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Pitching, Speed and Defense Win Championships, Right?
Yankees 2009 team numbers, with MLB rank in parentheses: Pitching ERA: 4.28 (11th) FIP: 4.32 (13th) Baserunning Stolen Bases: 111 (11th) EqBRR: -6.4 (20th) Defense UZR: -17.6 (19th) PADE: -0.39 (13th) Hmm, not overly impressive.  Let's look at some batting numbers: wOBA: ...
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Opinion: Omar, Be Smart and Patient
MetsBlog.com — In a post to Amazin Avenue, James Kannengieser looks in to the Yankees stats from this season, and concludes: “The goal is to score more runs than you allow… Home runs are not evil and pitching alone does not win championships.” This was essentially my argument, here, when defending Daniel Murphy… or, at least defending the idea that he can hit just 15 home runs and play first base for a Championship team, so long as the team is scoring runs.  In short, who cares how they score them, just score them, ...

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ESPN Feed: neyer rob — ... . * Oh, and one more thing ... Pitching and defense wins championships, right? As James Kannengieser notes, Ha! * Today's lesson, courtest of MGL, is about ...

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