One of the main reasons I love baseball is because it is an analytically-driven sport. I love crunching the numbers and using them in arguments to silence the other person. I just cannot get enough of the numbers. To get the addiction out of my system, I thought I might as well write a weekly […]
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Sonny Gray has made an adjustment
When it’s this early in the regular season, it’s silly to make much of any individual player’s performance. Even though it can be frustrating to see someone get off to a slow start or exciting to see a player shoot out of the gate, the fact is that these kinds of streaks happen throughout the […]
OOTP Universe Yankees: Slightly better than the real Yankees thus far
The first full week of the baseball season is now history, which means that the virtual Yankees’ first full week is complete as well. If you missed last week’s introduction, click here to check it out. The alternate universe Yankees opened this week with a 3-1 record, one game ahead of their real-life counterparts. This […]
Three True Outcomes and the Yankees
It’s 2018 and you are an informed consumer of baseball knowledge. As such, you most likely already know about the three true outcomes- home runs, walks, and strikeouts- and why they are important. They are the only three major outcomes of a plate appearance that have nothing to do with defense and are almost entirely […]
About Last Night: @#$%!
Author’s note: Hi everyone, this was going to be a longer, in depth piece about Friday night’s marathon of a game but I couldn’t bring myself to rehashing it. My aoologies. -SG Last night sucked. Let’s not do that again.
About Last Night: Tanaka’s home run problem
Masahiro Tanaka has a home run problem. On Thursday, the right-hander was cruising through his start against the Orioles until the seventh inning when he gave up a single to Jonathan Schoop and then threw a slider to Adam Jones that didn’t slide enough and got too much of the plate; Jones hit it over […]
Early Season Facts
1. Giancarlo Stanton’s Historic Opening Day Giancarlo Stanton’s Yankee debut was highly anticipated and he did not disappoint blasting an opposite-field home run in his first at bat. He finished the game 3 for 5 with two home runs and four RBI. Giancarlo Stanton became just the 7th player in Yankee history to hit a […]
About Last Night: The big three finally go deep at the same time
It finally happened. After six agonizing games, the wait is over; Giancarlo Stanton, Gary Sanchez, and Aaron Judge all hit home runs in the same game. For Stanton, it was his first home run in Yankee Stadium while Sanchez and Judge finally hit their first home runs overall. https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/04/04/1906444883/1522875821590/asset_1800K.mp4 Stanton’s shot went 458-feet in dreary […]
Nitpicking the order of Gregorius and Sanchez in the lineup
Note: It just so happens that I wrote the following post BEFORE the game yesterday … meaning that it’s all going to sound really dumb now that Didi hit two homers in the cleanup spot. As much as I want to hide and not publish this, I should just own it. And alright, I’ll admit, I still […]
About Last Night: Eight is pretty great
I am going to start this post off by saying that the metamorphosis of Didi Gregorius from a defense-first shortstop to a true offensive threat in the Yankees’ lineup has been an absolute joy to watch. He really does belong in the cleanup spot right now especially as Giancarlo Stanton adjusts to being on a […]