It’s that time of year, when the Yankees are finishing up their season ticket upgrades and additions a mere two months or so after just about every other MLB team. So with my tickets finalized a few days ago I sat down to figure out what days I needed to take off work.
Looking at the [...]
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This Year’s Ticket Whines
2010 Baseball Hall of Fame Results With Ugly Graphs (Updated!)
Update 1/8 Graphs now not ugly. Thank you, Microsoft Excel 2007 you are much better than 2003.
For my own crazy purposes, I keep track of the Hall of Fame ballots that are made public by writers every year. You can see the crazy nerdsheet here.
This year, the shocking thing that happened was the difference between [...]
Stop Overvaluing Firstbase Offense (Dammit)
Here’s the top 10 finishers for the AL MVP. The actual AL MVP was as big a no-brainer as you can get outside of the NL MVP this year, so we’re not looking at that (or the rogue Miguel Cabrera vote).
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Points
Joe Mauer
27
1
387
Mark Teixeira
15
6
4
1
1
1
225
Derek Jeter
9
5
3
5
3
1
1
1
193
Miguel Cabrera
1
1
5
8
4
3
2
1
3
171
Kendry Morales
3
9
10
3
2
170
Kevin Youkilis
2
7
3
4
2
2
4
1
150
Jason Bay
1
1
4
5
4
5
1
78
Ben Zobrist
1
4
3
1
2
34
Ichiro Suzuki
2
4
4
3
33
Alex Rodriguez
1
3
2
1
31
Here’s that list of 10, [...]
It’s Second Guess Tuesday!!!
Update: I forgot the days of the week.
So here in second-guess land apparently Joe Girardi should go back in time because AJ Burnett having a Bad AJ start means Chad Gaudin should have gotten the ball.
Briefly and in bullet-point(ish, as I still talk too much) format:
Chad Gaudin has pitched 2.1 innings since September 28th. One [...]
The Air Escaping The Balloon
Last night in a nutshell:
I don’t really have much else to say. I was disappointed with the outcome obviously, and I’m somewhat worried about Swisher not being hit a 91mph fastball down the pipe further than second base but I got over it pretty quickly.
The Yankees have got two chances to win it at home [...]
The Bunt Heard Round The City
Yesterday’s game…well, it was really bad. Joba Chamberlain was having some problems and then in the 4th inning descended into bloopy bleeder Hell, which resulted in 7 Texas runs with two outs.
Anyway that’s not this is about. It’s about managers and their love of bunts against all odds.
The score was 10-9, and the Yankees had [...]
Life, The Rotation, And Everything
The All-Star break is usually denoted as the halfway point of the season, and so what better time to look at how the rotation is doing. You’ll notice there are only four starters, and that is because at the minute the Yankees only have four starters. Chien-Ming Wang is injured and presumed dead, Alfredo Aceves [...]
Filling Needs Internally Should Not Be Construed as “Philling Needs Internally”
A few bit ago I checked my Twitter feed (because I am very Web 3.0) and saw this:
And threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Am I overreactting? Of course I am. It’s what I do! Well, one of the things I do. But in any case, the reason this specifically bothers me is that [...]
This Is Not A Good At Bat, Robinson
As I sat in my seat in Section 432A tonight watching Robinson Cano foul off pitches, all I could think was “please don’t be having one of those stupid at bats where you should have walked three pitches ago”.
You see, on the surface from your seat where you have no real sense of the strike [...]
Reasons for Phil Hughes to Stay in the Bullpen
Chien-Ming Wang might continue to be bad-to-awful – This, on the surface, is a somewhat valid reason. But the next question is, why did you activate him early you idiots? The other problem with this is Phil Hughes needs to be working consistently (he’s not a complete product!) and if Wang is merely average and [...]
