Yankees Fans Rip Amed Rosario After Two Costly Mistakes vs Red Sox: Is His Time in New York Over?
Amed Rosario turned in the kind of afternoon that gets a veteran designated for assignment in a Bronx minute.
The Yankees infielder had back-to-back gaffes against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday at Yankee Stadium. In the fourth inning, Rosario was on second base when Heliot Ramos lofted a fly ball to center. Ceddanne Rafaela misplayed the ball, and Rosario, apparently reading the play as a routine catch, got himself thrown out at the plate trying to score late.
The very next inning, Rosario snagged a line drive off the bat of Andruw Monasterio and tried to double off Adley Rutschman at first base. He spiked the throw. Rutschman took second and eventually scored. Two innings, two brutal mistakes, one very angry fan base.
Yankees fans on social media went scorched earth.
“Rosario is too freaking old to be pulling this bs. DFA him,” one popular Yankees account posted. Another asked the obvious question: “If Amed Rosario isn’t hitting lefties, which we brought him here to do, not playing good defense, and now making base running miscues, what’s the use for him?”
They are not wrong.
Rosario is 30 years old. He came to New York in a 2025 trade with the Washington Nationals and re-signed on a one-year deal last offseason. The pitch was straightforward. He was supposed to punish left-handed pitching, give the Yankees flexibility in the infield, and provide veteran depth. He has done none of it.
He is batting .225 on the year. He is negative-WAR by every major public metric. His defense at multiple positions has ranged from average to actively harmful. And now he is running the Yankees into outs against their biggest rival in a division race where every base matters.
Manager Aaron Boone has been trying to protect Rosario in specific matchups, but Saturday was proof that the platoon experiment is not saving anyone. The Yankees have had a comically error-prone August. George Lombard Jr. has already made his own rookie-year highlight reel of miscues at shortstop. Now Rosario is dragging the veteran end of the roster down with him.
The Yankees are in the fight of their season. They cannot afford this. Boston is right there in the standings. The Blue Jays are lurking. The Orioles, before they traded away Adley Rutschman at the deadline, were a threat. Every game against a division rival is going to matter down the stretch.
Cutting Rosario would cost the Yankees the remainder of his one-year deal, and general manager Brian Cashman is historically reluctant to eat money. But this is not a payroll problem, this is a roster construction problem. There are plenty of internal options who would give the team more, or at least equal production for zero salary.
Rosario had a stretch earlier in his career where he looked like a potential star. That version of him is long gone. What is left is a below-average bat, a nervous defender, and a base runner who cannot read a fly ball in center field. That is not a Yankee.
The fans have made themselves clear. If Rosario turns in another game like Saturday against Boston, Cashman is going to have to answer for why he is still on the 26-man roster. There are 25 spots. Not one of them should be spent on a player who cannot help you win in the middle of a playoff push.
DFA the guy. Move on.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
