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RebeccaOptimist
Medieval history student and die-hard Yankee fan trying to figure out how to combine swordplay and baseball. Web Site: This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes Claimed Blog: This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes BallHype Member since May 5, 2008 |
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 30 hours ago
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From LoHud , the Yankees have added the
following players to their forty-man roster ahead of the
Rule V draft: RHP Hector Noesi RHP Ivan Nova RHP Romulo Sanchez INF Reegie Corona INF Eduardo Nunez INF Kevin Russo OF Austin Jackson. For what it’s worth, Nova’s perhaps the ...
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Yankees add Seven To Forty-Man
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puristbleedspinstripes.com - 2 days ago
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Is it too early for this? I think
not. Here are my top ten Yankee moments from
2000-2010–feel free to leave a comment with any you think I missed! 10. Subway Series A lot of you might argue that this is too far down on the list, but the 2000 Yankees team was perhaps better lucky than ...
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Yankees’ Best Moments of the Decade (My Take)
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 3 days ago
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Well, baseball awards week is upon us. In
the spirit of award-giving, I’d like to offer the
following awards to members of the Yankee team: Best Cook : AJ Burnett and his pie á la towel dessert. Most Eager Rocker : Mark Teixeira Best Eyes : In an upset, Francisco Cervelli defeats ...
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The Yankee Superlatives
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 4 days ago
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Just imagine if Greinke pitched on another team–any
other team–besides Kansas City, what he’d do then. To
put it in perspective–Greinke won 16 games on a team that won less than 70 games total. Felix Hernandez, of the Seattle Mariners, is an absolute stud and had an ERA ...
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Zack Greinke wins AL Cy Young
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 5 days ago
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Once again, Tom “Tonto” Kackley, who works for
the Trenton Thunder, has set up an auction on
Ebay to help The Domestic Violence Project . Over the past two years, the auction has raised nearly $8,000, and, well, with Thanksgiving coming up there is perhaps no better time of the ...
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Your Chance to do some Good
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 6 days ago
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An interesting tidbit I discovered last night via
Baseball Reference: Derek Jeter’s 2009 OPS was exactly 100
points higher than his 2008 OPS (.871 to .771). We all knew Jeter had a much better season in 2009, but who realized it was that much? At any rate, there should be no point in ...
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One Season can change a lot
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 9 days ago
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[I'm still working on the Follow Up post,
but I prefer to tackle it when I'm healthy--which
is not yet =( ] The baseball off season and the trade deadline both come with one very important thing in common: ridiculous trade proposals by fans. With that in mind, I have here a handy, short ...
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How to figure out if your trade proposal is ridiculous
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 10 days ago
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It’s a Yankee World
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PBP: Live Chat–It’s a Yankees’ World
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 10 days ago
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1) It’s come to my notice that since
the big, bad, Wordpress switch of doom, some of
you may not have updated your RSS readers. That’s totally your call, but if you would like to resubscribe, just click on the link below the header and it should take care of it for you. 2) ...
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Friendly Reminders
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 11 days ago
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H/t to @stacegots and @fletch788
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When All Else Fails…
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 11 days ago
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So I have planned a very nice follow
up to yesterday’s post, which I was hoping to
share with you all some time today, but the fact is that working non-stop three days straight has left me sick as a dog. The big, bad follow up post of doom will have to wait a day or two. Okay, okay, so ...
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The Cost of Writing Big Bad Posts of Doom…
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 12 days ago
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Please see Part I for acknowledgments. Hey, so
now that I’ve missed the last 100 years or
so, what’d I miss? Anyway, here’s what we’ve got in terms of a final tally: Year PREWAR Converted PREWAR 1995 0.200 2.64 1996 0.145 0.712 ...
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How Many Championships is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part IV
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 12 days ago
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Please see Part I for acknowledgments. Let’s start
with the 2009 postseason. We take the Magic Calculator
Thingy and input the following: Innings pitched: 16. Fangraphs’ FIP: 2.28 Next, we go to Baseball Reference and click on the ‘postseason’ tab. We look at ...
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How Many Championships Is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part III
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 12 days ago
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Please see Part I for acknowledgments. Back? Good.
So what do we have so far? 1) We’re
attempting to figure out Mariano’s WAR for his postseason innings and then convert that to the number of championships Mariano is worth all by his lonesome. 2) We’ve explained the ...
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How Many Championships is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part II
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 12 days ago
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Special acknowledgement: This is far and away the
most advanced, in depth thing I’ve ever tried. Without
question, the best similarity I can come up with is asking someone who’s taken only high school Economics course to run the IMF, that’s basically what’s happened. As ...
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How Many Championships is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part I
