Daily Links - 8/28/08
Watching the Game — First, a post from Joe Posnanski (TBSWIA) regarding how to determine good pitching performance. Then, a post from the Fire Joe Morgan guys about judging pitching performances against standards set long ago. These posts don't exactly disagree, but Joe comes close to saying some things that the FJM guys would throw a fit about. Joe and FJM definitely agree on the value of a 'Win' as a pitching statistic. The Hardball Times continues its excellent series of breaking down players from the most recent draft. This is one of the cooler ...

Giambi and Moose are enough
Pinstripe Alley — Giambi accounted for all three runs, and Moose pitched seven innings of two run ball to keep the Yankees in the game. Just a beautiful thing to see Okajima and Papelbon blow the game, but the three runs or less counter is up to 57.   - Carl Pavano was put on waivers. Hopefully someone will give up a bag of balls. That's a fair trade.   - THT broke down Jeremy Bleich, the Yanks sandwich round draft pick. To paraphrase: they don't like him.

Brett Marshall Analysis
Pending Pinstripes — Alex Eisenberg of Baseball Intellect, who previously analyzed the mechanics of Gerrit Cole and Jeremy Bleich, continued his breakdown of 2006 draftees with Yankees 6th-rounder Brett Marshall.  While Alex was blown away by Cole and underwhelmed by Bleich, his opinion of Marshall lies somewhere in between.  As always, Alex did great work using video to analyze Marshall’s mechanics and stuff, and he also cites Ashish’s interview with Marshall to explain more about his repertoire.   I recommend you to read the piece in full, since it ...