TYA Trivia Open Thread for 3-7-11

By Mike Jaggers-Radolf On March 7, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Open Threads

On every weeknight throughout the year, one of the TYA writers will post a trivia question as the nightly open thread. The blog administrators will keep track of the winners, and the commenter with the most correct answers will win a prize that has yet to be decided upon. The answers will be posted in [...]

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Are We Not Representative Of The Masses?

By Moshe Mandel On March 7, 2011 · 39 Comments · In General Musings

Aaron Gleeman passed along a little tidbit on Tim McCarver this morning:

Fox Sports is signing two-year contract extensions with Tim McCarver and Darrell Waltrip, its lead TV analysts for baseball and NASCAR coverage, respectively.

The extensions are expected to be announced this week, said Fox spokesman Dan Bell, and [...]

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Cutter Above: A Video Analysis of Mariano Rivera

By William J. On March 7, 2011 · 12 Comments · In Player Analysis

(The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog).

One of baseball’s most enduring modern myths revolves around the notion that has dominated as a closer by using only one pitch. Although Rivera does rely heavily on his much heralded cutter, he also judiciously uses a pinpoint fastball to keep [...]

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Players to Watch: A.L. West

By Matt Imbrogno On March 7, 2011 · 4 Comments · In The Opposition

We’re almost done with this series, which means baseball is coming back to us soon.

NL West
NL Central
NL East

2010 ended the Anywhere Angels’ three year reign of terror on the AL West and saw the Texas Rangers ride a division title to a World Series berth, [...]

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Riffing on Cashman a Bit

By Matt Imbrogno On March 7, 2011 · 14 Comments · In General Musings

Will Leitch penned a piece in New York magazine about Brian Cashman. Leitch started with the basic history of Cashman as a Yankee intern and his rise to GM, and all the proverbial bells and whistles that come along with that title. Overall, it’s a well written article while there’s nothing glaringly positive or [...]

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A look at the 2011 Oakland Athletics

By Larry Koestler On March 7, 2011 · 7 Comments · In The Opposition

Note: For previous Yankee Analyst 2011 team previews, click here.

The 2010 Oakland Athletics (81-81, 2nd place in the AL West) represented quite the dichotomy — on the one hand, their starting pitchers boasted the best ERA in the American League by nearly half a run, at 3.47 (Seattle’s second-best mark was 3.83). However, [...]

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