Is the DH Really to Blame for Inflated Payrolls in the American League?

By William J. On July 13, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Business of Baseball

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

Now that the All Star Game has passed, players from the American and National Leagues will go back to being strangers until the two circuits meet up again in the World Series. However, before we say goodbye to this vestige of interleague play, let’s wade [...]

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The 2011 Yankees | Midseason Review

By Larry Koestler On July 13, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Statistical Analysis

During this off week we’ve spent a couple of posts looking at the 2011 Yankees’ splits and how they’ve performed compared to the league and themselves during the last few seasons; in this piece I want to take a more straightforward look at how the Yankees are doing in a select group of offensive and [...]

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Yankee news round-up: Ubaldo, Hughes, K-Rod

By Larry Koestler On July 13, 2011 · 23 Comments · In Link Dump

Some Yankee-related tidbits floating around the web today:

- isn’t necessarily on the trading block, but the Rockies are apparently willing to listen to offers. You’d have to figure a deal would require bare minimum Jesus Montero, Manny Banuelos or Dellin Betances and probably two [...]

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Five Yankees to watch after the All-Star break

By Mike Jaggers-Radolf On July 13, 2011 · 10 Comments · In General Musings

Recently I ran a post demonstrating that the best teams in baseball the past few seasons have separated themselves from the pack after the All-Star break. I ran that post because I quietly feel that the 2011 Yankees may be poised to out run their competition in July and August. With that [...]

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Rethinking C.J. Wilson

By Matt Imbrogno On July 13, 2011 · 12 Comments · In General Musings

After this season, the free agent crop is not too impressive when it comes to starting pitching:

Starting Pitchers
CWS
STL *
KC
Aaron Cook COL *
KC

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Just be glad it’s not 2005: The 2011 Yankees, starring Bartolo Colon as Aaron Small and Freddy Garcia as Shawn Chacon

By Larry Koestler On July 13, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Former Players

After bludgeoning their way to the American League Championship Series in 2004 in spite of one of the worst collective team pitching performances in franchise history, Brian Cashman set out to revamp his team’s rotation the following season to ensure the fanbase wouldn’t have to endure another year of mostly dreadful pitching. In 2005, [...]

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