Yanks are starting to maybe feel the downside of Boxster's Baseball Rule #3, Stay Healthy, Avoid Injuries. Michael King, their #2 reliever, fractured his elbow throwing a pitch last night. Germain, who started because #2 starter Severino is on IL got bombed. King had taken the place of Chad Green when they lost him to Tommy John. Everyone was talking Yanks needed to dump Gallo and get an outfielder, including me, now they need to look for pitching help. To add insult to the injury, ex-stopper Chapman came in and gave up three runs while getting only one out. It was comical listening to Cameron Maybin in the Yankee booth trying to find silver linings in Chapman's terrible outing. I miss David Cone who would have been brutally realistic about it. Cone has a good knack for telling bad truths without dissing the player or sounding whiny like some homer analysists.
They had been doing well on Rule #3 with Judge and Stanton staying in the line up. May need to ride Boxster's recently added Rule #4, Be a Little Lucky, with whoever they get for pitching help. Got that with Carpenter and Trevino in the first half, hence the new "rule". You could throw in Clay Holmes who (or when they traded midseason 2021 for him, who?) since coming from Pirates turned into an ace closer and took Chapman's job away from him. Not buying that picking up Carpenter was some sort of genius move because ain't nobody could have predicted Carpenter could play like he has been. It's not luck that Matt is hitting like crazy, that's all him, but it is lucky it's happening and for the Yanks.
They had been doing well on Rule #3 with Judge and Stanton staying in the line up. May need to ride Boxster's recently added Rule #4, Be a Little Lucky, with whoever they get for pitching help. Got that with Carpenter and Trevino in the first half, hence the new "rule". You could throw in Clay Holmes who (or when they traded midseason 2021 for him, who?) since coming from Pirates turned into an ace closer and took Chapman's job away from him. Not buying that picking up Carpenter was some sort of genius move because ain't nobody could have predicted Carpenter could play like he has been. It's not luck that Matt is hitting like crazy, that's all him, but it is lucky it's happening and for the Yanks.
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