CASHMAN ON YANKEES: WE'RE PRETTY BAD RIGHT NOW

Source: The New York Post

I could not have said it better myself. Cashman took the words right out of my mouth. Except maybe to say, they are stressful to watch or listen to, which I prefer to listen to Sterling and Waldman a lot of evenings on my deck. But this year's team is erratic and unpredictable. One night they are slaying it and the next night, they are being slain. The Yankees are pretty bad right now and I am not sure where the ring of hope is for this team.

“I know they urgently want to get on track, but I also know that we suck right now, as bad as you can be,” the general manager said Tuesday before the Yankees tried to snap a four-game losing streak against the Angels. “Trying to knock ourselves out of that is the effort, but until we get online and start playing high again, it’s gonna look bad. It plays bad and it stinks to high heavens. Right now, we gotta own that," said Brian Cashman according to The New York Post. 

Source: NJ.com

Just when the Yankees appear to snap out of this nightmare and play good baseball, they get beat up by the Royals, swept by the Red Sox, and smacked around by the Angels. They can't get ahead and the season is just about at the midpoint. 

“We’re not giving up on our season,” Cashman said. “There’s enough time left, but there’s massive frustration by how it’s played out right now because we’ve pissed too many games away. We haven’t played to our expectations. It makes it, at times, unwatchable. That’s frustrating to be a part of because we’re used to so much different than that,” reported The Post. 

Source: ESPN

So what do the Yankees do? What does Cashman do? He said multiple times that it is not the coaching staff's fault. It's not Aaron Boone's fault but I find it hard to believe that Boone doesn't have a hand in the decision-making as games unfold. I mean once again starting pitching continues to be a problem and bullpen pitchers seem to be in one day and on the IL the next. So pitching has consistently caused some issues but truthfully speaking, not hitting when it counts. Not putting runs up on the board after loading the bases, that's been the reoccurring weakness. You can't win if you can't cross home plate. 

I hope the Yankees can soar past the first-place Mets and not be embarrassed by their midtown rivals. But as Giancarlo Stanton told the media this week, we can't just do these spurts of winning. The Yankees have to win consistently, series after the series and they have to beat the Red Sox and the Rays and not be shellshocked anytime they come near their rivals as Suzyn Waldman added in last night's game against the Angels. 

The Yankees are pretty bad right now, moral-wise and performance-wise. But the only ones that can pull them out of this funk, is quite frankly, themselves. And leadership needs to play a hand in this. It is going to take the entire team's effort to pull this off. It is doable but as each day, each game passes by, another opportunity to move forward is lost. 

--Suzie Pinstripe
BYB Managing Editor
Twitter: @suzieprof