Back in June, Joe Sheehan - one of my favorite baseball writers - listed all the managers in baseball 1-30 based on their ability to manage a game (i.e., the ability to manage men over 162 games was not considered).  The idea being, if you could pick any Major League manager to manage your team … Continue reading The Game Girardi is Really Managing

I rarely check mainstream media baseball coverage anymore, but I think it’s a safe prediction that with the Yankees having an upcoming series with Detroit there will be multiple stories about Miguel Cabrera.  You know, “he used to be great, now he isn’t” - real in depth stuff that anyone with eyes can see.  In … Continue reading Turn down $88 million?

If you’re a Yankee fan, the most underrated player in baseball is on your team, and I’d bet a pretty good sum of money you don’t know who it is. Only part of that statement is hyperbole – you decide which.  But it must be noted with full disclosure, I have to be clear about … Continue reading The most underrated player in baseball:

So many things about baseball are simply not rocket science.  Baseball is very easy to quantify compared to other sports.  The pitcher vs. batter, sequential movement patterns (bases) and 3 outs per inning make it easier to see correlations and draw conclusions from the action. (As opposed to other sports with many players all doing … Continue reading Why I’ll never use this term:

If you ever wondered why I started my own blog, the article that is referenced herein and linked below should provide some clues. Kevin Kernan authored (a term I use loosely) the article.  Frankly, drivel like that from people who are paid to provide us better is unacceptable to me.  So I took it upon … Continue reading Say it ain’t so, Derek…

The big weekend series with the Sawx is now in the books.  Friday night’s game summary was great relief pitching from Adam Warren, and the return of Aaron Hicks - Yankees win (thuhh...Yankees win!).  Saturday the Yankees gave up 10 runs in 5 innings, so not too much to talk about there. Then Sunday night … Continue reading Weekend recap, Yanks/Sawx:

Author’s note: The last three times I tried to write a day game preview, the Yankees made last minute lineup changes.  But I’m going to keep trying this anyway… Because I spend so much time criticizing Joe “Joey Bullpen” Girardi’s bullpen mis-usage, his ineptitude with lineup setting flies under the radar. Today’s lineup, in order … Continue reading Thoughts on today’s lineup (8/12):

I was going to wait until the off season to raise this discussion, but with the recent Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies, and the chatter about who’s now on the ballot for the Hall in 2018, there’s definitely going to be vitriolic banter about performance enhancing drugs – there always is in baseball circles.  There … Continue reading PEDs: I don’t care (neither should you)

Over the weekend Todd Frazier had a great at bat and made a great base running play that helped the Yankees win and certainly merits further discussion.  Then quite unfortunately, news that Phillies great Darren Daulton passed away and then with barely any time to reflect, news of Don Baylor’s passing broke.  My original intention … Continue reading Thank you, Don Baylor

As happens sometimes, nothing arises during the course of a few days that I find to be worth 1,000 words of analysis and discussion, and I promised myself I when I started this blog that I would never fall into the trap of saying something just for the sake of saying something – i.e., pulling … Continue reading Time to catch up