Not to mention recent pics of Buck managing the Mets. The funniest part about this is he actually got the first picture with Steinbrenner correct, then all the other ones were wrong.
9:56 This is IMO the most critical point the Yankees need to address. The Astros did an outstanding job developing players, highly touted or under the radar. Without Jeter, Posada, Mo, Bernie, and Pettite, the Yanks wouldn’t have won a single WS title.
Yankee fans straddle both sides of the fence on that though. For example currently a lot of Yankee fans want to trade half the farm to get Reynolds or to have gotten Castillo last trade deadline. Another thing the current Astros & '90's Yankee dynasty have in common is they both spent time with losing seasons (not just miss playoffs losing, I mean losing records losing...) to help builds their dynasty runs. 2017 Astros for example Correa - #1 pick, Bregman #2, , Springer #11
@@SuperMaxx64Yankees also had Selig on their side during the Dotcom era dynasty and in 2009, he was REALLY tight with Steinbrenner. Remember, Bud Selig was a Pay to Play Commissioner, Clubs would often make backroom deals with Selig and would be awarded The Top Players in the Entire League and the best record Infielder,Shortstops and Baseman(It’s how the White Sox won 2005). Selig also was biased against most of the NL(Being the Brewers owner, he Intentionally Overcrowded the NL Central which is why Astros struggled constantly), after he approved a deal to buy the Phillies a WS from the rising Rays(Having changed their brand from Devil Rays to Rays) in 2008, Selig had lunch with George and the Yankees Organization several times as they were concerned about the Alex Rodriguez PED allegations and reports. They wanted him to KEEP the scandal from coming out and he accepted a bribe to keep quiet. They also asked for one last Crown to round out their 13 year dynasty under Joe Torre. 2009 was already rigged for the Pinestripes. What happened after 2009 was the formation of the MLBIPA. With Selig no longer pulling the strings, he couldn’t cheat smaller lower budgeted clubs anymore. Selig had a personal Vendetta against Smaller teams and a CLEAR bias towards Big Markets. Manfred was now acting Commissioner although Selig was still technically MLB Commissioner, it’s possible that he was demoted and stripped of his power due to the A-Rod scandal which broke during 2010. After Selig’s Demotion and Stienbrenner’s death, the Yankees were now a former shell of themselves. They had forgotten all about that Farming System back in 1996-1999 that had brought them Dominate Reigning success during the Dotcom era, and had fallen to the Boston Rivals after 9-11 in the early 2000s. Although Selig had bribed them a title 2009, they soon realized that they couldn’t pay-to-play anymore. So they threw money at every problem only for it to get worse. And even though the Astros first season in the AL: 2013 was such a Mitigated And Embarrassing DISASTER(They were nicknamed the Lastros that year) Nobody expected or thought that the Astros would become a NEW problematic pest to the Yankees, that they would ultimately evolve into stinging 🐝 to the Yankees. The Pinstripes FALL to the Astros every year. Since 2014, last fall’s predictable Pennant Sweep rounded that out.
@@demonkingbadger6689 This practice has had become more prominent ever since the Yankees’ defeat to the Red Sox in that particular ALCS. A reckless spending (as opposed to wise) to get FA players by any means necessary.
9:41 Nailed it. The team that won four championships in five years may have hit clutch homers, but they often strung together hits and rallies. They were situational hitters. The Judge-led teams do not do that. They also have an over-reliance on their bullpen which Boone usually burns out by August. They also have had a bunch of good starters, not great. They don't know how to battle like Pettitte, Cone, El Duque, Key, Wells, Clemens, etc.
The lack of situational hitting on the Yankees was why I was so bummed out when they traded Gio and Voit. These guys were very clutch in high leverages, or with runners in scoring position. Its what makes DJ great, despite his stats becoming more and more mediocre. They got important hits. When these teams reach the playoffs, they need those important hits. Oppoising teams aren't sending out anyone but their best, so you can't just beat up on mediocre pitchers with walks and home runs. Say what you want about the Astros and Altuve, but they have a team of clutch hitters. Altuve in particular is as good as anybody else, even without a buzzer.
Yankees left an average of 3.19 runners in scoring position per game last season, 9th in MLB. The Astros were in 5th averaging 3.09. It is a myth that the Yankees couldn't get situational hits. Yankees weren't as good as I would like, but clearly they are right in line with the best teams in baseball.
Yes, but it depends on what games they got those runners home. Not really the same if the Astros hit with risp in division-deciding and playoff games but yankees only do it against the orioles and such in the regular season
@@snerdterguson True. The Astros haven't been this great hitting team compared to the Yankees in any of the LCS they played. This time it was pitching. Game 1, Taillon only went 4.1 and Boone brought in Clark Schmidt, a move that was first-guessed. Game 2, Severino couldn't get out of the 6th. Game 3, Cole got bombed and the Yanks got no-hit. And in game 4, Cortes gets hurt (also gave up 3 runs in 2) and the bullpen wasn't good.
As a Yankees fan, I feel a lot of other Yankees fans forget the Dyansty of the 1990s wasn't built on going out and getting the best available free agent; it was built on developing players through their system like Dererk Jeter, Bernie Williams, Marino Rivera, Andy Pettit, and Jorge Posada. Free agents were brought in to supplement what they couldn't develop and to fill in missing pieces, like Tino Martinez to play first base and Scott Brosius to play third base.
And brought in Paul O'Neil, and brought in chuck knoblach, and Roger Clemens, and David Cone, and Darryl Strawberry, and Wade Boggs, and Cecil Fielder,and Jose Canseco,and David Justice, and...
They also werent afraid to trade other top prospects to fill the roster. Oniel trade was done with a highly refarded prospect , tino was gotten with good prispects , ledee was traded for justice in 2000 . All the kind of moves cashman refuses to do
One thing that makes the Astros more watchable has been how they kill the Yankees every year in the playoffs. Shoutout to Boston for knocking them out twice in this span too.
@@josecarranza7555 Lol dude your team couldn’t even get off the field against them AGAIN this year. Cry about it some more. The Astros have proven they’re legit. And they own the Yankees regardless. Stay mad about it.
I don’t entirely agree with your thesis that the ynakees wasted that much money, but I think you’re also on point. Here me out; 1)baseball today IS MORE competitive than ever before. When the ynakees started the dynasty in the 90s, the blue jays, red Sox’s, and then then devil rays were either slightly above average or terrible ballclubs. Revenue sharing, expanded postseason spots, and new stats encouraged smaller ballclubs and well paid clubs to experiment with getting new talent/new ideas etc. this something the Yankees fanbase hasn’t come to terms with. But this is also normal, dynasties are going to end or at least be knocked off slightly. Yes we are Ina. Dynasty still but it feels different. 2)the mid 2010s. As you pointed out, for some reason, the ynakees really loved veterans. But this was something that had been present in the past teams as well-but unlike those teams, these veterans were more questionable. Why jacoby Ellsberg when everyone knew he was going to be overpaid? Why Vernon wells? Why Carlos Beltran? Why Kevin yukolis when the red Sox’s didn’t want him anymore and his skills were declining ? So much of the spending habits that the past ynakees developed became worse/and this cost the Yankees time and money to develop stars. Why was it that the rays, red Sox’s, Astros, dodgers, giants seemed to have new players ready to go when the Yankees were still with aging veterans? Look at the 2009 Yankees, most of the players who were given extensions or signed for that c run declined either due to age or injuries. But most of them WERE VETERANS. The 2009 Yankees feel more like a one shot team that while fun, we’re kinda like most WS teams.
