A post about how insanely great a baseball player Aaron Judge is may seem superfluous to some…but not to the folks associated with MBP! Prior to Tuesday's game, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said that he wasn’t trying to “sound silly” but he believed Judge wasn’t particularly hot. As good as Judge had been, he hadn’t … Continue reading Is Judge Better Than We Realize?
Game 162 of 162 is this afternoon in the Boogie Down and damn time goes fast! We’ll circle back on the season in general and talk playoffs a little more later in the week, but for now, let’s make a few notes: I shouldn’t need to write this, but to be clear: I don’t want … Continue reading To Be Clear, part 246:
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!
“That escalated in a hurry.” – Ron Burgundy For a while it seemed, from the outside anyway, there was a philosophical divide of some sort among the higher ups within the Yankee organization. To be fair, none of us really knows what goes on behind closed doors, but when the team hired Brian Sabean and … Continue reading And We’re Off…
I finally got around to finishing “Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports Biggest Mess”, by Evan Drellich. Drellich, who covered the Astros for the Houston Chronicle during the Jeff Luhnow years and during the cheating scandal, takes us behind the scenes of the Astros organization during that period – the good, the … Continue reading Book Review (sort of): Winning Fixes Everything
The Yankees are more than one third of the way through the 2023 season, are on pace for 96 wins and according to Baseball Reference’s rating system, only Tampa Bay and Texas have been better teams this season. This, despite a farcical number of player trips to the IL, and some underwhelming performances from regular … Continue reading Aaron Boone and Bullpen Management
As in, someone informed me that a) DJ has really been slumping, and b) for a player who’s known for being a great contact hitter, it doesn’t seem like his contact is too good anymore either. Let’s start with the “slump” part. It’s true, DJ has an OBP of .244 with a cringeworthy .195 SLG … Continue reading Let’s Talk About DJ
You might be wondering why I’d be doing a quick dive into analyzing the performance of a manager who doesn’t manage anymore, and your confusion would be a fair reaction. The short answer is because, like you, I’m a baseball fan and these things cross my mind, especially on Yankees off days as yesterday was. … Continue reading Reminder Yankees Fans: Girardi was AWFUL
I generally like to stick to history and analysis here, but I’m going to venture off path a little bit today with some amateur psychological analysis as well as some baseball thoughts. And as a reminder, Out of Left Field is an occasional post about topics that may not need 1,000 words of analysis but … Continue reading Out of Left Field: Rizzo, Vlad Jr., and Chris Rock
Time for another edition of "Out of Left Field" where we mention a few topics that may not need 800 words of analysis but are worth a quick look. In no particular order: We’re 19 games into the 2023 season, which we can all agree is a sneeze in baseball time. Yet it’s enough that … Continue reading Out of Left Field: Volpe, Trevino and Run Prevention
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