Aaron Boone's Spin-Zoning Ability Is Unmatched

Last night, the Yankees were blown out once again, this time by the helpless Toronto Blue Jays. A team that has virtually zero good moments this year, turned loose against Carlos Rodon and his poorly located fastball. Two innings in the game was already out of hand with Toronto out in front 8-0. George Springer, who has one of the worst OPS numbers by an outfielder this year, had himself a night with multiple three run homers off the Yankees lefty. The rut the Yankees have been in only continued as they lost for the 9th time in 11 games. Things are bad right now. 

More specially on Carlos Rodon's part, the $162M man has given up 20 runs in his last three starts. The last Yankee pitcher to do that was Chien Ming Wang back in 2009. Boston, Atlanta, and now Toronto have jumped all over him in the last two weeks. For the most part Rodon has been good for the team this year, but his last three starts have been unwatchable. When he's bad it's fucking ugly. Having those starts occur during the team's rut has made it worse. 

His line last night read 5IP | 10H | 8ER | 2HR | 1BB | 8K | 

Here was what Aaron Boone said about the outing

“I don’t wanna sugarcoat it, but you see a lot of the really good tonight.” 

I thought at first this was one of those fake accounts tweeting out an A.I. dubbed version of Boone. Nope, that's just our Boonie, the eternal optimist. There is no situation that he feels incapable of spin-zoning. I'm honestly jealous of it. I watch Rodon's start in the middle of this miserable run they've been on and I want to put my head through a glass window. Boone instead saw a lot of really good. I truly believe if Boone was in charge of the Hindenburg or the Titanic he'd tell the public it was a success because not everyone died. 

"You see while the iceberg caused a lot of damage and we lost a few guys out there I was pretty impressed with the lifeboats and how they were able to handle that kind of adversity. The boat actually battled pretty well. Felt more unlucky than anything that anyone died." 

Now I get what Boone is doing. He sees no positive in bashing his own players in front of the media. Carlos Rodon knows he sucked last night. He's aware his last three starts have put the team in a whole early. I'm not asking him to ridicule Rodon, but don't treat like us like we're stupid and say you saw a lot of good out there. What are we doing here? We're really gonna rave about the three innings of garbage time he was able to compile after the game was out of hand? That's what we're focusing on? Couldn't even get 20 minutes last without the game being over. All I'm asking for is to watch a competitive sporting event and not be miserable right off the jump. Meanwhile I've got this moron telling me there was a lot of good there. In the words of White Goodman, "spare me."

Aaron Boone is not THE problem with the Yankees, but he's for sure part of the problem.