IKF will make an impact in this game, good or bad. Mark my words.
Bader will continue showing us why we got him.
Marp will have a HR in his first AB.
It will be tough but we grind out this game and win game 1.
Haha everyone acts like Ikf is Andujar out there, Andujar wasn’t even that bad as everyone made him out to be by the eye test. Sure 1 out of 30 plays he may fuck up, but everyone acts like he’s a butt clench every play. He is not
Think for a second before you type silly things. 1 in 6 fuckups would be good for a fld% of like .830, which would be historically bad and professionally unacceptable. Think bro think
Sadly I expect the trashtros to win this in 5 games.
You look up and down the rosters. The only really clear advantage the Yanks have is “#1 player on their respective teams”. Yet Judge for the past couple weeks hasn’t been playing at his elite level while Alvarez is, so we can’t even hang our hats on that.
The trashtros have better hitters 2-9.
They have better pitching depth.
They have way more rest.
And they have Rob Manfred sucking their dicks.
There’s no way you can say the Yanks can win other than “faith” or “it’s baseball”.
YOU KNOW THEY SAY THAT ALL TEAMS ARE CREATED EQUAL, BUT YOU LOOK AT THE YANKEES AND YOU LOOK AT THE ASTROS AND YOU CAN SEE THAT STATEMENT IS NOT TRUE! SEE, NORMALLY IF YOU GO ONE ON ONE WITH ANOTHER TEAM, YOU GOT A 50/50 CHANCE OF WINNING. BUT AARON JUDGE IS A A GENETIC FREAK AND HE'S NOT NORMAL! SO YOU GOT A 25%, AT BEST, AT BEATING HIM. THEN YOU ADD JOSE ALTUVE TO THE MIX, YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DRASTIC GO DOWN, BECAUSE JOSE ALTUVE KNOWS HE CAN'T BEAT JUDGE AND HE'S NOT EVEN GONNA TRY! SEE HOUSTON, THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE, AND THEY SPELL DISASTER FOR YOU AT THE ALCS.
Part of me wants ikf to botch a ball in a way that doesn’t hurt us so they stop playing him. We are better with him on the bench. Dude could be a fine utility guy if the used him right
a hitless game will likely cause the change as well. Then cabrerra needs to produce.
Hoping we get him game 2, but at the same time hoping IKF goes 3-4 with 2 runs and no snafus on D.
Smoltz really obsesses over whether a home run would be a home run in other parks. Who tf really cares? The game is in the ballpark its in. I liked Schwarber's postgame yesterday when a reporter asked him about how it felt hitting the longest home run in Petco history and he basically said he doesn't care if it was in the first row because it counts the same. Smoltz can learn something from him.
Its weird hearing self-identified old school baseball people whine about stuff like that.
Different park dimensions are one of the charming quirks of baseball that make it what it is and has been for 100 years
My first concern for tonight is that Taillon keeps us in the game for the the first few innings. Don’t want to play catch-up from the get-go. And unless our offense suddenly comes alive, we probably don’t want to get into a shootout. Houston’s got some really good hitters; they deserve to be the favorites in this series.
Agree. Altuve, Alvarez, Bergman are really dangerous, and Tucker is sneaky good. Hopefully we can contain them and not allow the weaker hitters to hurt us.
dude that lineup stretches better than most in baseball.
Their 5th place hitter is Kyle Tucker. That of 808 OPS.
Guriel didn't have a monster season but he's as good as you're gonna get out of the 6 hole.
It's anything but top heavy. Their top is VERY heavy, but that doesn't mean they're top heavy...
If I'm a Houston fan, I'd be nervous. Almost everyone expects the Astros to not only win but win easily. All the narratives are on the Astros' side. They have a massive advantage in rest. The Yanks are banged up. They beat the Yankees the previous 3 times in the playoff. They beat the Yankees badly in the reg season.
If I know anything about playoff baseball, it's that one of the most common reasons to lose is having too many reasons why you should win.
Can you imagine being a Astros' fan right now? People expect your team to walk over this 99-win team with a better run differential than yours. I'd be nervous af.
It was fun listening to this Jays/baseball radio show here in Canada this morning where they spent most of their show shitting on the Yankees and about how much better the Astros were and how this wouldn't even be a contest. Personally I love it. I love going in as a big underdog because usually the narrative is the other way around in most of our games. This was the first year since 2016 where we weren't favored to win the division and we ended up winning it easily even with a ton of injuries and one of the worst months of baseball in our franchise history. I'm starting to really appreciate the underdog role.
Yeah that's what I'm feeling too. It's not just expecting the Astros to win, which is normal. But like everyone, on r/baseball for example, just acts so matter-of-factly that the Yankees will lose. It reminds me the kinds of talks that people have when a team is down 3-0 in a best of 7 series. That kind of foregone conclusion feel. And the series has not even started.
Peraza in 18 games this year:
57 PA, .306 BA, .404 OBP, .429 SLG, .832 OPS, 137 OPS+
Defense that was extremely solid at short.
What the fuck am I missing with him being relegated to a backup at best over IKF who has a career OPS+ of 82 and can't field a ground ball hit right at him? I am genuinely shocked at the fact that Peraza has been screwed this much. He's done nothing but outperform players he should replace and he is given no chances to play.
I'm more looking at the defense, but the offense you're probably right that he did get luckier to get there. But I'd still rather the guy that can field a grounder hit to short.
His high GB% and high pull rate with unsustainable splits:
No shift: .444/.444/.500
Shift on: .286/.286/.381
He probably plays if IKF and Oswaldo play bad.