Agreed. Also had Donaldson's (ew) walk off grand slam from 2022 when talking about 2010. Won't lie. I'm a huge Yanks fan and they've definitely thrown money away. But random ass clips from last year when talking about 13 years ago? Yea that killed the video for me.
I blame management and the front office. Bad signings, and trades have limited the Yankees. And the stubborness of them is what really hurts. Playing bad players you signed or trade for over better farm system players makes no sense, bad trades in the first place followed by stubborn stickiness to them is what costs the Yankees. IKF, Donaldson, Hicks, are not worth the roster spots for the Yankees. Young guys need to become everyday players, or else the Yankees will not succeed.
It's easy to criticize a trade 5 years later when all the peices have developed. If you want to make a playoff push now you can't wait for prospects to develop and might as well trade them to help your team when they can win a title. Plus the yankees have made good trades like champman, holmes and stanton (even thought there paying him a lot of money)
Prospect hugging is the root cause imo . They didnt offer anything to machado or trade for cole 5 years ago because cashman refused to trade andujar and frazier . Cashman did the donaldson trade because he wanted donaldson and ikf to bridge the gap to peraza , volpe and cabrera . Passed on on every top infield fa in the last 3 years because of volpe and peraza . Never did much for the of for the last 3 years because of dominguez , periera and jones . All of that is why the team is the mess that it currently is . Its why they got stuck with both montas and rodon
I think the Yankees have a curse on their hands. The original Yankee stadium was demolished after the 09 WS win. Since the absolute cathedral was destroyed, with no tribute, the Yanks wouldn’t touch another Series.
I don’t understand why they destroyed the last stadium. It was awesome. It had this aura that I can’t describe when I’m there. I don’t understand why they couldn’t just renovate that one.
Some incredibly odd editting choices were made in this vid. Randomly showing 2022 highlights inbetween the years and randomly showing Buck while talking about Steinbrenner. Very confused
Really enjoyed this video, very good. Would also enjoy one on the Mariners playoff dryout. Also the clips of Donaldson while talking about 2011 where a little confusing.
You missed the most obvious cause... playoff expansion. You can spend money to make a team good enough to beat up on bad teams, but when you get to the playoffs you are playing other good teams. Once upon a time you won your league, and you got to go to the World Series. You had to win the season and one series. Then we had East and West divisions. You had to win the season and then win two series. Now we have three divisions and wild cards. You can build a team to win a long season, but over a short series luck is a much bigger factor. 3 Wild cards? That means you'll have a pool of what is 12 good teams playing for one title, with elimination rounds you need to get through. That's a 1 in 12 chance, assuming things are roughly equal. A 13 year drought, in that context? That's nothing to worry about. Now, yes, (Yankee network pun), they have lead in payroll, but playoff series are short format. There are other big spenders out there, and at the end of the day, yes, titles are nice, but teams are businesses. The Yankees make money, so the idea that they wasted that money is pretty clickbaity.
that to. A player would have no chance of ever hitting for the cycle when the playoffs were still highly competitive and lacking in lesser quality teams getting in. Yet it happened exactly cause of that, people want to go with historic and do that cognitive dissonance on the watered down playoff format and what it actually offers.
10:04 Gleyber was signed in 2013 and developed by the Cubs before he came to New York in the Aroldis Chapman trade, so most of his development occurred in the Chicago system, but I see the point. Definitely a guy that NY undervalued
Yeah, but of the ones post free agency, they relied heavily on home grown talent. 2009 being the one time they really went for big free agents. 96-2000 was mostly homegrown and small smart moves like the trade for O'Neill, getting Justice, Strawberry, Gooden, Raines, Curtis... Many former superstars thought to be past their time in baseball. Biggest move was probably getting Clemens but we traded David Wells, a great pitcher coming off a great season, Homer Bush and Graeme "Haymaker" Lloyd (this guys a made man in NY for life) biggest free agent signing was either Tino in 96 or maybe El Duque in 98. That was one of the best built teams I ever saw. Every level of it was great. Coaching staff, rotation, bullpen, lineup and one of the most effective benches ever. The minor league system was pumping out talent, scouts were making the right calls on guys who had down years like Scott Brown's had in 97. He has nearly 100 RBI out of the nine hole. Stick Michael, Bob Watson and Cashman all made fantastic trades, under the radar signings and were hitting lightning in a bottle left and right. I don't know that we will ever see a front office nail the off-season and trade deadline as consistently, near flawlessly, as the Yankees front office between 1993 and 2001.
I'm no Yankee fan, which is interesting because I grew up on Long Island. I was a Mets fan in '69 and converted to the Orioles in 70 because I recognized the team in the WS...Then I stuck with them for the next 52 years. I've been poking at Yankee fans and the ridiculous salaries for years. You would think that they would realize that buying a title doesn't work. Cashman should be fired. The Yankees will be looking at the tail lights of the Orioles this coming season, and the O's have about 1/6th of the payroll cost. It will lead to much chortling with joy when the season is over and the Yankees go home without a playoff birth. Nice video!
Orioles will be in 4th place this year. Only because Boston apparently doesn't give a shit anymore. The Yankees, Blue Jays and Rays are much better that the Orioles.
Everybody likes rooting for the team with 1/6 the Yankees payroll when they’re playing well, but are somehow nowhere to be found when they’re sitting in last place. Teams like the Orioles, Mariners, and Astros aren’t any smarter or doing anything right compared to the Yankees, it’s just the fact that they’re given a pass when they lose 100 games for five straight seasons and the Yankees aren’t. If you constantly trade away any talent you have and suck so bad that you get the top draft picks every year, then there is obviously going to be a time when you are able to put together a team of good, young players that you don’t have to pay much. The Yankees can’t do that because they’re expected to be competitive every year, and they are. Even if it hasn’t resulted in a WS win for a while, the Yankees are always making it interesting for the fans by throwing their name in the running
Damn, book doc, you’re a weird one….abandoned your home team to jump on the bandwagon of the team they just beat because that team won the next year’s WS…then stuck with that team while they mostly sucked the next 50+ years while shit talking a vastly superior team in the same division that consistently owns your team SMH. Did you whine about the Red Sox or Dodgers when they blew past the Yankees in spending? Do you whine about the Mets, Phillies and Padres now? Never mind, I already know you don’t, there’s only room for one team to live rent free in your head.
@@noodler5583 That was a really long nonsense post. First, I live in Spain and I listened/watched EVERY ORIOLES GAME in 2022 and 2021. I've been a fan since 1970, and most of those years, I listened win or lose. I'm not some stupid fly-by night viewer and you learn other ways to appreciate the game. I am a student of baseball. You might sit there and cry over a loss. I just have fun spending a few hours watching baseball. The Yankees aren't doing any 'winning' with their big fat payroll. It is pretty embarrassing. If they have the money BUY PROSPECTS FROM OTHER TEAMS RATHER THAN BUYING THE SERVICES OF HAS-BEENS. Your whole argument makes zero sense. The Yankees are trying to buy victory. That is all because Yankee fans are idiots? If so, best to have a better team and ignore the NY Karen brigade. There is no excuse for continually losing. The Orioles are a dynasty about to roll. And Yankee fans will weep like the suckers and tools that they are.
