<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/rumor-red-sox-yankees-alex-verdugo-clarke-schmidt-2023-trade-talks-surface-after-chaim-bloom-firing');   ga('set', 'title', 'RUMOR: Red Sox, Yankees Alex Verdugo-Clarke Schmidt 2023 trade talks surface after Chaim Bloom firing');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Brian-Cashman-next-to-Clarke-Schmidt-Alex-Verdugo-next-to-Chaim-Bloom.jpg"></figure><h1>RUMOR: Red Sox, Yankees Alex Verdugo-Clarke Schmidt 2023 trade talks surface after Chaim Bloom firing</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-09-14T12:12:06-07:00">September 14th, 12:12pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-09-14T12:12:06-07:00">September 14th, 12:12pm</time><address><a>Ryan Bologna</a>Ryan Bologna is an author at ClutchPoints. He studied journalism and communication at UConn.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Boston Red Sox reportedly <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisHenrique/status/1702383588363182224" rel="noopener">discussed trading</a> outfielder Alex Verdugo to the New York Yankees for starting pitcher Clarke Schmidt ahead of the MLB Trade Deadline this season, according to Chris Henrique of Beyond the Monster.</p><p>This trade would have made sense in theory. The Yankees were desperate to get an outfielder to play the left field position ahead of the deadline, and Alex Verdugo would have been an upgrade, the the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-boston-chaim-bloom-firing-reaction-mlb-world" rel="noopener">Red Sox</a> needed some help in the starting pitching department, so Clarke Schmidt could have been an interesting addition.</p><p>Verdugo came over to the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-boston-president-reveals-plans-alex-cora-after-chaim-bloom-firing" rel="noopener">Red Sox</a> from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and was arguably the biggest piece that came back in the Mookie Betts trade. He has had some productive seasons with the Red Sox, but some other disappointing ones as well.</p><p>Both the Yankees and the Red Sox decided to stand pat at the deadline. The Yankees quickly fell out of contention and called up young players, while the Red Sox stayed in the conversation a bit longer, but eventually had the same fate.</p><p>The Yankees and Red Sox rarely execute trades, so it shows where both of those teams were at the time.</p><p>The Red Sox let go of Chaim Bloom on Thursday ahead of the team’s doubleheader against the Yankees. The Yankees are expected to retain Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone for next season as they try to re-tool with youth and some likely additions this offseason.</p><p>It will be interesting to see if both of these teams can get back to contention in the American League East soon.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

RUMOR: Red Sox, Yankees Alex Verdugo-Clarke Schmidt 2023 trade talks surface after Chaim Bloom firing

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/yankees-news-clarke-schmidt-gets-brutally-honest-about-awful-performance-vs-braves');   ga('set', 'title', 'Clarke Schmidt gets brutally honest about awful performance in Yankees-Braves');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Yankees-news-Clarke-Schmidt-gets-brutally-honest-about-awful-performance-vs-Braves.jpg"></figure><h1>Clarke Schmidt gets brutally honest about awful performance in Yankees-Braves</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-08-14T22:06:02-07:00">August 14th, 10:06pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-08-14T22:06:02-07:00">August 14th, 10:06pm</time><address><a>Scotty White</a>Scotty is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has been in the sports journalism industry since 2020. He has covered athletics at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California and is now serving as an Associate Editor at ClutchPoints.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Life has been rough lately for the New York Yankees and things didn’t get any better on Monday night against the Atlanta Braves.<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-yankee-fans-erupt-on-twitter-after-brutal-collapse-vs-marlins" rel="noopener"> The Yankees have fallen</a> into last place in the AL East, but they still have a winning record, currently sitting at 60-59. The division is that good. Because of that, New York still has a chance to make the playoffs, but they’re falling farther and farther away from that last wild card spot. The Yankees 11-3 loss to the Braves on Monday didn’t help.</p><p>The Yankees never really had a chance in this one. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-clarke-schmidt-pitching-mindset" rel="noopener">Clarke Schmidt got the start</a> on the rubber for New York and it certainly wasn’t his best performance. The Yankees led 2-1 going into the bottom of the second inning, and things took a turn for the worst. By the time the third inning was over, it was 8-2 Braves. Schmidt didn’t have his best stuff on Monday, and he’ll be the first to tell you that.</p><p>“Sometimes you get your a*s beat a little bit out there,” Schmidt said to the media after the game, according to a tweet from Greg Joyce. “And I think that’s kind of, for lack of a better term, <a href="https://twitter.com/GJoyce9/status/1691279178677542912" rel="noopener">what happened tonight</a>.”</p><p>Clarke Schmidt ended up lasting just 2.1 innings and gave up nine hits and eight earned runs. The Braves ended up winning the game 11-3.</p><p>The Yankees are still only 5.5 games back on the last wild card spot, but they need to get things going now or they’re going to run out of time.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Clarke Schmidt gets brutally honest about awful performance in Yankees-Braves

