If there’s one topic I’ve potentially spilled more digital ink on than the Yankees getting beaten by pitchers they’ve never seen before/starters making their Major League debuts, it would be the team seemingly routinely getting shutdown by starting pitchers with fastballs that top out around 89-90mph, pinpoint control [...]
Dave Cameron thinks so:
In fact, if we look at his underlying numbers, the decline doesn’t appear to be that dramatic at all.
2010, Career:
BB%: 8.1%, 9.0%
K%: 15.6%, 16.9%
ISO: .109, .140
He’s both walking and striking out a little less than his overall career averages, and while his power [...]
The flaws of the Win statistic are so obvious that it is hard to imagine anyone taking it seriously as a good indicator of pitcher talent. So much that goes into earning a Win is outside of the pitcher’s control – his defense, his offense, the quality of the opposing pitcher that day, and how [...]
As they do every Monday, River Ave Blues posted its Fan Confidence Poll yesterday. I didn’t get a chance to say much more than one comment in the thread, so I thought I’d do so here in a post.
For the immediate future–that is the rest of the season and the playoffs–I’m very confident. [...]
For those of you who may have been away from your computers during the Labor Day holiday, make sure you check out the following pieces Yankeeist cranked out over the weekend:
- I took New York Magazine‘s Will Leitch to task for his Mike Lupica-esque fear-mongering article in which he confidently proclaims the Yankees [...]
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