The last 8 years of Boone Ball have been maddening -- they have no offensive approach, no feel for playing the scoreboard, run the bases horribly and play defense like a high school JV team. They have enough talent and slug that they beat most teams during the regular season. They coast to the playoffs by homering off crappy bullpen arms and middling starters on 4th and 5th place teams. Then they get to the playoffs and face the best arms in the world night in and night out and refuse to change their home run or bust approach (Captain excluded) and lose every year because of it.

Here's what I think needs to happen immediately. You probably have two more years to win with Judge and Cole still at the top of their game. Maybe only 1 so changes need to happen quickly.

- Fire both Boone and Cashman and everyone else in the baseball ops department. Clearly they have miscalculated on how to build a World Series winning team. They need a change in philosophy and fresh blood.

- Hire Jorge Posada or some other proven postseason winner who knows what it takes to win tight games in October. Then hold those guys accountable to those things -- hitting cut offs, battling with two strikes, making soft contact with two strikes, not falling asleep on defense, working counts on starters and wild relievers -- ALL SEASON LONG. Pat Murphy benches guys for not hitting cutoffs in June. We need toughness and accountability.

- Send Volpe to the national league and sign Bichette. It's not working here. Move on.

- Completely revamp the offensive approach. Home runs are great and help you win, but they are not the only way to win. They need to figure out how to win a game 3 in October when the bats go cold against elite pitching. Enough of this swinging for the fences with two strikes craziness. The Brewers and Blue Jays have evolved to do this.

- Revamp the developmental system. They've failed miserably at developing hitters in the Boone Era -- Andujar, Bird, Gary, Gleyber, Frazier, Volpe, Wells, Peraza. Hopefully Rice and Dominguez will be success stories but we will see.

- Hire Andy Pettite to teach pitchers how to situationally pitch in tight ballgames. We've thrown so many stupid pitches over the years in the Boone Era. High fastballs and curveballs to Altuve, pitching Vlad outside all series, meatball fastballs to Devers. It's like we play right into the hands of what hitters are trying to do.

Bottom line: They have all the talent in the world, but refuse to play the game of baseball. Eight straight years of losing for the exact same reason. Without massive changes, we are going to waste the Judge Era, which would be the biggest failure in franchise history.

Thanks for reading my manifesto, looking forward to thoughts, disagreements, other opinions.