Evan and Tiki Short: Yankee Rotation issues

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Will the Yankees rotation be worse than last year

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0:00.0	Right? It felt comfortable.
0:01.1	Well, they've gotten worse because of the injuries.
0:02.5	Yes, I get that.
0:03.3	It felt comfortable that they were the best team in the American League and certainly in the division.
0:09.7	But it almost felt like they could grow into being a team.
0:13.6	They could beat the Dodgers.
0:14.5	Yeah.
0:14.9	Especially if you make specific moves at the deadline.
0:18.2	Now it doesn't feel like that. The Yankees last year, and again, the frame of references that the Yankees scored more
0:24.1	runs than any other team in the American League.
0:25.7	And I bring that up because if the Yankees do that, if they score more runs than any
0:29.3	other team in the American League, they're making the playoffs.
0:32.0	They are on more to lock.
0:32.9	We now live in a world in which the key to winning in Major League Baseball in 2025 is, is scoring a lot of runs. It's just the way it is. It's not in 1995 anymore. It's not 2003.
0:41.7	It is all about offense. Offense matters more than pitching. It just is what it is.
0:47.0	The Yankees last year were the definition of a two-man show. No matter what stat you want to
0:51.8	look at, no matter what metric you want to look at, it was
0:54.2	Aaron Judge being all-world, it was Juan Soto being great, and then after that, it was pedestrian
0:59.3	at best, pedestrian at best, no matter what stat you want to look at. You want to look at home runs?
1:04.9	After Judge and Soto, you got 27 out of Jean-Carlo, and then 15 out of Glaver Torres. That's it.
1:11.9	You want to look at OPS?
1:18.3	After you get past Judge and Soto, the best OPS was 773, also by Jean-Carlo.
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