you basically have to say that because you're
the one who just blew up the team and and built it back up.
I mean, so no general manager who is responsible for this
overall is going to say we suck and we're going nowhere and it's
on me. I mean, obviously.
So do they have the talent? No, I don't think that they have
the talent to go on a run here. Now.
I, I would like to know what his definition of a run would be.
Are you talking about like, you know, I, I don't think it's a
lock that the Mets just win 76 games and, and bleed out and,
and trade, you know, Peralta and trade Bichette and just, you
know, do a fire sale. Then you see, you know, Clifford
up at first base and, and obviously Benjen Ewing.
Hopefully those guys are there to stay.
Like, I'm not saying you're going to see that, but where is
the evidence that they've got enough talent?
And where I think the better question is where the hell is
the evidence? They've got the character?
Where is the character of this team?
First of all, you know, it's been, you know, 40 ish games,
whatever it's been. So I think it's a little bit too
early to determine if the character is really good or
really bad, you know, and attach a, a level of of definitiveness
to it, if you will. I'm not even going to do that.
I I surmise that the characters not where it needs to be.
I surmise that the talent, I strongly surmise that the talent
is nowhere near where it needs to be.
I mean, but I don't know. I mean, listen, I will say you
can get me off. You can get Sterns off there.
I I think that, and I said this at the top of the show there.
I think that the more, and I never thought this about
Stearns, I really never thought this, but yesterday it really
hit me. You got to drop the arrogant act
here, man. It's just it's it's it's very
unbecoming. It doesn't fit you and you have
not earned the run. David Stearns does not earn the
right to walk around with an attitude that he's starting to
walk around with. I, I just, I don't, I don't see
it, man. I there's a time, you know,
remember the old show? What was it?
Let's make a deal. Door 1, door 2, door three.
I would go with door one, which is the humble route.
You know, just be humble, man. Now you do acknowledge that
there's it has not been good enough and I respect that.
I mean, jeez, I mean, that's a starting off point.
If you couldn't admit that, then we have bigger issues than, you
know, that then then we think here.
But this guy's leaning on the talent of the team and he's
leaning on the character of the team.
I mean, last year's team didn't have any character and that's
why it's been disbanded and they didn't have enough talent.
This year's team is worse. So I'm not really sure how you
sitting here saying that there's enough talent and enough
character. I, I, I just, I, I don't see it.
But he is going to dig his own grave further because many
people, I don't know where Evan stands on Sterns.
I know he's obviously disgusted, but I, I can't imagine he's been
quite as as definitive or as pointed as says Joe has his
former partner. I mean, Joe said this day one,
you know, the, the Ivy geek, which which I thought was
unfair. I mean, there's a lot of
brilliant baseball people. Not that I love the the
overwhelming infiltration of numbers and implementation of of
numbers into the game and and many of these, you know, or or
IV educated, then God bless you if you're smart enough to go to
an Ivy school. They would have laughed at me.
I mean, I wouldn't even that wouldn't even they wouldn't they
would have taken my $100, you know, whatever for the you know,
the application fee and then ripped it up and let they would
have used it. This toilet paper.
Will you kid me? I mean, God, Hey, Hey, Jay, so
you're a Syracuse guy, right, J Rod.
Now, what other schools did you apply to?
Just out of curiosity? I don't know if I.
UVM. Yeah, what's that?
University of Vermont. Oh, OK.
Oh, that's a fun school. Yeah, it's a good.
I like the, I like, I mean, Syracuse was my top choice.
Like I applied early decision there.
So when I got in, I was kind of locked in.
OK the catamounts though uvm good stuff.
UVM Delaware. George Washington kind of like
the basic. I don't know how to describe it
like the basic. Cut below Ivy N exactly
Northeast schools like. A lot of those but none, no, no
smaller schools and no massive ones.
Like I guess I applied to Penn State but I was never going to
go there or like in Indiana I don't believe I applied to.
So it was a lot of like northeast eastern sports ish
schools like. Got it, got it.
All right, so let me get those. So you got hold on Delaware,
Vermont, Obviously you went to QS Delaware, Vermont.
The GW, my one of my best friends with the GW played
baseball there. Good school.
Fun dude, I liked it down there A.
Lot dude, I had I I can't get into the detail.
I had one of the wildest weekends I've ever had in my
life when I went down to visit him at GW.
That's so funny. I remember I got there first of
all, this knucklehead is my best man at my wedding, right?
Went to high school with him. Absolute lunatic.
And now I was, so I'm up at Maris and it was during the fall
and I'm doing my fall season and he's doing his fall season, the
GW then the fall season's over. We both had a free weekend maybe
before Thanksgiving. So I, I, I mean, I, I did have a
car at that point, but I was going to drive.
So, you know, I need a dad because I didn't have a didn't
have a pot to piss in financially.
I needed my dad to, you know, get me an airline, right.
So first of all, this knucklehead sends me to the
wrong airport there. There's two airports in in the
DC area. He sends me to the wrong one,
the wrong 1. And I remember I'm like, Are you
sure this is it? Whether Dulles and then the
other one, whatever the other I'm forgot, but sends me to the
wrong one. I out and I'm like, all right,
can you take me to blah? You know, someone because he
lived off campus so and so near George Washington University.
The guy's like George Washington.
It's like an hour and 10 minutes away.
I'm like, what? So that was like 100 bucks,
which I barely had as well. Anyway, I get there and it was
like an early flight and this is how this is it.
When I I and I always had that be we we had we had so much fun
together. But this one, I knew it was
going to be an off the charts while weekend.
