Yankees' Lineup Choices Stir Controversy in Toronto

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00:00George, a very ugly week up in Toronto for the Yankees on several fronts.

00:07Oh, you can go on and on about this, right?

00:10You know, Mike, you know, when I knew I was coming on,

00:13I was going to be a calm Yankee fan.

00:15And then I see the lineup maybe got posted a half hour ago.

00:18I'm like, oh, here we go again.

00:19All right, Jazz is still at third base.

00:21They got Peraza playing second.

00:22It should be reversed here.

00:24I mean, it just infuriates.

00:26That catch just lies to us, right?

00:28It just lies to us over and over again.

00:30He said during the offseason he wants the Yankees to be a more athletic team,

00:34you know, better with the fundamentals.

00:35Part of the reason why they didn't want Torres back is he made a lot of brain-dead plays, right?

00:39And yet the analytics tell you over and over again.

00:41I think Chris Kirshner of The Athletic posted a column on this that they are a much better.

00:46I mean, it's not even close.

00:47They are a much better team with Jazz Chisholm playing second base and anybody playing third.

00:52It doesn't matter who because they're all terrible, right?

00:55Peraza, LeMayu, you know, you want to bring back A-Rod, Nettles, whoever.

00:59Or we'd be better than what they're doing right now here.

01:01But they don't want to admit that LeMayu is a sunk cost, right?

01:05They want to put him in the line, which is a joke.

01:07He's got as much range as a daisy air rifle.

01:09He can't move.

01:10He can't throw.

01:11And he may give you the best average of the players you have playing there, but it's a soft average.

01:16They're all singles, right?

01:17And every now and then he'll let you a double.

01:19And he can't run.

01:20He's not going to steal any bases here.

01:21So it's just infuriating that they won't admit that this is not how it works.

01:25And so I think they didn't know this, by the way.

01:27Remember, during the offseason, they wanted to get Aronado.

01:30They tried very hard to get Aronado, but they didn't want to pay the freight, which I don't blame them, by the way,

01:33because St. Louis wanted to take on the full contract and add valuable pieces there.

01:37And Aronado's is not worth that right now here.

01:39So just a fury.

01:41Actually, I was in a decent mood here.

01:42And then, you know, I was like, oh, you see him doing this.

01:45He keeps trying to bang that square peg into a round hole over and over and over again until the damn toy is broken.

01:53All right.

01:54And by the way, does Judge see a pitch to hit tonight or is Schneider going to walk him all four times?

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