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Tracking the Yankees 2016 Payroll; Money Saved New Way of Keeping Score in the Bronx

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Yankees on December 14, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Brian Cashman still has a lot of work to do. According to the Yankees’ GM , “there are still steps in the process” to take, but if his master plan precludes adding payroll, Cashman will have to subtract salary before adding more talent. USA Today recently reported that the Yankees’ actual payroll (AAV, not current […]

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Brian Cashman’s Defense of Yankees Miserly Ways a Bah Humbug to Fans

Posted in Baseball on December 4, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Brian Cashman has had a lot to say this week about the state of the Yankees, but all of his comments can be summed up with two words: Bah Humbug! The Yankees GM has been playing the role of Scrooge for some time now. Since Hal Steinbrenner first announced plans to trim the Yankees’ payroll […]

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Yankees Blueprint for 2016 Requires Lots of Green

Posted in Baseball, Hot Stove, Roster Analysis, Yankees on November 11, 2015 | 9 Comments »

Ever since Moneyball was published in 2003, the baseball world has been in hot pursuit of the next great market inefficiency. Whether it was Billy Beane’s mining for high on-base percentage, the Rays’ dedication to the “extra 2%”, or, more recently, the Royals’ embrace of contact hitters in a swing-and-miss era, the last decade has […]

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Home Runs Trump Small Ball In Postseason Play

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Post Season, Statistical Analysis on October 13, 2015 | 1 Comment »

The MLB postseason had a power surge on Monday. Yesterday’s four division series games featured a long ball barrage that set a myriad of records, including the most home runs and runs scored in a single day of postseason play. Who said the playoffs were all about small ball? To be fair, before Monday’s outburst, both […]

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Failure to Play by the Rules Gives MLB, Utley Black Eye

Posted in Baseball on October 11, 2015 | 17 Comments »

Records are made to be broken, not rules, and certainly not the legs of middle infielders. Chase Utley was just trying to break up a double play. As it turned out, he not only broke the leg of Mets’ shortstop Ruben Tejada, but also one of baseball’s most ignored rules. Whether or not you believe […]

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Failure Breeds Success for 2015 Yankees

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on October 7, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees’ return to the postseason didn’t last long, but, because most people didn’t expect them to make the playoffs, even a brief cameo in October can be considered an over-achievement. However, just because the team exceeded diminished expectations doesn’t mean that over-achievement was a success. Under the old Yankees’ standard, it would have been […]

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Yankees New Guest Policy Creating Base of Apathetic Fans

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, Hal Steinbrenner, Mets, MLB, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on September 30, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Judging by the dwindling crowds at the Stadium and declining audience on YES, Yankees fans haven’t exactly bought into the excitement of the wild card race. For most of the year, but particularly over the last month, apathy has replaced the usual fervor in the Bronx. And, even with a chance to clinch a postseason […]

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