The Yankees have to figure out how to reclaim their baseball smarts and winning-is-everything fight.
Because pretty much unless you are, say, The Big Red Machine, or a few of the dynastic Yankees clubs, you do not belong in the same sentence as the 1998 Yankees.
As Jeter said: “What made the 1998 team great was that every single day we wanted to beat you. … We were competing against ourselves.” And it’s hard to believe any franchise, from players’ first day in the organization to what is emphasized in the majors, has taken a harder dive philosophically into that approach than the Yankees.I will offer an example. I asked Clarke Schmidt if, from the moment he was drafted in the 2017 first round, any minor league executive or coach ever talked to him about the mindset and skill set needed to pitch seven innings or more in the majors.
Sometimes when a pitcher takes the mound, his team’s bullpen was blown out the game before his start and an opener is going the next day. That pitcher’s job is to win, and the most valuable element is to get 21 outs. That is a skill that will be needed in the majors. Schmidt called it “a forgotten part of the game.” He is first learning how to embrace that mindset in real time in the majors after hearing about it from a fellow player.
If you keep training players that baseball is tennis, then you will get tennis players who have no feel for the collective necessities of pitching deep or shortening up to get a runner home from third with fewer than two outs rather than taking three “A” swings as if the scoreboard doesn’t matter.The Yankees have filled their minor league ranks with theorists who speak the modern lingo.
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