The Yankees picked up a big win on Thursday night, but the big story was first baseman Anthony Rizzo landing on the IL with a concussion, a move that was highly criticized for seemingly being far too late.
Rizzo had been putting up All-Star numbers before colliding with Fernando Tatis Jr. at first base back in May, and became the worst qualified hitter in baseball ever since.
It was the latest benchmark for BT to further his belief that the organization is simply broken on every conceivable level.
“You want to talk about levels of incompetence. How embarrassing is that?” BT said. I don’t understand what is going wrong with this team at every checkpoint. At the most fundamental levels.
“This isn’t an outlier here…let’s not forget, who was acquired last year? Frankie Montas. His medicals were either misread or ignored. What happened a couple years ago with Aaron Judge, with the misdiagnosis of the rib injury that he suffered diving in the outfield, which wound up plaguing him for a year.”
Injury management, trades for injured players, free agent signings like Carlos Rodon that haven’t worked out, and extending Brian Cashman are all bits of evidence to BT that the franchise is truly broken.
“It’s just another illumination of how many things the Yankees do wrong,” BT said. “What do the Yankees do right?
“Do they draft well? No. do they develop players well? No. Do they sign the right free agents? No. Do they make good trades? No. Do they penalize people within the franchise for not doing their job well? No.”
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