TYA Trivia Open Thread for 3-21-11

By Mike Jaggers-Radolf On March 21, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

On every night 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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Not Buying The Montero v. Romine Competition For Backup Catcher

By Moshe Mandel On March 21, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Roster Decisions

Anthony McCarron fills us in on the purported competition between Jesus Montero and Austin Romine for the backup catcher spot:

Girardi said Austin Romine is still competing with Jesus Montero for the backup catcher’s job, at least while recovers. Both [...]

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Collateral Damage: “Getting Bonds” Has Been the Real Objective of the Steroid Era

By William J. On March 21, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Uncategorized

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

Collateral damage is the “unintended or incidental” consequence of an action. Although unfortunate, collateral damage is usually considered to be a necessary evil required to achieve an objective. Almost 600 years ago, an Italian scholar named Machiavelli articulated a philosophy centered on this phenomenon. In [...]

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Players to Watch: A.L. East

By Matt Imbrogno On March 21, 2011 · 4 Comments · In The Opposition

NL West-AL Central can be found here

At long last, I’ll be done with this series of posts. And, fittingly, we end it with the Yankees’ division: The American League East. Without question, this is the best division in baseball. The Yankees, Rays, and Red Sox are three of the top teams in either [...]

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Better than Granderson? Not so much, Jon.

By Matt Imbrogno On March 21, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Player Analysis, Statistical Analysis

You may’ve read Thursday’s Midnight Tweets post by Steve that SI’s Jon Heyman said that “looks like a budding superstar” and that he is “#betterthangranderson”. Yeah, not so much.

Let’s rewind a bit. Before the 2010 season, I was not in favor of trading for . I [...]

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A look at the 2011 Minnesota Twins

By Larry Koestler On March 21, 2011 · 2 Comments · In The Opposition

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

The 2010 Minnesota Twins opened their beautiful new stadium with a bang, hitting (.334 wOBA, third-best team mark in the AL) and pitching (3.91 staff FIP, second-best mark in the AL) their way to the third-best record in the American League (94-68) and second [...]

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