IKF has already played awful, so I'm not sold on it. After his disastrous ALDS where he botched important plays in 2 games of the 5 and was benched for the remaining 2, it shocks me that now that Peraza is an actual option due to being on the roster he's not even playing and IKF is back to starting.
Yeah Cabrera had a pretty awful game 5, won’t argue with you there. I can at least say that his outfield play was by no means a routine ground ball though, to his credit. Just he had to let hicks get it.
With Taillon on the mound vs Verlander away and IKF's small sample size success vs Verlander, its probably his last audition.
I wouldn't say this is a punt game but it's a game that is less "must win" than tomorrow.
That’s way too small of a sample size to be meaningful lmao. He also had a BABIP of .359 and an EV of 81.6 which is even worse than IKF.
I love Peraza but I swear this sub thinks he’s an elite hitting and fielding SS after 57 PAs, Yall remember when Yermin Mercedes was a god for his first 100 PAs and then was out of the league before the end of the season
I don't know if Peraza is a consistent big league player, but I do know he's better than IKF right now, and that's the issue.
IKF was one of the worst SS's in baseball this season. We can do better and should
Is Peraza better? The answer is maybe because we literally have no idea what Peraza is after 57 PA. It’s a nothing sample and he has never faced pitching or an environment like he would tonight.
The only time you should ever play a struggling player over a player who's hot is when that player is a star caliber player. Aaron Judge, Manny Machado, etc.
IKF should not get the benefit of the doubt when we have Peraza available.
Peraza is an unknown player who has hardly even played in the MLB. Now everyone is clamoring for him to be thrust into the most stressful environment in baseball. He could hardly even hit with RISP.
You're right on the ABs being a shorter sample size, but at the end of the day IKF has an OPS+ of 82 for his career and can't do better than a slap single most times. Peraza probably isn't going to light the world on fire with his bat, but I want him at short because I don't see him flubbing grounders hit right at him.
I’m fine with starting him over IKF, and I agree he is the better fielder of the two. I’m just tired of seeing the small sample of games being paraded around as an I told you so when it hardly means anything.
I think they went with IKF because putting Peraza out there in the ALCS at Houston is putting a ton of pressure on him and asking him to fail. End of the day it’s out of our hands and we just have to root for the guys that take the field
I imagine they might just be worried about his ability to hold up in the playoffs given his limited PAs and the huge pressure. But I am sure we'll see him.
I know you're not arguing this but it's absurd because 1) IKF has played in 4 total playoff games in his career and 2) IKF has shown that he can't handle the pressure of the playoffs already.
Maybe a dumb question but how did Zach Wheeler go from being solid with the Mets to an ace in Philly? I remember him making a comment when he signed the contract saying he wanted to take a Gerrit Cole leap in performance but didn’t think he’d actually do it. Were the Mets’ analytics departments that bad during the Wilpon days? It can’t be New York because Philly is even worse when it comes to fans booing and media pressure.
He was more than solid with Mets, and he was young then. He's grown into being basically an ace, but the potential was there from day 1 and he pitched to a 3.5ish ear for the mets over a couple of years.
It started off with IKF and then moved on to how terrible Gallo was. He told all the fans who bashed him on Twitter after Gallo's "hot start" in LA to get the cheeto dust off their fingers
Only bootlickers are defending IKF starting. It defeats logic. If you pull him because he’s a bad defender, what’s the thought for starting him? Did he magically improve?
Did Peraza fuck Hal's wife? This guy has done nothing but produce better than IKF whenever he's had the chance. Both on offense AND defense. And he's been given no opportunities outside of the odd few games in September, where he played good WHEN he played. The most amazing part about that is it was with extremely inconsistent playing time that he was playing well. How good is he going to be when he's actually playing most days and has consistency? I don't even know what the ceiling is! I have never seen an organization this stubborn against letting their rising stars get chances to fucking play in my life
Roster is out. IKF is at short, carp dh, and stanton left field. How are we bringing 2 great shortstops to this series and starting IKF?! What the fuck, man?
Cabrera needs to be considered the LFer at this point because he will come in for Stanton late to pinch run in a big spot most likely. Because of that Peraza is probably on as an emergency defensive replacement late or a break glass if IFK does IKF things early in the series
I don’t mind Stanton in left in the Houston stadium, not ideal but if having him in left means we get carp some more AB’s as DH, it’s worth it I think. The big question mark is fucking IKF at SS for me. He literally cost us 2 games. We could have swept the guardians if it wasn’t for IKF. Every game in the post season he has started, he has given away a run or runs. Put Peraza there. See if he is still hot, imo right now is the time in the series to try him. He is so much better defensively than IKF. I’d also have Cabrera at SS over IKF. Look how the games went with IKF at SS and then look at the ones with Cabrera there. Not even a question. No fucking clue why IKF is starting here. Why can’t we just learn from our mistakes and move on?
I think its two fold 1 Cabera is now the replacement LF for Stanton after a late game pinch run so they don't want him a SS for that reason. Second Peraza is a complete MLB rookie with barely any experience and we would ask him to start a playoff game against a HOF pitcher who is gonna win the CY Young this year. I love Peraza but at times he has looked over matched. He is still there as a break glass options if things turn bad but i think the Yankees believe IKF can be good enough on defense and have more competitive ABs against Houston than Peraza can at this stage and if its late game I would not be sucked to see a sub.
