Archive for May, 2012
Thurman Munson V. Carlton Fisk: Using Modern »
There is a difference between being a great baseball talent, being a great player and having a great career. Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk were great baseball talents. Munson and Fisk were great players. Fisk had a better career than Munson did. As Helen Gamble of The Practice might say, "I wonder why." Traditional statistics reveal little when [...]
New York Yankees: Andy Pettitte Dominant over Reds to »
The Yankees needed a jolt heading into Friday night, They had lost three in a row and their offense had looked non-existent. Enter Andy Pettitte, who was making his second start of the 2012 season against the Cincinnati Reds and looking for his first win of the season. All the Yankees needed was a decent start. Instead, they got a brilliant and [...]
Thurman Munson’s Fierce Fisk Rivalry, Dropped »
The rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox is intense, but the rivalry between Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk might have been even more fierce. Rob Neyer, in Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends, investigated the claim that Munson once deliberately dropped six or seven of Ron Guidry's strikeout pitches because of his [...]
Eduardo Nunez: Why the New York Yankees Need to Trade »
The New York Yankees need to trade Eduardo Nunez as soon as possible. Nunez has already shown himself to be a legitimate major league hitter with good speed. He was 15-for-51 with six steals this year before being sent down to Triple-A, but he wasn't helping the team. He was a defensive nightmare at every position he played. In just 20 games in [...]
Mark Teixeira and 5 Yankees Who Need to Step Up Just »
The New York Yankees of 2012 have begun the season performing their finest Jekyll-and-Hyde act. There have been strings of victories characterized by impressive power displays and fine pitching, and there have been inexplicable runs of losses featuring horrible hitting with runners in scoring position and short disappointing starts by their [...]
New York Yankees Free Agents: Why Nick Swisher Should »
2014. That’s the year Hal Steinbrenner said the New York Yankees payroll will drop to $189 million, and unless Nick Swisher takes a pay cut, he’s not going to figure into their plans for the future. Some fans might not want him to return, but others do. I’m of the opinion that we might as well bring him back if there are no [...]
New York Yankees: Aging Lineup Will Continue to »
Despite the obvious bonanza of talent up and down the Yankee lineup, one would be hard pressed to not recognize the aging parts. Four of the current everyday players for the Yankees (Jeter, Rodriguez, Jones, and Ibanez) are over the age of 35, meaning that, on any given day, almost half the lineup could fit into that geriatric equation. With [...]
New York Yankees: It May Look Bad, but It’s »
The New York Yankees have gotten off to a pretty rough start over the first 38 games of the 2012 season.After dropping Thursday night's game to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Yankees are now 20-18 and fourth in the competitive AL East.The standings are very off from what many "experts" predicted, as the Baltimore Orioles currently lead. The Tampa Bay [...]
New York Yankees: Andy Pettitte Needs to Be Stopper »
When the Yankees come home from their four-game road trip, they are looking for a little help.They just dropped three in a row, two of which came at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre, and currently sit in fourth place in the A.L. East.The Yankees need a little pick-me-up when they arrive in the Bronx on Friday [...]
Is Mark Teixeira Having a Slow Start or Is His Career »
I have seen Mark Teixeira play since his rookie season with the Texas Rangers in 2003.I lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area back then and Tex, as he was nicknamed, had a promising first season, batting .259 with 26 home runs and 84 RBI.He started slowly, batting just .237 with five homers and 25 RBI through May. That's when he got the reputation [...]