He left the key to his apartment with the concierge, right.
And there was a note on on the on the on the table.
And he's like, he's like, yeah, I'll be home at like noon, Like
he was still out from the night before I got home.
Yet. We had fun, man.
So GW was great. Never hung out of Delaware.
I know it's a lot of fun. I've got some friends that went
there. Good academic school.
Good, good. Just good school.
Flacco went there. It's a good it's.
The campus is beautiful. I've heard, I've heard, and
then. But how's the Vermont campus
compared to Delaware? I mean, it's certainly not as
beautiful because it's more woodland similar size.
It's pretty big. I mean, I I liked it up up there
a lot. It was just like beautiful kind
of woodland area. Burlington itself is like it's
like a pretty nice ish town. I think it's nicer than
Syracuse, certainly smaller, but it's got a cute little vibe to
it I guess. Yeah, good little basketball
team too. Who's that?
Who's that dude? Who's that, David?
Roddy. No, no, before.
And the white guy for Vermont, you going back 15 like he was
really? I know you're talking about.
Good, man, Really good. I mean, they may be wait, they
may be in Syracuse and they haven't.
They're, I mean, oh, back in the day, Gus.
No, not Gus. Y'all, if you say it, I'll know
it. Anthony Lamb, Taylor Koppenrath.
Koppenrath. There you go.
He was good. Now what year was that?
2005 Yup, his number 22 jerseys retired and he led UVM to their
first tournament win. Against Was it against Syracuse?
Let's see. I thought they beat Syracuse,
like in A-125 matchup. He was awesome.
Tyler Koppenrath was great. He was great.
I remember watching them on TV quite a bit.
Good little Gym. Yeah.
Wow, I actually played against Vermont when I was at Maris.
Syracuse in OG there you. Go.
That's much. I remember playing against
Vermont when when I was at Maris and then they dropped the
baseball team like Providence did.
Title 9 had to spread the money around.
They lost their program. See the thing and we'll get back
to the show. I remember I just applied to
basically all these schools. I mean, I was going to apply to
like what what schools were looking at me obviously for
baseball and back. I guess you could still do it
now, but the baseball coaches would just waive the the fee,
the application fee. So I think back then it was 100
or whatever it was. They would just waive it.
No way. It was 100 because I feel like
it was 30 bucks for my age. No, no, it was a much more than
30. But no, no, not that I ever
really paid it, but they would waive it.
So I would just apply to all these schools even if they
didn't, because listen, the way the recruiting goes is even if
they don't really want you, you know, they, they, they, you
know, they're going to. So I was applying to some of
these big schools like rejected, rejected, rejected, rejected,
rejected next. Oh man, is the Yankee line up
up. Let me see if I can pop this on.
I'll find it. I'll probably find this pretty
quick. Well, I mean it's got to be up
now. It's eleven O 5 here.
Let's see here go to the old twitsky a little Twitter go to
the old Yankees. Oh, here we go.
All right, not first thing that popped up.
Grisham Rice, Judge Belly, Jazz McMahon.
Well, McMahon moving up in in the line up Spencer Jones in
right field. OK, interesting there, Booney.
Then we got Jaycee Ascar. Thank God Wells is not playing.
Max Freed, Volpe 8, so Grisham one in center, Ben Rice 2 at
first. Judge DH and get him off his
feet. Good.
Getting ready for that Mets series.
Third batting, batting third DH. Bellinger left field, batting
4th, Jazz in the five spot back at second base, McMahon 6th,
third base, Jones 7 right field, Volpe 8 short and Ascara behind
the plate. Max Freed on the bump there.
So, you know, it's, you know, some of the numbers where I, I
have them written down. I didn't want to just, I didn't
want to just bombard them with just trust me.
If anybody knows how bad the numbers are with Jazz, boom
knows I'm going to geek out for a second.
It's not going to be long. But here's three things you know
about you need to know about Jazz right now.
His barrel rate right now, his barrel rate is 5%, which is in
the 31st percentile in baseball. Awful.
His weighted on base average is in the five percentile in Major
League Baseball and is expected slugging percentage in is in the
11 percentile. The 11 percentile.
Man, I'm telling you and listen, they are not going to run him
out there If they if they have a more viable option and I don't I
don't know that they will. You know, I really don't know
what to expect from Anthony Volpe.
I I'm happy he's back, man. I'm a Volpe.
I'm a Volpe fan and you know, I listen, Sal would always get on
me with this. I would always.
I just have a soft spot for local kids going back to Mark
Jackson, you name it. I mean, I just to me, it's, you
know, if you're a local kid and we went to high school 15 miles
from where I'm sitting right now.
We grew up a Yankee fan, first round pick, shortstop Bill
Barton. Come on.
And no, played with like wit and all those guys, Henderson, like
Team USA, all those teams growing up the ranks, those like
15 and 16 year old team, junior Olympic stuff, whatever.
He's not playing like a first round pick.
And there comes an expiration point like, yeah, like there was
a conversation last year, should the Yankees send them down?
Should the Yankees send them down to the end?
I said no, I do not believe there's any value with him being
sent down. I just, I didn't believe it
then. And and and they didn't do it.
Now, maybe it's the wrong move. Maybe if they would have done
it, something would have clicked.
I still don't think so because until Anthony Volpe goes through
a complete overhaul of his approach and his mechanics where
he's not chasing loft and you know, he's more flat through the
zone and more to right center field and letting the ball get
deep and getting on base and not whipping its sliders in the
dirt. So it's all one and then found
it. The fast found the fastball
letter high cuz it's a little bit high.
