The New York Yankees should be a great baseball team.
Take Saturday's batting lineup for example. Even with Aaron Judge out injured, the Yanks had three former MVPs in the order (Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt, Giancarlo Stanton). They have young rising stars, and a stud trade deadline acquisition in Ryan McMahon.
Yet these Yankees don't do the little things well, at all.
Part of the reason they lost Friday night to the Marlins was that a groundball went right under new outfielder Jose Caballero's glove in right field.
And on Saturday, they tried to outdo that with the weirdest baserunning you'll ever see.
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Jazz Chisholm Jr. was on first base, and Paul Goldschmidt hit a routine popup to the second baseman.
Chisholm lingered off first, and he kept lingering, and he kept lingering.
For whatever reason, he never went back.
And when Xavier Edwards caught the popup, he whipped a quick throw over to first to double off Chisholm.
What was he doing? The world may never know.
Jazz Chisholm is putting on a baserunning clinic today
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The Yankees have the league leader in errors defensively, Anthony Volpe. The other night, Austin Wells never went back to a base because he got the number of outs wrong.
And now this.
The Yankees have so much talent, but the baseball IQ sometimes seems to go out the window, and it's really, really hard to watch.
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