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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And I watch that team and an convinced they're set up to get mowed down in the post-season again.
There are still too many hackers in that lineup. Rizzo's resurgence helps them a ton, but IKF, Donaldson, Gallo, Gonzalez, Stanton, Trevino - none of them get on base with any regularity and they take too many uncompetitive ABs. Torres seems really close to finding his superstar form again but it always seems like he can either be a disciplined hitter OR a powerful hitter - not both. And when he's tried to be disciplined, it just hasn't stuck.
People say "well the Yankees don't need Juan Soto..." and I just don't know that I agree. He's exactly the kind of player they could really use to balance out some of their free swingers.
Because they're not pitching their way to a championship with Montgomery, Cortes and Taillon behind Cole. And Severino's shoulder is sore again and so I think you have to just count on him breaking down soon enough.
They've gotta hit game in, game out - and that approach doesn't lend itself to consistent production in the post-season.
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I think trading for Soto might be a genius long-term play move given that he's younger than Judge and I think should age better than him given his frame. At some point, Judge will just take on full time DH duty.