And the Yankees are in the short end of the stick, in this gap.
Watching the Blue Jays hit homeruns and Josh Donaldson, Troy Tulowitzki rounding the bases with attitude and celebrating with their teammates. Then I watch my team, the New York Yankees -- who couldn't get a hit off Marcus Stroman -- looked so lifeless compare to the edgy Jays.
When the Blue Jays are playing against the Yankees, they look like
they wanna beat the Yankees to a bloody pulp -- and wanna hit homeruns off every pitcher in our bullpen. While the Yankees just look...bored. Almost like the didn't wanna be there.
You know what, the Yankees looked exactly like what they are, when playing against the Blue Jays. Which is: Old. The Yankees looked like a group of 40-year-olds who are in a party with a bunch of 20-year-olds. That's EXACTLY how they look. They seem like a bunch old men who've been there, done that and just wanna go home.
Forget the talent level -- the energy the Blue Jays have compared to the Yankees is so much higher it's scary. Even when you look at teams like the Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, it seems like the Yankees have no business being with those teams at the end.
I know this may seem like I'm already pressing the panic button after the first series lost, but tonight's game was really an eye opener for me and this team; it was like that last year, too. But tonight, the way the Jays came back after trailing 2-0, the way Donaldson hit that homerun, it's something to be alarmed.
The problem is to why the Yankees look this way compared to the Jays, is because the Yankee leaders are old. The great players on this team are just too old. Alex Rodriguez and Carlos Beltran are players who are a year away from retiring - not having to hit 30-homeruns. And that's okay; that's the way it goes. But sooner or later, the Yankees might have to make those tough decisions to get younger.
The only player on the Yankees right now, to me, who seems to be tugging on the others to come along and wake up, is Brian McCann. He's the only player on the Yankees with a spark and wants to beat the Jays.
There's a player in the Yankees minor leagues, by the name of Aaron Judge. He's a right fielder, who if any of the outfielders on the roster gets injured, he'll be the first to be called up. BUT, if the Yankees somehow get off to a slow start where they're not hitting, and one of those players who are not hitting happen to be Brett Gardner and/or Beltran, I'm benching one of those guys and bringing up Judge. Why not?
I wouldn't want to do that to Gardner or Beltran, but at that this age they're in, they've gotta be expecting it. And the Yankees wouldn't be harming anyone or any of those two by doing that; Gardner has played on the Yankees for eight seasons; Beltran is passed his prime shouldn't be playing in the outfield. I don't think there isn't anything wrong with benching one of those two for Judge.
I know Judge is young and inexperience, but the game has changed in the MLB. Greg Bird did a great job replacing Mark Teixeira last year -- why can't Judge be as good?
We all remember when the Yankees got off to a slow start in 2005 and brought up a second baseman by the name of Robinson Cano. After that move, the Yankees gained a spark and started winning games.
All the Yankees have to do is win games and all this I said will be nonsense. But when you see the rest of the league doing something different, that looks better, newer than what you're doing, you gotta start making changes to get on that change.
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