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Let’s Play Two: Yankees Have Historically Doubled Their Pleasure in Twin Bills

Posted in Baseball, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Whenever a team is forced to play a doubleheader, the manager will usually express a universal lament about how difficult it is to win both games. No manager has been more vocal about this perceived dynamic than Joe Girardi, but is it really true? Since the Yankees joined the American League as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, the […]

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Are the Mets About to Say Good Bye to the Best Position Player in Franchise History?

Posted in Baseball, Mets, MLB, tagged on July 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »

With the trade deadline drawing near and the Mets headed on a road trip that will last until August, Carlos Beltran’s fly out in the ninth inning of this afternoon’s game could turn out to be his last home at bat with the team. Realizing this possibility, what was left of the Citi Field crowd […]

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Is There a Correlation Between Interleague Winning Percentages and DH/P/PH Offensive Production?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Statistical Analysis, Yankees, tagged on June 24, 2011 | 7 Comments »

(In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) Heading into the second half of the interleague schedule, the American League holds a 66-60 advantage over the National League. If that winning percentage holds, it will continue the senior circuit’s gradual improvement since losing over 60% of interleague contests […]

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What Comes Around: Karma and Baseball Chicanery

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Mets, MLB, Yankees, tagged , , , on June 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

(In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) Jose Reyes entered last night’s action as one of the hottest hitters in baseball, so naturally, the Atlanta Braves’ game plan centered on slowing the speedster down. Apparently, however, the team took that mandate just a bit too literally as […]

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Yanks Streak Through Oakland, Continue Dominance Over Athletics

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged , on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Seattle isn’t the only city with streakers. A whole team of them just ran through Oakland. Over the past three-plus seasons, the Yankees have had their way with the Athletics. Since 2008, the team has compiled a 24-4 (.857) record against the A’s, which, following the recent sweep at the Collisseum, now includes a current 10-game […]

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Are the Mets Cursed? Examining Free Agency in Flushing

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Baseball, Baseball History, Mets, MLB on May 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The last three years haven’t been very kind to Mets’ owner Fred Wilpon, so what’s one more bad day? In a recent profile in The New Yorker, Wilpon’s rise and (at least temporary) fall as a self-made millionaire were chronicled in impressive detail by staff writer Jeffrey Toobin. However, what gained most notoriety were a […]

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Who Needs the Subway? Yankees and Mets Could Have Been Co-Tenants

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Mets, MLB, Yankee Stadium, Yankees, tagged , , on May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees and Mets just completed the most recent edition of the Subway Series, but if past events had transpired differently, train travel wouldn’t have been needed to host the rivalry. When the Dodgers and Giants left town after the 1957 season, there was an immediate push to return National League baseball to New York […]

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