It’s Sunday, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! If the World Series represents the final chapter of the baseball season, the end-of-season awards represent its
epilogue, allowing us to firmly close the book on the year and begin to fully concentrate on the upcoming campaign. You already know that the Yankees made out well in the awards season, with superstar right fielder Aaron Judge leading the way with his third career AL MVP. How did they respond to their success on social media? Let’s find out!
O Captain, My Captain
Where else would we begin? From the moment Donny Baseball announced that Aaron Judge had earned his third career MVP, the Yankees social media team went all-in, flooding the Internet with posts celebrating the award. In addition to the standard posts, the social media team stressed the fact that the Captain joins historic company in becoming just the fourth Yankee to win the AL’s highest honor three times, that he won the award in back-to-back seasons,
They partnered with physicist Brian Greene, himself a native New Yorker, to break down Aaron Judge’s home runs and defensive prowess as, well, physics equations. This is seriously one of the most unique posts I have ever seen on a baseball team’s Instagram page, so if you watch only one of these clips, I recommend this one.
Many of Judge’s teammates shared the Yankees’ first Instagram post on their stories, including Cam Schlittler, Luis Gil, and Jasson Domínguez.
For all of you Villanova alumni and Knicks fans out there, Josh Hart — a relative of Elston Howard — posted the judge emoji on his Twitter immediately after the announcement.
Among his former teammates, CC Sabathia took to his Facebook to celebrate. While I didn’t see any Instagram posts from Tyler Wade, he appears to have been at Judge’s house as part of the celebration. Anthony Rizzo, meanwhile, made sure to highlight the true stars of the night: Judge’s two dogs.
Honoring John J. Filippelli
John Sterling, David Cone, Michael Kay, and Suzyn Waldman celebrated the legacy of YES Network founder John J. Filippelli during the awards announcement on Thursday.
Veterans’ Day
CC Sabathia took to Instagram on Tuesday to honor his father, Carsten Sabathia Sr., who served in the US Navy, for Veterans’ Day.
A Happy Anniversary
Gerrit and Amy Cole celebrated their ninth anniversary this week. To celebrate, the couple decided to explore their artistic side, which gave us this wonderful shot of Cole at a pottery wheel. Now I’m no expert on pottery — although I can point you in the direction of some wonderful scholars who can talk your ear off about them — but it seems like he’s doing a pretty good job, which just reinforces the notion that Gerrit Cole can do anything he sets his mind to, with the single exception of hitting a baseball (he has a career OPS+ of 8; that is not a typo).
Cruuuuuuuuz
Fernando Cruz posted some more pictures from the past season, as he evidently continues to empty his camera roll. This time, he focused on Yankees greats of previous eras that he got to meet this year.
Congrats, Cashman
Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman was inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame this past week. While the GM has gotten some flack in recent years due to the organization’s inability to get over the hump and earn its 28th World Series title, the honor is well-deserved — you don’t spend almost three decades in the nation’s toughest media market without a single losing season if you’re not good at your job. Congratulations, Cashman!
Kay Tries to Connect with Gen Alpha
No, don’t ask me what it means. I have no idea, and at this point, I’m kinda afraid to ask. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end of this trend, as there is no surefire way to stop a trend among school age children than for adults to begin to use the slang/do the trend unironically.
