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Something Weird is Going On With Josh Donaldson

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Josh Donaldson stinks at baseball and he appears to be the last one to find out he stinks.

On Sunday afternoon, the Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 5-3 thanks to another great Gerrit Cole start.

Harrison Bader simply being in the lineup seems to give this team a much-needed jolt.

The 2023 New York Yankees are 22-10 when Bader plays. But we can talk about Bader another day.

The Yankees won on Sunday but something strange happened before the game.

Prior to the game, Aaron Boone and Josh Donaldson skipped out on their media availability to have a serious talk about Donaldson’s future on the team as well as just casual baseball shit, according to Donaldson.

Aaron Boone has been optimistic about Donaldson’s ability to return to All-Star form even though he’s currently batting .125.

In 71 plate appearances, Donaldson has 8 fucking hits.

Josh Donaldson hasn’t been an All-Star since 2016.

Donaldson hasn’t been a star since Hamilton came out on Broadway. He hasn’t been a star since the most annoying people on social media cried about an all-girls Ghostbusters.

Donaldson has a 63 OPS+ and 59 wRC+.

Mind you, the average MLB player is at 100. 63 OPS+ and 59 wRC+. And Aaron Boone wants to give this man more at-bats so he can continue striking out looking.

I hate watching Donaldson’s at-bats.

That man will stand straight up with no intentions of swinging like the batteries in his xbox controller ran out as a fastball is grooved directly down the center of the plate for him.

I’ve never understood why players who are struggling to hit allow pitchers to get easy first-pitch strikes on them.

Swing at the fucking fastball down the middle before going down 0-1 and inevitably swinging through a slider in the dirt.

Is there any other company giving out complete job security like the Yankees do?

Whether it’s guys in the front office like Brian Cashman or Randy Levine or it’s the coaches like Aaron Boone or hitters who have only have 8 hits, if you sign a contract with the Yankees they will honor that shit regardless of how terrible you are at your job.

If Donaldson worked for Twitter, the FIRST thing Elon Musk would’ve done is send security to escort Josh off the premises.

Josh Donaldson should’ve found a pink slip in his locker last season following his lame-ass “Jackie Robinson” comments toward Tim Anderson.

Donaldson claimed calling Tim Anderson “Jackie Robinson” was a little inside joke between the two players while Tim was pissed and made it very clear they were not even close to being friends and have no inside jokes between them.

I don’t think you should lose your job from racist microaggressions but Aaron Judge came out against Donaldson.

These are situations where your teammates typically rally behind you.

Josh Donaldson did a racism and the black captain of the team came out and said “yeaaaa, he shouldn’t have done that racism”.

So his teammates don’t like him and he’s the geek spending hours talking to the coach in an attempt to leverage their relationship into playing time over guys who are actually still good at baseball.

Donaldson has fewer hits than Aaron Hicks did when he was on the team and he hasn’t been on the Yankees in over a month.

My only guess as to why Donaldson hasn’t been designated for assignment is because the Yankees organizational strategy is repeating the same failures over and over again while expecting a new result with no real adjustments made in between.

I watched Jacoby Ellsbury stink for years wearing pinstripes and this team just clapped their hands and said “he’ll get ’em next time”.

Honestly, it all comes down to GM Brian Cashman making mistakes and choosing to double and triple down on those mistakes instead of admitting he messed up and quickly correcting the error.

The Yankees aren’t going to DFA Josh Donaldson because he and Boone became best friends Sunday talking about their kids and shit.

I still can’t wrap my head ahead around Donaldson pulling his supervisor to the side and attempting to connect on a personal level in order to get special treatment.

There are two things he could do to get back in the lineup every day: 1. He can suck his manager’s balls before the game or 2. he can hit baseballs.

Donaldson has elected to go with the former.

I will never forgive this team for choosing 36-year-old Josh Donaldson over perennial MVP candidate Matt Chapman.

The Yankees are once again going to get ragdolled in the playoffs and everyone in the front office will keep their jobs.

Being a Yankees fan is like living in a boring Black Mirror episode.

 

 

 

 

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Written by thelesterlee

Creator of Deadseriousness. Diehard Knicks, Yankees and Giants fan who wants to create a sports and pop culture space that isn't the same copy and pasted AI content you see everywhere else.

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