Yankees Had Expectations Of Shift In The Offence Since Hitting Coach Sean Casey Joined Yet Has No Improvement

The Yankees are currently below.500, which is the latest since 1992 that they have been in a season. That year, their last below-.500 season, they had a record of 76-86. Yankees had expectations of a shift in the offence since hitting coach sean casey joined yet has no improvement.

According to Katie Sharp of Stathead, they have lost 24 out of their last 60 games, which is their worst 60-game skid since the months of June and August in 1992.

It really followed what was thought to be the worst. On June 3, during the eighth inning of a game against the Dodgers, Yankees pitcher Aaron Judge struck his right foot into a concrete slab at the base of the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium. He missed the first three months of the season after being placed on the disabled list a few days later.

Yankees Had Expectations Of Shift In The Offence Since Hitting Coach Sean Casey Joined Yet Has No Improvement

The Yankees’ strong pitching staff, especially the bullpen, mostly masks the offence’s shortcomings during the first half of the season.

At the All-Star break, the Yankees fired hitting coach Dillon Lawson and replaced him with Sean Casey, which was analogous to a poor football club using a backup quarterback.

That often doesn’t work. Not for the Yankees, anyhow. Their offensive output under Casey and Lawson has been nearly comparable.

They are.232/.325/.376 going into Wednesday night’s finale of a three-game series against the Braves at Truist Park. Since Lawson was dismissed.

had a lower OPS (.701 to.701), inferior slugging, and a somewhat better on-base percentage. Since Casey took over, they are averaging 3.9 runs per game as opposed to 4.4 previously.

As a result of a combination of injuries, unavailability, and subpar performance, the rotation is now starting to reveal more flaws, forcing the Yankees to keep using Luis Severino even though his ERA surpassed 8.00.

Bryce Elder, the starting pitcher for the Braves, restrained the Yankees’ offence by allowing only one hit (DJ LeMahieu’s single with one out in the second inning) and facing the bare minimum in six of his seven innings. The squad was shut out for the sixth time this season as it turned out to be the Yankees’ only hit of the evening and their fewest hits in a game this season.

Five walks from New York’s offence placed runners on base, but double plays, softly hit groundouts, and popouts soon sent them back to the dugout. Elder’s season-low average exit velocity for a start was 82.1 mph.

The exit velocities of 11 of the 16 balls that were played against him were less than 90 mph, and the hardest-hit ball he gave up was Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s groundout in the sixth (100.3 mph).

“At the end of the day, we just have to continue to put pressure on the starter and we have to continue to score runs,” Casey told The Post. “In this league, you got to be able to put runs across the board because the pitching is really good and we’re playing the Braves right now. This is a team that can bang. So you’ve got to be able to get guys on base and then get them in. When we get guys out there, they’re in scoring position, we have to find ways to get them in.”

The Yankees are taking stronger at-bats and exerting more pressure on the opposition starting pitcher, according to manager Aaron Boone, who noted progress in a few different areas.

 

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