The New York Yankees were eliminated from the MLB playoffs after losing three straight games to the Tampa Bay Rays in the Division Series. Game 3, played at home, ended in a 3-4 loss, closing out their season. According to the New York Post, star slugger Aaron Judge has demanded that the front office pursue aggressive roster upgrades. Following the report, discussion on 5ch ranged from laments over the team’s financial disadvantage compared to the Dodgers and Mets, to frustration with long-serving GM Brian Cashman, to hopes that the team might sign Japanese players like Teruaki Sato.
Yankees Eliminated in Division Series: Judge Demands Front Office Make Aggressive Upgrades — “I Want Them to Do Everything Necessary”
The New York Post reported on the 8th (Japan time) that Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, 34, called on the team’s front office to pursue aggressive roster improvements following the club’s elimination from the Division Series.
The Yankees lost 3-4 to the Rays at home on the 7th (the 8th in Japan), ending their season with a three-game sweep in the Division Series.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
The Yankees have no future in "yakyu" (a mocking slang term for baseball)
They keep saying soccer is the future now
No wonder they won't spend money on baseball
Los Angeles is just too warm by comparison
Sato doesn't need to sell himself like that — he can pick any team he wants
No need to deliberately join such a cutthroat division with the most exhausting fans in the world
but then Judge's boneheaded mistakes and Freeman's fluke clutch hit made it a letdown
Sato of rice (a riff on the old commercial jingle for Sato Foods' packaged rice, punning on Sato Teruaki's surname)
Dodgers fans don't appreciate him nearly enough
If he posted his second-half numbers from this year while with the Yankees, he'd get absolutely roasted
but when they faced Otani's Dodgers in the World Series, they got treated like the villains
You're way too easily swayed by the Japanese media (a dig at "masu-gomi," a pun meaning "mass media = garbage") lol
Are you an elementary schooler who takes every report at face value?
Same goes for their ace, Cole
He's still doing work for the Yankees even now, and if anything he's treated quite well
though it's partly his own fault for not hitting
He doesn't get hurt as often as Trout, but
at this rate he'll just end up pickled with the Yankees the same way (stuck there, going stale)
since he probably won't have the option to go elsewhere
They should have paid him even more to get him to sign
Signing "Yama-moro" (nickname for Yamamoto) was something Otani himself had pushed the front office on, so the Dodgers were going to land him no matter how much cash it took
It feels like ages ago that the two of them were taking over the majors
It really is strange
their slumps during the season tend to hit around the same time, and when one heats up the other does too
Otani's knee got bad and he felt discomfort in his upper arm and landed on the IL, while Judge's season ended
what is it with these two?
Up until the All-Star break they were trying to sign Murakami for that kind of money
but his slump this season made that talk disappear
Someone once put it this way
These days, Otani is just a bonus that comes with Yamamoto
though I'm the one who said it
Now they're out-spent by both the Dodgers and the Mets
And starting next year, the Angels are getting a new owner even richer than the Mets' Cohen
They lost the bidding wars for both Soto and Yamamoto too
The ownership changed hands and they stopped splashing out big money
Judge should do the same, but unlike Otani he can't make up for it with outside income
Baseball players tend to keep a pretty low profile (financially, outside the game)
Otani might just be the exception
Background and Key Points
It’s true that the Yankees haven’t won a championship since Hideki Matsui helped them to the 2009 World Series title — a point that lines up with the thread’s “haven’t won since Matsui” remark. In recent years, the Dodgers and Mets have pulled ahead in financial resources following ownership changes, and the Yankees have increasingly found themselves on the back foot in big-money bidding wars. Judge’s call for more aggressive spending comes against that backdrop, and the criticism of GM Brian Cashman follows the same logic. On the other hand, the mentions of Japanese players like Teruaki Sato and Munetaka Murakami are purely wishful thinking and jokes from 5ch users — there’s no indication the club itself has made any concrete approach, which is easy to misread. Likewise, lines like “Otani is just a bonus that comes with Yamamoto” aren’t meant as serious criticism but as self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek banter — overall, the thread mixes genuine grievances with plenty of joking around.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from a 5ch (Geisokuhou+) thread titled “[MLB] Yankees Eliminated in Division Series: Judge Demands Front Office Make Aggressive Upgrades — “I Want Them to Do Everything Necessary”.”
