TYA and MasterCard Yankee Ticket Giveaway! Win FREE Yankee tickets!

By On August 30, 2011 · 26 Comments · In Contests

TYA is incredibly pleased to once again have the opportunity to give away a very limited number of FREE Yankee tickets to two Yankee games next week against the Orioles! The lucky winners will have the opportunity to sit in the MasterCard Batter’s Eye Section in center field, recently immortalized in MasterCard’s excellent new

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Game Thread 8/30: Back to Fenway

By On August 30, 2011 · 113 Comments · In Game Thread

Sorry for the late thread, I guess everyone’s a little busy tonight (myself included).  Here are the lineups courtesy of Lohud.  Looks like a matchup of reverse locks: CC vs. the Red Sox and John Lackey vs. anybody.  Go get ‘em fellas.

 

YANKEES (80-52)
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF

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Thinking About Noesi’s Future

By On August 30, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Player Analysis

has had a very solid first season in Pinstripes, working out of the bullpen to the tune of a 3.42 ERA and 3.60 FIP in 47.1 innings. He has actually been more impressive than those numbers reflect, as he had two terrible outings that skew his numbers drastically. In his other [...]

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Ask the Experts: Lucas Apostoleris and Josh Weinstock answer our PITCHf/x questions

By On August 30, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Ask the Experts, PitchFX

As regular readers know, I am incredibly interested in and fascinated by pitching analysis, and in turn, PITCHf/x. As a result, Brooks Baseball, TexasLeaguers.com and Joe Lefkowitz’s PITCHf/x site have become mandatory daily visits for me.  While I feel as though I have a pretty good grasp on a [...]

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Arb eligibles: Anyone worth extending?

By On August 30, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Business of Baseball, Player Analysis

MLBTR has its list of arbitration eligible Yankees up and the list looks like this, and I’ve included their 2011 salaries:

First time: ($549,500) and ($460,450)
Second time: ($2.7M, avoided arbitration last year) and ($1.4M, avoided arbitration [...]

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Hughes Day how I miss you

By On August 30, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Statistical Analysis

The following is a guest post from friend-of-the-blog Jacob Hopkins. You can find him on Twitter at .

Watching throw the last time out was very frustrating. While he racked up five strikeouts, he couldn’t even get through three innings. It seemed that there was no life on the [...]

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Series Preview | Yankees vs. Red Sox V: Regression, motherf$%^&(*s

By On August 30, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Series Previews

Here’s what we know so far:

The Yankees are 2-10 against the Red Sox in 2011. They are 78-42 against everyone else. The Red Sox have hit a superb .292/.375/.462 as a team against the Yankees in 2011, compared to .279/.349/.458 on the 2011 season as whole. Nearly every member of Boston’s everyday lineup has [...]

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