You can't get on top of it. It's all two and now you're
dead. When you're O2 in Major League,
I don't give a shit who you are. You're dead.
It's over. Like the, the, the, the drop.
If you look at the hitter's counts, even one O, there's a
real favorable advantage. 102-0213 O3 one versus O1O212.
It is a massive disadvantage from a hitter's perspective when
you when you get that hole there because it just opens up so many
more pitches and the ability to expand the zone because you're
not going to walk somebody if you throw it 7 inches off the
plate. But somebody like Volpe or Wells
or, you know, maybe a Spencer Jones or Dominguez, those young
guys are going to swing at it. And, you know, the evidence has
not been there that there's going to be enough growth for
Volpe. But I'm I'm to justify him, you
know, staying around and let's face it, you know, if he didn't
get hurt still in AAA right now, that's all there is to it.
And you know what was both these numbers collectively here played
nine games in AA and nine games in AAA and his average, I
believe combined 205 with a 580 OPS.
Like it's not like I feel a little bit better if he had, you
know, 5 double S hitting 312, eight steals, like just
terrorizing minor league. But now I know it's his spring
training. I get that.
And and I'm sure, I mean, I shouldn't say I'm sure, but
like, say if the Yankees would have sent him to the minors last
year and but he was still fully in rhythm and you know, he was
playing every day at the big league level, just wasn't
playing well. And then he go to the minors and
there's just not the quality of pitching that there is in the
bigs. I'm pretty sure Volpe would have
hit like I I would think, but he did not hit in the minors.
So he it wasn't based on merit. It was based out of necessity
and based on circumstances here. And you know, Caballero's a dog.
Like you don't you don't care about about Volpe.
He's trying to plant his flag as a major leaguer, trying to get
paid instead of being a super sub like he was with Tampa and
like the Yankees had designs on him being when they acquired him
and like he was when he first got here.
You know, a little right? Little second, little short,
little third, bounce around, little pinch run.
So he's trying to get the bag and yeah, I'm not saying he's
going to get $100 million, but you know, if Caballero puts up a
season where he steals, you know, I mean, he always steals
bases, 40 something steals. I'm just throwing numbers out.
You know, he's got four or five home runs now, 1415 home runs,
hits 265 on base at a much higher rate than Volpe and and
plays a superior shortstop, which he's been great so far
this year. As I said, you know, whenever
it's time for, you know, the pre orb is up and he's going to
yeah, if he does that for 2-3 years, you know, you're going to
get, you know, a three-year deal for, I don't know, 153045 ish,
$1,000,000 in in the in at least in the ballpark.
So I don't care about Volpe. He didn't care about Bill
Barton. He doesn't care about New
Jersey. He doesn't care about the local
boy, cares about himself. And he did not want to go on the
IL. And I know he protested
vigorously with Boone. I guess Boone said that.
I was watching his pregame press conference last night, the
dugout in Baltimore, He's like, yeah, like, you know, it was not
easy. He didn't want to go.
And the last thing that he said when he was leaving the
clubhouse last night, he's like one day down, 9 days I'm back.
Like, this guy is hell bent on coming right back.
And if Volpe doesn't play, well, it's a very easy decision
because he did not earn the elevation here based on
performance. So if he's, you know, 2O3180
couple of strikeouts, if there's no other injuries, you know,
knock on wood, Volpe's going back down to the minors.
It just is. You'd have to think, no, it's
certainly not going to play every day.
Like now. We are absolutely past the point
of if you don't perform Volpe. And it's it's been kind of the
mantra of the 2026 Yankees. Even though Booty said there is
no more urgency. I see it differently.
You know how I feel. I think there is more urgency.
We'll see. How's the poll doing, by the
way, Why'd you take it down? Oh, I took it down just because,
you know, make sure for the content.
Come on, it's looking clean when we when we drop that Stern
segment. Oh, I got look at you.
Can you update what do? We got here Jazz 67, Volpe 33.
You guys would, yeah. I mean, listen, Jazz has a
little more life in the bad. I get it, but you know, I'm just
basically the comments are not very hot on Volpe I.
Have to No, I know they're not. I know.
Why would they be? I mean, there's no.
Evidence or there's not enough evidence.
I get it. Listen, there is an expiration
point on everything. You're always going to get more
room, more runway if you're a first round pick.
Like let let's see if The Jets are whomever they draft, you
know, arch whatever they do with the draft next year, 2027,
whatever quarterback they get, you know, in in round one.
You know, you'd have to imagine they'll do that unless Klubnick
winds up being the guy, which you know, whatever the that
evaluation, you know, it's it's going like Darnold, you know,
got, although Darnold didn't get as much.
I mean, Zach got a little more room, but you get somebody like
Brady Cook or somebody like Mike White, you get a couple of games
and if you know, if you are not drafted or barely drafted,
you're out. Like so many of these decisions,
you know, and fans don't want to hear it, but it matters or tied
to the economics and the investment in terms of draft
equity and what kind of contract you have.
That's just that's life dude. It's the way it goes, you know?
So I cannot shake this cold man. Crazy.
You have been fighting that thing man.
Little bit right? Get some water.
Here, Jay, what else is cooking? Yeah, What are people saying
about Stearns? I mean, this guy up there trying
to recreate the rooms? Let me see.
Let me jump back to the Stearns. GWGW Well, here's one Alonzo's
comment about. Stearns made.
My day. Great.
I mean, it was great. Yeah.
Willie and Long Beach. How about we get somebody?
Other than Willie and Long Beach, I love Willie.
