What's that you say? Too harsh in this day and age? Too humiliating? That would be the idea.
Yankees should trade Gary Sanchez for Jacob deGrom. Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Posted by Kenneth Matinale at 12:21 AM
And do it quickly before the Mets see a replay of the the Yankees 7-6 loss in Tampa which ended when 25 year old Yankee catcher Gary Sanchez did not run out his grounder for the final out with the bases loaded... Met ace Jacob deGrom
__________________________And do it quickly before the Mets see a replay of the the Yankees 7-6 loss in Tampa which ended when 25 year old Yankee catcher Gary Sanchez did not run out his grounder for the final out with the bases loaded... Met ace Jacob deGrom
Obviously, Aaron Boone could not bench Sanchez on the spot because the transgression by Sanchez was so egregious that it had ended the game.
A Lethargic Gary Sanchez Costs the Yankees in Tampa Bay
By Peter Kerasotis July 23, 2018 nytimes.com
Yankees Manager Aaron Boone said afterward that he would have to look at film to see the plays in question before making a decision as to whether or not a benching, or some other form of discipline, might be forthcoming.
Sanchez’s defensive lapses are nothing new. Since he was called up to the major leagues late in 2016, he has allowed 32 passed balls, most in M.L.B. during that span. His defense and lack of hustle even drew uncharacteristic criticism from the former Yankees manager Joe Girardi last season. Girardi’s handling of Sanchez was widely believed to have contributed to his ouster from the Bronx.
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Mickey Mantle was benched for not hustling in 1960. Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Mickey Mantle had been American League (AL) MVP in 1956 and 1957. In 1960 Mantle was in his tenth season, all managed by Casey Stengel, who unbeknownst to Stengel, was in his final as Yankee manager. Mantle was the undisputed king of the AL. Stengel pulled Mantle from a game for not hustling.
Sunday, August 14, 1960, 6:02PM, Yankee Stadium I
Attendance: 29,970, Time of Game: 4:26
Second game of doubleheader
Senators 6, Yankees 3 in 15 innings
To make matters worse Roger Maris was injured sliding into second trying to break up a double play, allowing the tie run to score. Then Mantle grounded into a DP but did not hustle running out the ball. Stengel benched Mantle. Both Maris and Mantle left the game after the 6th inning. To make matters even worse, the Yankees lost 6-3 in 15 innings.
Worst of all, Maris did not play again until Aug. 26 and hit only four more home runs in the regular season, none in his final 14 games, which gave Mantle a chance to rally and pass Maris by one (40 to 39) and win his fourth and final AL home run crown...
The night after being benched Mantle was back in a makeshift starting lineup...
Mantle became an icon in 1961, playing hurt and being the "old school" Yankee to the newcomer Maris who had the audacity to challenge the record of 60 homers in a season held since 1927 by Yankee Babe Ruth. Mantle was considered the rightful player to break the record and some fans resented Maris. Maris won that home run race over Mantle, 61 to 54.
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What would Gil Hodges and Billy Martin do about Didi Gregorius? Sunday, April 12, 2015
Yesterday afternoon at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox new shortstop Didi Gregorius made at least his third major blunder in the Yankees first five games (1-4). I'd have to really think to recall the most recent such blunders by his predecessor Derek Jeter.
The first two Gregorius mistakes were being thrown out on the bases. They would have elicited reprimands from a Little League coach. Gregorius was talked to in the dugout but seemed oblivious as he was in subsequent interviews...
(announcer) David Cone ... mentioned that when he played for the Yankees one season the team got off to a slow and sloppy start and that manager Joe Torre, now a Hall of Famer, had a closed door meeting during which Torre uncharacteristically expressed his displeasure in no uncertain terms, which Cone declined to describe. One of his players then was incumbent Yankee manager Joe Girardi.
Girardi, Gil Hodges and Billy Martin all played for New York World Series champions and each later managed a New York team to a single championship...
Years later both (Hodges and Martin) did the same thing: pulled an outfielder and replaced him with the other team still batting...
(Hodges) asked Cleon Jones if he was injured. When Jones indicated that he was not Hodges returned to the dugout with Jones, who had not hustled enough for Hodges...
During a nationally televised Saturday afternoon game (1978) in Boston a Red Sox batter dropped a pop fly in front of right fielder Reggie Jackson. Reggie returned back to regular depth and turned to face the next batter only to see Paul Blair coming out to right. Reggie asked why but Blair simply referred Reggie to manager Martin. A dugout confrontation ensued complete with Billy trying to get at Reggie while Billy was held back by coach Yogi Berra and Reggie influenced but hardly restrained by coach Elston Howard. For all his street tough style Billy Martin wanted no part of the much larger and younger Reggie Jackson, at least not while Jackson was facing Martin. Reggie was no marshmallow, salesman or otherwise.
Both Hodges and Martin intentionally humiliated a starting player. Each was sending a message to that player, to all the other players and to the media that certain minimal expectations must be met or there will be consequences.
That's what I wanted Joe Girardi to do yesterday. I wanted Girardi to replace Didi Gregorius with Stephen Drew while the Red Sox were still batting. These are kinder and gentler times but Girardi could and should have relied on the ample precedent of two previous New York managers who evolved from the cauldron of baseball in the early 1950s.
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