It does because when big market teams are taking all the big name free agents the smaller market team doesn't have anyone to add through free agency to supplement there big roster. The playoffs are very random but having a big salary does give you a chance to make the playoffs
The angels are a completely diffrent story because they realy burnt money. They made one playoff aperence in 13 years while the yankees made 10 and have consistently ben under 500. You can't juge a team by less than a month of a 162 game season
It just shows the playoffs are a crapshoot, and the team that gets " hot " can win it all And sometimes, a team will have another teams number...Houston seems to have the Crankees' number And playing a bunch of bad defensive players for offense doesn't help, plus having a RH- heavy lineup while playing in home park that favors LH hitters...not optimal
I hate it when people define a teams success with championships. The playoffs are tough and making 10 playoffs in 13 years eaven without a penant is a sucess
My curse theory is that they beat the Phillies in 2009. If you beat or lose the Phillies in a World Series as an AL East team-you just don’t get a World Series for a long time. It makes sense. Orioles: Last WS won in 1983, won over the Phillies. Blue Jays: Last WS won in 1993, won over the Phillies. Rays: First appearance in WS 2008, lost to Phillies. Haven’t won one yet. Boston: Beat the Phillies in 1915 WS, won 2 more in 1916 and 1918, then had their curse before snapping it in 2004 with Curt Schilling, a former Phillies pitcher. Yankees: Beat the Phillies in 2009 WS, have never been back.
Theory number 2 is the answer. The health stuff has been fluky and unfortunate, but it also kind of tracks back to number 2 as well. I love DJ and Rizzo but both are veterans in late prime. They are going to have injuries during a season. It is just part of it. We have built an elite farm system in recent years after a 3-5 year stretch with very little coming from up from the farm after the Bombers hit in 2016-18. They need to use those guys now once their ready instead of allowing veterans like Josh Donaldson, Aaron Hicks or IKF keep their positions. And if they aren't going to use them, they should trade them. There is no reason to keep them in the Minors past their readiness. Also, bad luck factors in too. As you pointed out at the end, Yankees have still been one of the top 5 franchises in overall performance over the last decade. Playoffs have expanded and short series ball is far less indicative of talent than regular season performance. I want us to start winning WS again more than anything. But it is definitely true what Cashman uses for an excuse - the playoffs are a bit of a crap shoot. Sometimes the best team wins it all, but probably not even 50% of the time. It is not just the best 2 teams playing in a WS like it was for many of the Yankee's earlier titles. Still have 7 titles since then with the next closest team at 4, but it is definitely more difficult to wrack up WS wins the way the team used to before the playoff changes.
Also, while the money total you tossed out is impressive, it still is nothing compared to the percentage more we used to spend than every other team. Revenue wise, we still dwarf the rest of the league. But because of the soft cap with the CBT, the gap between our spending and the next closest team is nothing like it once was. You could also do this with a lot of teams. Imagine how much money the Dodgers spent between WS wins. Or the Giants between 1950s and 2010. This money spent, as you pointed out, has still resulted in a significant amount of high performance, success and entertainment, they just have continued to fall short of the ultimate goal. Hopefully, this new group of elite prospects can supplement the veteran core and get us a ring in the next 2-3 years while Cole, Judge and Rodon are still in their prime and Stanton, DJ, and Rizzo are still highly productive veteran hitters. I still would really like to add one more high quality bat this year, but don't see that happening until the deadline.
Everyone wants to blame Cashman. But in my opinion Hal Steinbrenner should almost all the blame, he knows what they spend on payroll. And he sits on his hands. Make these front office and player personal people uncomfortable. Fire people, demote people. Run it like his dad. Yankee player's have always been paid very well. Push them harder!
How many times do I have to hear this argument? There is no amount of money that guarantees a ring in baseball. It's impossible. And I say this as a gigantic Yankee hater
I'm so glad the Spankees are the team that overpays for said results. Fortunately for them, they have relied on homegrown talent more recently instead of buying every All Star free agent known to man.
Cashman knows how to win games, not championships... In 2009, the royals were (65-97), in 2022 they finished with an identical record. In 2009 the Yankees went (103-59) Since then, the royals have made more world series appearances and have a championship to show for it. The Yankees just have a bunch of regular season wins.
Here’s a theory…they’re just choke artists and all that winning is done. 27 titles and a lot of them came in a time where they literally had all the best players and during times when there weren’t even 10 teams in the majors…maybe it’s coming back to haunt them.
@@munaclassic4020 I hate the Yankees but I’m insulted you compared them to the Leafs… No team will ever be as pathetic as the Leafs (I’m a Leafs fan btw)
@@munaclassic4020 I’d say they’re like a Oilers… A former dynasty that has eroded into a mid playoff team by relying on superstars instead of a well rounded group Both have had some playoff success but neither has won it all… Both have GMs that have been around for decades and are past their prime as a result The Leafs are like the Dallas Cowboys… Overpaid stars, broken canvases and not even marginal playoff success in the past 10-15 years
$3 billion ain't what it used to be - at least not how the Yanks spend it. Sure, they can beat AL Central teams in the postseason, but if they run into Boston or Houston, their NFL linemen disguised as baseball players shrivel up and choke. As a famous Yankee fan would say, "Sad!"
Really enjoyed the video but I must say at points in the video, what you are showing us has NOTHING to do with what you are talking about. You’re talking about The Boss but I’m seeing Buck Showalter in a Mets cap on the screen? You’re talking about 2019 but showing highlights of Anthony Rizzo.. just think it’s something you should work on.
i think this offseason cashman realized you have to put the weight on the prospects. we didn’t go after many big man free agents this off season. The injuries are annoying but the analytical point you made with how we shifted to analytics is the prime reason we can’t get past the astros or teams who have a really good staff. the season is long and power is going to overtake the mediocre to below average staffs. But in the playoffs your facing teams who don’t make mistakes and execute their pitches. We can run into a hot start in a 7 game series but throughout the series we get cold and can’t situational hit and don’t have the best athletes to steal runs with speed and small ball.
There's a very simple answer here. And that is, there is no reason. And you're definitely smart enough to understand this, you just have to take the red pill on the MLB playoffs. MLB playoffs are a complete crapshoot of randomness which makes any team's (even stacked teams like the Yankees) chances of a championship, at the start of a season, or at the start of the postseason, pretty low....btw 5 and 15%. That's the answer. It's not any of the moves Cashman made or didn't make. It's not Judge or Cole, or strikeouts galore. It's just the small sample size that makes playoff series coin tosses. It's the same with the Dodgers, if you don't count a 60 game season, which I dont. That's why front offices don't clean house and fire good GMs like Cashman simply for losing a game or two when the leaves are a different color. Even if they have hysterical idiot fanbases. Just keep winning the division, get the bye, and it will definitely happen one of these years.
