They rarely believe an injection of youth can improve you.
Instead they ride the pedigree and track record of a player and hope they turn around their results.
See Aaron Hicks, Joey Gallo, and Josh Donaldson as recent examples.
Any poor performance is chalked up to bad luck and nothing else.
That’s why you won’t see Jasson Dominguez this year.
Never mind his one day call up for the Williamsport game to face AL Cy Young shoe-in Tarik Skubal.
He hasn’t even resembled his lockdown defensive self in left field this year.
Dominguez could up and struggle and he’d provide better results than Verdugo right now.
Nope, instead there’s no lane.
How could you possibly play this guy everyday?
If any other competent GM oversaw this situation, Dominguez would be up here and playing every day.
It’s a complete no brainer, yet the Yankees see it differently.
They can’t possibly be wrong about this, right?
All their World Series appearances speak for themselves.
They’re the Yankees!
Keep in mind they’re 31-39 in their last 70 games.
Could you imagine a player from the 90s teams saying this stuff?
Jeter would have called a players only meeting to find out who was the culprit and set them straight.
Jeter would never leave the analyst boost to stoop down to manager, but maybe Posada would.
They always say a catcher makes for a great manager.
Hearing him talk like this on Old Timer’s Day made me want him as the next skipper.
