YANKEES SNAG TIM LOCASTRO!

They made a move, but they'll probably try and get more too. For now however, the Yankees got Tim LoCastro! Nice!

SB Nation writes:

"...the New York Yankees acquired speedy outfielder Tim Locastro from the Arizona Diamondbacks. According to Lindsey Adler of The Athletic, who broke the story, the Yankees will be sending Double-A pitcher Keegan Curtis to the Diamondbacks as part of the exchange...

In trading for Locastro, the Yankees have somehow reeled in one of the few available players who has been hitting worse than the guys that they have been trotting out there on a nightly basis, as Locastro’s slashline of .178/.271/.220 gives him a 38 OPS+, which is better than only Jay Bruce and Chris Gittens out of players who have played ten or more games for the Yankees this season. "

Welcome to the Bronx Timmy! We could use your help right now!

YANKEES WON'T WIN PLAYING CASHBOONE BALL!

This just is not Yankees baseball. This has been an abysmal failure of what was hoped for and even predicted for this season. Even if you didn't agree with the favored Yankees for the AL East you at least had more expectations than this. The Yankees just got swept by the Detroit Tigers for crying out loud....

Something's got to give here, but it hasn't. It's June, and in April we all heard Brian Cashman talk about how he believed in this team and that we had magic HERE.....blah blah blah. There's no magic when you are in third place in the division and you were just EMBARASSED by the Detroit Kitty who are just as pitiful as we are. But let's stick with the "MAGIC," right?

WRONG. This is insanely stupid. This ladies and gentlemen is what I call CASHBOONE BALL. It doesn't resemble baseball at all. It's INSANITY and we see it every game because we just wait for the "MAGIC" to appear and catapult us back into first place. No one has a LOGICAL solution for it though.

I mean, have you read Ken Davidoff''s latest piece HERE? Maybe he missed his calling in comedy because his first and second solutions do not work. It's more of the same. It's Tyler Wade's SIXTH go around here and he hasn't been a difference maker before, but he will now over Brett Gardner? Yeah, track record says NO but that's a good one. Use him, sure but who really think Wade is the everyday centerfielder and a productive one? Please. Oh and give Delino DeShields a chance because the Rangers aren't using him and after he tanked with the Rangers in 2020 it's a better bet than what we already have? Okay....that's a whole lot of crazy logic.

The only two things Davidoff said that make any sort of sense are Yes, the Yankees offense is as absolute horror show. Agreed there. If the Yankees want to give Chris Gittens a shot at first base instead of Mike Ford, go for it. It's still a gamble though. He's been productive at Triple-A and might be a sparkplug BUT it's still not a long term solution. No disrespect to Gittens but he's 27 and never played about Double-A until this season....there's no reason to believe he's the answer to a season long problem.

So this is the CASHBOONE BALL I am referring to. The reality is that there isn't any long term help that the Yankees have in house that will fill all of the holes in this lineup for the remainder of the season. The Yankees will need to be open to making meaningful additions by the trade deadline. Keyword meaningful and there will need to be more than one. A centerfielder that can hit does not completely change this team and make it a winning team that contends. The problem is....the Yankees have already said they do not want to spend the money that it will take. They have $3-$4 million to play with before going over the luxury tax and that doesn't fix every problem we have.

So for the time being we have Cashman's MAGIC to rely on and Aaron Boone's lack of management because he's just Cashman's moving mouthpiece that talks everyday and doesn't actually manage. Then we just slap together a lineup and hope for different results than the game before. It's CASHBOONE BALL....and this is a problem that doesn't help us win.

And yeah....I'm beyond irritated and past the point of frustration with it.

  --Jeana Bellezza-Ochoa

     BYB Managing Editor

    Twitter: @nyprincessj

THE TRENTON PORK ROLL WON LAST NIGHT!