The offense from top to bottom is built with players that hit homers and strikeout a lot…. Oh and they can’t hit with runners on base….. this has been going on for 2 decades now….. idk how they won the ws in 09
Made the Cut seems like a smart guy, and I'm shocked he doesn't get it. There is no reason. The playoffs are just a crapshoot. The postseason series odds are 55/45, 60/40 max, and you need to win 3 or 4 of them in a row. That puts the odds of winning it all between 6 & 15% every single year when October starts...(so it's even lower for teams that won't or might not make the playoffs). That's the reason. It's math. It's not Paul Oniell or Bernie Williams, or striking out, etc....its the randomness of small sample sizes. The Astros are not immune to this. They lost World Series to 89 & 91 win teams they were clearly better than.
All that wasted because cashman wanted to prove he was smarter than everyone else. And because he holds on to his top prospects until they are worth nothing . Look at the last 5 years alone , refused to do big trades and sign big names all in the name of keeping his top prospects . Its why the team is the mess that it is right now
Injuries cannot be blamed for the consistent shortcomings of the Yankees. Easily debunked. Astros and Braves have both at least either made it to or won a World Series during this window while missing at least one of their MOST crucial players. The vast majority of those Yankee IL stints have been short-term and were either role players, Giancarlo Stanton, or Luis Severino. If your entire season hinges on the health of Luis Severino or Matt Carpenter, then I got news for ya: You weren’t winning a damn thing anyway.
My personal curse theory is that the curse came from demolishing old Yankee Stadium. They last won in 2009 while it was still standing, it got demolished in 2010, and they haven't been back to a World Series since.
I love that they don’t win; it’s quite embarrassing when you factor in the sign stealing that they’ve been doing since 2016 that no one wants to talk about…you didn’t mention it either. We all know what’s in that envelope that Manfred doesn’t want to get out because they want the Astros to be the bad guys of the MLB.
The Yankees have no spirit. They are undoubtedly a great collection of players, but they lack a real leader and don't play well together as a team. The Yankees easily crush all the small market teams, only to fall apart like wet tissue paper against stiff competition. The 2022 playoffs were absolutely appalling for the Yankees. All their high priced hitters performed terribly, and the Astros owned them yet again. The Bronx looks like a miserable place to play. No one on the Yankees ever looks like they're having fun on the field. Boone is often dour, and spends most of his time berating umps and such.
The two biggest issues definitely are not taking an issue on home grown players and being too fixated on analytics. Have a bunch of .200 hitter when October rolls around won't fair well against the best pitching each team has to offer
Yes but your .300 hiters wont hit 300 against these same great pitchers so you might aswell be looking for a longball. I don't hear anyone criticizing the philies stategy and that's what there doing. And if the yankees where not taking a issu on homegrown talent why didn't they sign a big name shorstop in the past 2 offseasons ? The only reason the yankees haven't won a penant in 13 years is bad luck.
If the benchmark is winning, maybe it was a "waste." But if the people who invested the nearly $3 Billion are not in it to win it, but in it to make money, is it still a waste?? For all the prognostication one can find about the Yankees - none of it takes place while looking at the books. You speak of wins ane runs, but what about profit? It is popular myth among the Luddite fans that "analytics" - a subject that they know nothing about - is somehow leading big guys who hit home runs (lol) and the prime example of this wrong approach is BIG Aaron Judge. Probably 90% of those fans cheered the re-signing of Judge, and who will the blame 9 years from now when they find out Judge can't hit from a rocking chair - and his salary is preventing necessary moves. The Yankees are not just physically "big." They are the "big" marquee names that attract attention, "make a splash," fill the seats, maximize cable TV view, merchandise sales, vendor rents, and other advertising revenue. And if the A-holes who contribue to all those revenue streams are boo-hooing because Daddy Steinbrenner didn't give the right Christmas present? So What !! They are not going any place. Just tease them every couple of years with a Stanton, a Cole, a Rodon, another big splash. After all - it's Show Biz.
Spare me the toxic fan BS....it costs more to be a Yankee fan than anywhere else. Higher cable bill, higher ticket prices, higher parking, higher concessions etc........the FANS DON'T PITCH OR HIT.
they have not drafted well, not developed well, overpayed on too many lemons. The 90s-2010s Yanks had it all, the Steinbrenner jr.'s also spending like below tax spending baseball owner NPCs isn't gonna help the legacy. They don't wanna win with that attitude, they want profits instead.
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What was with showing Buck when you was talking about Steinbrenner 😂😂😂 Caught me off guard ngl
Dude best part of the video what a goof 🤣🤣
I came to the comment section with this question
Yea I was like do you know baseball?
Not to mention recent pics of Buck managing the Mets. The funniest part about this is he actually got the first picture with Steinbrenner correct, then all the other ones were wrong.
9:56 This is IMO the most critical point the Yankees need to address. The Astros did an outstanding job developing players, highly touted or under the radar.
Without Jeter, Posada, Mo, Bernie, and Pettite, the Yanks wouldn’t have won a single WS title.
That of course is the dumbest fuc#ing statement I've heard and on RUclips that's saying something.
Yankee fans straddle both sides of the fence on that though. For example currently a lot of Yankee fans want to trade half the farm to get Reynolds or to have gotten Castillo last trade deadline. Another thing the current Astros & '90's Yankee dynasty have in common is they both spent time with losing seasons (not just miss playoffs losing, I mean losing records losing...) to help builds their dynasty runs. 2017 Astros for example Correa - #1 pick, Bregman #2, , Springer #11
Cashman doesnt seem to have any interest in the farm system other than trade bait, so they are kind of tied down on development.
@@SuperMaxx64Yankees also had Selig on their side during the Dotcom era dynasty and in 2009, he was REALLY tight with Steinbrenner. Remember, Bud Selig was a Pay to Play Commissioner, Clubs would often make backroom deals with Selig and would be awarded The Top Players in the Entire League and the best record Infielder,Shortstops and Baseman(It’s how the White Sox won 2005). Selig also was biased against most of the NL(Being the Brewers owner, he Intentionally Overcrowded the NL Central which is why Astros struggled constantly), after he approved a deal to buy the Phillies a WS from the rising Rays(Having changed their brand from Devil Rays to Rays) in 2008, Selig had lunch with George and the Yankees Organization several times as they were concerned about the Alex Rodriguez PED allegations and reports. They wanted him to KEEP the scandal from coming out and he accepted a bribe to keep quiet. They also asked for one last Crown to round out their 13 year dynasty under Joe Torre. 2009 was already rigged for the Pinestripes.
What happened after 2009 was the formation of the MLBIPA. With Selig no longer pulling the strings, he couldn’t cheat smaller lower budgeted clubs anymore. Selig had a personal Vendetta against Smaller teams and a CLEAR bias towards Big Markets. Manfred was now acting Commissioner although Selig was still technically MLB Commissioner, it’s possible that he was demoted and stripped of his power due to the A-Rod scandal which broke during 2010.
After Selig’s Demotion and Stienbrenner’s death, the Yankees were now a former shell of themselves. They had forgotten all about that Farming System back in 1996-1999 that had brought them Dominate Reigning success during the Dotcom era, and had fallen to the Boston Rivals after 9-11 in the early 2000s. Although Selig had bribed them a title 2009, they soon realized that they couldn’t pay-to-play anymore. So they threw money at every problem only for it to get worse.
And even though the Astros first season in the AL: 2013 was such a Mitigated And Embarrassing DISASTER(They were nicknamed the Lastros that year) Nobody expected or thought that the Astros would become a NEW problematic pest to the Yankees, that they would ultimately evolve into stinging 🐝 to the Yankees. The Pinstripes FALL to the Astros every year. Since 2014, last fall’s predictable Pennant Sweep rounded that out.