I love Long Beach too. But yeah, there's no doubt about
that. That was, yeah.
Now that was a couple of years ago.
What he said publicly is he's bit his tongue and he said the
right thing because, you know, when the Yankees first played
Baltimore S&Y, rightfully so goes out there.
Hey, you know, what do you think about that?
Same thing with Brandon Nimmo when the Rangers came to the
Bronx. You got to get those sound
bites. You got to get those clips.
But man, I mean, I I would love to have heard, you know, Pete in
in real time say what he said there.
How about Avery Summit checking in?
Speaking of GM attitudes, when will Cashman admit he he aired
with his Volpe take in the preseason?
Let's see Oh Oh yeah, in that little fight, a little back in
fight strong. How about contentious exchange
with John Heyman a couple of years back?
I don't know that he's ever going to admit that.
You know, I really, because think about this, he's either
going to come back now and play well and then what he might do
is take a victory lap at that point.
If he does play well, that he would do right now.
And if he doesn't play well, well, then it's on to the next
point, as Jay-Z would say. And then he just kind of, you
know, if the Yankees are doing well and the Yanks are winning,
well then it's a non story and you bury it in the side of the
corner of the room. So no, I would not anticipate
that that that Brian Cashman would would willingly go back to
that. Now let's say that the Yankees
fall short of the World Series this year and it's the end of
the year press conference, state of the Yankees, offseason plans,
all that stuff. And they hold the that that
press conference, which they always do.
And when Boone speaks and, you know, maybe Hal would say
something, you know, Cashman wouldn't be able to run and hide
from that. That wouldn't be primary.
I mean, at this point, Volpe is just, yeah, he's the seven or
eight hitter. He's he's a role player.
He's not the lead off hitter we hoped he would be.
He's not a primary part of the team.
I mean, the Yankees have, you know, the best record in the
American League in a + 72 run differential, which is second
best in baseball behind the Braves.
And Volpe hasn't seen one pitch. So it's not like they can't
function without Volpe. But yeah, that would come up at
some point. And I would be curious, but he
is stubborn. He, Brian Cashman is stubborn as
a mule. He is.
And you know the crazy thing about Cashman?
And I would really, I would, I'd really love to get Brian on the
show. I, I, I don't know that he would
come on the show. I don't know.
I've talked to Brian probably, let's see, I think 3 times I've
interviewed him once back in the day, once back on the day, once
back in the day on 1050 years ago.
I think it was all over him for the that was contentious.
I think they were all contentious.
Let's see. Then I had him on, I believe
once with Tiki and then once with Sal on the fan.
Oh, yeah, no, we definitely had him on the fan at least once.
And if it was only once on the fan, then it was twice a 1050.
But no, I definitely interviewed him.
And you got to watch him because, you know, listen, if
anybody knows about rambling and turning a short story into a
long one, it's it's me. I, I get that.
I own that. But I mean, Cashman could just
go on. You ask him a you got to be
quick, You got to listen. Like the thing about Cash is
when you have them and you ask him the question, you know, you
get a little filibuster going on here.
Let's let's make sure, let's not deviate.
Let's go, let's let's go. All right, Cash, all do, Brian.
I don't mean, I don't mean to interrupt there, Brian, all due
respect. And you got to get it back on
the road. Otherwise this guy's hijacking
it. Like he could go on.
Brian Cashman could give you a 2 1/2 minute answer and it could
sometimes be a non answer. But funny, I actually do like
the guy and I do respect him. I do.
I absolutely respect Brian Cashman's career.
And you know, Boone was saying he's great at the end.
No, he's not. He's not great, but he's had a,
he's not great now and he's not been great for a while.
With all due respect to Boone and Cash, but he's had a great
career because he's in the Hall. He's going to be in the Hall of
Fame. He's a Hall of Fame executive.
That to me is undeniable. Yankee fans flinch when I say
that. Yankee fans protest.
Yankee fans roll their eyes tough.
I mean, if you do that, if you can't acknowledge that all the
years now Watson and and stick Michael built the first part of
the dynasty, obviously, and then but you know, Cashman has has
distinguished himself the the fight that the last two
championships after that and then obviously O 9 and even
getting to the World Series in O3 and getting to the World
Series in 2024. You know, I'm not here to defend
the guy. I mean, if anything, I've got
I've got more issues with him that I've got more good things
to say, but man, I would love to get him on the show.
I don't know. I don't know if he thinks is he
beneath coming on a YouTube show?
I don't know no one. Just come off, Listen, no, I
feel like most and most people. Aren't like.
That anymore because a YouTube show to me is like kind of like
a higher thing than most other programs now.
Oh, I agree with that. No, and certainly in terms of
reach and all that other. Stuff, yeah, but I I don't know.
I'm trying to remember the last time we had them on.
It was it was we we get after it a little bit there, a little bit
back and forth, But that's that's another good thing about
cash. But like he'll let you go like
he might internalize it and like personalize it like when he
walks away like this motherfucker, I can't stand this
guy. Like, why did I do that?
I'm sure there's a little bit of that.
But he does let you, you know, jab and he'll spar with you and
I've always appreciated that. I really, I really phook your
couch. Sterns doesn't have any answers
right now. And going to be in front of the
cameras is and going in front of the cameras is death.
Well, don't sign up for the job. You know what New York's all
about? You win.
Those cameras are great. You lose.
Those cameras are a death trap is what it is.
We all know the deal. We all know the score.
What do we got here? The match, The Mets, The Mets.
The Mets. The Mets.
Will win two games against.
The Yankees, good luck. I mean, listen, I'm not going to
sit here and say, no, they won't.
