There is no such thing as “new school versus old school” debates in baseball. Discussions masquerading as such today are only different because we have more information available to us, we can quantify that information, and we all have access to it (and can bloviate about it to the world.) How that information is deployed … Continue reading New School, Old School, LOL…There’s No Such Thing
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?
On this date, in Yankees history... As I’m writing this, we have about 60 hours before Gerrit Cole takes the mound in the city of angels, looking to jumpstart the Yankees to their first World Series title in 15 years. To help kill some time, let’s look at two memorable Yankees happenstances that occurred on … Continue reading An Iconic HR, and a Drunken Manager
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:
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:
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
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