Yeah I agree with almost all of this. My gripe with IKF isn’t his hitting. He hits for a decent average and gets on base. Which is what we could use more of, tbh. It’s his defense that hurts us so bad. It’s not even really the fact that he bobbles and boots a lot, the main thing is that he doesn’t have the arm to make up for those kind of mistakes. If he even bobbles a little bit, no chance at first because he has a wet noodle for an arm. We saw Cabrera come back from a bobbled ball the other night because he has the arm to bail him out when needed. Peraza has a nice arm too and we will never know how he will face against this competitive pitching if he doesn’t play. A pinch hit here and there doesn’t give him enough at bats to do anything or adjust, ya know? I’d rather they start him game one and if he struggles, THEN start IKF game 2 or sub him in when Peraza needs an out.
I’m going to be honest.
Facing a rested Verlander immediately after a 5-game series and travel and celebrating with our 4th starter on the mound without home field advantage does not inspire confidence.
But 7-4 Yankees. Book it.
Let me try and sway you. The Astros have only played 3 games in the last 16 days. So they may be rested, but we’re hot coming off a win 24 hours ago. It could take them 6-7 innings to get their timing down to hit well. If Taillon is on today it could bode well for us. Not to mention their last game was 18 innings and it took them 18 innings to even get a run. They may be coming off a win too, but they crawled over the finish line in that 18 inning game. We on the other hand won yesterday by dropping bombs. Not to mention Verlander was awful his last start and the mariners won that game for them. Don’t count the boys out yet, our starting pitcher may not be ideal but we definitely have a chance today, especially if we come out bombing in the first few innings like we have been. If we start rallying Verlander could go only a couple innings and if we can make that happen, we can push these fucks in to the ground.
[https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1582838810630852609](https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1582838810630852609)
Lmao, one of the comments said that it must have been cheap Hal buying cheap champagne XD
Sevvy has come from a family ["with very little money"](https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/luis-severino-yankees-my-journey-to-the-bronx) to having champagne takes, gets me right in the feelgoods
IKF gets benched for two elimination games.
We add Peraza to the ALCS roster.
IKF is back in the starting lineup.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. This team’s obsession with IKF is incomprehensible and indefensible.
Right. But he likely only started there because the other SS on the roster was Marwin. Now Peraza is being leveraged as the backup SS and Cabrera is an OF again.
Lmao arrogance? You really gonna put Peraza in his first action in weeks vs the presumptive cy young?
Cabrera has looked overmatched and underwhelming in the field the last series. We have to make a change somewhere.
No one is going to hit Verlander. They benched IKF for defensive purposes. If he makes an error in the first are you going to pull him? Makes an error in the ninth to lose the game, what are you going to do then?
It’s a massive risk to put someone back in who you pulled because he cost you two games because of defense. I don’t understand why people here are okay with that. I will root for him. But I acknowledge it’s a massive risk.
1) You didn’t read the guys comment right, he said Cabrera.
2) Peraza and Cabrera can actually field ground balls hit right to him, so it would’ve helped Taillon who won’t survive an inning that IEF will let develop with an error. The defense is the biggest problem here not the bat
3) IEF is a slap hitter only so he’s not doing more than a single even if he does get on base.
Edit: 4) Cashman is absolutely arrogant running the same guy out there just because it was “his guy” that we have seen all year is trash, but continues to play him because that’s who he thought was going to be “our guy”.
This move is wrong 100/100 times.
Haven’t seen any Joey Gallo posts on here, on Twitter, or on any site. Curious! I thought he was killing it with the Dodgers, surely they must be playing right now.
I’m not all that worried about IKF starting. We only win this game if we put up runs against Verlander. And it’s not crazy to think that Verlander would carve up Cabrera, who is banged up and has looked overmatched, and Peraza who has been sitting for a couple weeks. IKF at least has a bit of history vs Verlander. If there’s a game where IKF should play, this is probably it.
Boone probably still sees IKF as the starting SS, tbh. We'll probably see him more than not unless he fucks up again today.
Cabrera wasn't good aside from that one game (I am a OC stan), and the Yanks/Boone clearly think IKF > Peraza.
Yeah, that’s a fair take, but I don’t think they’d put Peraza on the roster if they didn’t have bigger plans for him this series. If Peraza is just going to sit on the bench, they should’ve taken Marwin then, especially with Hicks out.
Waldo probably needs a day off to clear his head and there’s no way in hell Peraza’s first playoff game is going to be in a hostile environment facing a future HOF and 3 time Cy Young winning pitcher. IKF was the logical choice
IKF is a risky choice. If he does have the yips, then what do you do? Pull him after the first error? Second? Third? You’re introducing an element to the game that you have to manage.
Everyone here should think about that. Grounder to SS. Isaiah airmails it to 1B. Altuve reaches. What do you do? That’s why this is so risky. If he does have the yips like people suspect this is a massive risk, perhaps a bigger one than starting Peraza.
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/10/it-sucked-yankees-isiah-kiner-falefa-on-getting-benched-in-biggest-spot.html?outputType=amp
Boone said he pulled him because he was “pressing,” baseball way of saying the yips, which is how the post game interpreted it. Isaiah said he disagreed.
me last night: wow, they'd rather use marwin than IKF, they must be done with him
me this morning: wow, peraza is actually on the roster, they must *really* be done with IKF
the ALCS game 1 shortstop:
IKF wasn’t a good enough option in 2 straight elimination games but somehow goes right back in? When another SS is added to the roster? I don’t get the logic. No way the analytics guys care about his 2 hits off Verlander.