I mean, it's baseball, Susan. I I mean, they very well could.
I mean, if you told me that this is the heart, the start of a
little, you know, energetic streak here for the Mets seas to
get their act together a little bit, I'm not going to shut the
door on that possibility. I mean, there was a reason why I
thought the Mets would win 91 games.
I, you know, I wasn't sitting here saying the Mets were going
to be, you know, trash, some wretched outfit, some comedy
show of errors. You know, I didn't think they'd
be great. I didn't think they'd win the
division, but I thought they'd be a playoff team.
Let me just see if this would even come up here.
See if I can get an advanced look at the Yankee Met pitching
matchups here. Let me see if I can get this.
I should be able to. I've done it before.
All right. Now I got it.
All right, so where we at here? Why is that not OK?
I got it. All right.
So obviously Fried's going today.
Schlittler. I mean, how about that?
I mean, and then think about when Cole comes back.
Fried, Schlittler, Cole, bang, boom, boom.
Chew on that. Fried and Schlittler.
So we got free today, 1:05 first pitch.
Then we've got Slitler. Yeah, that is going to be
filthy. That is going to be awesome,
man. Friday night we got Roldan.
Yeah, yeah. And we got.
Roldan. You know, I like Roldan, I love
him, but I like him a little bit more than some of you guys do.
I mean, you show him no respect. The guy's a competent, above
average Major League pitcher and he doesn't have to be the ace
and he doesn't have to be the number two or the three.
He's fine. That's how he's got six years to
go on the deal. So easy with the Rodon hate, but
freed today. Love to see the Yankees win this
one man. How about Judgey a little three
run bomb. How about Volpe a little, you
know, couple and here we go couple of the singles, couple of
the steals, you know, maybe Benny ball game, but two run
gapper, you know, we got we got freed now let's have him go 7 to
the 3rd 8 strikeouts, one walk, four hits.
Yankees win 7 to 1. Nice tidy win.
No high leverage relief pitchers necessary.
Easy lifting before the day off Roll into Queens.
Schlittler rolled on Weathers. Yeah.
And then how about Weathers against Soto?
I mean, Soto's great, but Weathers is an uncomfortable at
Batman. That dude is just.
I would. I would, I would not really want
to. I don't know what he's going to
do with the rotation. I mean, I asked him.
Everybody wants to know. It's still to be determined
because Cole's not yet back. So I get it.
You don't need the immediate answer.
If I'm them and nothing, nothing changes negatively and they've
got to make a decision, which they have to eventually.
I go back and forth. I, I do vacillate on this
because I, I look at Will Warren as a staple of the Yankee
rotation for, I don't know, 5-6, seven years.
He's young, he's good. And then I watch Weathers pitch
and I'm like, the guy sometimes is untouchable.
So, you know, and he's a lefty and he throws gas and he's got
that, that weird why the where he conceals the ball.
Very athletic delivery. So I I mean, good luck to that
man. It it's going to be it's going
to be a tough choice. And I don't know what they're
going to do. I really don't.
All right, we get some calls here.
I was at 11/20 shows flying. We started early today.
So let's get a couple of calls, get a couple of more chats.
Who's first up today, Jay, what do you got?
Got our friend Benji from Upper East Side.
Benji, I hope. I hope Now I don't really know.
I don't know if. Benji is a Yankee or a Met guy.
I know he's a big Nick guy. Benji, what's going on, bud?
What's up BT? Hey, yeah, sorry.
I couldn't call in the last couple days.
I I I've been this has been an insane week of of scouting and
rest for the next scouting. OK, coach Believe.
Me, I'm scouting. As far as the Yankees go, I'm
actually a huge. Yankees fan Nothing touches the
Knicks for me. Obviously, they're my heroes,
but when I was a younger kid, I used to do birthday parties in
the Yankees box. So I used to have a bunch of
friends. We'd rent out my family.
My father would rent out the box in the metal hall.
Jesse Barfield days. Yeah.
How much? I mean, so this guy growing up
the right way we would. Go to Burger King and do pin the
tail on the donkey. This guy sitting in the Yankee
suite with ten of his buddies. Lucky you, I was in a 8 year old
kid but. And I remember how bad we were
back in the day. Oh, so you talk in late 80s?
You talk in Barfield. Mel Holes, you said Stump
Merrill, right? Andy Hawkins.
Actually. Actually, it's funny because.
I referred to not not exactly a family member of mine, but there
was sort of a related a related person in a family event and and
I and I said to them as a young kid, I said, you look like Stump
Merrill. They're a little bit offended by
that. I mean had no neck, man.
I mean, I can understand why it looked.
It kind of looked like Shrek, you know, like, you know, like
that big, thick neck and stump was a baseball life for all.
Respect. All right, So what do you think
about the Boone spot? What'd you take away from what
Aaron said? I loved it, I think.
I think Aaron's. Personality really comes
through. He's a really relatable, down to
earth person. He's there's no pretentious
aspect to him whatsoever. I think those types of people
are super refreshing. You know, obviously when you ask
him .2 questions, it's difficult for him to say, oh, this guy's
better than this guy, of course, but but, but, but I think, yeah,
I think a phenomenal. Job by both you.
I think we have to be thrilled with whether the Yankees are out
of 27 and 16. They've had a couple minor
losing streaks. I think one of six games, one of
four games, I think it was 5. I think they lost five straight
at that point. I thought it was 5.
Either way, no, no worries. But but yeah, I mean, they're
the. Pitching.
