Yankeeist’s April 2010 Wrap-Up
April has been a difficult month for the Yankees the past few seasons. Subpar April performances in 2007, 2008 and 2009 earned the team a reputation for being slow starters.
For fun I’ve included what the team’s castaways are doing, and last season’s April stats for the regulars. All the data is for April only, except for OPS+ which includes one day of May.
The nature of those hits has been particularly encouraging. Tex is finding holes in the infield, making contact and getting on base. It’s about time. Mark, never do this again.
As you can see, Tex was projected to have a wOBA right around .400. To put things in perspective, last season his wOBA was .402. Now, ZIPS has updated its wOBA projection for Teixeira to .360, which is less of an offensive contribution than Derek Jeter is projected to give the team.
her ZIPS Update around the All-Star break.
It’s also a bit concerning to see A-Rod’s ZIPS Update wOBA now projected at a rather un-A-Rod-like .383, a pretty significant drop from his .402 average projection (though clearly not as precipitous as Teixeira’s fall).
For those who don’t know, FIP tries to measure how effective a pitcher has been on those things he controls — home runs, strikeouts, etc. It tries to remove the defense from the ERA equation. The stat is informative, but it unduly harms pitchers who rely on a lot of ground balls, like Mariano Rivera. xFIP is actually a forecast of what a pitcher’s FIP is likely to be in the near future, according to The Hardball Times.
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Really good post, just one correction: Other Yankees have hit .400 in April before (O'Neill hit .448 one April), but Cano is the first Yankee to hit .400 with 8 HR.
Glad you liked the post. Thank you for the correction. You are absolutely right. I forgot about Paul O'Neil, who did hit .448 in April in the strike shortened 1994 season. Just sloppy work there on my part.
Thanks Andrew; appreciate the kind words.
Mike,
I like Gardner a lot. if i had to draft a team to play a game tonight, i would pick Crawford over Gardner, but baseball is a business, and I think the Yankees should not sign Crawford next fall and move forward with Gardner.
I think Javy is a good player and he'll come around; although Tex has had an awful April, he's a good player and he'll come around. Why has their been so much heavy media criticism on Javy but Tex, for the most part, has gotten a pass. I know Tex always starts slow and he comes around, but wasn't April 2010 the worst month of his entire career? this seems like cause for as much alarm as Javy's performance, but its not happening. i'm glad, i just dont think Javy deserves the full brunt of the criticism. as you pointed out, others are struggling.
~Jamie
Javy is taking all the heat because the team is losing his starts.
Tex is getting a pass because the team is on fire otherwise. If the Yankees were running pace with the Red Sox right now no one would like Tex. He took monster heat last year for his slow start.
If the team begins to slow, with the injuries for example, expect Stick, Tex and ARod to come under the microscope, big time.