Yankees have internal, external solutions to help two-man band

The good news for the Yankees is that as bad as they are playing for a month-plus, they’re not performing the worst in baseball. That dishonor goes, of course, to the South Side sad sacks (aka the White Sox) whose only real competition now is the 1962 Mets. 

The bad news is that the Yankees are legitimately only a two-man offense, and while I pointed out to Mets trash talker/truth teller Luis Severino that his former team doesn’t just have two “good” hitters but rather two all-time great hitters, as he told them, everyone knows two guys can’t get it done. This isn’t tennis. 

Even Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig needed a supporting cast, and so, too, do the great Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. That’s where I come in now. 

To be fair, two of my four solutions are currently employees of the Yankees, so I’m not doing a ton of heavy lifting here. Anyway, here goes the Heyman Plan, four ways to augment their brutal offense. 

1. Giancarlo Stanton is due back Monday, and should immediately be inserted as the cleanup hitter, which sad to say is currently an embarrassment for a team called the Bronx Bombers. 

They are getting the worst production at the four hole all year but it’s been particularly gruesome since they started their shocking slide June 15. The cleanup slash line is .164/.219/.258 since they went from baseball’s best team to blech, much worse even than the .204/.269/.324 line for the season. The lack of a four-hole hitter might even be affecting Judge, who was walked four times in one game by Carlos Mendoza, the first manager in forever who employed the correct Judicial strategy.