Well, hello late night at Citi Field,
Pete Caldera with Andrew Treadnick,
our best writer. I cover the Yankees
who are in a tailspin right now after this Subway
Series
getting swept by the Mets.
But, you know, in in another month,
Andrew, the Mets and Yankees going to meet again at
Yankee Stadium and
a lot will probably transpire over those four weeks.
You know, first of all,
the Yankees have to get their house in order.
They're you know, they're pitching,
which had they're starting pitching with had been
quite a strength is kind of taking on water right
now.
Their bullpen is really, you know,
it's it's had been a signature strength for this club
over the years.
Not this year. Even when they were really going great.
You you figured this was an area that they need
to upgrade and I think that's
become an acute issue right now that they'll need to
address before the trade deadline.
Maybe get another lefty, another right hand reliever in there
and guys who can
have some swing and miss element to their
to their arsenal. And, you know,
and then the the offense has to be more than
than Aaron Judge and and Juan Soto and you know,
they're they're starting to starting to see a little bit
about,
you know what, you know,
this the balance of their lineup is is off.
I mean, Rizzo wasn't having a great season,
but now that he's out
and then Giancarlo Stanton been fairly productive in the middle
of that lineup is out now too.
So Yankees are are being exposed in some ways here
and these are areas that they need to pick up
before they meet the Mets again in in a month.
It's pretty crazy. You looked maybe a month ago and
you would have said
the the Yankees were dominating.
The the Mets were floundering 11 games under 500.
And you know, after the Subway Series,
the sweep here for the Mets,
they've now split or 188 series.
They've won five series in a row.
They're back at the 500 mark,
which which is incredible since that team meeting,
you know, they really seem to rally around each other,
hold each other accountable. The offense,
you know, you saw it today was Francisco Alvarez,
the top of the line up since they put Francisco
Lindor in that that lead off spot,
everything seemed to change. JD Martinez has given the lift
that that
fans had hoped to expect,
you know, when they signed him late in spring training,
Alonzo back hitting balls out of the park.
So the offense is really,
I mean, another twelve runs today.
We'll see. They have, you know,
as we've looked at the schedule here,
a lot of winnable games,
two series against the Nationals.
They play the Marlins before they face the Yankees.
The biggest matchup is coming up against the Astros.
Other than that, it's a lot of teams with losing
records.
So if they can keep this going,
you know, maybe they, you know,
last month it could have been they could have been
sellers and now they're maybe looking like some buyers.
Maybe fortify the bullpen. That'll be a big question mark
moving forward.
Drew Smith was dealing with
an elbow injury, sprained elbow.
We'll see where he's at.
Sean Reed, Foley, Edwin Diaz is serving his 10 game
suspension.
So that'll be maybe the big biggest question mark here
over the next next week or so.
Starting pitching. Luis Severino's been incredible.
Maybe get some more innings to to take some of
the the weight off of that bullpen.
But yeah, things are things are going well here at
City Field as opposed to maybe,
you know, down the road in the Bronx.
So we're saying if we're still talking about the grimace
factor a month from now,
you'll know how things are going in New York.
So that'll do it from City Field.
We'll see in the Bronx next month.