Look, you know the drill by now. Every baseball article you’ve read for the past week and a half has given you the rundown on small sample sizes and stabilization rates and blah, blah, blah. Things are happening though! Baseball games finally count again! Real dingers are being hit and real stats are being compiled. […]
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Does Adam Warren Deserve to Start?
Ah, the old-age debate of whether Adam Warren should be a starter or reliever. It feels as though this dispute has been exhausted over the past few seasons, but here we are in 2017 still talking about it. Joe Girardi announced at the end of spring training that Warren would be coming out of the […]
About Last Night: Almost-perfect Pineda
There is no other way to say it, Michael Pineda was resplendent on Monday afternoon. We all witnessed one of his best pitching performances as a Yankee starter. It’s just the kind of start Yankee fans have been wanting to see from him since he first came over to the club. Tampa Bay’s lineup could […]
All This Velocity Talk
There’s a good chance if you’ve found your way to a niche Baseball Prospectus site covering the New York Yankees, you’re in the loop with the more prominent stories over the first week of the season. One thing that’s been the subject of much discussion is velocity. Major League Baseball has switched from PITCHf/x to Trackman for in-stadium […]
About Last Night: Here comes the Judge
Coming into Saturday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles, Aaron Judge was batting .133/.188/.200 with only two hits and an RBI. After Saturday’s game, he doubled his hit total and tripled his RBI total—which is not hard to do when you’re only a week into the season—but, perhaps most importantly, Judge finally hit his first home […]
About Last Night: A tale of two Tanakas
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Masahiro Tanaka has had a rough start to the 2017 season. His Opening Day performance has been dissected enough so we won’t focus at that. Instead, we will look at start number two against Baltimore on Saturday afternoon which started off great and […]
The importance of Aroldis Chapman’s slider
If you were watching the ninth inning of the Yankees’ Tuesday night game against the Tampa Bay Rays (which, hooray, the Comcast customers among us can finally do now), you may have seen closer Aroldis Chapman do this to Rays second baseman Brad Miller: Aroldis Chapman threw an early contender for Pitching GIF of the […]
About Last Night: The Kraken was finally released
As everyone knows, Gary Sanchez was a beast at the plate last season. He had a performance for the ages in his brief time with the Yankees hitting 20 home runs in only 53 games, so naturally Yankee fans were excited, and anxious, to see how Sanchez’s 2017 would turn out. Well, the start to […]
Struggling Sluggers
In his first at-bat of the season, Gary Sanchez connected with a pitch that rocketed off his bat with an exit velocity of 115.7 mph. That is what advanced statisticians might describe as a hard hit…harder, in fact, than any contact Sanchez had made in his impressive 2016 campaign. Unfortunately, that batted ball also hit […]
Yankees–Rays was a clinic in unnecessary shifting
No, it wasn’t just you. The Yankees and Rays began the season by shifting more than any two teams in baseball. Entering Thursday, Tampa Bay had shifted 44 times in its three games against New York—the second-most in baseball—and the Yankees ranked sixth with 26. That’s 70 freaking infield shifts. To provide some context, the Cubs—a great […]