 are the Yankees further away from the Red Sox than we thought they are not further away from the Red Sox as long as they clean up a few key things I'm not a big proponent of you know completely blowing this thing up as you hear you know certain things I certainly don't think that's going to happen that being said we saw in game one of the World Series what a shaky defense does to a team I thought the Dodgers you know it's not for their defensive lapses in game one could have won that game and stole game one at Fenway yeah but defensively the Yankees are not where they need to be when you have Miguel and you are who is arguably your top one of your top three hitters might win the the rookie of the year and he's not playing game four against the Red Sox because they're worried about his defense that is a problem you cannot have your key players be defensive liabilities and whether you're talking about and do hard whether you're talking about Gary Sanchez whoever's gonna play first base we have some holes on the Yankees roster he sensibly that need to get short up and I think Brian Cashman I praise cash up and down the line he's going to figure it out this offseason to make a few tweaks here and there to shore up his defense but also keep that kind of potent line up out there now we were talking earlier in the week about the Yankees changing their approach stop with the whole launch angle and the exit velocity and try to be more situational if they make that type of a commitment can you make the players you have changed their approach or do you have to go find players that can do that I think you can do a little bit of both I think you can look at a guy like Aaron judge who at times will shorten his swing up and take that single to ride or not try to launch I think JD Martinez does a great job of it as well I mean he doesn't always have to launch but the team needs a big three-run home or he can do that as well if you have guys like John Carlos Stanton that can do that as well now your middle of your lineup has two guys not only have 50 home run potential but in the big situations they can drive in the runs I think the biggest thing is if the Yankees have to get better with runners in scoring position and so whatever you need to do as an individual to get better Marcus 10s and the entire coaching staff is going to work this spring training and during next season to fix it it's small tweaks and I think the Yankees can get there without having to completely revamp their lineup I've got I'm just acting as the middle man here Mark Rick D. Pietro from our station former first pick in the NHL draft all-around good guy he plays in a hardball league once a week and he just said please ask Mark if he's available the DH next week I will include flight and playoff bonuses and unfortunately I'm not available I'm playing in a golf tournament as soon as the World Series is over so yeah I'm gonna have to miss that this year but tell Rick thank you for the invitation think about it though if you could do it could you could you get out there and just rake in a in a men's men's hardball yeah men's hardball yeah they throw like miles an hour if I can't I got issues I I got some serious issues if I can't get a few hits in that in that league love it