The Yankees are an absolute mess after yet another listless loss

The Yankees are bad.

If you’ve been paying attention at all to baseball during the first month of the 2021 MLB season then you might have noticed something pretty surprising – the New York Yankees are really bad, at least for right now.

I know there are 162 games and this is a very small sample size but their 4-1 loss to the Braves on Wednesday night dropped them to 6-11 and was their sixth loss in seven games.

The Yankees have the second highest payroll in baseball and should always be better than this because of that. On Wednesday night they had just five hits (all singles) and only scored a run on a bloop single in the ninth inning.

It was an ugly loss and a brutal performance by a team that has way too much talent to start off so poorly this season.

Let’s look at how bad the Yankees have been so far this year.

– They have 54 runs through 17 games, which is their lowest mark through 17 games since 1984. Those 54 runs are the lowest in the American League.

– They’ve scored 3 runs or fewer in a game 11 times.

– Giancarlo Stanton went 0-4 Wednesday night and saw his batting average drop to .158.

– There was a “Fire Boone” chant at Yankee Stadium during Wednesday night’s loss.

Again, the baseball season is a very long one and the Yankees have all the talent to turn things around and make everyone forget about this start in no time. But right now they aren’t very good at all. Yankees fans aren’t going to just sit around waiting for their team to get going. They are going to be vocal and they are going to be angry, which will add more pressure to Aaron Boone and Co.

The offensive woes have been wild, considering all they money they’ve spent on their lineup. But you do have to think that once the weather warms up so will the bats.

But right now, in this very moment the New York Yankees are in last place in the AL East and are tied with the Twins and Rockies for the fewest wins in MLB.

That stuff isn’t going to fly for much longer.

Quick hits: Embiid almost hit the best shot ever… Jake Paul was not happy with Pete Davidson… Zach Wilson’s questionable tape… And more. 

– Joel Embiid came so close to sinking what would have been the greatest buzzer-beater ever at the end of Wednesday night’s Suns-Sixers game.

– Jake Paul was not happy with Pete Davidson and his tremendous commentary during last weekend’s Jake Paul-Ben Askren fight.

– Steven Ruiz looks at why Zach Wilson’s 2019 tape should raise concerns about his NFL future ahead of the upcoming draft.

– Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni played rock-paper-scissors with draft prospects to gauge their competitiveness. For real.

– The Raiders really need to delete that tweet.