Open Thread | Game 10 | Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees | Tuesday, April 12, 2011

By On April 12, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Game Thread

Update: Game is postponed due to rain.

The first-place O’s are at the Stadium tonight for the first of three, as squares off against . First pitch is at 7:10pm.

The lineups will likely look something like this:

Yankees
1 (L) LF
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Jeter’s Groundball Rate Off The Charts

By On April 12, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Player Analysis

Literally:

Just as a refresher on the significance of these rates, here is a quick primer from Steve Slowinski of Fangraphs Sabermetric Library:

A line drive produces 1.26 runs/out, while fly balls produce .13 R/O and groundballs produce .05 R/O. In other words, batters want to hit lots [...]

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The Secret To Robertson’s Success?

By On April 12, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Player Analysis

has long been a favorite of mine. Maybe it’s the Houdini-like escape against the Twins in the 2009 ALDS. Or the old-school high socks. Or the otherworldly curveball that just falls off the table as it approaches home plate. Whatever it is, I have always found myself rooting for David to [...]

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Yankees vs. Orioles I: The Buck stops here

By On April 12, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Series Previews

The Yankees (5-4, tied for 2nd) host the surprising Orioles (6-3, 1st place) for a three-gamer at Yankee Stadium beginning tonight, with Baltimore coming into a series with New York playing better baseball than their AL East rivals for the first time in quite a while.

While the season is of course still quite young, [...]

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Trying to relax on Jeter and Posada

By On April 12, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Player Analysis

The Yankees have been clubbing a bunch of home runs and scoring a bunch of runs, but that doesn’t mean the offense has been without fault. As Larry’s pointed out a few times on Twitter, the offense isn’t working its way on base as frequently as we’re used to. And, as we’ve seen, most of [...]

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Everything you wanted to know about small samples but were afraid to ask

By On April 12, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Statistical Analysis

Readers of this site are probably aware that you can’t read too much into statistics this early in the season because players have only given us a small sample of data to work with. The concept is that there isn’t enough data in a small sample to make an informed conclusion about the data that [...]

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