Larry Murphy | For The Times of Trenton

Just recently Bleeding Yankee Blue let the world know about this new gimmick the Trenton Thunder were doing for the New Jersey Yankee fans.  Pork Roll nights in Trenton.  That's right... and if you are a NJ person, you love this.  If you don't live in NJ you have no friggin' idea what we are talking about...and that's OK. We're here to tell you. In fact, read HOLY PORK ROLL, I CAN'T WAIT! for a quick refresher.  See? There are some good things about New Jersey.

Anyway... The Trenton Pork Roll won last night.  Here's the story from Pinstriped Prospects:

Larry Murphy | For The Times of Trenton

"...While the name and the uniform might have changed for a night, the product on the field stayed the same, thanks mostly to Trenton starter Brian Keller who, you could say, was on a roll on Friday night. Keller went eight innings, allowing zero runs, two walks, and four strikeouts.

Through five innings, Keller held the BaySox hitless until a ground-ball took a funny hop towards Trenton 1B Chris Gittens and went under his glove into right field for a base hit."

And just like that, the Trenton Thunder...er ah... Pork Roll's record is now 26-14, leading their division.

Nice work, boys... keep it going.

Time for breakfast...

That's about right.

GEARING UP FOR THE ARIZONA FALL LEAGUE!

(Mike Janes/AP) 

Besides early spring and prepping for the baseball season, my other favorite time of year is early fall when I get to witness the spectacle of the Arizona Fall League. I'm really excited for it, as I just ordered my season pass and the preliminary rosters were announced earlier in the week. As of right now, there are six Yankee prospects that have been assigned to the Scottsdale Scorpions. Of those six kids being sent to Arizona, the most notable are Estevan Florial and Justus Sheffield. How exciting!

Our guy Bryan Hoch writes this of the boys: "Estevan Florial and Justus Sheffield have earned recognition among the best young talent in the game, and the promising duo is among a group that will be rewarded with the opportunity to wear Yankees pinstripes in the upcoming Arizona Fall League.

Florial and Sheffield are among 11 of MLBPipeline.com's Top 100 prospects who will participate in the AFL, suiting up for the Scottsdale Scorpions.

A speedy left-handed-hitting outfielder, the 19-year-old Florial played for the World Team in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game and is currently ranked as the Yanks' No. 4 prospect (87th overall). He has batted .294/.371/.469 with 22 doubles, six triples, 12 homers, 51 RBIs and 22 steals in 105 games between Class A Charleston and Class A Advanced Tampa...

(Mike Janes/AP)

Sheffield, 21, is New York's No. 5 prospect (89th overall). Currently rehabbing from a left oblique strain with the Gulf Coast Yankees, Sheffield is 7-5 with a 3.09 ERA in 16 starts for Double-A Trenton this season, walking 33 and striking out 79 in 90 1/3 innings."

We've all heard plenty about Florial and Sheffield, yet I really haven't had the chance to watch them perform. I really look forward to October. Sometimes what you hear and read and what you see can be totally different things.

(Buck Davidson/MiLB.com)

Along with Sheffield and Florial, Dillon Tate returns to Scottsdale for his 2nd go around in the AFL. He was on the Scorpions roster for a part of last year's season. When he was here, he was named to the Arizona Fall Stars team, yet did not pitch in the game and all of a sudden was gone. Initially, I thought he might have gotten hurt, but it turned out to be nothing more than an innings limit thing.

Photo of: Kyle Holder

The other Yankee prospects being sent are infielders Thairo Estrada, Chris Gittens and Kyle Holder. I imagine they might also add another late add too, as each team is allowed to send 7. They might even add a Taxi Squad player that is only allowed to play on Wednesdays and Saturdays. We will see. 

Photo: Charles Wenzelberg

But to me, this one of the best things about living in Arizona. I really enjoy this time as it is one of the most intimate ways to watch baseball. You get to hear the sounds of the ballpark as there are usually not a lot of people in attendance. Plus, you actually get to meet the players and talk to them, and that adds extra fun of going to a baseball game. I highly suggest that if you happen to be in Arizona between October 10th and November 18th, you catch a game or two.  Heck... I'll sit with ya!

--Michael Carnesi
BYB Writer
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