Three questions Yankees need answered as second half of season approaches
NY Post
The Post’s Dan Martin looks at three questions facing the Yankees as they begin the second half of their 2024 season.
An 8-18 finish to the first half knocked the Yankees out of first place in the AL East and raised some serious red flags throughout the roster, from the starting rotation, the lineup and just about everywhere in-between.
They staggered in the second half a year ago, missing the postseason, and fell off badly following a near-historic start in 2022.
The difference this season, they hope, is the presence of Juan Soto, as well as a healthy Aaron Judge.
If that’s not the case, expect the heat to rise on Aaron Boone, who has a team option to return to the dugout in 2025.
Whatever improvements the Yankees want to make to the roster need to happen by July 30.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.