Depend Aaron Boone amongst those that heard Joe Kelly’s post-World Sequence criticisms of the Yankees.
Kelly, a Dodgers reliever who didn’t seem within the postseason, dissed the Yankees’ fundamentals after Los Angeles gained the World Sequence in 5 video games and advised the Bronx Bombers weren’t among the many high seven or eight groups that made the playoffs this 12 months.
Requested Monday if Kelly’s feedback bothered him in any respect, Boone mentioned, “I mean, a little bit, but the bottom line is we didn’t play as well as we could’ve.”
“Clearly [we] particularly had a tricky inning in Recreation 5, in order that’s the final word disappointment,” the Yankees supervisor mentioned throughout a Zoom press convention. “I try never to get too caught up into what other people are saying or doing, especially when it comes from certain places. Everyone’s going to have their opinions and be entitled to things.”
Boone was referring to the fifth inning of Recreation 5, when the Dodgers scored 5 unearned runs after the Yankees dedicated two errors and Mookie Betts reached on an infield grounder to Anthony Rizzo after Gerrit Cole didn’t cowl first base.
The Yankees additionally misplaced Recreation 1 after a number of miscues. These included Gleyber Torres not corralling a throw from proper area after an eighth-inning Shohei Ohtani double, which allowed Ohtani to advance to 3rd base and finally rating the tying run on a sacrifice fly.
“We were saying it every single game: ‘Just let them throw the ball to the infield,’” Kelly mentioned on the Nov. 4 episode of the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast. “They can’t make a play.”
Yankees basic supervisor Brian Cashman responded final week to the feedback by Kelly, a former Crimson Sox reliever who pitched to a 4.78 ERA this season, was left off of the Dodgers’ NLDS roster because of a shoulder damage and by no means returned through the playoffs.
“I also know people with the Dodgers, so I’ve got some internal conversations that I’ve got, certainly, feedback on. I think it’s more representative of some specific players rather than the overall group,” Cashman mentioned on the GM Conferences in San Antonio.
“In Joe’s case, it appears like [for] some motive it’s somewhat private, the way in which he’s out speaking like he has.”
Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas shared the same sentiment as Kelly throughout his look on Chris Rose’s podcast.
“Their weakness was the way that they made outs on the bases,” mentioned Rojas, who appeared in a single recreation within the World Sequence and went 0-for-3.
“The way that they didn’t take care of the baseball and kind of play a little bit of lazy defense. We said, ‘OK, we know we’re good, but we’re gonna put pressure on them so they can make these little mistakes.”
On Monday, Boone backed his group’s fundamentals whereas saying the Yankees are “constantly leaning into” discovering methods to get higher.
“If you go back and look at storylines throughout the season, I felt like there were a lot of times that we were winning games because of, whether it was a big defensive play, whether it was small ball on a given day, whether it was a Game 4 where we get a double steal and a contact read at home,” Boone mentioned.
“Those things happened throughout the year on a regular basis. We won a lot of games because of little things that we did well over the course of the year.”