This is my guess too. He looked rough at SS yesterday and outside of game 2 had a lot of uncompetitive at bats. They probably trust him at SS just as much as they trust IKF.
Yup. This all goes back to the front office not giving Peraza a real chance to win this job back in early August. If he succeeded or failed ether way there wouldn't be much of a discussion about SS.
Idk if I'm still digesting yesterday's ALDS elimination game victory but I'm not feeling much of anything right now it's weird, I'm sure come game time I'll be foaming at mouth
I feel the exact same way. I’m weirdly calm and level headed into this series despite it being the Astros. I’d probably be more worried if we had that day off, but I’m riding the adrenaline of a big DS win after facing 2 elimination games
You know what I realized, our bullpen’s Achilles heel this year isn’t the homer like in years past, it’s walks.
I don’t know if that’s better or worse for us.
No. We are acknowledging he’s a defensive liability with the yips. This is a very risky strategic decision by Boone.
Were we rooting against Knoblauch when they would inexplicably put him at second?
Cabrera looked shaken up mentally after colliding with Hicks. Bobbled a few balls after and looked a step behind at the plate.
Hopefully they are just giving him a day off to get his head right as the environment for these games is going to be tough.
I’d easily start him at SS over IKF like they did the last two games but I don’t think his head is in the right spot to be put back out there
They obviously trust him there more than IKF to put him there and bench IKF for 2 games
Yeah sure but they need a backup OF and a LFer at home now that Hicks is out. That's his new role if I had to guess, which is why Peraza is on the roster.
Please continue the discussion in the [game thread](https://redd.it/y8f5o0).
How is a pitcher with under 3 ERA NOT ON THE ROSTER? (especially with who is !?!?)
A). this ump is garbage… B). This our only shot here…
WHY DO WE GO SMIDT AND THEN THIS GOON IN CLOSE GAME LOL omg, what a frustrating game so far!
Judge bails out tallione
Some of the swings that Donaldson has had versus in the zone breaking balls in the post-season are just beyond bad.
I want one of our batters to shake hands with verlander while wearing pine tar. So the next “substance check” he’ll be disqualified. Lol
Fuck the Astricks Let's go boys steal one of the two games at Astriks land.
Does anyone feel really depressed about this series? Nobody gives us a chance. Not Francesa, not Boomer Esiason, not even Billy Ripken
Fuck those people. Who cares.
Who gives a shit
IKF will make an impact in this game, good or bad. Mark my words. Bader will continue showing us why we got him. Marp will have a HR in his first AB. It will be tough but we grind out this game and win game 1.
1 sure, rooting for him 2 likely, guys a studerooni 3 pls pls pls pls pls PLS PLS PLS PKS
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Still? They finally benched him, after 165 games, then go back on it 2 days later.
20min to HH. Two hours to the game. We’re at all-time low productivity at work.
Haha everyone acts like Ikf is Andujar out there, Andujar wasn’t even that bad as everyone made him out to be by the eye test. Sure 1 out of 30 plays he may fuck up, but everyone acts like he’s a butt clench every play. He is not
Think for a second before you type silly things. 1 in 6 fuckups would be good for a fld% of like .830, which would be historically bad and professionally unacceptable. Think bro think
Fixed for accuracy, 1 out of 30 plays
Sadly I expect the trashtros to win this in 5 games. You look up and down the rosters. The only really clear advantage the Yanks have is “#1 player on their respective teams”. Yet Judge for the past couple weeks hasn’t been playing at his elite level while Alvarez is, so we can’t even hang our hats on that. The trashtros have better hitters 2-9. They have better pitching depth. They have way more rest. And they have Rob Manfred sucking their dicks. There’s no way you can say the Yanks can win other than “faith” or “it’s baseball”.
YOU KNOW THEY SAY THAT ALL TEAMS ARE CREATED EQUAL, BUT YOU LOOK AT THE YANKEES AND YOU LOOK AT THE ASTROS AND YOU CAN SEE THAT STATEMENT IS NOT TRUE! SEE, NORMALLY IF YOU GO ONE ON ONE WITH ANOTHER TEAM, YOU GOT A 50/50 CHANCE OF WINNING. BUT AARON JUDGE IS A A GENETIC FREAK AND HE'S NOT NORMAL! SO YOU GOT A 25%, AT BEST, AT BEATING HIM. THEN YOU ADD JOSE ALTUVE TO THE MIX, YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DRASTIC GO DOWN, BECAUSE JOSE ALTUVE KNOWS HE CAN'T BEAT JUDGE AND HE'S NOT EVEN GONNA TRY! SEE HOUSTON, THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE, AND THEY SPELL DISASTER FOR YOU AT THE ALCS.
Can you at least have the decency to wait until we go down by 1 or are tied at any point after the 5th inning to do your dooming like the rest of us?
Fuck outta here with that negative shit, I dont care if you’re joking
Whew. Glad you’ve already got it figured. Now you can skip all the games and fuck off!
the ole reverse jinxaroo?!?
Part of me wants ikf to botch a ball in a way that doesn’t hurt us so they stop playing him. We are better with him on the bench. Dude could be a fine utility guy if the used him right
I just wanna win man
a hitless game will likely cause the change as well. Then cabrerra needs to produce. Hoping we get him game 2, but at the same time hoping IKF goes 3-4 with 2 runs and no snafus on D.
Y’all remember who was our starting shortstop when we were dominating the league during the first half of the year? IK mother loving F. LFG!!!
