Why do the Yankees continue to struggle in June & July?

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00:00There needs to be a change.

00:01Like, there needs to be something to change.

00:03Like, this can't be okay, like you two were saying, Joel,

00:06where every team goes through this.

00:08No, they don't go through this three years in a row of this bad stretch

00:12in that key part of the season.

00:13And I'm at a point as a Yankees fan, I feel like, I don't know, Joel,

00:17if it's going to be 23 where this team really isn't that good

00:20and they're not going to make any damage in the playoffs,

00:22or if this is going to be like last year, we can turn it around

00:25and we can make a run to the World Series and then we'll see what happens.

00:29I don't know, I don't have a good read on this team

00:31and I don't know which way to lean.

00:33I don't know if you have a certain way of feeling of how they can make

00:37their way through the rest of the season and where they're going.

00:40Yeah, so there's a lot there.

00:42First of all, you have to be careful about overreacting.

00:45This is a very good team that is the defending American League champion.

00:50And I think, and you and I have kind of, until this bad stretch,

00:54thought that they had put together a better 26-man roster this year

00:58than they had last year going to it.

01:00And I still think that there's a very good offensive team in there

01:03that kind of like has been in this strange period for three weeks

01:07where for half of the three weeks they didn't score.

01:10And then in these, like the back end,

01:13like they just kept missing opportunities to blow a game open

01:16when their bullpen really needed them to blow some game was open.

01:19Okay, so I think there's that.

01:20If I was looking for commonality, and I know if we had Aaron Boone on here,

01:25he would argue with me about this.

01:28I feel like the Yankees get worse technically and fundamentally as the season goes along.

01:34That's been the common thread these last few years.

01:37Now, the easiest thing to say is that Aaron Boone is like kind of pally with the players

01:44and doesn't demand enough of the group.

01:48And if you want to have that theory, it's fine.

01:52I do think if I were in charge, if I were Hal Steinberg or Brian Cashman,

01:57I would say, look, this has happened three years in a row

02:01where it feels like we hit a certain point at about 70, 80 games

02:05where the team kind of gets mentally tired about doing fundamental stuff right over and over.

02:11Because this is something you and I have talked about over and over for a year plus,

02:15which is to be a good fundamental player is to do the routine, the boring,

02:20with passion and energy and technical expertise over and over again.

02:25And it's easier not to do it than to do it.

02:29And the best players, and I would point out that the Yankees brought in two players like this.

02:35I think Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger are exceptional at this.

02:38And of course, they won a game yesterday in part because Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt

02:42are technically excellent defensive players.

02:45And they made not only superb plays, but the right plays, aware plays, right?

02:49Bellinger comes up throwing to first to get a double play.

02:53Goldschmidt sees that Mauricio has jumped off first base and understands.

02:56Tag him, then get to the bag.

02:58Don't create the rundown play if you don't have to.

03:01So like that happening yesterday is a reminder that they do have a couple of guys

03:06they added this year who don't get exhausted doing things right over and over and over again.

03:12To me, like yesterday was a day where I would sit and say,

03:16well, Trent Grisham kind of drifted into a ball over his head.

03:19He came in and didn't feel the ball cleanly, which is a physical error.

03:23Maybe anybody makes it, but he made it, right?

03:26And I just feel like Boone is probably not a riot act manager.

03:35Aaron Judge is probably not a riot act captain.

03:40And these are moments where I always feel that the Yankees have never fully replaced

03:48Brett Gardner and CeCe Sabathia, who I thought were wartime consigliaries to steal from the

03:54godfather.

03:54Like I thought that they were guys who knew how to go up and say,

04:00this is unacceptable with some strictness.

04:03And I do think a lot of this always has to come from the players.

04:05And I don't know that they have, and by the way, this might just be modern baseball or

04:11modern sports.

04:12I don't know that accountability is great in our sport.

04:15I think we think so little of the fundamental stuff now.

04:19And we think about, you know, watching the iPad, launch angle, and all the things that are

04:25really, really, really vital to winning.

04:27But to me, the fundamentals are the grout of winning.

04:32Like you need to make sure, like if you want the tiles to stay in place, you've got to be

04:36good technically.

04:37And I feel like the Yankees get mentally exhausted or like they just can't run the full

04:44marathon as a technical team.

04:46They're fatigued.

04:46They're fatigued, Joel.

04:48Yeah.

04:49Yeah.

05:16Yeah.

05:17Yeah.

05:18Yeah.

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