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He has two degrees from Quinnipiac University, including a master's in sports journalism. Outside of ClutchPoints, Meyers does play-by-play broadcasting for various colleges in the northeast.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Yankees have had a season to forget, especially as of late. Following a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-yankee-fans-erupt-on-twitter-after-brutal-collapse-vs-marlins" rel="noopener">brutal loss on Sunday,</a> morale is at an all-time low for the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-fire-aaron-boone-trends-after-new-yorks-epic-collapse-vs-marlins" rel="noopener">Yankees and their fans</a>. As they gear up for a series against the MLB-best Atlanta Braves though, there is optimism from the man who will start the series opener for the Yankees, Clarke Schmidt.</p><p>Despite some major struggles early in the season, the Yankees stuck with Schmidt in the starting rotation and it is paying off. Since a May 14 start in which Schmidt allowed seven earned runs to balloon his ERA to 6.30, he has not allowed more than three runs in a start. He feels that a more <a href="https://twitter.com/GaryHPhillips/status/1691092953417355264" rel="noopener">relaxed approach</a> on the mound is the key to his turnaround.</p><p>“I’ve had kind of a track record these past months where I feel comfortable every time I go out there,” Schmidt said, via Gary Phillips. “It kind of feels like I’m throwing in my backyard, when before it was like I would go out there and almost put too much pressure on the moment. I would build these games up and I would try to be too perfect, when obviously that’s not possible.”</p><p>Monday’s start against the Braves is the closest Clarke Schmidt will be to his childhood backyard, having grown up less than 40 miles from Atlanta. He’ll have plenty of family and friends in attendance as he tries to continue an impressive last few months on the mound. The Yankees have won seven straight Schmidt starts and sure could use another quality outing from him on Monday.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Yankees SP Clarke Schmidt opens up about mindset that sparked impressive turnaround

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Originally from a small town in New York, Tim graduated from Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2018 with a BA in Writing and Mass Communications. He joined ClutchPoints in 2021. The lifelong New York Giants fan now resides in enemy territory, aka the heart of Eagles country, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-hal-steinbrenner-holding-closed-door-meetings-with-aaron-judge-gerrit-cole">Yankees</a> found themselves involved in another sticky situation during their 6-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night. Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt, who earned his second win of the season after five solid innings of work, was examined by the umpiring crew before the start of the fifth inning after third base umpire Nestor Ceja found something on the back of his left hand.</p><p>After washing his hands, Schmidt was allowed to continue pitching, something that incensed Reds manager David Bell, and ultimately resulted in his ejection.</p><p>After the game, Schmidt <a href="https://twitter.com/GJoyce9/status/1659737383028269057">explained</a> what happened and why he was not removed from the game, per Greg Joyce of the New York Post.</p><p>Schmidt told reporters that the umpires took exception to the black fur on his glove, which, after mixing with sweat and rosin, had left behind a residue on his hand.</p><p>Crew chief Brian O’Nora told the media that “it wasn’t sticky and it wasn’t a foreign substance”, which explains why the Yankees pitcher wasn’t ejected.</p><p>It’s not the first time New York has had a run-in with an umpiring crew this season.</p><p>Fellow <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-domingo-german-hit-suspension-using-extremely-sticky-substance">Yankees hurler Domingo German</a> has twice been examined by umpires, with his second incident resulting in a 10-game suspension after crew chief James Hoye said that German’s hand was the “stickiest he’s ever felt.”</p><p>Add in the recent back-and forth between the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/blue-jays-news-kevin-gausman-pissed-yankees-domingo-german-cheating">Yankees and Toronto</a> Blue Jays about Aaron Judge’s wandering eyes- and there are plenty of people skeptical about New York right now.</p><p>But Schmidt indeed appears to have nothing to hide.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

‘Nothing to hide’: Yankees’ Clarke Schmidt explains hand-washing incident with umpire

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Clarke Schmidt’s bold declaration after sweep of the Mets shows that Yankees have recaptured its moxie');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Clarke-Schmidt-Yankees-Aaron-Judge.jpg"></figure><h1>Clarke Schmidt’s bold declaration after sweep of the Mets shows that Yankees have recaptured its moxie</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-23T20:48:17-07:00">August 23rd, 8:48pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-23T20:48:17-07:00">August 23rd, 8:48pm</time><address><a>Rexwell Villas</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>For the third game in a row, the New York Yankees emerged with a victory, as they defeated the New York Mets Tuesday night, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-odds-mets-yankees-prediction-odds-and-pick-8-23-2022/">4-2</a>, to complete a two-leg sweep of their National League counterparts. Yankees rookie Clarke Schmidt got the win, but perhaps it’s what he said following the game that will be remembered more by future New York opponents on the road.</p><p>Speaking to reporters after taking care of business against the Mets, Clarke Schmidt said that “A lot of people fear us when we come into stadiums,” via <a href="https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/1562278558776430592">YES Network</a>.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"A lot of people fear us when we come into stadiums."</p><p>Clarke Schmidt moved to 5-2 and dropped his ERA to 2.18 after providing 3 innings in relief in the Yankees' 4-2 win over the Mets. <a href="https://t.co/4XP5MXbuwk">pic.twitter.com/4XP5MXbuwk</a></p><p>— YES Network (@YESNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/1562278558776430592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Frankie Montas started the game for the Yankees and had a 2-0 lead to work on after Anthony Rizzo scored in the bottom of the fourth inning, but he gave up a run in each of the next two innings, forcing the Yankees to make a switch on the mound. Clarke Schmidt entered the game for Montas and proceeded to throw three scoreless innings, but he looked shaky with three hits and three walks surrendered on 60 pitches. Wandy Peralta closed it all out with a save for the Yankees, who now have stitched together three victories in a row for the first time in nearly two months. Prior to their sweep of the Mets, Clarke Schmidt and the Yankees gained momentum with a 4-2 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays at home on Aug. 21.</p><p>Schmidt has been sensational this season for the Yankees’ bullpen. He entered into the Mets game with a 2.40 ERA and an excellent .237 BABIP.</p><p>It could get even better for the Yankees in the coming days, as they will next face the lowly Oakland Athletics on the road in a three-game set that begins Thursday.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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