Game Thread: Yankees vs. Royals

By EJ Fagan On May 11, 2011 · 60 Comments · In Game Thread

Two pieces of news before the game:

Rafael Soriano’s MRI turned up negative. He’ll be day-to-day for now, and could return for the Boston series.

Longtime Yankee trainer Gene Monahan will retire after this season. I knew he had been around for a long time, but I had no idea that Monahan

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The Ivan Nova Mirage

By Moshe Mandel On May 11, 2011 · 11 Comments · In Player Analysis

Over his last 3 starts, Ivan Nova has gone 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA in 20 innings, to push his overall ERA to 4.08 and give some people hope that he can be a solid starter at the rear of the Yankee rotation. However, a look at his peripherals shows that his positive results [...]

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Is the Cutter Responsible for the Decline in Offense?

By William J. On May 11, 2011 · 11 Comments · In Statistical Analysis

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

Offense has been down across the majors this season, continuing a trend that began at the start of the decade and accelerated last season.

In the National League, the per-team average has been 4.13 runs, which would be the lowest output since 3.88 runs [...]

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Great Early Returns From Rob Segedin

By EJ Fagan On May 11, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized

Its still very early in the minor league season, but I think its time to officially declare some good news. Rob Segedin, the Yankees 3rd round draft pick in last year’s draft, is off to a great start. He’s hitting .303/.393/.485 with a reasonable .333 BABIP, a BB% of 12% and a K% of 17%.

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David Robertson: High Leverage Ninja

By Matt Imbrogno On May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Player Analysis

has been a beast all season. Last week, I wrote about him and how he’s been doing things that’ve helped him improve (up the grounders, down the homers, keep the strikeouts consistent) and today, I’ll be discussing how awesome Robertson has been in high leverage situations this year.

Going into [...]

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Yankees top Royals 3-1 behind another quality start by Garcia

By Larry Koestler On May 11, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Game Recaps

The Yankees Tuesday evening in one of the more ho-hum games the team is likely to play all year. After retiring the first eight Yankees he faced, finally surrendered a triple to in the bottom of the third, and was subsequently knocked [...]

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