The pitching has been very a big pleasant surprise with Will
Warren's got a 1.16 WHIP. Schlittler's been, you know, one
of the the best, if not the second best pitcher in the
American League so far. We don't even have coal.
We know Rodon is good. With a.
Caveat is he's my biggest issue with Rodon is that he has those
games where he he kind of unwinds, where you'll see him,
where he'll be like he can't get it out and it's 66 hitters in
and the guy's drenched. In sweat.
And it's been 30 minutes and he can't get it out.
And you're just like, oh. My God.
Well, but then listen. That's why he is not an ace and.
Even though the Yankees kind of paid him, you know, that big
money to to got to to be the Co ace with Gerrard Cole, you know,
you don't need him to be that guy.
I mean, if listen, he's not going to be the 5th starter, but
he's the what? Once there is the, you know, the
return of Cole and then whatever recalibration of the starting
rotation they wind up doing. I mean, Carlos Rodan's going to
be going up against a lot of fours and fives from other teams
and they don't have somebody like Carlos Rodan.
I mean, very few teams do the back of the rotation.
That's a great point. I I think as far as the.
The bullpen goes my my favorite, my honestly my favorite league
pitcher. And this goes for last year.
Fernando Cruz. I love him.
I've always said that. I love his fire.
Yes. Obviously he loses control at
times. Walks a couple guys, he has a
blip here and there, but but overall he can be unhittable.
He he and and Tim Hill has been absolutely mesmerizing so far.
He's got a 1 ERAI got to tell you man and and Benji, let me
get bouncing here. We'll talk.
Nick's obviously have fun watching the Cavs or the Pistons
doing that scouting. Good job on that, coach.
I appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon.
Thanks, man. You got it, buddy.
So Tim Hill, I I don't know if I I don't know if I said this on
the air the other day, he comes in and my son's like, God, Tim
Hill. See, I'm like, dude, you got to
put some respect on this guy's name.
I understand he doesn't look the part like he's not, you know,
some big flame throwing. You know, stop clowning Tim
Hill. Like I'm saying to myself, you
only wish that you could at some point get to what Tim Hill's
doing in the majors. Tim Hill is a Yankee, has been
phenomenal. He has been absolutely
phenomenal, man. He knows his role.
He's incredibly reliable. I just want to look something
up. And so there will be no
including in my house. There will be no Tim Hill
slander. I'm not here for it.
I mean, come on already. I mean, Jace, he just, he
doesn't elicit the most confidence, you know, And the
thing about as I'm looking something up, the thing about
Fernando Cruz, who I've always likes, I do love his energy.
But when you are a splitty, when you're a splitty guy, you know,
the feels got to be there. And if the feels not there from
the outset, you're going to have issues, which is why I really,
you know, and they don't do it a ton.
But like when Cruz comes in with a man on base, you know, get
them out there 6th inning, 7th if necessary until the bullpen
gets reshaped, which it will. And then, you know, let them see
if that splitter is is starting at the right spot and then, you
know, dart into the proper spot. Because if it's starting too
low, it's not going to present itself as a strike.
It's going to hit the dirt. If it's starting too high and
they recognize the spin, obviously it's a different kind
of a spin. It's a tumble.
And if it starts high and then it, you know, by the time it
drops, it's it's, it's in the letters, it's in the wheelhouse.
Then Cruz is going to get hit a little bit, but his splitter is
awesome. But it's just, it's like every
pitch. It's not always there.
Now, if you're a sinker guy or a cutter guy like MO or I mean,
nobody was just MO with the cutter and then everybody else
wishes they had most cutter, but you know what I mean.
Or heavy curveball reliant or sweeper, more modern baseball,
you know, I think it's easier to get that feel the split finger,
you know, outside of Bruce Souter, back of the day with the
Cardinals and a couple of others, Rodger Craig, like 4
ball splitter. It it's, it's a little hit or
miss, but I do I'm with Benji. I am a huge Fernando Cruz fan.
I this guy loves being a Yankee. You know, he's a dog.
I look at his numbers as a Tim. I mean, this is this is
ridiculous, man Tim Cruise been here.
Tim Cruise, Tim Hill's been here three years, right?
He's got a 2.44 ERA and spits in 125 games.
I mean, they roll them out there a lot and his WHIP is barely
over 1. Doesn't give up a lot of hits,
doesn't get barreled a ton and doesn't give up a lot of walks.
You know, So really, they'd actually like, I'm, you think
I'm joking, but it didn't like when my son said that.
I'm like, dude, stop enough. Like, you know, you watch enough
of the Yankees, you know, you got to stop dumping on this guy.
Yeah, I know it's it's you know, it's not Goose or it's not MO
whatever or it's not, you know, Chapman years ago.
Guy's pretty good. So Miami Tim Hill fan and I'm a
cruise fan as well. What else we got here, Jay, let
me get some of these tweets or or or chats, whatever it is.
How are we doing with the with the poll here?
I haven't had it up yet since SO.
I mean everyone answering the answering the one or two in the
chat for the poll, but still looking at the same numbers.
All right, this is an interesting thought.
You know I didn't get. Into this with with Boone, you
know, maybe I could have I only had 30 minutes and wanted to get
all the other stuff how to cram it in so we couldn't really mess
around like I wanted to have some fun.
We'll get them back on more, you know, longer format and if they
didn't change the game time that we would have had a longer
format. But anyway, out-of-the-box this
is a good question. With Cole's age, recent injury
history, low walk rate and bulldog mentality, which is
true, why not put him in the closest role for 2026?
We got more than enough starters for now.
Need major bullpen boost. It is a very fair thought.
