INSERTING SEAN CASEY DOESN'T SUDDENLY MAKE AUTOMATIC WINS

Look, part of the problem with the Yankees leading into the All-Star break was that we didn't have a hitting coach that truly grasped what the job was. Dillon Lawson was in over his head, plain and simple.  But the players are equally responsible and much like in the film The Natural, the idea of losing sometimes creeps into player's heads.  You start to over think. You start to over tinker. You start to think that maybe you're terrible, OR you overdo it and don't find that balance to just relax.  And so, losing becomes a disease.

  

To cure that disease is not easy, but with tragedy, you need to have patience and things will turn itself around. Just. Don't. Panic.

The AP writes: “I know there is a lot of panic outside the clubhouse,” said Gleyber Torres, who singled before Stanton's homer and had three hits. “We just try to play better baseball, little by little. The energy is good. We have to figure out faster a way to get better at home plate. Everything is up to us."

This is true. Players have to play. Players have to get out from under their sorrows and try and fix their approach.  But what the AP did as well was take a shot at new hitting coach Sean Casey in their headline. A low blow for a guy that just showed up to his first game last night. Their headline reads:


"With a new hitting coach, the Yankees fizzle at the plate again in their 7-2 loss to the Rockies".

You need to be a real editorial prick and probably a Mets fan to take a shot like that in a headline. Sean Casey doesn't just show up, snap his fingers and everything is right with the Yankee offense. This is an uphill battle. Nothing is automatic. I wrote that inFIRING DILLON LAWSON WAS SYMBOLISM FOR YANKEELAND & A MESSAGE TO BOONE the following (a quote from the Athletic):

" The next hitting coach, whoever gets the job, will be starting from a deficit. He won’t have an offseason and spring training to prepare. It’ll be up to Boone to not just make sure players are on board with the new guy’s message, but he’ll also need to make sure the players maintain trust in the front office. Players will be looking for leadership, and leadership has decided that one of its own had to go."

This will take time... time we just don't have.

Can we do it? Yes.  How quickly... well... it's hard to say.  But one thing I do know is Sean Casey is not some God that can flick a switch and make it all better.  He needs to get into a groove with these players and figure it out... the tweaks, the approach, the adjustments and just bringing calm to these guys.  

I have faith.  You should too.