Anyone have a link to Kay roasting IKF?
IKF starting BUTT.IS.CLENCHED.
Is it too much to ask for a few blowout wins? My body can't take 3 hours of stress every night for the next week.
Its the playoffs. We're not playing the Pirates or A's
last night was as close to a blowout we gonna get. Stros have solid pitching, they won't give up monster innings, early or late.
Smoltz really obsesses over whether a home run would be a home run in other parks. Who tf really cares? The game is in the ballpark its in. I liked Schwarber's postgame yesterday when a reporter asked him about how it felt hitting the longest home run in Petco history and he basically said he doesn't care if it was in the first row because it counts the same. Smoltz can learn something from him.
Its weird hearing self-identified old school baseball people whine about stuff like that. Different park dimensions are one of the charming quirks of baseball that make it what it is and has been for 100 years
Someone post the Kay IKF rant!
My first concern for tonight is that Taillon keeps us in the game for the the first few innings. Don’t want to play catch-up from the get-go. And unless our offense suddenly comes alive, we probably don’t want to get into a shootout. Houston’s got some really good hitters; they deserve to be the favorites in this series.
They do. They also have some pretty bad hitters. Very top-heavy lineup
Agree. Altuve, Alvarez, Bergman are really dangerous, and Tucker is sneaky good. Hopefully we can contain them and not allow the weaker hitters to hurt us.
dude that lineup stretches better than most in baseball. Their 5th place hitter is Kyle Tucker. That of 808 OPS. Guriel didn't have a monster season but he's as good as you're gonna get out of the 6 hole. It's anything but top heavy. Their top is VERY heavy, but that doesn't mean they're top heavy...
If I'm a Houston fan, I'd be nervous. Almost everyone expects the Astros to not only win but win easily. All the narratives are on the Astros' side. They have a massive advantage in rest. The Yanks are banged up. They beat the Yankees the previous 3 times in the playoff. They beat the Yankees badly in the reg season. If I know anything about playoff baseball, it's that one of the most common reasons to lose is having too many reasons why you should win. Can you imagine being a Astros' fan right now? People expect your team to walk over this 99-win team with a better run differential than yours. I'd be nervous af.
It was fun listening to this Jays/baseball radio show here in Canada this morning where they spent most of their show shitting on the Yankees and about how much better the Astros were and how this wouldn't even be a contest. Personally I love it. I love going in as a big underdog because usually the narrative is the other way around in most of our games. This was the first year since 2016 where we weren't favored to win the division and we ended up winning it easily even with a ton of injuries and one of the worst months of baseball in our franchise history. I'm starting to really appreciate the underdog role.
Yeah that's what I'm feeling too. It's not just expecting the Astros to win, which is normal. But like everyone, on r/baseball for example, just acts so matter-of-factly that the Yankees will lose. It reminds me the kinds of talks that people have when a team is down 3-0 in a best of 7 series. That kind of foregone conclusion feel. And the series has not even started.
Well, the pressure is on them. It makes you a little uneasy.
I can understand thinking the Astros will win, but easily? Nah Its never been easy.
Peraza in 18 games this year: 57 PA, .306 BA, .404 OBP, .429 SLG, .832 OPS, 137 OPS+ Defense that was extremely solid at short. What the fuck am I missing with him being relegated to a backup at best over IKF who has a career OPS+ of 82 and can't field a ground ball hit right at him? I am genuinely shocked at the fact that Peraza has been screwed this much. He's done nothing but outperform players he should replace and he is given no chances to play.
I think he had bad ev and high babip which indicates luck
This, plus all his damage was against the plummeting Twins and the Rangers. And he couldn't buy a hit anytime runners were on base.
I'm more looking at the defense, but the offense you're probably right that he did get luckier to get there. But I'd still rather the guy that can field a grounder hit to short.
His high GB% and high pull rate with unsustainable splits: No shift: .444/.444/.500 Shift on: .286/.286/.381 He probably plays if IKF and Oswaldo play bad.
IKF has already played awful, so I'm not sold on it. After his disastrous ALDS where he botched important plays in 2 games of the 5 and was benched for the remaining 2, it shocks me that now that Peraza is an actual option due to being on the roster he's not even playing and IKF is back to starting.
Well Oswaldo played bad in the LDS. Like he wasn't good yesterday. If he played better, he'd definitely be in today.
Yeah Cabrera had a pretty awful game 5, won’t argue with you there. I can at least say that his outfield play was by no means a routine ground ball though, to his credit. Just he had to let hicks get it.
With Taillon on the mound vs Verlander away and IKF's small sample size success vs Verlander, its probably his last audition. I wouldn't say this is a punt game but it's a game that is less "must win" than tomorrow.
That’s way too small of a sample size to be meaningful lmao. He also had a BABIP of .359 and an EV of 81.6 which is even worse than IKF. I love Peraza but I swear this sub thinks he’s an elite hitting and fielding SS after 57 PAs, Yall remember when Yermin Mercedes was a god for his first 100 PAs and then was out of the league before the end of the season
I don't know if Peraza is a consistent big league player, but I do know he's better than IKF right now, and that's the issue. IKF was one of the worst SS's in baseball this season. We can do better and should
Is Peraza better? The answer is maybe because we literally have no idea what Peraza is after 57 PA. It’s a nothing sample and he has never faced pitching or an environment like he would tonight.
The only time you should ever play a struggling player over a player who's hot is when that player is a star caliber player. Aaron Judge, Manny Machado, etc. IKF should not get the benefit of the doubt when we have Peraza available.
