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Ex-Yankees Bust Rips Team’s World Series Hopes in Profanity-Laced Rant

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Jake Elman | Last updated Aug 20, 2025 12:27 PM ET

If former top prospect Clint Frazier were running the New York Yankees, we think we know what his first move would be — and, no, it’s not potentially moving Aaron Judge from right field to first base.

Instead, Frazier wants the second-place Yankees to stop relying so much on analytics and advanced stats. When discussing his former team on his “Life After The Show” podcast, Frazier shared why he’s so skeptical of the Yankees’ championship hopes.

“They will not win the World Series if this [expletive] analytical car is driving it,” Frazier said. “They won’t.”

“And the reason that they won’t win it is because they do dumbass s–t that they didn’t do during the regular season because they get cute and they want to make a crazy move,” continued Frazier, who played for the Yankees from 2017-21.

Frazier referenced a 2020 ALDS Game 2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, where Aaron Boone used Deivi García as an opener. García, a rookie with 34 1/3 innings under his belt in the shortened COVID season, threw only 16 of his 27 pitches for strikes and allowed a two-out home run to Randy Arozarena.

Boone then turned to veteran lefty J.A. Happ, who gave up four runs in 2 2/3 innings. The Yankees lost 7-5 and eventually dropped the series in five games.

Without directly calling Boone out by name, Frazier explained that the Yankees’ decision to get “cute” backfired, especially in a moment he called “extremely crucial.”

"Every player’s sitting there thinking, ‘What the [expletive] just happened? What the [expletive]?’” Frazier vented. “That’s why they won’t win these games in the playoffs if they’re doing [expletive] like that.”

Last year’s pennant marked the Yankees’ first since 2009, and only their second since the start of 2004. Although Boone has won over 58% of his games as the Yankees’ manager, he’s only 22-23 in the postseason.

The Yankees won the AL East only three times in Boone’s first seven seasons despite regularly fielding one of the league’s highest payrolls. New York entered play Wednesday five games behind the Toronto Blue Jays, though the Yankees hold the AL’s top Wild Card seed.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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