Why In The World Does James Rowson Still Have A Job?

It’s more of the same. It’s another hitting coach that holds a position while the Yankees habitually freefall offensively in June and July. It’s the same episode that I am freaking tired of watching produced by Yankee brass.

Remember Dillon Lawson? He was the Yankees hitting coach in all of 2022 and part of 2023 before being fired, because he sucked. Then Sean Casey replaced him midway through the season, and he wasn’t great either but in fairness, he wasn’t around long enough to make long-lasting changes. Time just wasn’t on his side in that dreadful 2023 season and when it was over he chose not to return. So the Yankees moved on…..

Moved on to James Rowson. At first, I was cautiously optimistic when we wrote DON’T LOOK NOW, BUT NEW YANKEES HITTING COACH IS DOING WHAT WE ASKED! It started off great. But it always does. The Yankees are red hot in April and May and then predictably free fall in June and July and then scramble to put it all back together in August. It just doesn’t work and I’m tired of watching it.

To be fair, Rowson doesn’t deserve all of the blame for the Yankees’ 13-14 record in June, but you know what….I don’t care at this point. I am tired of the same crap every season. NFL teams dismiss their coordinators when they have a slump. Granted, their season is a nanosecond compared to ours, but they don’t keep coordinators around that aren’t getting results. As stacked as this team is every season, with the payroll they carry and the star power the expectations are high. Hell, expectations are higher than ever now with Aaron Judge‘s prime being wasted and having a championship drought since 2009. 

The Yankees have no lead in the AL East. Instead, we are tied with the damn Blue Jays. That hurts my pride a little, but clearly not the Yankees. They can’t figure out how to hit a damn beach ball with a bat right now. There has to be accountability here, and Rowson has said he’s not worried about the Yankees offensive woes, read more HERE. Every year, same slump in summer, no one is worried and the Yankees underperform. It’s wash, rinse and repeat. I am tired of it. This didn’t fly back in the days we had real leadership….this team is soft.

And it will continue to be soft with this approach. The Yankees have lost 13 of 19 with last night’s game and are batting .160 with RISP during that span! It’s unacceptable. This is not how a team gets back to the World Series, it’s how a team makes an early exit and golfs in the fall. 

Rowson needs to go. The Yankees current formula for batting coaches hasn’t worked. It’s time to burn that strategy book and actually recruit LEADERS who can mentor and manage this team…..because it’s been missing for a (painfully) long time. Yankee brass may be content with mediocrity….but WE don’t have to be.

Sorry Rowson – someone’s gotta be the first to go and it should be you. That’s the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.