TYA Game Thread, Tuesday August 16, 2011

By On August 16, 2011 · 67 Comments · In Game Thread

Once again the Yankees have an 8pm Eastern start against the Kansas City Royals. looks to continue his recent string of strong starts, matching up against left-handed . Duffy is a rookie, a lefty, and he’s never faced the Yankees before. He’s got a 4.97 ERA entering [...]

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The Yankees vs. the five major pitch types

By On August 16, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Graphs, Statistical Analysis

The following charts take a look back through the last five seasons to see how the Yankee offense has fared against the five major pitch types that Fangraphs keeps data for. I’ve excluded the splitter and knuckleball, as teams see the former maybe 2% of the time in a given season and the latter [...]

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More fun with mystery pitchers

By On August 16, 2011 · 6 Comments · In PitchFX, Whimsy

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David Cone, John Flaherty, and responsibility

By On August 16, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Media

I’m going to keep this brief because it’s a subject I’ve touched on many times.

If you do not like advanced stats–and if you don’t, you probably aren’t reading this blog–that’s fine with me. I’ll try to convince you of their superiority, but if you don’t agree, I can’t force you to do anything [...]

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Is Tex getting himself out? Revisiting his batted ball and plate discipline data

By On August 16, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Player Analysis, Statistical Analysis

Almost exactly one month ago, I wrote a piece asking what was going on with . In it, I concluded that while Tex was having a pretty unlucky season.

The moral of the story is that Tex’s batted ball profile is all out of whack for whatever reason. Given what he’s [...]

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Initial Yankee draftee signing roundup

By On August 16, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Prospects

I am not a prospect expert by any stretch, but unfortunately our writers who can speak to this sort of thing are all currently out of pocket. Still, we wanted to at least get something up regarding the Yankees’ draftee signings given last night’s deadline. I’m sure our staff will have much more on many [...]

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Burnett wins first August start as a Yankee; Bombers beat Kansas City 7-4

By On August 16, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Game Recaps

wasn’t great — managing to mostly limit the damage in scattering 10 hits and allowing three runs over 5 2/3 innings — but was good enough to pick up his first win since June 29 (though in fairness, in the six Burnett starts prior to this one — save the 18-7 [...]

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