@@demonkingbadger6689 This practice has had become more prominent ever since the Yankees’ defeat to the Red Sox in that particular ALCS. A reckless spending (as opposed to wise) to get FA players by any means necessary.
9:41 Nailed it. The team that won four championships in five years may have hit clutch homers, but they often strung together hits and rallies. They were situational hitters. The Judge-led teams do not do that. They also have an over-reliance on their bullpen which Boone usually burns out by August. They also have had a bunch of good starters, not great. They don't know how to battle like Pettitte, Cone, El Duque, Key, Wells, Clemens, etc.
The lack of situational hitting on the Yankees was why I was so bummed out when they traded Gio and Voit. These guys were very clutch in high leverages, or with runners in scoring position. Its what makes DJ great, despite his stats becoming more and more mediocre. They got important hits. When these teams reach the playoffs, they need those important hits. Oppoising teams aren't sending out anyone but their best, so you can't just beat up on mediocre pitchers with walks and home runs.
Say what you want about the Astros and Altuve, but they have a team of clutch hitters. Altuve in particular is as good as anybody else, even without a buzzer.
Yankees left an average of 3.19 runners in scoring position per game last season, 9th in MLB. The Astros were in 5th averaging 3.09. It is a myth that the Yankees couldn't get situational hits. Yankees weren't as good as I would like, but clearly they are right in line with the best teams in baseball.
Yes, but it depends on what games they got those runners home. Not really the same if the Astros hit with risp in division-deciding and playoff games but yankees only do it against the orioles and such in the regular season
@@brianhill8494 Agree. Remember 2019? Gary Sanchez and Gleyber Torres would pad their stats against the Orioles.
@@snerdterguson True. The Astros haven't been this great hitting team compared to the Yankees in any of the LCS they played. This time it was pitching. Game 1, Taillon only went 4.1 and Boone brought in Clark Schmidt, a move that was first-guessed. Game 2, Severino couldn't get out of the 6th. Game 3, Cole got bombed and the Yanks got no-hit. And in game 4, Cortes gets hurt (also gave up 3 runs in 2) and the bullpen wasn't good.
12:08 Buck showalter not george steinbrenner 😂 had me weak 😂
Why were you showing pics of Buck Showalter when talking about George Steinbrenner? Otherwise great video!
Who knows. Buck used to manage the Yankees, but that was a helluva long time ago.
As a Yankees fan, I feel a lot of other Yankees fans forget the Dyansty of the 1990s wasn't built on going out and getting the best available free agent; it was built on developing players through their system like Dererk Jeter, Bernie Williams, Marino Rivera, Andy Pettit, and Jorge Posada.
Free agents were brought in to supplement what they couldn't develop and to fill in missing pieces, like Tino Martinez to play first base and Scott Brosius to play third base.
And brought in Paul O'Neil, and brought in chuck knoblach, and Roger Clemens, and David Cone, and Darryl Strawberry, and Wade Boggs, and Cecil Fielder,and Jose Canseco,and David Justice, and...
They also werent afraid to trade other top prospects to fill the roster. Oniel trade was done with a highly refarded prospect , tino was gotten with good prispects , ledee was traded for justice in 2000 . All the kind of moves cashman refuses to do
Rember , the core 4 were just 4 prospects that were kept in over a ten year span . Do you know how many others were traded ?
One thing that makes the Astros more watchable has been how they kill the Yankees every year in the playoffs. Shoutout to Boston for knocking them out twice in this span too.
As a Red Sox fan, I genuinely enjoy watching Yankees fans get humbled by the Astros in October
@@AlexM-ry7ih You know what your talking about. Only thing better is when the Sox win it
Yeah cause the Trashtros cheated and the commissioner didn’t do anything to them for cheating.
@@josecarranza7555 Lol dude your team couldn’t even get off the field against them AGAIN this year. Cry about it some more. The Astros have proven they’re legit. And they own the Yankees regardless. Stay mad about it.
“Cheating is ok if it beats the team I don’t like” Meds.
I don’t entirely agree with your thesis that the ynakees wasted that much money, but I think you’re also on point.
Here me out;
1)baseball today IS MORE competitive than ever before. When the ynakees started the dynasty in the 90s, the blue jays, red Sox’s, and then then devil rays were either slightly above average or terrible ballclubs. Revenue sharing, expanded postseason spots, and new stats encouraged smaller ballclubs and well paid clubs to experiment with getting new talent/new ideas etc. this something the Yankees fanbase hasn’t come to terms with. But this is also normal, dynasties are going to end or at least be knocked off slightly. Yes we are Ina. Dynasty still but it feels different.
2)the mid 2010s. As you pointed out, for some reason, the ynakees really loved veterans. But this was something that had been present in the past teams as well-but unlike those teams, these veterans were more questionable. Why jacoby Ellsberg when everyone knew he was going to be overpaid? Why Vernon wells? Why Carlos Beltran? Why Kevin yukolis when the red Sox’s didn’t want him anymore and his skills were declining ? So much of the spending habits that the past ynakees developed became worse/and this cost the Yankees time and money to develop stars. Why was it that the rays, red Sox’s, Astros, dodgers, giants seemed to have new players ready to go when the Yankees were still with aging veterans? Look at the 2009 Yankees, most of the players who were given extensions or signed for that c run declined either due to age or injuries. But most of them WERE VETERANS. The 2009 Yankees feel more like a one shot team that while fun, we’re kinda like most WS teams.
@4:16 couldn’t you use time accurate footage? You are implying that Anthony Rizzo played for the Yankees in 2013.
Agreed. Also had Donaldson's (ew) walk off grand slam from 2022 when talking about 2010. Won't lie. I'm a huge Yanks fan and they've definitely thrown money away. But random ass clips from last year when talking about 13 years ago? Yea that killed the video for me.
I blame management and the front office. Bad signings, and trades have limited the Yankees. And the stubborness of them is what really hurts. Playing bad players you signed or trade for over better farm system players makes no sense, bad trades in the first place followed by stubborn stickiness to them is what costs the Yankees. IKF, Donaldson, Hicks, are not worth the roster spots for the Yankees. Young guys need to become everyday players, or else the Yankees will not succeed.
It's easy to criticize a trade 5 years later when all the peices have developed. If you want to make a playoff push now you can't wait for prospects to develop and might as well trade them to help your team when they can win a title. Plus the yankees have made good trades like champman, holmes and stanton (even thought there paying him a lot of money)
Prospect hugging is the root cause imo . They didnt offer anything to machado or trade for cole 5 years ago because cashman refused to trade andujar and frazier . Cashman did the donaldson trade because he wanted donaldson and ikf to bridge the gap to peraza , volpe and cabrera . Passed on on every top infield fa in the last 3 years because of volpe and peraza . Never did much for the of for the last 3 years because of dominguez , periera and jones . All of that is why the team is the mess that it currently is . Its why they got stuck with both montas and rodon
I think the Yankees have a curse on their hands. The original Yankee stadium was demolished after the 09 WS win. Since the absolute cathedral was destroyed, with no tribute, the Yanks wouldn’t touch another Series.
I don’t understand why they destroyed the last stadium. It was awesome. It had this aura that I can’t describe when I’m there. I don’t understand why they couldn’t just renovate that one.
