Game Thread | Game 49 | Yankees vs. Mariners | Friday, May 27, 2011

By Larry Koestler On May 27, 2011 · 117 Comments · In Game Thread

Did you know the Yankees are only 1-5 in Friday games thus far in 2011? Obviously that’s incredibly random and will eventually even out, but it’s certainly made the start of the weekends a bit more anxiety-inducing than they might otherwise have been during the first two months of the season.

I’m going to borrow [...]

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Replacing Swisher in 2012

By Eric Schultz On May 27, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Player Analysis, Roster Decisions

is off to a terrible start in 2011, currently worth -0.1 WAR according to Fangraphs (that is, he has been slightly worse than replacement level this entire season).  Swish has looked absolutely anemic at the plate, with just 2 home runs for the entire season.  While Swisher’s plate discipline is actually [...]

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Youth Is Served: News Stars Helping to Refresh the Game

By William J. On May 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General Musings, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Notes

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

Baseball is a young man’s game. Nothing drives that point home more than watching an aging superstar slowly lose his skills. Even though extraordinary figures like , , and seem to defy the [...]

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Ranking Yankees Relative To Their Peers

By Moshe Mandel On May 27, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Statistical Analysis

Joe Pawlikowski of RAB made an excellent point yesterday that impacts how we might evaluate a player’s statistics in 2011:

There is another question to ask, though. Are the Yankees actually bad with runners in scoring position? The answer might seem like an obvious yes, but we can’t answer that question without first [...]

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With Soriano out, we’ll get the bullpen we wanted

By Matt Imbrogno On May 27, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Uncategorized

Before I start this article on relievers, let’s put our focus (again) on , but this time for a different reason. As you all know, David hails from Alabama, one of the many regions in the country that’s been ravaged by tornadoes in the last month or so. If you didn’t know, [...]

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Series Preview | Yankees vs. Mariners I: Pitching, pitching and more pitching

By Larry Koestler On May 27, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Series Previews

Oh, to be the Seattle Mariners.

With a rotation fronted by the best pitcher in the American League, , Seattle’s starters posted the second-best ERA in the AL in 2010 (behind Oakland), at 3.83.

This season their rotation has nearly taken more than three-quarters of a run off that cumulative ERA, with [...]

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