I think it would be a good move. I don't think there's any chance
it's happening. You're just not doing it now.
You're going to ride out Gerrit Cole for the length of his
contract, which I think is 2 more years this and one more.
I believe it's obviously more on the short term side.
It's a starter now. We've seen this in the past with
Johnny Smoltz. It's not happening here.
I just, no, I don't I don't see it at all.
But Avery, I, I'm with you. I wish I would have asked him.
That would have been interesting if he would have just been like,
dude, are you what? Or, and that's probably what he
would have. That's what I would say.
Like if I'm sitting in the Camden Yards manager's office
talking to me and I get asked the question and I'm the manager
of the Yankees, a skip any thought about moving Gerard Cole
to the closing role? Like, what are you, an idiot?
Like, that's probably what I would have said or at least
thought. But it's not an idiotic thought.
It's actually a very sound baseball query, like really
like, I don't I don't know. I don't know.
Who do you like in the game tonight?
I got to start wrapping things up.
I got things to do today. I wanted to get boot on.
You got the Pistons or you got the Cavs.
Pistons laying 4 1/2. It's in Detroit series title 2.
You were wrong on the last one. I know that's what I mean.
And so now I'm like. All right, tonight, Pistons won
last. Wait.
Cavs won the last game. Cavaliers won the last game.
Yeah. Remember we had Cunningham in
Detroit. Rough game, 5 turnovers, 9 for
19 shooting and Mitchell had 43. Because it's like, you know, are
the Pistons going to have that? Comeback or are the Cavs going
to kind of keep their foot on the gas?
I'll take the Pistons. I'll take the Pistons.
Get a ride the home team tonight.
Yeah, why not? Why not?
I think I. Go ahead.
I'm sorry. Finish.
Up your thought no, that I. I guess that's what I didn't do
last time and. So that's where I'm going to
correct my mistakes. I think I agree with you now.
In a perfect world, you know, I it's almost like I want the
Pistons to win tonight because if the if the Cavaliers, Well,
yeah, if the Cavaliers were to win tonight and not only am I
going to pick the Pistons, but I'm going to lay the four and a
half there, give you a little little pop on that.
I'd say Pistons by about 8:00 or 9:00.
But if the Cavs win, I'm just thinking solely from a Knick
point of view because that's all I care about with this if the
Cavs win. Now, I'm not saying the Pistons
couldn't go to Cleveland and win, but you would think that
there's a greater chance that the Cavs will win the next game
at home. So if and especially with
desperation, maybe a little more friendly whistle kind of stretch
that series out from the NBA's point of view.
If the Pistons lose tonight and the Cavaliers go up 32, you
know, there's there's a, I don't know what percentage, but decent
chance the Cavs win the next game.
And then they they they win four games to two play Sunday and I'm
looking to go 7. I want this.
Thing just keep. Hitting each other, let those
bodies get tired, You know, a couple of hard fouls, a couple
of bumps and bruises. I don't want anybody to get
really hurt. But, you know, a couple, like
the Knicks have some bumps and bruises with Cat always hitting
the deck and Brunson's ankle and obviously OG's hammy.
You know, Bridges is a massive big minutes guy.
You want him to rest up a little bit more.
Even though he's an Iron Man, I'm not worried about him, you
know, getting tired. But the more rest they have, the
better for the Knicks here. So I I think from a Knick point
of view, I think it's better if the Pistons win.
Yeah, I'm winning. But even aside, like really even
aside from that, I just think the Pistons will win.
And I think the Piston, I'll still win the series.
I'll take him tonight just because I think of that poor
performance. Last game.
I think Kate will be back with a monster game tonight.
Yep, Yep. Yeah.
Listen, Cade's got to do a better job protecting the ball
when they were running that second defender with that trap
and and give the cavity because sometimes it was hard.
There's not a good defender, but he is 6566.
So when he's that second guy coming over, getting his arms up
and when you trap somebody, you play, listen, you play
basketball. You know, if you trap them right
as they come across the timeline and they're in the middle of the
court, you know, you go left, you go right.
Passover and Cade 66 we could Passover you, 65 Passover you.
But when you start running that second guy and the timing is
perfect and it's it's precise and you're buttoned up and now
you're using basically the the end line, the, you know, the the
out of boundaries by the benches as another defender.
Well, you got the out of bounds is the third defender.
Basically you got the two guys who are converging on cave.
He's got to recognize that quicker because the Cavaliers,
but when they were doing that, they made him look very
uncomfortable. Even plays that didn't go as
turnovers. The offense lack continuity and
he didn't shoot well and they got him off his rhythm.
So now you talk about adjustments, and in the series
at this point, it's always about adjustments after somebody does
something to you that you either don't react well to or don't
anticipate or both. I'm very curious.
And Bicker stabs very good. Cunningham's going to be a
superstar in this league, but he's had a lot of games where
he's turned it over a lot. I was like, you can't like five
times the other night he had a game with eight in the prior
series, you know, so we'll see that little bit of Westbrook.
Yeah, a little bit. We we, we saw that from a
different kind of players, as you know, big time.
Yeah, just on the turnover front, but.
Also all the, you know, all the not all of them, but a lot of
these ball dominant point forwards now will usually always
end up leading the playoffs in turnovers like 2024 Tatum and he
I guarantee he still holds the record for most turnovers in a
in a playoff run. No.
Well, well, I we'd have to define that, because then we
get. In the weeds now, but in in a
playoff series, no run, run, run in an entire run I.
I think Tatum has that record by like a mile really from 2024.
