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11 wins to defend that title.

11 wins to once again reach the pinnacle of the baseball world.

Five down, six to go.

The march to championship #28 continues tonight.

In my 2010 ALCS preview of Cliff Lee and Colby Lewis, I noted that Lewis is has a fairly typical arsenal of fastball, slider, curveball and changeup.  We learned that he unsurprisingly takes a different approach against righties and lefties.  Against righties he relies throws his fastball and slider almost exclusively:

To right-handed [...]

I don’t have a whole lot to say about this team right now.  Well, I do, but it mostly comes out in short bursts of basic emotion.  There’s a lot of anger: at Girardi for leaving Burnett in a batter or two too long; at fans for calling for Girardi’s head because he used Mitre [...]

“Sorry for knocking your mask off with a wild pitch, man”.  Photo courtesy of daylife.com

Earlier today I speculated that the Yankees would stack a lefty-heavy lineup against Tommy “Canada’s Country Gentleman” Hunter, using Swisher in the two-hole and featuring Posada, Berkman, Granderson and Gardner at the bottom of [...]

Over at Fangraphs, Dave Cameron weighs in on the “AJ Burnett in Game 4″ question.  This is an issue that gets more play and interest than I would deem reasonable.  I haven’t read a tenth of the hand-wringing over the Phillies’ decision to run with Blanton in Game 4 of the NLCS, but maybe [...]

11 wins to defend the title.

11 wins to once again reach the pinnacle of the baseball world.

Four down, seven to go.

The march to championship #28 continues this afternoon.

Let’s get another one, baby.  Bring it home strong.

Well, that was…Wow.

Off the top of my head that has to be my favorite game of the 2010 campaign for the Yankees.  It was so ugly for so long.  Sabathia looked so bad at times and got blooped to death at others.  The offense would get rallies going and hit the ball hard and then [...]

11 wins to defend the title.

11 wins to once again reach the pinnacle of the baseball world.

Three down, eight to go.

The march to championship #28 continues tonight.