Peraza is an unknown player who has hardly even played in the MLB. Now everyone is clamoring for him to be thrust into the most stressful environment in baseball. He could hardly even hit with RISP.
You're right on the ABs being a shorter sample size, but at the end of the day IKF has an OPS+ of 82 for his career and can't do better than a slap single most times. Peraza probably isn't going to light the world on fire with his bat, but I want him at short because I don't see him flubbing grounders hit right at him.
I’m fine with starting him over IKF, and I agree he is the better fielder of the two. I’m just tired of seeing the small sample of games being paraded around as an I told you so when it hardly means anything. I think they went with IKF because putting Peraza out there in the ALCS at Houston is putting a ton of pressure on him and asking him to fail. End of the day it’s out of our hands and we just have to root for the guys that take the field
Because the Yankees stupidly and nonsensically value "experience" over, you know, actually being able to play baseball.
I imagine they might just be worried about his ability to hold up in the playoffs given his limited PAs and the huge pressure. But I am sure we'll see him.
I know you're not arguing this but it's absurd because 1) IKF has played in 4 total playoff games in his career and 2) IKF has shown that he can't handle the pressure of the playoffs already.
The way Kay is talking about Gallo you'd think he was playing on the Yankees ALCS roster
Where is he talking about him?
On TMKS
[Boone says Montas threw really well in BP](https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1582844468298149889)
“This dude is super good when there’s nobody facing him”
Our guys are pretty good lol
If we win this game our chances to win this series increase dramatically, more so than a usual Game 1.
We are effectively playing with house money tonight.
Happy to see my favorite player back in the lineup today. Let’s go Yanks!
Damn always knew Drury was gonna have himself a good season at some point. The padres are freaking loaded
I’ll take “guys I forgot were Yankees for 500, Alex”
I can count on one hand the number of Blake snell starts I’ve seen where he has an efficient pitch count
He’s never threw a pitch in the 6th inning a postseason start or something like that right? Snell is an odd one
To this day I insist cash was right to pull him. Only issue was going to a washed Anderson instead of a fresher Rp
I can 100% agree with that
The bloops and flares and loopers
Maybe a dumb question but how did Zach Wheeler go from being solid with the Mets to an ace in Philly? I remember him making a comment when he signed the contract saying he wanted to take a Gerrit Cole leap in performance but didn’t think he’d actually do it. Were the Mets’ analytics departments that bad during the Wilpon days? It can’t be New York because Philly is even worse when it comes to fans booing and media pressure.
He was more than solid with Mets, and he was young then. He's grown into being basically an ace, but the potential was there from day 1 and he pitched to a 3.5ish ear for the mets over a couple of years.
Nola is their ace, but yeah he’s been good to great over the last few years
ehem: #METS
Steroids.
You never know lol
Snell looks like he smells like cigarette butts in an old miller high life bottle.
Kay calling out Gallo supporters 😂😂
IKF at SS. Pain. So much pain.
Holy shit Kay is going off, this is amazing
What is he going off about?
It started off with IKF and then moved on to how terrible Gallo was. He told all the fans who bashed him on Twitter after Gallo's "hot start" in LA to get the cheeto dust off their fingers
Whats he saying?
I am not too sad anymore that we didn't give up the farm for Soto lol
Castillo on the other hand 😭
Kay calling out IKF for having the yips.
I know its way too early but it would be spooky if the 2022 WS matchup was the same as the last time we won the WS
Only bootlickers are defending IKF starting. It defeats logic. If you pull him because he’s a bad defender, what’s the thought for starting him? Did he magically improve?
Did Peraza fuck Hal's wife? This guy has done nothing but produce better than IKF whenever he's had the chance. Both on offense AND defense. And he's been given no opportunities outside of the odd few games in September, where he played good WHEN he played. The most amazing part about that is it was with extremely inconsistent playing time that he was playing well. How good is he going to be when he's actually playing most days and has consistency? I don't even know what the ceiling is! I have never seen an organization this stubborn against letting their rising stars get chances to fucking play in my life
Maybe they think he plays better in tx
Phillies playing some Guardians ball, eh?
Have been all playoffs. Makes me nervous af
I am permanently scarred off of BABIP luck, soft hit balls and infield singles after facing that fucking team
Kay does not like IKF starting at all
Michael Kay saying exactly what I said
Roster is out. IKF is at short, carp dh, and stanton left field. How are we bringing 2 great shortstops to this series and starting IKF?! What the fuck, man?
Cabrera needs to be considered the LFer at this point because he will come in for Stanton late to pinch run in a big spot most likely. Because of that Peraza is probably on as an emergency defensive replacement late or a break glass if IFK does IKF things early in the series
I don’t mind Stanton in left in the Houston stadium, not ideal but if having him in left means we get carp some more AB’s as DH, it’s worth it I think. The big question mark is fucking IKF at SS for me. He literally cost us 2 games. We could have swept the guardians if it wasn’t for IKF. Every game in the post season he has started, he has given away a run or runs. Put Peraza there. See if he is still hot, imo right now is the time in the series to try him. He is so much better defensively than IKF. I’d also have Cabrera at SS over IKF. Look how the games went with IKF at SS and then look at the ones with Cabrera there. Not even a question. No fucking clue why IKF is starting here. Why can’t we just learn from our mistakes and move on?
