Disclaimer: I am fully aware that the following graph does not actually resemble a roller coaster track thanks to my physics class in 9th grade. These two graphs don’t tell us anything we don’t know about AJ Burnett: He is inconsistent and has magnificent and truly horrible starts. That’s just how he rolls. Like a [...]
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Alex Please Hit 600 Already
I understand that round number 600 is taking A-Rod longer than expected. He’s not a young guy and he has a hip that needs some rest and never gets any. But I would very much like for him to knock it out already. The crowd at Yankee Stadium desperate to be a part of baseball [...]
My Love/Hate Affair With Doubleheaders
Editor’s Note: I accidentally hit “Publish” instead of “Save Draft” in my WordPress console yesterday morning while working on this post so if you’ve seen half of a post or so similar to this in an RSS feed or something I apologize for my inability to press the correct buttons. MLB doesn’t schedule double-headers as [...]
This Year’s Ticket Whines
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points Joe Mauer 27 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
