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August 13, 2010
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Does Robinson Cano’s Approach Change With Men on Base?
Despite a career MLB line of .306/.339/.480, and despite having some very good overall years, Robinson Cano can really frustrate Yankee fans. In addition to what seems likes maddening inconsistency in general, Cano has hit worse with runners on base in almost every season of his career so far, with 2007 being the lone exception.
Here’s how Cano’s splits in this...
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January 25, 2010
2010 CAIRO Projections v0.2
For anyone who's interested, the 2010 CAIRO projections have been updated and can be downloaded here.
cairo_2010_v0.2.zip
There were a few projections that were screwed up so those have been fixed, but it's mostly been a case of updating player projections for roster changes and adding players who were not in the first build but were requested. For example, even though...
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January 24, 2010
One Of The Following Stories May or May Not Be True
CNNSI - Heyman: Yankees set deadline for Damon
Johnny Damon and the Yankees spoke again within the past few days, and Damon now has been given the weekend to decide whether he wants to come back on a bargain deal.
The chances he will accept a low-base contract for a few million dollars (probably no more than $5 million guaranteed) from the Yankees still appear slim, so...
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January 23, 2010
RealGM Baseball: Yankees Among Teams Interested In Edmonds
St. Louis Globe-Democrat - The Yankees are among three or four teams interested in free-agent outfielder Jim Edmonds.
Edmonds told Cardinals manager Tony La Russa that he wants to play in St. Louis, but the team may not have a spot for him.
“I’m trying to figure out what to do,” Edmonds said on The Morning After program on 1380 AM The Team in St...
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January 22, 2010
What Happened to Wang?
It’s looking more and more likely that Chien-Ming Wang’s time with the Yankees is over, with the St. Louis Cardinals currently rumored as the most likely landing place for the potentially former Yankee. Over at the Lohud Yankee blog last week, a guest post by Greg Mathews looked at Wang and laid out a theory that batters started to lay off Wang’s low sinker...
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January 22, 2010
NY Times - Glanville: Seeing is Disbelieving
But then Mark McGwire strolled into town, carrying the Cardinals and the future of M.L.B. on his back, as the bitterness of the 1994-1995 strike finally dissipated. The excitement about McGwire dwarfed even my enthusiasm for “Godzilla,” which was relegated to my “to do in the off-season” list. McGwire was streaking toward a seemingly unbreakable record...
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January 21, 2010
Should Jesus Montero Be an Option for Left Field?
Since the question came up in the prior thread, let’s see if the Yankees should at least consider using Jesus Montero in the outfield.
Obviously, we should know that:
a) We don’t know how he’d look defensively in the outfield.
b) Offense from a catcher is far more valuable than similar offense from an outfielder.
c) Montero’s still really young, and...
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January 20, 2010
MLB.com - Bauman: Yankees appear stronger
The bad news for the other 29 clubs is that in the offseason of 2009-’10 the Yankees have not exactly become worse. In fact, the evidence suggests that they have become better. They are not without questions, but their questions are fewer and smaller than those of the vast majority of the competition.
The things that strike you about the Yankees’ work this winter...
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January 20, 2010
TSBG Versus High and Low Fastballs
As suggested by Rich in the previous post, here's a look at how Brett Gardner's done against fastballs that I'm categorizing as high, middle or low.
Here's what I did to determine whether a fastball was high or low.
Pitch FX defines the fields sz_top and sz_bot as the top and bottom of the strike zone for the specific batter. It's measured in feet, and for...
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January 19, 2010
TSBG and Major League Pitches
A few days back, Chad Jennings had a post about TSBG (The Speedy Brett Gardner) which touched on how he was preparing for the upcoming season. One thing that stuck out was this quote.
“Hitting ninth, the very last thing they’re going to do is walk me,” Gardner said. “So they’re going to throw me a lot of fastballs, which I saw a lot last year… It’s one of those things...
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January 19, 2010
Yankees’ Top Prospects: 1-5
First, I guess I should introduce myself. As should be obvious, my name is Kyle, I’m currently stuck in Arizona until I finish college, and—as is appropriate for this site—I am a stat-geek. SG and I had talked about me contributing some minor league stuff to the site, but it took a while for it to actually happen—and I’ve been procrastinating...
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January 17, 2010
CAIRO Projected 2010 AL East Standings as of January 16
Obviously it's way too early to make much of these, but here's how I have the AL East projected with CAIRO given current rosters and my estimated playing times.
Team W L RS RA Div% WC% PL% Yankees 100.3 61.7 864 664 66.4% 24.5% 90.9% Red Sox 94.9 67.1 861 700 26.1% 44.8% 70.9% Rays 89.3 72.7 804 706 7.4% 21.9% 29.3% Blue Jays 70.1...
