Also..is anyone else really interested to see how the team plays once they get healthy? (reyes and church in particular), fmart will go down unless he goes on fire cause while he has had some nice hits…hes looked overmatched 80% of the time and clearly is having trouble in RF at citi.

I do think manuel needs to get a consistent lineup going once the team gets healthy…sheff and church on the corners, murphy at 1B…play them everyday and use tatis to spell sheff in LF for the 2 days a week he will sit…this makeshift lineup where nobody knows whos playing will only last so long…

That said.. this team seems to have found some chemistry between Sheff and Santos.. but really Martinez and Valdez are over matched a lot of the time.. so I’d welcome back Cora in a second.

I think there is no doubt chemistry is important, but what makes it fascinating is that it is so hard to define and it takes so many different forms. People always talk about the 70s A’s or Yankees having no chemistry because the fought and such, but clearly they DID have chemistry…chemistry that helped them battle every game. Chemsitry is not only definied as liking each other – it’s whatever gives team a collective and unified will to win.

I also like to remember how many people were incensed over Cora’s $2MM deal last winter – I think we see now how important a pickup he was with Reyes out.

I disagree with the “winning brings chemistry” stuff though. The yankees had won for years this decade in the regular season and did nothing once in the playoffs. To be fair, that had a lot to do with their roster being HR-heavy with no pitching for many of the past few years. Just saying. Once in the playoffs, I think chemistry comes into play.

In terms of that chemistry I agree with what other posters have said – you win you get chemistry.

I beleive it was Jim Frey who said when asked what chemsitry is to a ballclub: “give me a three run homer, I’ll show ya chemistry” Truer words were never spoken in my view.