[I wrote this post after Friday's lost and Moshe agreed I should post it here]

Two things:

1) Today’s loss is as much on the offense leaving the bases loaded with no one out and not scoring as it is on the bullpen, and

2) This is NOT a post about what ails Joba.

This [...]

As we approach the halfway point of the season, we’ve come to a point where we can evaluate Yankee players and their seasons, and there are four players that stick out to me in terms of being possible/probable All Stars, based on the statistics they’ve put forth this season.

Jeter, and perhaps Teixeira, will probably [...]

(This post is by Bex, you may know here as @rebexarama, or as my co-writer at You Can’t Predict Baseball.

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In early August 2009, after all the elation had subsided from that fantastic four-game series when the Yankees swept the Red Sox, I started thinking of, of all things, Mike Mussina. There was [...]

I posted this originally on This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes, but am reposting it here in hopes that it might actually spur some discussion. Hope you enjoy.

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A few weeks ago, I posed a question on Twitter: Is it too early to dub 2010 the Year of the Pitcher (redux, II, the sequel, or [...]

From our friends at NoMaas, I want you to take a look at this graphic

Peruse it, think about it, and come back here when you figure out what everyone has in common.

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You know the common complaint, that the Yankees buy their World Series, and all of that, and yet we have [...]

A baseball team cannot blow eighth inning leads three games in a row and expect to win the majority of those games. It cannot.

If CC Sabathia pitches your team seven innings of one run ball, and your team has scored five runs, there is utterly no reason that that game should be lost.

You [...]

There is no possible way I can sum up this game. None. So take a look at this graph. It’s shiny.

(via Fangraphs)

Okay, bullet points:

1) Phil Hughes had his first not good outing, even though he left the game with a lead. Basically, he didn’t have a ‘finish’ pitch working, and [...]