Yes, theory number 2, they undervalued the minor league players
If you’re gonna talk about the 2010s Yankees then show 2010s clips. That’s just lazy
Boston and Houston slapped the stripes off 'em. Yeah, everybody was cheating! Who does Cashman have pictures of???
Some incredibly odd editting choices were made in this vid. Randomly showing 2022 highlights inbetween the years and randomly showing Buck while talking about Steinbrenner. Very confused
Really enjoyed this video, very good. Would also enjoy one on the Mariners playoff dryout. Also the clips of Donaldson while talking about 2011 where a little confusing.
Lmao i thought I was the only one who noticed the Donaldson clips. It was driving me nuts
Been saying this for years, but I always said 2 billion. Good stuff. Fire Cashman.
You missed the most obvious cause... playoff expansion. You can spend money to make a team good enough to beat up on bad teams, but when you get to the playoffs you are playing other good teams. Once upon a time you won your league, and you got to go to the World Series. You had to win the season and one series. Then we had East and West divisions. You had to win the season and then win two series. Now we have three divisions and wild cards. You can build a team to win a long season, but over a short series luck is a much bigger factor. 3 Wild cards? That means you'll have a pool of what is 12 good teams playing for one title, with elimination rounds you need to get through. That's a 1 in 12 chance, assuming things are roughly equal. A 13 year drought, in that context? That's nothing to worry about.
Now, yes, (Yankee network pun), they have lead in payroll, but playoff series are short format. There are other big spenders out there, and at the end of the day, yes, titles are nice, but teams are businesses. The Yankees make money, so the idea that they wasted that money is pretty clickbaity.
that to. A player would have no chance of ever hitting for the cycle when the playoffs were still highly competitive and lacking in lesser quality teams getting in. Yet it happened exactly cause of that, people want to go with historic and do that cognitive dissonance on the watered down playoff format and what it actually offers.
Exactly. This is the only answer. It's entirely bc the playoffs are kind of random.
There's no way to construct a team to win three 50/50 series.
10:04 Gleyber was signed in 2013 and developed by the Cubs before he came to New York in the Aroldis Chapman trade, so most of his development occurred in the Chicago system, but I see the point. Definitely a guy that NY undervalued
he didnt make it past A ball with the cubs . hes a yankee
Refused to trade torres for castillo , still burns me up
It's time for the Yankees to go young and speed
As a Sox fan I had a tear in my eye this whole video 🥹
i heard the McD theme in my head - "i'm lovin it"!
I remember when most Yankees championship were based on home grown talent.
Most of their championships occurred before free agency, so of course the talent was homegrown
@@drewp.weiner2473 the FAs of the 90s were mostly post-prime pieces that still had it. Former star players also wanted to be Yankees in that era.
Yeah, but of the ones post free agency, they relied heavily on home grown talent. 2009 being the one time they really went for big free agents. 96-2000 was mostly homegrown and small smart moves like the trade for O'Neill, getting Justice, Strawberry, Gooden, Raines, Curtis... Many former superstars thought to be past their time in baseball. Biggest move was probably getting Clemens but we traded David Wells, a great pitcher coming off a great season, Homer Bush and Graeme "Haymaker" Lloyd (this guys a made man in NY for life) biggest free agent signing was either Tino in 96 or maybe El Duque in 98. That was one of the best built teams I ever saw. Every level of it was great. Coaching staff, rotation, bullpen, lineup and one of the most effective benches ever. The minor league system was pumping out talent, scouts were making the right calls on guys who had down years like Scott Brown's had in 97. He has nearly 100 RBI out of the nine hole. Stick Michael, Bob Watson and Cashman all made fantastic trades, under the radar signings and were hitting lightning in a bottle left and right. I don't know that we will ever see a front office nail the off-season and trade deadline as consistently, near flawlessly, as the Yankees front office between 1993 and 2001.
As a Brewers fan since the late 70s, I despise The Evil Empire.
as a Cardinals fan since the early 80s I will take the 3 championships in my life time, including beating the Brewers in the 1982 World Series
@@twostop6895 the 82 world series was a good one even if the Brewers lost to your Cards.
I'm no Yankee fan, which is interesting because I grew up on Long Island. I was a Mets fan in '69 and converted to the Orioles in 70 because I recognized the team in the WS...Then I stuck with them for the next 52 years.
I've been poking at Yankee fans and the ridiculous salaries for years. You would think that they would realize that buying a title doesn't work. Cashman should be fired. The Yankees will be looking at the tail lights of the Orioles this coming season, and the O's have about 1/6th of the payroll cost. It will lead to much chortling with joy when the season is over and the Yankees go home without a playoff birth.
Nice video!
Orioles will be in 4th place this year. Only because Boston apparently doesn't give a shit anymore. The Yankees, Blue Jays and Rays are much better that the Orioles.
@@SultanKhan66 I am sure you have no idea who is on the Os, or how good they are, OR who they will be bringing up from the minors.
Everybody likes rooting for the team with 1/6 the Yankees payroll when they’re playing well, but are somehow nowhere to be found when they’re sitting in last place. Teams like the Orioles, Mariners, and Astros aren’t any smarter or doing anything right compared to the Yankees, it’s just the fact that they’re given a pass when they lose 100 games for five straight seasons and the Yankees aren’t. If you constantly trade away any talent you have and suck so bad that you get the top draft picks every year, then there is obviously going to be a time when you are able to put together a team of good, young players that you don’t have to pay much. The Yankees can’t do that because they’re expected to be competitive every year, and they are. Even if it hasn’t resulted in a WS win for a while, the Yankees are always making it interesting for the fans by throwing their name in the running
Damn, book doc, you’re a weird one….abandoned your home team to jump on the bandwagon of the team they just beat because that team won the next year’s WS…then stuck with that team while they mostly sucked the next 50+ years while shit talking a vastly superior team in the same division that consistently owns your team SMH. Did you whine about the Red Sox or Dodgers when they blew past the Yankees in spending? Do you whine about the Mets, Phillies and Padres now? Never mind, I already know you don’t, there’s only room for one team to live rent free in your head.
@@noodler5583 That was a really long nonsense post. First, I live in Spain and I listened/watched EVERY ORIOLES GAME in 2022 and 2021. I've been a fan since 1970, and most of those years, I listened win or lose. I'm not some stupid fly-by night viewer and you learn other ways to appreciate the game. I am a student of baseball. You might sit there and cry over a loss. I just have fun spending a few hours watching baseball.
The Yankees aren't doing any 'winning' with their big fat payroll. It is pretty embarrassing. If they have the money BUY PROSPECTS FROM OTHER TEAMS RATHER THAN BUYING THE SERVICES OF HAS-BEENS. Your whole argument makes zero sense. The Yankees are trying to buy victory. That is all because Yankee fans are idiots? If so, best to have a better team and ignore the NY Karen brigade. There is no excuse for continually losing.
The Orioles are a dynasty about to roll. And Yankee fans will weep like the suckers and tools that they are.
Kinda backs the point that baseball doesn’t need a salary cap
It does because when big market teams are taking all the big name free agents the smaller market team doesn't have anyone to add through free agency to supplement there big roster. The playoffs are very random but having a big salary does give you a chance to make the playoffs
I would have appreciated this video more if you gave a shout out to “And that’s Baseball” because he did this same concept on the Angels 4 months ago.
