David Wells joined BT and Sal on Monday to sound off on modern baseball, Joe Torre, and other topics, but he was particularly fired up about the modern player, who he believes doesn’t have the same fire that he or his counterparts had during his playing career.
“They’re getting paid so much money, I don’t think they care, to be honest with you,” Wells said when asked about the Yankees current struggles, and the relentless public positivity from manager Aaron Boone.
“In 1998, we lost three of the first four games of the year, and Joe Torre was pissed. He came in and laid it on the line,” Wells said. “That’s what you want a manager to do. He called everybody out. He called Jeter out, he called Bernie out…and this was the first 3-4 games of the season. Whatever Joe said, it resonated with everybody. We came together as a team.”
Wells doesn’t see that happening with the 2024 Yanks, or any other teams in Major League Baseball right now.
“If we would get in slumps, we would talk about it, we would sit in the clubhouse after the game, we’d go out to dinner as a team…and we would talk about the game and how we can get better,” Wells said. “These guys don’t do it. They have their headphones on, they play video games, they watch film, film, and film.”