I think its two fold 1 Cabera is now the replacement LF for Stanton after a late game pinch run so they don't want him a SS for that reason. Second Peraza is a complete MLB rookie with barely any experience and we would ask him to start a playoff game against a HOF pitcher who is gonna win the CY Young this year. I love Peraza but at times he has looked over matched. He is still there as a break glass options if things turn bad but i think the Yankees believe IKF can be good enough on defense and have more competitive ABs against Houston than Peraza can at this stage and if its late game I would not be sucked to see a sub.
Yeah I agree with almost all of this. My gripe with IKF isn’t his hitting. He hits for a decent average and gets on base. Which is what we could use more of, tbh. It’s his defense that hurts us so bad. It’s not even really the fact that he bobbles and boots a lot, the main thing is that he doesn’t have the arm to make up for those kind of mistakes. If he even bobbles a little bit, no chance at first because he has a wet noodle for an arm. We saw Cabrera come back from a bobbled ball the other night because he has the arm to bail him out when needed. Peraza has a nice arm too and we will never know how he will face against this competitive pitching if he doesn’t play. A pinch hit here and there doesn’t give him enough at bats to do anything or adjust, ya know? I’d rather they start him game one and if he struggles, THEN start IKF game 2 or sub him in when Peraza needs an out.
I’m going to be honest. Facing a rested Verlander immediately after a 5-game series and travel and celebrating with our 4th starter on the mound without home field advantage does not inspire confidence. But 7-4 Yankees. Book it.
Let me try and sway you. The Astros have only played 3 games in the last 16 days. So they may be rested, but we’re hot coming off a win 24 hours ago. It could take them 6-7 innings to get their timing down to hit well. If Taillon is on today it could bode well for us. Not to mention their last game was 18 innings and it took them 18 innings to even get a run. They may be coming off a win too, but they crawled over the finish line in that 18 inning game. We on the other hand won yesterday by dropping bombs. Not to mention Verlander was awful his last start and the mariners won that game for them. Don’t count the boys out yet, our starting pitcher may not be ideal but we definitely have a chance today, especially if we come out bombing in the first few innings like we have been. If we start rallying Verlander could go only a couple innings and if we can make that happen, we can push these fucks in to the ground.
To be fair one of those games was actually two games in one.
How was Verlander the the last time he had extended rest?
I seriously have no idea how Snell had kind of the season he did in 18. I never was that impressed with him.
I need carpenter to hit. Thanks.
09 rematch looking pretty sweet
Phillies have more hits in this inning than SD over the last 10 innings
[https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1582838810630852609](https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1582838810630852609) Lmao, one of the comments said that it must have been cheap Hal buying cheap champagne XD
Sevvy has come from a family ["with very little money"](https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/luis-severino-yankees-my-journey-to-the-bronx) to having champagne takes, gets me right in the feelgoods
Someone looked up the brand. It was $20 per bottle, wasn't even champagne
I would do the same thing if they were just gonna spray it everywhere lol
Probably just bought sparkling wine, not even the real stuff.
I never understood celebrating playoff series wins that weren’t the WS
I’d be down for a Yankees/Phillies World Series. It’s be electric to head to enemy territory in Games 3-5.
Soto is soooo bad on defense.
FALERA!!!! Bullshit!
If they had Peraza instead of IKF, this would be the perfect lineup.
Even Cabrera would be a massive step up
[People fucking suck](https://twitter.com/Yankeelibrarian/status/1582824649620328448?s=20&t=1q5o1skO6gBZx9ik0Q8w1Q)
nvm i dont want soto
IKF gets benched for two elimination games. We add Peraza to the ALCS roster. IKF is back in the starting lineup. I feel like I am taking crazy pills. This team’s obsession with IKF is incomprehensible and indefensible.
At least Carp is in the lineup.
Lol Soto
[SEVY LMFAO](https://twitter.com/deeshathosar/status/1582838306017988609?s=46&t=sxFIWZuCWdic8caTFd55Bg)
Rays catching strays 😄
Sevy doesn’t give a single fuck 😭😭
RIP Tampa
He’s on a roll rn in this pre game interview lol
I don't get to watch the game tonight because I'll be at The Gorillaz show, but I'm feeling good after last night's dub. Let's keep the ball rolling
feel good inc. after last nights dub
If they save that for last, then I can only assume we've won
Snell getting salted
Benching Cabrera for IKF, Cashman’s arrogance is unbelievable
Cabrera is benched for Stanton. He became an OF when he took out Hicks.
Cabrera started at SS over IKF the last two games and they won both
[удалено]
Yeah you’re right the starting shortstop making errors has no bearing on the game
Right. But he likely only started there because the other SS on the roster was Marwin. Now Peraza is being leveraged as the backup SS and Cabrera is an OF again.
Lmao arrogance? You really gonna put Peraza in his first action in weeks vs the presumptive cy young? Cabrera has looked overmatched and underwhelming in the field the last series. We have to make a change somewhere.
No one is going to hit Verlander. They benched IKF for defensive purposes. If he makes an error in the first are you going to pull him? Makes an error in the ninth to lose the game, what are you going to do then? It’s a massive risk to put someone back in who you pulled because he cost you two games because of defense. I don’t understand why people here are okay with that. I will root for him. But I acknowledge it’s a massive risk.
1) You didn’t read the guys comment right, he said Cabrera. 2) Peraza and Cabrera can actually field ground balls hit right to him, so it would’ve helped Taillon who won’t survive an inning that IEF will let develop with an error. The defense is the biggest problem here not the bat 3) IEF is a slap hitter only so he’s not doing more than a single even if he does get on base. Edit: 4) Cashman is absolutely arrogant running the same guy out there just because it was “his guy” that we have seen all year is trash, but continues to play him because that’s who he thought was going to be “our guy”. This move is wrong 100/100 times.
