Game Thread: Yankees vs. Rays, 7/18/2011 (7:10PM EST on YES)

By Matt Warden On July 18, 2011 · 169 Comments · In Game Thread

Hurray for no more Canada!  Instead, the Yankees will be switching artificial surfaces as the team heads to the Trop for another four game set against divisional rivals, the Tampa Bay Rays.  I suppose now is as good of a time as any to present the narratives; so, here we go bullet style!

The Yanks will [...]

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Series Preview | Yankees vs. Rays III: Uh oh, two more Starters-They’ve-Never-Faced

By Larry Koestler On July 18, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Series Previews

Apparently four games against one AL East foe wasn’t enough, as the Yankees embark on their second-straight four-gamer tonight in Tampa Bay (making it eight straight contests on turf for the Bombers), meeting up with the Rays for the third time this season. Fortunately for the Yanks, the Rays are coming off a big three-game [...]

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Do Marathon Extra Inning Games Take a Toll the Following Day?

By William J. On July 18, 2011 · 4 Comments · In General Musings, Scheduling, Statistical Notes, The Opposition

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

By the time the Rays and Red Sox completed their 16-inning Sunday night marathon, the Yankees had not only landed in Tampa, but were likely nestled comfortably in their beds. During the ESPN broadcast of the game, Bobby Valentine, Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser repeatedly [...]

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Who would you rather have, Ubaldo or Liriano?

By Mike Jaggers-Radolf On July 18, 2011 · 49 Comments · In Trade Musings

How the mighty have fallen. Just a year ago  was as untouchable a player as there was in all of baseball. He posted back-to-back months with an ERA well below 1.00 in April and May, and many analysts were suggesting that he was the game’s best pitcher. He floundered in the [...]

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What’s going on with Tex?

By Matt Imbrogno On July 18, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Player Analysis, Statistical Analysis

Yesterday, went 1-4 with a walk. His season line now reads as .239/.348/.500. Objectively, that’s not all that bad. The IsoD (.109) and IsoP (.261) are actually pretty damn fantastic. If we were to apply those numbers to a .300 hitter, his line would be .300/.409/.561, which would be MVP caliber, [...]

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The 2011 Yankee pitching staff compared to their preseason projections and how ZiPS sees them performing going forward

By Larry Koestler On July 18, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Former Players, Statistical Analysis

Last month I took a look at how the members of the Yankee starting lineup were performing compared to their preseason projections, and so it seemed appropriate to finally review how the pitching staff has fared in relation to their projections.

Prior to the season I averaged the projections of the six major [...]

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