The angels are a completely diffrent story because they realy burnt money. They made one playoff aperence in 13 years while the yankees made 10 and have consistently ben under 500. You can't juge a team by less than a month of a 162 game season
It just shows the playoffs are a crapshoot, and the team that gets " hot " can win it all
And sometimes, a team will have another teams number...Houston seems to have the Crankees' number
And playing a bunch of bad defensive players for offense doesn't help, plus having a RH- heavy lineup while playing in home park that favors LH hitters...not optimal
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I hate it when people define a teams success with championships. The playoffs are tough and making 10 playoffs in 13 years eaven without a penant is a sucess
Thanks to the bum Cashman 😂
Why were there pictures of Buck Showalter when talking about George Steinbrenner?
My curse theory is that they beat the Phillies in 2009. If you beat or lose the Phillies in a World Series as an AL East team-you just don’t get a World Series for a long time.
It makes sense.
Orioles: Last WS won in 1983, won over the Phillies.
Blue Jays: Last WS won in 1993, won over the Phillies.
Rays: First appearance in WS 2008, lost to Phillies. Haven’t won one yet.
Boston: Beat the Phillies in 1915 WS, won 2 more in 1916 and 1918, then had their curse before snapping it in 2004 with Curt Schilling, a former Phillies pitcher.
Yankees: Beat the Phillies in 2009 WS, have never been back.
Theory number 2 is the answer. The health stuff has been fluky and unfortunate, but it also kind of tracks back to number 2 as well. I love DJ and Rizzo but both are veterans in late prime. They are going to have injuries during a season. It is just part of it. We have built an elite farm system in recent years after a 3-5 year stretch with very little coming from up from the farm after the Bombers hit in 2016-18. They need to use those guys now once their ready instead of allowing veterans like Josh Donaldson, Aaron Hicks or IKF keep their positions. And if they aren't going to use them, they should trade them. There is no reason to keep them in the Minors past their readiness. Also, bad luck factors in too. As you pointed out at the end, Yankees have still been one of the top 5 franchises in overall performance over the last decade. Playoffs have expanded and short series ball is far less indicative of talent than regular season performance. I want us to start winning WS again more than anything. But it is definitely true what Cashman uses for an excuse - the playoffs are a bit of a crap shoot. Sometimes the best team wins it all, but probably not even 50% of the time. It is not just the best 2 teams playing in a WS like it was for many of the Yankee's earlier titles. Still have 7 titles since then with the next closest team at 4, but it is definitely more difficult to wrack up WS wins the way the team used to before the playoff changes.
Also, while the money total you tossed out is impressive, it still is nothing compared to the percentage more we used to spend than every other team. Revenue wise, we still dwarf the rest of the league. But because of the soft cap with the CBT, the gap between our spending and the next closest team is nothing like it once was. You could also do this with a lot of teams. Imagine how much money the Dodgers spent between WS wins. Or the Giants between 1950s and 2010. This money spent, as you pointed out, has still resulted in a significant amount of high performance, success and entertainment, they just have continued to fall short of the ultimate goal. Hopefully, this new group of elite prospects can supplement the veteran core and get us a ring in the next 2-3 years while Cole, Judge and Rodon are still in their prime and Stanton, DJ, and Rizzo are still highly productive veteran hitters. I still would really like to add one more high quality bat this year, but don't see that happening until the deadline.
Everyone wants to blame Cashman. But in my opinion Hal Steinbrenner should almost all the blame, he knows what they spend on payroll. And he sits on his hands. Make these front office and player personal people uncomfortable. Fire people, demote people. Run it like his dad. Yankee player's have always been paid very well. Push them harder!
11:59 I think your editor conflated George Steinbrenner with Buck Showalter
How many times do I have to hear this argument? There is no amount of money that guarantees a ring in baseball. It's impossible. And I say this as a gigantic Yankee hater
I'm so glad the Spankees are the team that overpays for said results. Fortunately for them, they have relied on homegrown talent more recently instead of buying every All Star free agent known to man.
MLB would have you believe that they are better off when the Yankees win yet they’ve received record revenues since the Yankees last WS appearance.
Cashman knows how to win games, not championships...
In 2009, the royals were (65-97), in 2022 they finished with an identical record.
In 2009 the Yankees went (103-59)
Since then, the royals have made more world series appearances and have a championship to show for it.
The Yankees just have a bunch of regular season wins.
Here’s a theory…they’re just choke artists and all that winning is done. 27 titles and a lot of them came in a time where they literally had all the best players and during times when there weren’t even 10 teams in the majors…maybe it’s coming back to haunt them.
Yankees becoming more and more like the leafs?
@@munaclassic4020 I hate the Yankees but I’m insulted you compared them to the Leafs… No team will ever be as pathetic as the Leafs (I’m a Leafs fan btw)
@@masterbaiters1183 i am a leafs fan too i am just asking what would be a fair NHL equivalent
@@munaclassic4020 I’d say they’re like a Oilers… A former dynasty that has eroded into a mid playoff team by relying on superstars instead of a well rounded group
Both have had some playoff success but neither has won it all… Both have GMs that have been around for decades and are past their prime as a result
The Leafs are like the Dallas Cowboys… Overpaid stars, broken canvases and not even marginal playoff success in the past 10-15 years
For New York that’s the cost of living dawg sounding very Chicago rn
No titles but they’re making many billions more. So a successful business.
$3 billion ain't what it used to be - at least not how the Yanks spend it. Sure, they can beat AL Central teams in the postseason, but if they run into Boston or Houston, their NFL linemen disguised as baseball players shrivel up and choke. As a famous Yankee fan would say, "Sad!"
9:41 is the most critical point. We destroy young talent
Really enjoyed the video but I must say at points in the video, what you are showing us has NOTHING to do with what you are talking about. You’re talking about The Boss but I’m seeing Buck Showalter in a Mets cap on the screen? You’re talking about 2019 but showing highlights of Anthony Rizzo.. just think it’s something you should work on.
Talk about Job Security!!
It's starting to look like Twitter is going to cost ol musky more than that lol
i think this offseason cashman realized you have to put the weight on the prospects. we didn’t go after many big man free agents this off season. The injuries are annoying but the analytical point you made with how we shifted to analytics is the prime reason we can’t get past the astros or teams who have a really good staff. the season is long and power is going to overtake the mediocre to below average staffs. But in the playoffs your facing teams who don’t make mistakes and execute their pitches. We can run into a hot start in a 7 game series but throughout the series we get cold and can’t situational hit and don’t have the best athletes to steal runs with speed and small ball.
what was with all the Buck Showalter pictures during the George Steinbrenner part
There's a very simple answer here. And that is, there is no reason.
And you're definitely smart enough to understand this, you just have to take the red pill on the MLB playoffs.
MLB playoffs are a complete crapshoot of randomness which makes any team's (even stacked teams like the Yankees) chances of a championship, at the start of a season, or at the start of the postseason, pretty low....btw 5 and 15%. That's the answer. It's not any of the moves Cashman made or didn't make. It's not Judge or Cole, or strikeouts galore. It's just the small sample size that makes playoff series coin tosses.
It's the same with the Dodgers, if you don't count a 60 game season, which I dont.