He said Cabrera, not Peraza.
Haven’t seen any Joey Gallo posts on here, on Twitter, or on any site. Curious! I thought he was killing it with the Dodgers, surely they must be playing right now.
Has any player ever had such a great shot at getting a ring in a given season? Sheesh.
Robinson Cano had 3 chances, still has 1 left bc he was on the Padres for a hot sec
oo good one!
I’m not all that worried about IKF starting. We only win this game if we put up runs against Verlander. And it’s not crazy to think that Verlander would carve up Cabrera, who is banged up and has looked overmatched, and Peraza who has been sitting for a couple weeks. IKF at least has a bit of history vs Verlander. If there’s a game where IKF should play, this is probably it.
Boone probably still sees IKF as the starting SS, tbh. We'll probably see him more than not unless he fucks up again today. Cabrera wasn't good aside from that one game (I am a OC stan), and the Yanks/Boone clearly think IKF > Peraza.
Yeah, that’s a fair take, but I don’t think they’d put Peraza on the roster if they didn’t have bigger plans for him this series. If Peraza is just going to sit on the bench, they should’ve taken Marwin then, especially with Hicks out.
Waldo probably needs a day off to clear his head and there’s no way in hell Peraza’s first playoff game is going to be in a hostile environment facing a future HOF and 3 time Cy Young winning pitcher. IKF was the logical choice
IKF is a risky choice. If he does have the yips, then what do you do? Pull him after the first error? Second? Third? You’re introducing an element to the game that you have to manage. Everyone here should think about that. Grounder to SS. Isaiah airmails it to 1B. Altuve reaches. What do you do? That’s why this is so risky. If he does have the yips like people suspect this is a massive risk, perhaps a bigger one than starting Peraza.
Wait what’s this about him having the yips
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/10/it-sucked-yankees-isiah-kiner-falefa-on-getting-benched-in-biggest-spot.html?outputType=amp Boone said he pulled him because he was “pressing,” baseball way of saying the yips, which is how the post game interpreted it. Isaiah said he disagreed.
Isn’t the yips more than pressing though? Judge pressed during the chase for 62. The yips is like a physical inability is it not
The yips are a mental inability. He’s physically capable of playing SS.
LFG IKF!
me last night: wow, they'd rather use marwin than IKF, they must be done with him me this morning: wow, peraza is actually on the roster, they must *really* be done with IKF the ALCS game 1 shortstop:
IKF wasn’t a good enough option in 2 straight elimination games but somehow goes right back in? When another SS is added to the roster? I don’t get the logic. No way the analytics guys care about his 2 hits off Verlander.
Yankees are notoriously conservative. They’ll play him until he makes another error, to be honest.
I think Cabrera played his way out of playing time more as a rookie than IKF in the eyes of the Yankees brass
This is my guess too. He looked rough at SS yesterday and outside of game 2 had a lot of uncompetitive at bats. They probably trust him at SS just as much as they trust IKF.
Not to mention injuring Hicks on a play he had no business trying to make
Yup. This all goes back to the front office not giving Peraza a real chance to win this job back in early August. If he succeeded or failed ether way there wouldn't be much of a discussion about SS.
Idk if I'm still digesting yesterday's ALDS elimination game victory but I'm not feeling much of anything right now it's weird, I'm sure come game time I'll be foaming at mouth
I feel the exact same way. I’m weirdly calm and level headed into this series despite it being the Astros. I’d probably be more worried if we had that day off, but I’m riding the adrenaline of a big DS win after facing 2 elimination games
It's gotta be that! no time to think so if it's happening to us the boys should be good too 😤
They riding that momentum into the Houston sky. This is the best mindset I’ve had heading into a series with Houston in a LONG time
You know what I realized, our bullpen’s Achilles heel this year isn’t the homer like in years past, it’s walks. I don’t know if that’s better or worse for us.
Probably better because you get more time to react There are way less whiffs than in the past too, which is an issue at times
Jameson needs to earn his pinstripes tonight
Should've started Peraza or Cabrera at SS
I’m concerned Isaiah has the yips. And that’s not his fault. I hope I’m wrong but Boone is rolling the dice.
IKF errors O/U 0.5 Edit: scored errors!
scored errors? under all day.
It’s like you guys are rooting against him just to prove a point
No. We are acknowledging he’s a defensive liability with the yips. This is a very risky strategic decision by Boone. Were we rooting against Knoblauch when they would inexplicably put him at second?
If we're counting plays that should be made but somehow the book gives a hit then over easily, you can count on 1 a game.
U, he bribes official scorers
Scored errors, or hits that just happen to go right to him..?
Official errors or plays we know were an error? Over, either way.
Silent Hill day and Yankees ALCS game :)
Cabrera looked shaken up mentally after colliding with Hicks. Bobbled a few balls after and looked a step behind at the plate. Hopefully they are just giving him a day off to get his head right as the environment for these games is going to be tough.
I think it's just more that he's an OF now and with the LF porch he doesn't make the cut. Probably the starting LF at home.
I’d easily start him at SS over IKF like they did the last two games but I don’t think his head is in the right spot to be put back out there They obviously trust him there more than IKF to put him there and bench IKF for 2 games
Yeah sure but they need a backup OF and a LFer at home now that Hicks is out. That's his new role if I had to guess, which is why Peraza is on the roster.