The Yankees have steadily dug themselves into this hole over years of dubious moves. There is not one magic move that is going to fix this.
So what should they do?1. Don’t con themselves. In a room together, a bunch of executives in job-protection mode could probably delude themselves that Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo incurred the kind of freak injuries that the greatest organizations in history could not prevent — running into a concrete slab that for some reason was not padded and jamming a head against a retreating runner’s leg on a pickoff play at first.
The Yankees can try to sell themselves that this was just a weird year. Look at how many all-in disappointing teams there were like the Cardinals, Mets and Padres. They can play the “everything that could go wrong did go wrong and we still finished over .500” card as a symbol of resilience or institutional know-how or fill-in-the-upside blank.
Cashman said injuries were at the heart of many of the plummets. Also, it is not like, say, for example, Andujar, Bird or Frazier went on to success elsewhere. Maybe they are Yankees success stories — i.e., that the organization got anything out of them. The Yankees had just gotten too old, unathletic and one note. There were times this year in which the Yankees played the Orioles and were so Jurassic that it looked like the Minneapolis Lakers vs. the Showtime Lakers. From this young group, the Yankees need energy/athleticism and a diversity away from righty hitting — Cabrera and Dominguez are switch-hitters and Wells, Jones and Sweeney left-handers.
Hitting coach Dillon Lawson became the first coach fired in-season by Brian Cashman in his quarter-century as general manager. But his pull-it-in-the-air ethos is soaked up and down the organization. The Yankees need to work on producing good overall hitters.
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