Davis lulls Yankee bats to sleep as Cubs win 3-1

By Larry Koestler On June 17, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Game Recaps

Journeyman lefty Doug Davis — a pitcher the Yankees hadn’t faced since 2007 — did his lefthanded junkballer thing, giving up one measly run over 7 1/3 innings and . He walked three and also gave up three hits, but the Yankees just couldn’t get [...]

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Looking At All The Intentional Walks

By Moshe Mandel On June 17, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Statistical Analysis

After handing out two free passes to yesterday, the Yankees lead the AL in intentional walks at 24, with the closest team coming in at 19 walks. This seems like a ridiculous number, so I thought I would take a look at each of those walks and evaluate the decision making [...]

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On the Offensive: Yankees’ Arms Haven’t Been Pitching In During Interleague Play

By William J. On June 17, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Statistical Notes

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

This afternoon’s game at Wrigley Field kicks off the Yankees’ foray into National League ballparks. Unfortunately for the suddenly resurgent Jorge Posada, that means the Yankees will be without the DH for nine of the next 15 games. However, the team won’t be completely hamstrung [...]

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Game Thread: Yankees vs. Cubs, 6/17/2011 (2:20PM EST on YES)

By Matt Warden On June 17, 2011 · 34 Comments · In Game Thread

When I woke up this morning I couldn’t help but feel two emotions almost simaltaneously and immediately. Fist was one was sheer jubilation stemming from the fact that the weekend has finally arrived and there’s nothing the “man” (you know how he tries to bring you down) can do about it!

The second feeling was [...]

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Brett Gardner Appreciation Post

By Eric Schultz On June 17, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Player Analysis

Brett Gardner’s walk-off hit in yesterday’s game was a nice exclamation point to a recent stretch of strong performance.  After getting off to an atrocious start to the season (.289 WOBA) in March and April) Gardner has largely rebounded to put up similar numbers to his strong 2010 season (where he was worth 6.2 WAR [...]

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Cashman Speaks

By Matt Imbrogno On June 17, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Uncategorized

Brian Cashman spoke on a few different things yesterday, so I thought I’d weight in.

First up from LoHud (H/T RAB):

On yesterday’s starter :

“Everybody was like, ‘This guy looks like he can help us,’ ” Cashman said. “I’m not afraid to take a chance.”

Sounds about [...]

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Series Preview | Yankees vs. Cubs: Last time the Yankees were here Charles Gipson got picked off to end the series

By Larry Koestler On June 17, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Series Previews

As per the subtitle of this post, the Yankees haven’t been to Wrigley Field since 2003, when they dropped two of three, one of which was one of ‘ multiple failed bids at his 300th victory, along with that unfortunate pickoff of pinch-runner , who had represented the [...]

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