Yankees Struggle Continues: Severity of Stanton's Absence

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00:00Man, they have been bad for a legitimate stretch of time now, Matt, 35 games, 11 and 24.

00:10I mean, that's bad.

00:12That's over a month.

00:13That's a long time.

00:15Mike Francesca called them circus clowns, and I couldn't have said it better myself.

00:19Yep, that's what's going on right now with everything involved in the Yankees from management

00:26the players.

00:27I mean, was Mike Giancarlo Stanton that big of a piece that when he goes down that this

00:32entire lineup cannot hit?

00:34And I know everyone in New York got mad at Severino for saying there are two hit lineup,

00:39but it's true.

00:40It's Soto, it's judge, and that's it.

00:42They don't have a third baseman.

00:44They haven't gotten much production out of first base.

00:47They've got a bullpen that can be leaky at times, and they've got starting pitching that

00:51on the road.

00:52Look, Nestor Cortez on the road is not good.

00:55Nestor Cortez at home is good.

00:57Garrett Cole got lit up by the Mets.

00:59You need him to be a stopper, and he got lit up by the Mets.

01:01You go 0-4 against the Mets, your crosstown rival.

01:04You go to the Red Sox in a big series.

01:06Boston comes off a 1-5 road trip where they got smacked by for 20 runs against the Rockies,

01:12and they come back down 7-4, and they come back and win the game 9-7.

01:16I mean, if you're a Yankee fan, you can't believe what you're watching because you're

01:19going, how bad are these guys right now?

01:22Is the trade deadline coming up, and does the team have the gumption to make a major

01:27trade to go and get a bat or two bats to help this lineup?

01:31Because you can't just sit here and wait for Stanton to come back, in my opinion, because

01:34I don't know how effective he's going to be, and a hamstring is balky.

01:37He makes one wrong turn.

01:38He makes one run down first base, and he could pull the thing again, and then what are you

01:43going to do?