Gerrit Cole's comment after Yankees' loss to Rays should send message to front office

First, it was Aaron Judge making comments about the Yankees' lack of focus during this heinous stretch of play — something that's become a rudimentary annual occurrence. Then Cam Schlittler tried to light a fire under New York by owning Red Sox Super Loser Jared Carrabis with NSFW commentary.

On Wednesday, it was Gerrit Cole's turn to make his voice heard. The Yankees lost again, failing to put up any sort of fight as the Rays shut them out 3-0. Cole pitched a solid outing but had absolutely nothing behind him. The Yankees logged six hits (all singles), zero walks and 11 strikeouts. They went 0-for-5 with RISP. They are as lifeless as lifeless can be.

After the game, Cole had some blunt commentary about how the Yankees have been performing. To be honest, we wish it were harsher because the Yankees are now approaching a full month of play in which they are far and away the worst team in baseball.

But we'll take what we can get. Hopefully Aaron Boone or someone in the front office wakes up to the $324 million man echoing the $360 million man/three-time MVP. The primes of Cole and Judge are being (and have been) wasted before our very eyes.

The Yankees, when healthy, are a good team, but they still don't have enough depth or desire to conquer the rest of the league and bring a World Series trophy back home.

Gerrit Cole sounds fed up with the Yankees' annual summer slide

It's a really tough look for all the fans out there who were trying to claim the June/Summer Swoons don't exist. It's actually been 5-6 years running now, inexplicably coinciding with the strongest Yankees rosters over the last 15 or so seasons.

You know what that tells us? The manager is part of the problem. The clubhouse chemistry is part of the problem. The young talent — which doesn't seem hungry enough — is part of the problem. The roster patchwork on the fringes orchestrated by the front office is part of the problem.

It's one thing to endure a tough stretch. It happens to every team. It's standard for the 162-game baseball season. It's another thing to spiral and abandon every principle of the sport. Hitting slumps? Nobody is impervious to those. But awful defense? No energy? Poor baserunning? Questionable lineup/personnel decisions? Non-competitive at-bats? Everybody knows it's unacceptable, including this group of players, but it's about time more influential voices are heard.

For as soft-spoken and buttoned up as Cole and Judge are, it speaks volumes both have felt compelled to say something to the media. If fans are losing their minds, just think about how the players feel.

Hopefully Brian Cashman gets the message and relays something to Boone, who is apparently completely in control of lineup/personnel decisions. Maybe it's time for some sort of intervention. Beyond that? The front office better have some trade deadline fixes or you can run the 2025 playoff exit on repeat at this point.

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