Yankees Failures Familiar, Same Lack Of Accountability Remains…

Last year, the Yankees saw their season come to a close in epic fashion. 

Game 5 of the 2024 World Series will forever live in infamy. 

All offseason, the Yankees vowed as an organization to clean up the sloppy play that torpedoed the season. 

 The Yankees plan throughout the winter was to address run prevention and clean up the fundamentals. 

Can anyone honestly say as the calendar has now hit the month of August that either issue has been addressed in Yankees land? 

The past two months of baseball has been an absolute nightmare for the entire Yankee operation. 

There was a time the Yankees had a comfortable 8.5 game lead in the AL East. They now trail the Toronto Blue Jays by 5.5 games and are barely clinging to a playoff spot. 

This past weekend, the Yankees lack of accountability from a leadership standpoint was on full display. 

After a nightmarish Friday night loss in which every new player brought in on the 7/31 trade deadline failed miserably, Saturday featured even more cringe. 

Jazz Chisholm managed to get doubled off 1st base on a popup to second base. 

The odds of that happening should be the equivalent of me nailing a hole in 1 on the golf course. 

Instead, you witnessed inexcusable, unacceptable baseball play from one of your best players. 

Aaron Boone had an opportunity to send a message by benching Chisholm and instead decided to yell at his first base coach instead. 

After the game, Chisholm had the audacity to double down and suggest he would try to make that sort of play again, suggesting how unaware he is about the optics of his play and shows the lack of leadership that’s throughout the Yankee clubhouse. 

This is the same Yankee team that saw Austin Wells not realize how many outs there were in the 9th inning of a tie game. 

This is the same Yankee team that has constantly made excuses for Anthony Volpe’s sloppy play at shortstop. 

The lack of accountability in Yankee land starts with the leader of their team. 

At the end of the day, if you are the manager of a baseball team and your team continues to play sloppy baseball, it is your responsibility to fix it. 

Can anyone say that Aaron Boone has helped to fix the problem? 

The Yankees as a team have run differential in the 80’s. It’s a run differential that usually indicates that you are going to run away with your division. 

Instead the Yankees are clinging to their playoff hopes, with the same problems from a year ago persisting…