For previous TYA 2011 ALDS Preview pieces, please see the following:
Part 1: The 2011 Yankee Offense, Top to Bottom
Part 2: Head-to-Head Overall Team Numbers
Part 3: ALDS Game 1 Starters: CC Sabathia v. Justin Verlander
We touched on the Tigers’ offense yesterday and noted how
I hate this question. However, it’s an inevitable one that baseball fans will continue to ask because until you know who your team’s postseason opponent is there isn’t really much else one can do aside from debate whether one team would be “preferable” to the other.
The reason I hate this question is because there’s [...]
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TYA reader, Travis, writes, “I would like to see how the trade has played [...]
Though they do get to face , who they teed off on in his first start of the season, and whose return to the American League has, to put it delicately, not gone so well.
In any event, the Yankees (16-9, 1st in the AL East) are at Detroit (12-16, 3rd in [...]
The Yankees lost an ugly one 10-7 to the Tigers on Sunday. Hitting was the order of the day. The two teams had a combined seven homers in a windy one in the Bronx. The Yankees trailed the entire game, despite putting up seven runs against poor Detroit pitching. That’s because Yankee pitching was worse [...]
Starting lineups for today’s game, first pitch at 1:05 on YES, with the Yankees going for the 3 game sweep to start the season:
Tigers
CF
2B
DH
1B
C
After an awful 2010 followed by an improved spring training in which Yankee fans were cautiously optimistic about new pitching coach ‘s tweaking of the enigmatic righthander’s mechanics, all eyes were on entering Saturday afternoon’s start. Burnett wasn’t great, but he was serviceable enough, throwing 5 innings of [...]
So that felt pretty good.
The Yankees beat the Tigers 6-3 on Thursday afternoon, marking their 11th consecutive Opening Day victory at home, but perhaps more importantly, the team’s first Opening Day victory since beat in 2008. (6 IP, 6H, 3R, 2 [...]
The New York Yankees kick off their 2011 season against the Detroit Tigers this afternoon in the Bronx at 1pm.
Mike previewed the Tigers back at the beginning of March, ultimately concluding that he didn’t feel that the 2011 team would be much better than its 2010 incarnation. I’d say that’s a fairly accurate [...]
Fifth and penultimate post in the series.
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In 2008 and 2009, the A.L. Central produced a one game playoff. 2010 saw a more uneventful finish to the season, as the Twins won the division easily, besting the White Sox by [...]
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