Open Thread | Game 4 | Minnesota Twins vs. New York Yankees | Monday, April 4, 2011

By On April 4, 2011 · 14 Comments · In Game Thread

Having won the first series of the seasons, the Yankees now turn their attention to the Minnesota Twins. Normally there isn’t much to be gleaned from the first few series’ of the season, but for the Twins it’s a bit different. The Yankees have owned the Twins the past few seasons. Don’t be surprised if [...]

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Gardner’s Approach At the Plate

By On April 4, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Player Analysis

Brien Jackson over at IIATMS took a look at ‘s approach at the plate, and reached an interesting conclusion. After noting that Gardner does poorly when behind in the count and pointing out that he swings at less than half the strikes he sees, Brien says:

So far this season Gardner [...]

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Looking At ESPNNY’s Top 50 Yankees

By On April 4, 2011 · 15 Comments · In History

ESPN NY recently released a list of the top 50 Yankees as voted on by a group of local ESPN writers and radio personalities. Ron Abruzzese of BBD transcribed the list from its original slideshow format, which made it fairly easy for me to put it into a table and add some statistics. [...]

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Series Preview | Yankees vs. Twins I: Gardenhire’s revenge

By On April 4, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Series Previews

Admittedly it feels a bit goofy to subtitle a series preview for the second series of the season “Gardenhire’s revenge,” but I imagine the Twins wouldn’t mind kicking the Yankees to the curb this week after yet another ALDS sweep back in October.

I previewed the Twins a few weeks ago, and concluded that [...]

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Anticipation and Expectations for Nova

By On April 4, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Player Analysis

Later tonight, will make his 2011 debut against the Minnesota Twins. The 2010 version of Nova showed some good flashes and gave us something to be at least mildly excited for in 2011. In ten games, seven starts, Nova tossed 42.0 innings of 4.50 ERA/4.36 FIP ball. He didn’t strike a [...]

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The cutter that wasn’t there

By On April 4, 2011 · 6 Comments · In PitchFX, Statistical Analysis

Not that you needed pitchFX to tell you that wasn’t on his game yesterday afternoon, but I wanted to take a quick look at the numbers to see if there was anything at all to be gleaned from his outing. I’m not going to say it wasn’t a disappointing outing, because [...]

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