That's why front offices don't clean house and fire good GMs like Cashman simply for losing a game or two when the leaves are a different color. Even if they have hysterical idiot fanbases.
Just keep winning the division, get the bye, and it will definitely happen one of these years.
13:04 OOF!
The offense from top to bottom is built with players that hit homers and strikeout a lot…. Oh and they can’t hit with runners on base….. this has been going on for 2 decades now….. idk how they won the ws in 09
Toxic fan base - toxic city- toxic culture all equals failure when it counts.
You love to see it.
Wait, why did you keep showing Buck!? I don't like this association lol
0:54 ZERO!
Aged like fine wine
Hopefully, they keep losing games.
Made the Cut seems like a smart guy, and I'm shocked he doesn't get it. There is no reason. The playoffs are just a crapshoot.
The postseason series odds are 55/45, 60/40 max, and you need to win 3 or 4 of them in a row. That puts the odds of winning it all between 6 & 15% every single year when October starts...(so it's even lower for teams that won't or might not make the playoffs). That's the reason. It's math. It's not Paul Oniell or Bernie Williams, or striking out, etc....its the randomness of small sample sizes.
The Astros are not immune to this. They lost World Series to 89 & 91 win teams they were clearly better than.
Thats legitimately Hilarious.
All that wasted because cashman wanted to prove he was smarter than everyone else. And because he holds on to his top prospects until they are worth nothing . Look at the last 5 years alone , refused to do big trades and sign big names all in the name of keeping his top prospects . Its why the team is the mess that it is right now
Doing this amount of research and thinking George Steinbrenner is…Buck Showalter?? 😂😂
It's almost like living in New York City is bad for your health. 😂
27 championships worth 7 billion. The Yankees are everyone's daddy.
Injuries cannot be blamed for the consistent shortcomings of the Yankees. Easily debunked. Astros and Braves have both at least either made it to or won a World Series during this window while missing at least one of their MOST crucial players. The vast majority of those Yankee IL stints have been short-term and were either role players, Giancarlo Stanton, or Luis Severino. If your entire season hinges on the health of Luis Severino or Matt Carpenter, then I got news for ya:
You weren’t winning a damn thing anyway.
Buck Showalter. The Boss 😂
My personal curse theory is that the curse came from demolishing old Yankee Stadium. They last won in 2009 while it was still standing, it got demolished in 2010, and they haven't been back to a World Series since.
They tore down the house that Ruth built! Go Sox, hope Fenway never gets demolished
i feel like the yanks coulda had a WS or two in the 2010s but they ran into Houston’s dynasty too many times
I can tell you how the Yankees wasted 25 million for the next four years, resigning Genius Cashman!
Update, they still doing it
The real reason: two words, Hal, and Brian.
I need a vid like this for the Dodgers😭
It's already out
@@ygf377 thx
I love that they don’t win; it’s quite embarrassing when you factor in the sign stealing that they’ve been doing since 2016 that no one wants to talk about…you didn’t mention it either. We all know what’s in that envelope that Manfred doesn’t want to get out because they want the Astros to be the bad guys of the MLB.
delusional
@@victormenendez8080 hilarious
The Curse of the Astros
So west coast got the chockers and east coast got stankess two high paying teams that can’t show out in the playoffs
0:41 ugh….😪
Now do the Pirates. 😂
The pirates are the oppisite they spent 5$ on payroll every year and keep loosing 100 games. This is why spending on free agents is not waisting money
wait do you think Buck Schowalter is George Steinbrenner ????
And yet we find 2023 to be maybe the lowest they have been 1992...
Dear God, please let the Yankees be cursed
-----Signed every baseball fan ever
They haven't been to the World Series since George Steinbrenner died, they probably are cursed
Yo Yankees, if you’re thinking of wasting another 3 billion, you can send it to me instead 😂
0:19 damn how many million?
disappointed with the repeated highlights that don't pertain to each season. same highlights over and over when speaking about each season
Proof that money doesn’t win u championships
I wonder how much all those player's pay in taxes.
The Yankees need to develop a core and then go out and spend a shit ton of money not just build the core off of trades and free agents
The Yankees have no spirit. They are undoubtedly a great collection of players, but they lack a real leader and don't play well together as a team. The Yankees easily crush all the small market teams, only to fall apart like wet tissue paper against stiff competition. The 2022 playoffs were absolutely appalling for the Yankees. All their high priced hitters performed terribly, and the Astros owned them yet again. The Bronx looks like a miserable place to play. No one on the Yankees ever looks like they're having fun on the field. Boone is often dour, and spends most of his time berating umps and such.
The two biggest issues definitely are not taking an issue on home grown players and being too fixated on analytics. Have a bunch of .200 hitter when October rolls around won't fair well against the best pitching each team has to offer
Yes but your .300 hiters wont hit 300 against these same great pitchers so you might aswell be looking for a longball. I don't hear anyone criticizing the philies stategy and that's what there doing. And if the yankees where not taking a issu on homegrown talent why didn't they sign a big name shorstop in the past 2 offseasons ? The only reason the yankees haven't won a penant in 13 years is bad luck.
@@ygf377 notice how the Phillies lost, I'm guessing you haven't played much baseball in your day
Why put up what they spent and not how much they made? Prob 5 billion in profits and less than 3 billion in expenses lmao.
If the benchmark is winning, maybe it was a "waste." But if the people who invested the nearly $3 Billion are not in it to win it, but in it to make money, is it still a waste?? For all the prognostication one can find about the Yankees - none of it takes place while looking at the books. You speak of wins ane runs, but what about profit?
It is popular myth among the Luddite fans that "analytics" - a subject that they know nothing about - is somehow leading big guys who hit home runs (lol) and the prime example of this wrong approach is BIG Aaron Judge. Probably 90% of those fans cheered the re-signing of Judge, and who will the blame 9 years from now when they find out Judge can't hit from a rocking chair - and his salary is preventing necessary moves.
The Yankees are not just physically "big." They are the "big" marquee names that attract attention, "make a splash," fill the seats, maximize cable TV view, merchandise sales, vendor rents, and other advertising revenue. And if the A-holes who contribue to all those revenue streams are boo-hooing because Daddy Steinbrenner didn't give the right Christmas present? So What !! They are not going any place. Just tease them every couple of years with a Stanton, a Cole, a Rodon, another big splash. After all - it's Show Biz.
Is a .573 wining percentage over 13 years without a single loosing season a bad on feild result ?
Spare me the toxic fan BS....it costs more to be a Yankee fan than anywhere else. Higher cable bill, higher ticket prices, higher parking, higher concessions etc........the FANS DON'T PITCH OR HIT.
if the cost for parking is an issue, take public transportation.
They need better hitters
Sorry but this is New York, if you don’t perform you’re going to get booed it is what it is
Cubs developed and traded Gleyber. He was not home grown talent.
Shows how bad a general manager Brian Cashman is
Why you showing buck instead of stienbrenner
they have not drafted well, not developed well, overpayed on too many lemons. The 90s-2010s Yanks had it all, the Steinbrenner jr.'s also spending like below tax spending baseball owner NPCs isn't gonna help the legacy. They don't wanna win with that attitude, they want profits instead.
George Steinbrenner is pissed off in his grave with this nonsense going on in his franchise 0 championship last 12 years
and then he remembers the 80s and goes back to being dead
Sounds like the LA Dodgers