Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The Yankees sign a big-name free agent first baseman coming off an MVP-caliber year to a mammoth long-term deal that will keep him in the Bronx well past the point he’s still worth his salary. The slugger goes crazy in his first season in pinstripes, [...]
The Yankee infield is undoubtedly one of the strongest in baseball, if not one of the top collections of infielders in the history of the game. The left side is populated by two future Hall of Fame players and the right side is filled by one guy who’s the best at his [...]
Yesterday, I posted about the Yankees CAIRO projections relative to their respective positions from a reader request. Check that post for the original question as well as Moshe’s astute comment about projections.
I’ll be looking at position again today, but a different kind of position: batting order position. I’ll take the average performance from [...]
Reader John Wood writes:
“It would be fun to see what is an acceptable slash line for positions and batting orders. For example, for 1B, is .275/.340/400 considered good? For a leadoff hitter, what about .290/.380/.395? Where do our boys fit?
Thanks for the question, John. I’m going to answer it semi-scientifically. What I’m going [...]
As I like to do every season, I’m going to compare the Yankee players’ theoretical fWAR dollars to their actual salaries and see which players gave the Yankees the most value and which players drained the most money. We’ll do batters today and pitchers tomorrow.
We’ll do the list in WAR order (nine highest), then [...]
From the BBWAA:
Joe Mauer, who won an unprecedented third batting championship for a catcher and helped propel the Minnesota Twins to the American League Central title, was elected the AL Most Valuable Player for 2009 in balloting by the BBWAA.
Mauer, the first catcher to lead his league in batting average (.365), on-base [...]
Cashman tells Newsday’s Kat O’Brien that the Yanks were out of the Teixiera bidding until the very last minute, and that only when the specter of him landing with the Red Sox became obvious, did he get the go ahead from Hal. She reports:
“It was something I kept pushing, but it was not [...]
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