We fans have a tendency to over-analyze and breakdown every bit of minutia over a game or five to find the singular reason or two our team lost – more often than not we do this to justify what we want to believe, while ignoring other relevant factors. To wit; I’ve borrowed this in one … Continue reading Andrew Friedman is Why the Dodgers are Better Than the Yankees
(3.5 minute read time.) Let’s start from the beginning: The 2024 MLB season for the New York Yankees and New York Yankees fans was a great season. Back in March, Baseball America, MLB.com, The Ringer, and ESPN all had the Yankees finishing somewhere between 4th and 6th in the American League. (Spoiler alert: The Yanks … Continue reading 2024 Yankees: Your New Opinion
Is Giancarlo Stanton the best postseason hitter in Yankees history? It depends. If you count pre-integration statistics (the older I get, the less credence I give to pre-integration statistics when compared to numbers accrued in a fully integrated league, but if you still do…) then Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are in the discussion. In … Continue reading Is Stanton the Best Postseason Yankee Ever?
I’m assuming you’ve been watching, so we don’t need to belabor the obvious: Juan Soto, remarkably, has produced far more than the Yankees could have hoped for, and those hopes were very, very high. And Giancarlo Stanton…well, let’s just say I remember all of you who couldn’t wait for the Yankees to rid themselves of … Continue reading Good News (If You Trust Process)
Some final thoughts on the 2024 regular season and the upcoming postseason: Going by record, strength of schedule, and run differential, the Yankees were clearly the best team in the American League in 2024. The good news? They’re better right now than they were at any point this season. For a good chunk of the … Continue reading Let’s Look Back and Forward:
Manager of the Year choices seem so random, it’s hard to understand what the criteria is. Joe Girardi, as one example, won the Manager of the Year award in a season in which he made his team demonstrably worse than the previous season. That said, I’m a big fan of overachievement. One of the odder … Continue reading Aaron Boone, the 2024 AL Manager of the Year
I am by no means an expert, as there are exponentially more things about baseball that I do not know than I do know. That said, I’ve always had a pretty good grasp on the fact that randomness (luck? fortune? Choose your own term…) has a very big impact on the outcome of baseball games. … Continue reading You Do Not Have a Holmes Problem
You can’t get beaten by bad teams and not have some “bad” things going on, but there are a few good things happening too – let’s start there: The Yankees have the best record in the American League and using Baseball Reference’s strength of schedule and run differential adjustments, they’re tied with the Dodgers as … Continue reading The Good and Bad in the Bronx
We need to clear up a few things, Yankee fans: Carlos Rodon is a very good pitcher – frankly he’s in discussion for the AL Cy Young award. Marcus Stroman is also a very good pitcher. Ignore what the “analytics” say – Anthony Volpe is a good hitter. Let’s start with Rodon: The “Our Lady … Continue reading Let’s Give Rodon, Stroman, and Volpe Some Slack!
I’ve been saying this all season long* - when you have a good base-stealer, you put that base-stealer in front of the low SLG batters at the bottom of your lineup, not at the top of the order. (*Actually, I’ve been saying it since I was a Strat-O-Matic addict when I was a kid, but … Continue reading THAT’S Why You Don’t Lead Speedy Guys Off!
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