2022 Yankees Postseason Discussion Thread

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We don't yet know who the opponent will be, but there is still plenty to discuss about the Yankees postseason. Plus, with the days off until they actually start playing their series on Oct. 11 we will need a space to kick around some thoughts as the Yankees wait for who they will play.

So, I will start with this tweet by Bryan Hoch about a potential roster:

View: https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1577430436451864576?s=20&t=IQnKHFT_Lj8Irza6F30Ogg


I think I would rather Peraza on the roster than Carpenter, given his versality and what he brings offensively. I just don't know whether Carpenter his healthy enough or whether he can just regain the magic he had early in the season.
 

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Hoch's list is probably what they will take, with Peraza and Weissert/Castro next up if Carpenter or Wandy/Holmes aren't ready.

I'm going to approach this a different way, here is what I think NY's best ALDS lineup would be:

C: Trevino was the clear starter all year but Higgy has decidedly outhit him recently. Mike Axisa points out that Higgy has started six of NY's last eight postseason games so I think both will get starts and both will obviously make the roster.

1B: Rizzo

2B: Gleyber. If Stanton is at DH, one of Gleyber/DJ/Donaldson has to sit. Gleyber has been NY's second best bat down the stretch behind Judge and is fine defensively here, he is my pick.

SS: Peraza. If he had been up months ago like he should have been, this would be even more clear-cut but as it is, he is better both offensively and defenively than IKF. I do think that IKF has a bit of a clutch gene for big late singles but he has zero power and more importantly his defense is just not good enough, especially in the playoffs when guys are running their hardest. NY is going to start IKF, he is going to cost them defensively, but there is no real reason they have to.

3B: Not easy at all, maybe DJ and Donaldson as defensive replacement? If DJ is a hundred percent, this is him but I am not sure about him on either side of the ball right now. Donaldson's offense is pretty bad but his defense has been spectacular, maybe this will become more clear to NY in the scrimmage games this next week.

LF: Cabrera.

CF: Bader

RF: Judge

DH: Stanton

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Judge RF
Rizzo 1B
Gleyber 2B
Stanton DH
Cabrera LF
DJ or Donaldson 3B
Peraza SS
Trevino C
Bader CF

bench: Donaldson or DJ, Higgy, IKF, Hicks
 

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DJ doesn’t look right. He just swung and missed and hopped on his left foot to take pressure off back foot. Camera goes to Boone’s face. He spits and then says something to the guy next to him. DJ then weakly grounds out.
 

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tampa is a bad matchup because they play us well cle lack big star power yankees wouild have to be very off to lose to cle

how i rank the AL
1 Hou
2 NYY
3 Sea
4 Tor
5 TB
6 cle
 

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DJ doesn’t look right. He just swung and missed and hopped on his left foot to take pressure off back foot. Camera goes to Boone’s face. He spits and then says something to the guy next to him. DJ then weakly grounds out.
Yeah, 3B is looking like Donaldson but for the love of Jah, move him down in the order already.
 

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Even with NY's awful lengthy stretch, somehow they still ended up tied for the best home record in MLB with the Dodgers at 57-24. First two games will be in the Bronx, starting Tuesday. .
 

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The mustache is certainly promising.

Gonna add 50 points to his BABIP off that alone.
 

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It’s gonna be Cleveland.

I still have flashbacks of the Joba game.
NY has knocked them out twice since then (2017/2020, most recent five games all Ws, thank you again Didi Gregorius), also the first two games are in NY. Bieber and McKenzie are very good, but would rather see them than McClanahan/Glasnow.

My take on NY at this point is that they have essentially zero chance of winning a ALCS against HOU, it would be ugly, but if they get past CLE, they hit IMO their ceiling for 2022 and maybe SEA will surprise me.
 

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That's presumably going to cost him some of the $15M he made this season for his sparkling -0.2 bWAR, that's not how this works.
 

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Still no roster announcement, but 12 pitchers/14 position players bodes well for Peraza making it.
 

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Drop Hicks, add Peraza. No brainer. There is not a single AB or reason to have Hicks play over Cabrera and many reasons we might sub IKF for Peraza.
 

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I don’t think you need to choose (both should make it) and Hicks is the 4th OF, unless Stanton and/or Carpenter can play there, which does not seem to be the case currently.
 

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Yeah, I don't think Hicks is going anywhere. Can play all three OF positions somewhat competently and even when he sucks at the plate can still work the count a little. 4th OF is fine.

The young guys will still make the roster and will likely play more.
 

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I'm no Hicks fan but he had a .865 OPS in his final 45 PAs (since Sept 16) and led MLB in most pitches seen per PA (although he didn't have quite enough plate appearances to qualify).
 

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Feels like Carpenter fresh off a broken foot in LF at Yankee Stadium is a pretty bad idea, but hey, maybe no one will hit it to him.
 

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Exactly, one of those two needs to play the OF for both to play, and I don’t think Bader or Judge has ever played LF.
 

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I'd trust Bader in LF over any of them even with no experience there. But hey, we saw Andujar out there in Yankee Stadium and the world didn't end.

But I have a feeling that Carpenter may be getting most of his ABs as a PH.
 

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I'd trust Bader in LF over any of them even with no experience there. But hey, we saw Andujar out there in Yankee Stadium and the world didn't end.

But I have a feeling that Carpenter may be getting most of his ABs as a PH.
Until someone sees him running the bases in practice and taking fly balls and grounders. PH it is.
 

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The Phillies had a grand total of 9 hits and 3 runs in the final 3 games combined, just a ridiculously deep and great staff for HOU.
 

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I am never going to get over what a stupid mistake not starting Peraza every single game of the postseason at SS was. IMO with no other changes, they would have won the CLE series 3-1, having the ripple effect of not forcing Nestor to pitch on 3 days rest and having him on full rest for game 1 of the HOU series. IMO if Peraza was NY's SS all postseason, they would have gone 3-1, 1-3 and not out yet, as opposed to 3-2, 0-4.

For me the most frustrating thing in rooting for team sports is when other teams are decidedly smarter at decision making than yours. Cashman I think right now (since the deadline sales in 2016) is as good at anyone at assembling talent, balancing current teams with hopeful future huge ceiling stars. But whoever is making the deployment decisions, how to ideally utilize their healthy personnel, during recent postseasons, that is the part of things that NY needs improving more than anything on the field (they could use some of those too, heh). That Deivi/Happ game, deciding Taillon is your emergency stopper when he has zero relief experience ever and you didn't test it even once down the stretch, and this Peraza thing, just a few to come to mind quickly that are just giant WTFs to anyone following the team all season, all obvious to everyone but NY as disastrous thoughts beforehand, and then all actually disastrous.

So if that is Cashman essentially making those calls, he needs to give that part of his job to someone else, and if it is someone else, Cashman needs to get a different someone else.