Don't Be Fooled By The 9 Homers. Errors Will Kill A Franchise.

Do you honestly think the Yankees can sustain the error bug all year? I mean think about it, he same thing that caved the Yankees in the World Series came back yesterday in a March game where, sure, they won and everyone is in awe of their home run game, but they committed 5 errors? And don’t think it’s getting lost on me.  Even Kevin Kernan who is a super in tune guy when it comes to baseball knows what’s happening too.

It’s bad.  Look, hitting wise? The team looked good, but errors will tax a team. The Yankees put on a defensive clinic on Saturday—just not the kind you want to show little leaguers. Five errors in a single game blows. That’s not baseball; that’s slapstick comedy. If the ghosts of Yankees past were watching, they probably covered their eyes.

Now, let’s give credit where it’s due: Aaron Judge remains an absolute menace with a bat in his hands. The guy smacked his way into history, racking up 16 total bases in just two games—something no other player has done in a century. If baseball were just about hitting home runs, the Yankees would be unstoppable. But, unfortunately for them, the sport also requires catching, throwing, and generally not looking like a bunch of beer leaguers in the field.

Max Fried, making his Yankees debut, had his start cut short because of all the extra pitches he had to throw thanks to his new teammates’ generosity. Four unearned runs later, Fried probably wished he had stayed in Atlanta. According to ESPN, the Yankees are now just the second team in 50 years to both score 20 runs and make five errors in the same game. That’s a record no team wants.

And yet, Aaron Boone doesn’t seem all that concerned. “Obviously, we didn’t catch the ball great,” he said. Ah yes, keen observation, Skip. Maybe Boone’s been watching too many home run highlights and forgetting that errors change games—just ask the 2024 Yankees, whose defensive meltdowns played a starring role in their World Series collapse against the Dodgers.

Fast forward to March 2025, and nothing has changed. Five errors in Game 2 of the season? That’s embarrassing. And before anyone says, “It’s just one game,” let’s not forget that these mistakes tend to snowball. If you keep playing defense like a bunch of toddlers on a sugar rush, it’s going to cost you. The Yankees can’t just rely on Judge to smash their problems away every night—eventually, reality (and competent fielding from other teams) will catch up with them.

Of course, the media isn’t making much of this, because 20-run games and moonshot home runs grab the headlines. 

But don’t be fooled—errors are a ticking time bomb. If the Yankees don’t clean up their act, all the fireworks in the world won’t save them when it really matters.