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January 16, 2010
Javier Vazquez’s Pitch Selection, 2007 - 2009
I was thinking about the likeilhood of Javier Vazquez's 2009 being indicative of a possible change in approach that may mean he's more likely to sustain the gains made, so I pulled his Pitch FX data from 2007 through 2009 to see if it showed anything interesting. Keep in mind that Pitch FX data is not complete from 2007-2009. First, here's a look at his pitch selection...
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January 14, 2010
Yahoo: Johnny Damon may return to Yankees
The Yanks have plenty of personnel by this point but there still remains the chance that Damon could return to the team but now it's looking the Yankees might only offer him one year and $6 million or $7 million. Damon probably doesn't love the idea of taking such a huge pay cut.
While I have made the case that the Yankees can survive with a LF platoon of TSBG + a right...
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January 12, 2010
MLB.com: MLB announces 2010 Spring Training schedule
The Yankees Spring Training schedule is up at MLB.com. Looks like a few games will air on ESPN in addition to a bunch of YES games.
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January 11, 2010
NY Post: Derek Jeter, Minka Kelly set to become Mr. and Mrs. ‘November’
After months of speculation that the Yankees’ hunk and his sexy steady Minka Kelly are headed to the altar, The Post has learned that the super couple may have settled on a wedding date—Nov. 5.
And while it may bring little solace to Jeter’s legion of female admirers, fretful Yankees fans will be glad to note the date is at least two days after the World Series...
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January 10, 2010
MLB.com: Long already hard at work with Yankees
NEW YORK—While the rest of baseball clings to its last weeks of Hot Stove hibernation, Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long has already rolled into the new season, logging frequent-flyer miles to put in batting cage hours with several players.
Long is spending this week overseeing Alex Rodriguez’s first swings of 2010 and has already spent a good chunk of the winter...
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January 08, 2010
So How Good Might the 2010 Red Sox Defense Be?
As Yankee fans, we generally keep an eye on our divisional rivals in the North East. In 2009, the Red Sox fell short of a strong Yankee team before bowing out to the Los Angeles Angels of California in the ALDS. While the Red Sox had a good overall season winning 95 games and taking the wild card, one area where they were pretty poor was on defense.
Here's how the Red Sox rated...
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January 07, 2010
2009 vs. 2008 Yankees by Position (Defense Edition)
I'm using the same idea as in yesterday's post, just looking at the total run saved compare to average by position instead of by individuals. I don't have my catcher defense spreadsheet handy so for now that's not included.
YEAR TM POS zRS uRS aRS Diff 2008 NYY 1B -13 -9 -11 2009 NYY 1B 9 -3 3 14 2008 NYY 2B -5 -...
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January 06, 2010
2009 vs. 2008 Yankees by Position
A lot has been made about the Yankees improving at just about every position in 2009, something that is very unlikely to happen. I thought it would be interesting to look at the differences in terms of positional splits rather than by individual players to see what it looks like, so here it is.
Year Pos PA AVG/OBP/SLG wOBA BR Diff 2008 1B 674 .246/.349/.460 .344 93 ...
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January 05, 2010
Minor League Ball - Sickels: New York Yankees Top 20 Prospects for 2010
1) Jesus Montero, C, Grade A: I know that his position is up in the air, but I love this bat so much that I’m going to give him a straight Grade A. This is a Mike Piazza/Manny Ramirez type bat.
2) Austin Romine, C, Grade B: Not in Montero’s class as a hitter, but he’s not bad, should improve further, and is much better defensively.
3) Manny Banuelos, LHP, Grade...
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December 31, 2009
How Susceptible Might the Yankees be to LHP in 2010?
I was thinking about the Yankees going into 2010 with the team they have now and how big of a hole LF might be. A Brett Gardner/Jamie Hoffmann platoon is not particularly impressive, but how bad might it be? The other concern is if Curtis Granderson's platoon splits in CF vs. LHP makes the Yankees particularly poor in matchups with LHP. So here's a quick look at two Yankee...
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December 29, 2009
MLB.com: World renowned: Yanks achieve their goal
The Yankees’ 2009 campaign could not have gone much more perfectly if it had been scripted from the desk of George M. Steinbrenner himself.
Not only did the Yankees open the doors to their gleaming new cathedral across 161st Street, filling it with the top stars from the free-agent market, but they were able to finally celebrate as the last team standing, bringing home...
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December 27, 2009
The Star-Ledger: Billy Martin remains one-of-a-kind
I’ll remember the Billy Martin who some days would sit back in the manager’s office and tell stories about his days as a Yankee player, mostly his escapades with Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford - classic stories, even if they were slightly exaggerated - and the way he beamed and laughed as he told them.
I’ll remember the Billy Martin who would go to extreme...
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December 24, 2009
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