With 18 games left in this shortened season, the Yankees are plummeting. As one reader said to me last night after the Yankee second loss to Toronto, "the Yankees give a whole new meaning to 'bleeding'." Luke Voit said optimistically in a post game interview, "You can never count us out," but it is hard not to after the Yankees continue to fall in the standings, losing 15 out of their last 20 games.
Yankee GM Brian Cashman paid the team a visit up in Buffalo. He offered some advice, confidence and ultimately told them, it is their season to turn around.
“Just remind them, first and foremost, that I believe in them. I put the club together with my staff, and everyone is here for a reason,’’ Cashman said. “Making sure they know where they have to get back to. I have taken the opportunity to do that from time to time and see if it helps. The bottom line is we are on our own, there is no help coming, and the challenge is to find a way to get through this storm,’’said Cashman as reported by the New York Post.
But it was Voit who bluntly admitted that teams are not intimidated by them right now because quite frankly, "we are playing like crap." The confidence on this team is at an all time low. It is unfamiliar territory for the Yankees as a franchise.
Source: USA Today"When there is an in-season problem, I do it when it is necessary,’’ Cashman said of addressing the team. “But it is rare that I have to get the whole group together, but the circumstances we find ourselves in right now are clearly rare, too. It is not something we are accustomed to, having a slide like this. We are used to better baseball than this, and our fans deserve better baseball than this. Just try to get a shock to the system to try and get us back on track," reported the Post.
Yet one glimmer of hope in all of this is that another time the Yankee GM paid a visit to his team like this, it was back in 2009. "In 2009, Joe Girardi’s team was struggling and Cashman flew to Atlanta to talk to the players. Whether or not hearing the GM talk helped, the Yankees immediately started to play better," reported the Post.
I tend to hang in there with teams I love, particularly the Yankees. But this time, it feels oddly different. I hope that Cashman talked some sense into this flailing team, otherwise it will be another year, another door shut on championship hopes for the Bronx Bombers and their fans.
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