TYA Game Thread, Tuesday August 2, 2011

By On August 2, 2011 · 41 Comments · In Game Thread

At the moment tonight’s game is in a rain delay. According to YES the powers that be will next assess whether or not the game can be played at about 8:45 pm Eastern time. Hopefully we’ll get to see Yankee baseball tonight. If we do, here are the guys who’ll take the field:

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Discussing the Banuelos promotion

By On August 2, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Player Analysis, Prospects, Roster Decisions

In what has been an up-and-down season for precocious lefty Manny Banuelos, a somewhat surprising promotion indicates that he might be making an earlier-than-anticipated major league debut.

Banuelos turned heads in spring training, showing a combination of frontline stuff, impressive command, and a cool, poised presence that belied his 19 years.  Even mainstream baseball writers [...]

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Thurman Munson’s Place Among Yankees’ Catchers

By On August 2, 2011 · 8 Comments · In History, Statistical Analysis

32 years ago today, Thurman Munson died tragically when the plane he was piloting crashed during an attempted landing at an Ohio airport. Let’s take a look at his place in the Yankees catching annals, ranked using bWAR (Note: this portion of the post initially ran in May 2010):

1. Yogi Berra (61.8 WAR [...]

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Yankees hitters vs. position averages

By On August 2, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Player Analysis, Statistical Analysis

Last night, right as the Yankees were putting up a two spot on the White Sox in the first inning, friend of the author made a great :

Things I would like in baseball: the triple slash line presented with the 100=avg scale instead of raw numbers.

He :

Do [...]

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The Yankee Analysts’ July 2011 Monthly Wrap-Up

By On August 2, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Monthly Wrap-Up

Please click on the following links for TYA’s previous monthly wrap-ups:

June 2011
May 2011
April 2011

The Yankees had another strong month in July, as evidenced by the following table (all statistics referenced in this post are courtesy of Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference):

After starting the [...]

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CC outduels Peavy in 3-2 Yankee victory

By On August 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Game Recaps

With operating within a universe all his own this season, there’s not much left to say about how insanely good the big man has been for the Yankees in 2011 (though I’ll do my best to find the words later this morning during TYA’s July 2011 Monthly Wrap-Up). Sabathia, despite not [...]

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