The Chicago White Sox recently parted ways with former manager Rick Renteria (if you missed my two cents on that silliness, you can check it out here - Correlation vs. causation and Rick Renteria.) Recent reports have indicated the White Sox are now interested in bringing former White Sox manager, and current grumpy feckless dinosaur, Tony … Continue reading Tony LaRussa?!? Come ON, 2020…

A quick note on former Cubs, and now former White Sox manager Rick Renteria: Rick was hired by the Cubs in 2014, and was handed a crap roster that won 66 games in 2013. With essentially the same players, the Cubs improved by seven games in ’14 under Renteria. Then Theo Epstein stacked the Cubs’ … Continue reading Correlation vs. causation and Rick Renteria

Unlike most seasons, there isn’t too much to analyze about the Yankees’ season coming to an end last night. Despite the non-baseball related oddities, the on field action and results were pretty straight forward both yesterday and for the season as a whole. As a result, we’re going to have a pretty quick recap for … Continue reading Relax NYY fans. All good, except…

Last night in the bottom of the 3rd inning, Giancarlo Stanton grounded into a 6-4-3 double play, dropping the Yankees’ run expectancy from .94 to .12 with one swing. For those with a disdain for math, that’s a pretty significant drop with one swing of the bat. After the swing, Stanton clearly ran with less … Continue reading We’re still doing this, folks?

I, like you I would imagine, was a little surprised by the announcement that Deivi Garcia would be starting game 2 of the ALDS for the Yankees. The curiosity about the choice has little to do with Garcia obviously, as he’s been as advertised. It has more to do with skipping Masahiro Tanaka, who as … Continue reading Garcia over Masahiro? Yes.

“What are they going to say now?” - Carlos Correa The “they” to whom Carlos refers is presumably everyone on the planet who has, or had, an issue with the Houston Astros cheating in 2017. Departures from what's considered normative behavior that contributed to the team winning the 2017 World Series and individual players winning … Continue reading Hi Carlos. Here’s your answer.

If you watched the Yankees – Marlins game last night and you’re still a fan of sacrifice bunting, I can’t help you. If you’ve read my stuff previously then you know we’ve been down this road before, so I promise to make this quick: Marlins’ batting, top of the 10th inning, top of the order … Continue reading Sac bunts: Just so we’re clear…

If you’ve read my stuff before, then you know that I have a problem getting past the usage of low value statistics when better ones are easily accessible. (Perhaps you were around for my batting average rant the other day…?) And as I’ve said previously, because most of these discussions have been occurring for over … Continue reading ERA? Come on, man…

“Worse than worthless.” – F.C. Lane, describing the value of batting average as a statistic - in 1916. Put a pin in that, we’ll come back to it. For the sake of brevity, we won’t re-hash a discussion that’s been going on for well over 100 years, as F.C. Lane was not the first person … Continue reading Aaron Hicks’ BA, part 12

In recent memory, check that – in the four plus decades I’ve been following the Yankees, most of which I remember despite not knowing what day it is most of the time – I’ve never come across a player as frustrating to watch as Gary Sanchez. I say that personally and as an unscientific observer … Continue reading Make friends with the Kraken, NYY fans