The Yankees have had a solid start to the 2010 season thus far, and seem to be starting to heat up again.
Entering tonight's game against the Orioles, the Yanks have posted a 32-20 record, and have won six of their last ten, coming off of a terrible 14 game stretch where they lost nine of those games.
A key part of the Yankees winning equation is their perseverance, considering they have missed time from Jorge Posada, Curtis Granderson, and Nick Johnson this season, all of whom were every day starters ...
Javier Vazquez pitched a great game against the Baltimore Orioles last night that has left some fans excited, and others bemoaning the Orioles lack of offensive punch.
While it is true that the Orioles offense is bad, they’re last in the majors in runs scored per game, but it is also true that games against them do count. Vazquez needs to pitch well not just against the Yankees rivals, but bad teams like the Orioles too.
He pitched well last night too. While it is hard to say that he could have ...
Yankees catcher Jorge Posada is probably coming off the DL today, but there is no clear choice regarding whom the Yankees will send down when they activate him.
It could be backup catcher Chad Moeller, but because of the nature of Posada’s injury and the position he plays that’s probably not a smart idea, especially as Posada is expected to DH through this weekend.
It could be Juan Miranda, as his at-bats will take a big hit with Posada as the team’s DH. The problem here is that Mark Teixeira ...
Sometimes your name can take you a long way.
Take Miguel Tejada, for instance. For all intents and purposes, Tejada's career is in a irreversible nosedive. The man has no business being the starting third baseman for any Major League team, no matter how awful that team may be.
But Tejada is a former MVP, a six-time All-Star, and has enough residual HGH matter in his bloodstream to revive Gary Coleman, so the Orioles continue to run the 36-year-old to the hot corner despite his atrocious defense and .296 on-base percentage.
Trust me, ...
About a month ago, I wrote an unintentionally controversial article about some puzzling patterns in Derek Jeter’s early season numbers.
There were two main contradictions within his statistics: that he was on pace for the best power numbers of his career while posting his highest ground ball rate ever, and that he was posting a career-low strikeout rate while swinging at a dramatically larger proportion of pitches thrown outside of the strike zone.
My critics claimed that I was reading too much into the stats too early in the season. Under normal ...
Behind a strong performance from Javier Vazquez (4-5, 6.06) the Yankees beat the Orioles 3-1 thanks to a costly two-run error by Miguel Tejada late in the game.
Here are some notes:
Vazquez was most impressive getting out of trouble in his final inning. His line: 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 1 HR.
Joba Chamberlain pitched a 1-2-3 8th inning with good velocity and good movement.
Mark Teixeira left the game yesterday in the 3rd inning after he took a foul ball off his foot. X-rays were ...
The Daily News had an article about Yankees catching prospect Jesus Montero and the offensive struggles that he is experiencing for the first time in his career this season.
In it the article’s author, Wayne Coffey, has a quote from Yankees senior VP of baseball operations Mark Newman about Montero’s improved defense and in an article focusing on his current offensive struggles it was almost an afterthought. However I think his improved defense is the real story here.
Coming into this season almost everyone who had seen catcher Jesus Montero hit had praised him ...
In 2010, Major League Baseball welcomed Target Field in Minnesota to the family of new, exciting ballparks in the leagues portfolio of stadiums. Personally, I miss the history, and simplicity of the stadiums of the past. I have included ten historical ballparks that are missed dearly that any true fan would love to see.Begin Slideshow
The book Moneyball is many things to many people, but one of the things I took away from the book that I always liked was Billy Beane’s way of looking at the season.
He broke it down to three parts, the first two months where you evaluate your team, the next two months where you try to make improvements through trades and such, and the final two months of the stretch run.
So with that in mind I thought now would be the best time to evaluate both the good and the ...
Regular Season Game 52
Yankees vs. Orioles
Yankee Stadium: Bronx, NY
Game Time: 7:05 p.m.
TV: YES | Radio: WCBS | XM: 176
Lineups:
YANKEES (31-20)
Derek Jeter SS Nick Swisher RF Mark Teixeira 1B Alex Rodriguez 3B Robinson Cano 2B Marcus Thames DH Francisco Cervelli C Curtis Granderson CF Kevin Russo LF Pitching: RHP Javier Vazquez (3-5, 6.86 ERA)
ORIOLES (15-36)
Corey Patterson LF Miguel Tejada 3B Nick Markakis RF Ty Wigginton 1B Luke Scott DH Matt Wieters C Adam Jones CF Julio Lugo 2B Cesar Izturis SS Pitching: LHP Brian Matusz ( ...