puristbleedspinstripes.com - 7/15/2009
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So the All Star Game is officially over--and we can thus consider ourselves in the second half. This is where it gets fun. All of those days players got rested in the first half? Well, now they have to play. Now the pennant races start to heat up, and every move a team makes, be it a trade, a ...
First Half Review: Starting Pitchers
riveraveblues.com 7/13/2009 — At 51-37, with the third best record in baseball, leading the Wild Card and just three games back in the AL East, the Yankees had a fine first half. Yet it was a tumultuous three months, wrought with streaks and injuries and strange trends, causing ...
Second Half Issue: Stop Overworking the Bullpen
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — To continue today's pitching theme, I bring up another one of the Yankees second half issues, their overworked bullpen. The Yankees bullpen has thrown more innings than just three other AL teams; the A's, the Orioles, and the Indians. If you haven't looked at the standings lately, those are ...
Reviewing the Yankees Starting Pitching To Date
noyoureatowel.net 7/29/2009 — It's almost the trade deadline and the Yankees are out there looking for a starter. So let's look at the guys who they went into the season thinking would be their top 5 starters: A.J. Burnett - 20 starts, 10-4, 3.53 ERA, 127.1 IP, 109 hits, 15 HR, 63 BB, 113 K, 1.351 WHIP, 8.0 SO/9, ...
11-11
fackyouk.blogspot.com 7/29/2009 — The Yanks have merely a .500 record (11-11) in games which CC Sabathia starts. How is that possible, you might ask, when their record is 14-6 when A.J. Burnett is on the hill and he has thrown 20 fewer innings and his ERA is only a 1/3 of a run lower? Despite what PeteAbe might want you to ...
Of Pitch Values and Wasting Your Time
310tojoba.blogspot.com 7/16/2009 — .nobr br { display: none } Recently, in their quest to ensure that I never want to leave my computer, Fangraphs added a section about individual pitch types that weight the "potency" of individual pitchers' offerings by the amount of runs that a team saves when a pitcher employs them. I linked ...
Sam Borden is Confident in the Yanks.... Are you?
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/16/2009 — From Sam Borden : When the Yankees open up the second half of the season on Friday, they'll do it with a three-game series against the American League Central-leading Tigers -- a series that, judging by New York's first-half performance, will probably get them off to a rocky start. Why? ...
Starting Pitching For The Win (no, really)
puristbleedspinstripes.com 7/28/2009 — The Yankees, at the present moment, easily have the best offense in all of baseball. They lead in home runs, OBP, total bases, OPS and walks, and are on pace to score over 100 more runs than last year. Scoring 1000 runs looks unlikely at this point, but it is not entirely out of the question. ...
Yankees Start 2nd Half Strong
yankees.gearupforsports.com 7/20/2009 —
This time the Yankees were holding the broom as the Yankees swept AL Central leading Detroit Tigers. After Burnett held the Tigers to only 3 runs in the first game, and a pair of comfortably close 2-1 games, the Bronx Bombers find themselves once again only a single game behind the ...
At The Break
yankeesredsox.com 7/13/2009 — I find context to be vastly underused by most reporters (and bloggers) in New York. We spend way too much time reacting to the day-to-day triumphs and tribulations that we don't look enough at the big picture, so let me put my spin on where the Yankees stand. In 2008 they were 50-45 at ...
What Will The Yankees Look Like in 2014?
soxandpinstripes.com 6/29/2009 — I thought this would be an interesting topic to talk about. What will the Yankees look like in 2014? I picked 5 years from now because I think its not too soon, and also not too faraway. I've thought about this topic for a while since the Yankees are extremely trigger happy when it comes to ...
AL's win begins and ends with Yanks —
Major League Baseball News 7/15/2009
Derek Jeter scored twice -- once on a ball hit by Mark Teixeira -- and Mariano Rivera pitched a scoreless ninth inning to record his fourth Midsummer Classic save, surpassing Dennis Eckersley for the all-time lead in the American League's 4-3 win over ...
Mo "The Great" Saves The Day Again —
Bleacher Report - MLB 7/15/2009
Mariano Rivera the best closer to throw a baseball in the Bronx.
He may be the greatest closer to throw a baseball in the postseason.
Tuesday night in St. Louis he may have put himself into a new category, as the best All-Star closer in the ...
