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Geat article about how the Yankees got this bad

The Yankees have been a mirage team for quite a while, unless you’ve been reading BallNine. Then you know the truth. There is no there there anymore. The analytics invasion has taken full hold of the Yankees’ teaching methods and it is not working.

Just listen to this expert MLB talent evaluator who has deeply studied the Yankees organization for years.

“After the 2018 season the Yankees went with (analytics instructors) and good people got pushed out the door,’’ the evaluator told BallNine weeks ago, seeing the total collapse coming in real time. The people who work there know that is when the real decline started. It was bringing in the Driveline hitting and pitching people, pushing out long-time Yankee baseball men. Over that two-year period, going into that Covid year it was the perfect storm for the ruination of that organization because at the end of the ’18 season, they fired people, they brought the new people in, the direction changed, and then you had the ’19 season where you started to see some decline, then you had the missed season in 2020, and now this is what you get for it.’’

Brian Cashman was the architect behind those changes. And he was particularly brazen in his approach.

Now the Yankees seem to be in free fall, something that hasn’t been seen in decades. And there is only one way out. They need to get back to baseball.

Here we are four years later and practically no one in the Yankees’ order can hit.

Again, these are Cashman’s own words about the changes he made as longtime baseball people were going, going, gone from the organization or marginalized, essentially told to go stand in the quiet corner. Some of those people still managed to make some good moves to keep the Yankees afloat for a bit; but the New World Order was eventually going to have its way.

Here is a statistic that is even more damning, and really is almost beyond belief.

AMBS is all about baseball. And one of the key statistics in baseball, no matter what the New World Order says, is runs batted in; RBIs are what the game is all about. You want to score more runs than the opposition and you want to have the hitters who can knock them in; RBIs are not lucky. There is ability involved in driving in runs. When you have the opportunity, you have to make the most of it.

Now, consider this. Going into Wednesday’s games, Matt Olson of the Braves led all of baseball with 108 RBIs. To find a Yankee on the list, believe it or not, you had to go all the way down to the 112th name on the list for runs batted in and that Yankee was rookie Anthony Volpe with 50 RBIs. That’s it. He led the Yankees. The next Yankee was Aaron Judge with 48, No. 120 on the list.

Let’s go over that again. As of Wednesday, there were 111 players in the majors who had more RBIs than any Yankee.

Hit Strikes Hard. Take Strikes Easy.

The New World Order also believes batting average is not important. Pure garbage. Base hits create action. Fans love action. Teammates love to feel part of moving the line along. It’s a staple of the game but if you only look at numbers, you have no heart to understand any of this – and that is the essence of Cashman’s New World order, a dead, lifeless team.

https://ballnine.com/2023/08/24/new-world-order/