MFY Season of Doom 2025

[Centerfield]

Big news from Yankee camp as a fly ball was hit to LF and Jasson Dominguez caught it.

[MFS62]

Big news from Yankee camp as a fly ball was hit to LF and Jasson Dominguez caught it.

As Dick Young said about Hector "what a pair of hands" Lopez, "He plays fly balls like they'll explode on contact".

Later

[Frayed Knot]

'Lat Strains' for pitchers seems to be the chic injury to get this Spring. The Yanx' 2025 ROY starter Luis Gil has a "high grade" one and is looking at an ASB return at the earliest.
I think it would have been better if he strained either his heel or one of his gills, but I guess ya can't have everything.

[Centerfield]

Awful. Starting pitchers are losing half a season to injuries that didn’t exist a generation ago.

Pitching is so fragile.

[metirish]

Out at least three months Cashman says ,maybe longer

[Lefty Specialist]

Marcus Stroman is probably the happiest guy in camp.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Marcus Stroman is probably the happiest guy in camp.

That seems to be against his nature.

[metirish]

Gerrit Cole is getting an MRI on his right elbow , that's hardly ever good news

[metirish]

Jim Bowden on The Athletic reports a source says Cole has been "recommended for TJ surgery" , they are waiting on s second opinion

[Fman99]

I think doctor's cut his elbow open and find that it's all just ticker tape in there where it should be tendons and such.

Sucks to suck

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Buster Olney today was making it sound like this is definitely headed to TJ and that Cole will miss all of this year and the start of next season. Likely won't see him until the All-Star Game in 2026 - which will be in Philly, by the way. Back-to-back NL East stadiums with the game in Atlanta this season.

[MFS62]

Jim Bowden on The Athletic reports a source says Cole has been "recommended for TJ surgery" , they are waiting on s second opinion

Channeling Rodney Dangerfield, "The second opinion is... he's ugly."

Later

[metirish]

Passan reports Cole will have TJ surgery tomorrow

[Frayed Knot]

When Cole came up lame in ST last season (and wound up missing most of the first half of the season) I opined that his loss might be bigger than any one player to his team. I based that on my assessment of the Yanx losing the reigning CY winner combined with their thin rotation behind him. Turned out they had the best staff in the majors while he was out thanks to some serious overachieving by others including the unforeseen (at least by me) emergence of the eventual RoY in Luis Gil. But in the second half the others started regressing to their means and the staff as a whole was actually worse with Cole in the rotation than it had been while he was out.

But this time it's Cole for the entire season and Gil is already out for at least the first half. They added a bunch of offensive parts in an attempt to make up for the loss of Soto but really only Max Fried on the pitching side. And while he'll surely help, they're then dependent on a combo of Stroman, Clarke Schmidt, Carlos Rodon, and ... ?
Rookie Will Warren? NRIs Carlos Carrasco and/or Alan Winans?? And then there's old favorite TBA.

[metirish]

Dom Smith opts out of his contract with the MFY

[MFS62]

Those first two homers would have been outs in a real major league ballpark.
Later

[Frayed Knot]

Dom Smith opts out of his contract with the MFY

Would like to see him hook on somewhere, but the idea that Dom has much of a career left is quickly fading from view.


So back to the Yanx for a sec: their first three opponents this year, and four of their first five, are NL clubs.
Host the Brews for three games, then the same for the DBacks. After that they hit the road for the Pirate's home
opening series followed, finally, by a series in Detroit, after which they return home to for three games vs the Giants.

[metirish]

Custom engineered bats ? What's going on here ?

[kcmets]

Since they periodically check the pitchers hands and gloves,
maybe they should randomly 'x-ray' the bats.

Gosh, the corking era seems so freakin' long ago.

[Frayed Knot]

The bats in question simply have the 'barrel' (the fattest part) closer to the center of the bat while the end starts to taper.
They're perfectly legal as they don't exceed length or weight limits, the weight is merely redistributed.
Volpe and Chisholm are using them so far.

[Centerfield]

So then pitch them outer half.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Custom engineered bats ? What's going on here ?

I just caught up to this story. IF the new bats did indeed cause all of those HRs, you can expect the rest of the league to begin switching over. Like pronto.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's what I was thinking too. Use the "torpedo bats" until they get banned.

[Channel9]

If the bats actually are making a difference expect pitchers to adjust.

End of story.

[Frayed Knot]

Obviously too small a sample to draw any conclusions yet.
Yanx hit 15 HRs in their first three games but, AFAIK, only Jazz Chisholm, (3) Anthony Volpe (2) and Clay Bellinger (1) are using the 'Torpedo' bat. Judge (5) says he has no interest in changing anything ... and why would he!

The theory behind this is to get a better result when getting jammed by a pitch. But you wouldn't think those would turn into HRs. Bloops over the IF, maybe, instead of wood-shattering dribblers.