Yankees Flaws Make Tarik Skubal the Ultimate Deadline Swing | Evan & Tiki
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 8 July 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Yankees struck out at an alarming rate, but Evan argues that their problems go far beyond missed swings. Will Warren struggled against the bottom of Tampa Bay’s lineup, Cody Bellinger made another costly mistake, and the uncertainty surrounding Aaron Judge has left the offense without an obvious solution.
Instead of trying to patch every weakness, Evan believes the Yankees should make one aggressive move and trade for Tarik Skubal. Pairing him with Gerrit Cole and Max Fried could give New York the dominant rotation it needs to survive a flawed American League and make a serious championship run.
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| 0:00.0 | If you went to the MEC game last night and you stayed for a full nine innings, which means you stayed through three and a half hours of bad baseball and you stayed through misting. |
| 0:09.7 | It's like water torture because it's not raining, but it's like misting on your face. |
| 0:14.3 | I want to give someone something for that. |
| 0:16.7 | And I don't want to give you free MET tickets because that would be like more torture. |
| 0:20.0 | So what I would say is if you went and stayed to all nine innings of last night's Met disaster and you call up and talk about it, I will give you a good job, bro. That's what you'll get, like a pat on the back. But let's start with the Yankees. The Yankees lost last night to the Tampa Bay raise. And let me get one thing off my chest. Yes, the Yankees struck out a lot. Yes, the Yankees struck out a lot the day before. That is not the reason the New York Yankees lost. That's like the added on. Let's throw it out there. I can't believe they struck out 17 times. I can't believe they set an American League record. |
| 0:55.3 | And it is kind of amazing to think that they've struck out 34 times in the last two games. |
| 0:59.6 | It is impressively bad. |
| 1:01.9 | But let's be real about last night. |
| 1:04.6 | They lost last night because a starting pitcher by the name of Will Warren couldn't get out bottom of the order hitters in a very mediocre |
| 1:11.8 | Tampa Bay lineup. |
| 1:13.2 | That's reason number one. |
| 1:14.5 | Like if you asked me, if you said, hey, have you watched the Yankee game last night, give |
| 1:18.2 | me the biggest reason why they lost, Hunter Fedusha hitting a home runoff, Will Warren is one |
| 1:24.3 | of the biggest reasons they lost. |
| 1:26.2 | Another reason they lost is that Cody |
| 1:28.2 | Bellinger is playing with his head so far up his ass. I don't know what's going on. |
| 1:35.6 | Not only has Cody Bellinger not hit a lick since Aaron Judge went down, coincidental or not, |
| 1:42.6 | but as an elite level base runner, which Cody Bellinger has been, he can't make the |
| 1:47.8 | mistake he had last night to run the Yankees out of an inning. |
| 1:51.3 | Instead of first and third one out, Cody Bellinger's thinking about going to second on that |
| 1:56.0 | throw to third. |
| 1:56.7 | He essentially gets picked off. |
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