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Let's hear from Aaron Boone as the Yankees have lost four in a row and three and eight

in their last 11.

He was on with talking Yankees today, the podcast that he does each week, and he was asked,

why are base dealers non-base dealers being picked off?

I guess they were referring to Donaldson the other day.

They're doing something. No, but I'm serious. They are doing something.

It's not just at a shallow take. He's not stealing a base, so he shouldn't get picked off.

There's different things that play all the time in a game, and you need to keep that in mind too.

Don't want to pick off. Don't like to pick off. Don't get it wrong.

But everyone's working out there, and it's not just a base dealing situation all the time.

All right, so now Aaron gets into a debate with Jake of talking Yankees.

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