Game 38-Back to baseball

By On May 15, 2011 · 19 Comments · In Former Players, Game Thread

With the past 24 hours being overwhelmed by Posada-gate, I’ll just tie up some loose ends with Jorge before moving on to tonight’s game.

-Jack Curry Tweets that “Posada said he apologized to Girardi. “I had a bad day yesterday,” he said.

-Brian Hoch Tweets that Jorge plans to talk to Brian [...]

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Runners in Scoring Position, BABIP and the Yankees

By On May 15, 2011 · 4 Comments · In General Musings, Statistical Notes

These past couple weeks have been rough. The Yankees have hit a bit of a rut and with this Posada thing last night, fans seem universally down. Moshe made several good points earlier on why the offense isn’t as bad as advertised, mainly in reference to their batting average. Lately though they’ve been pretty terrible. [...]

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Offense Not Quite As Bad As Middling Batting Average Suggests

By On May 15, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Statistical Notes

I thought we had passed the point where people would judge an offense entirely based on its batting average. Alas, that is not the case, as I have seen the Yankee offense be referred to as middling and overrated because they are hitting .250, which puts them right at the AL average. This, of course, [...]

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TYA weighs in on Posada-gate

By On May 15, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Interviews

This story has become so all encompassing today, I thought it would be best to let each of our writers weigh in with their own unique take on the topic. Part of the idea behind assembling a blog is getting a diverse group of writers, each with their own point of  view and writing style. [...]

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How much for that ChiSock in the window? Part Two

By On May 15, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Trade Musings

Yesterday we began our look at whether certain members of the White Sox’s formidable starting rotation might be available if Chicago continues to flail about and determined that unfortunately for the Yankees, there’s really no trade scenario that would make sense for the White Sox in the case of dealing either lefty ace

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What’s the next move with Jorge?

By On May 15, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Former Players

Any Yankee fan with a television or internet connection knows by now what happened last night with Jorge Posada. He arrived at the ballpark yesterday and saw that he was batting 9th, and initially seemed (at least publicly) to have no issue with it. Then he “threw a hissy fit” in the managers office [...]

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