Dude was throwing it. He was, he was getting assists
for the. Back in the day, I swear.
I, I, I'm not saying that, no, I'm not saying he wasn't sloppy
with the ball, but. Let me see Tatum.
I got to find the game log. This could take a second.
What? What year were we talking about?
Tatum 2021? 2022 the Warriors run actually
funny enough, he had 100 turnovers during the run.
He beat LeBron out by 6. Yeah, he beat LeBron out by 6 in
in 20/17/2018. All right, let me see.
So dude, he was you talk about the just the playoffs.
Right, just the playoffs, 100 turnovers.
You know what? Yeah, why?
You nailed it exactly. Look at Jay.
Oh no, I mean, I remember that dude because then like.
I mean, you know, that's a pretty tragic season for me.
Not tragic. We made the finals and we were,
Yeah, what am I saying? Dude, I'm blessed.
But we made the finals and we got and we got smacked up by the
Warriors. But I just remember this dude
was just throwing it over and it's because we had Marcus.
Smart as the point guard at the. Time, you know, I remember.
I like sport, all right? I mean, I like, I loved.
Him in college and he was tough all right, so first round
against the Nets averaged 5 turnovers in the in the
four-game suite. The next round against
Milwaukee, I think that was 6, but that's 73.
No, that was 7. He averaged 3.4, and then the
next series against the Heat, that was also a deep series,
averaged 4.7. Rounded up, that's five so so
far. Two of the first three playoff
series he was in, he averaged 5A game.
That's a lot. Pays to break the record if he
played the same. Amount of game, that's where I
was kind of going, yeah. And.
Then. Six and then the Warriors, I
think that was a six game. Series let me see was it wasn't
seven with three Yep, Yep, six games and he averaged 3.8
turnover. So that is a lot of times you're
giving it to the wrong team and you're right, you know, you
know, luckily, you know Cade will not have that opportunity
because he will not get to the NBA Finals, if he even gets to
the conference finals. We'll see, which I think he
will. I yeah, I still think they'll
make the conference rounds, but no.
If they are playing the way they are looking currently and the
Knicks continue to play even a semblance of what they're
playing, I like I, you know, I'm one who's hopeful that the
Knicks will continue this level of play.
But I, I don't know if you can expect 57% from three on any
given night or something. Of course, you can't expect
that, you know? Well, there's no way.
But you can't you I don't. Even think that you.
Can really expect 80% of the way the Knicks are playing right
now? No, no, no.
I mean, what what the Knicks are doing, the Knicks are.
Establishing playoff. Records.
Oh, forget about franchise records.
I mean, the Knicks are establishing all time playoff
record margin of victory. I mean, what what they are just
annihilating every but they won by 51 points in a playoff game,
dude. I mean, that's like, you know, I
don't know, that's like Alabama playing some poor by game in in
September in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa.
And they win, you know, 66 to 6 because they called the dogs
off. I mean, this is not common stuff
here. No.
And now I I think of course the numbers will drop from an
efficiency point of view. Now you hope they don't drop too
much and I don't think that they will.
But what I don't want to see change.
And we'll get more into this, obviously, as we know who
they're playing and we start to ratchet things up for the
conference finals from a Knick point of view.
But they just can't change their style.
They've got to remain. Now, the other teams will make
some adjustments. I get that.
And and the Cavaliers are different personnel wise than
the Pistons. Cavs are longer.
Pistons are stronger and and and a little tougher, a little more
stout, a little bit more physically, you know, resolute
inside the paint. You know, Allen's skinny, Mobley
skinny, whatever. But the point is, is that
whomever they play, they better not deviate too far away from
still funneling things through Karl Anthony Towns.
That's not going to change. And if it does, they're not
going to win. Yeah, I don't think simple.
I mean, simple as that. I feel like they've.
Figured out, you know, the way this guy is most, I don't know
if it's the most comfortable cat is with playing, but it sure
seems like it's it's an area where he's very comfortable.
Top of the key dishing it out, that being that kind of
facilitator as a player. So yeah, man.
All right, man. All right.
I think we're getting ready to wrap it up on.
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championship game, if the draft is our Super Bowl.
I mean the schedule release is, is kind of like the, you know, a
while at least a wild card game. I'm excited, man, I am excited.
So it's going to be me and Rich and Jake that'll be tomorrow and
I know Rich has to just finish and following up the story
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softball game. J Rod, 20 to my goodness.
Yeah, no, you get a lot. Well, I guess not really.
Yeah. Defensively, that must have been
an eyesore. Well, I mean, they're, they're
so young. They're nine years old.
Man, they're, they're cuties, they're awesome and I coach some
of them on the rec teams. I love watching them and played
the lady Knights, but we we dropped a tough one there.
But when I was I just got to the game and I sit in my folding
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I'm getting ready to spit out bottle of water, watch the girls
get after it and I get a text from Boone.
He's like, they just they just they just changed the time of
the game. I can't do tomorrow.
I'm like, or he's like, I don't think I could do tomorrow.
I'm like, oh, man. And then I texted J Rod.
I let him know what was going on.
I texted Aaron, I'm like, because he was going to come out
at 10:30 and, you know, I said, well, what about maybe 9:30?
What about 10? And he's like, I could do 10.
I'm like, awesome, dude. I mean, just just the guy.
I mean, I got like, like, that's like, like, like he's got to do
that, you know what I mean? Could have easily been like,
dude, it's just not going to work out logistically.
Come on. You know, we're going to wrap up
this series. You know, I want to make sure we
win the series. I'm a little bit busy.
We'll hook up in a couple of weeks.
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