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Really, really glad to see Greinke win. Guy totally deserves it.
posted by MKUltra at 09:08 AM on November 18
So exactly how does Madson's successful ninth inning in a must-win game mean the Phillies don't have a prayer? What could he have done in the ninth to show you otherwise?
Not give up 3 hits, for starters. His ball/strike ratio was something like 2:3. Those are not indicators of reliability. If Jeter (who is not one to GIDP in the 9th inning of a playoff game) had simply grounded out, there would have been a much bigger threat. The Phils just don't have a guy they can turn to in the late innings and know it's locked down.
posted by MKUltra at 12:41 AM on November 04
Madson got the save and gave up only one earned run, MK. He came on with runners on the corners and shed two outs like a waterproof deck. The Series ain't over at all.
Wait, what? Madson pitched the entire 9th, by my memory (and the play-by-play). If Jeter doesn't hit into a DP, we may have been having an entirely different discussion.
The Phillies just don't have an automatic late inning guy, and the Yanks are a team known for late-inning heroics. Rivera, on the other hand, looks just as much the machine he's looked for years while both teams' pitching staffs are clearly breaking down.
Also, is anyone with more insider credibility than the opposing team's hometown paper saying anything about Gaudin starting? There's no way.
posted by MKUltra at 07:18 PM on November 03
Sending out Ryan Madson in the 9th instead of Brad Lidge, and not really having him fare much better, is reason #1 the Phils don't have a prayer.
posted by MKUltra at 11:51 AM on November 03
I'm not going to scourge the internet for prove that the runner was safe, but the replay showed that the runner was safe. I saw no doubt. The announcers showed no doubt. Everything I've read today says the runner was out.
Wow, you're right. Couple of crazy close calls there.
posted by MKUltra at 01:44 PM on October 30
Great game, great pitching from both teams. Lot of batters on both sides were made to look really dumb at the plate.
The umps missed the call in the eighth when the Yanks turned an inning-ending double play. Utley was safe at first and Ryan Howard should have come to the plate with a chance to tie the game.
Got a video replay of this to back your claim up? He looked out to me.
posted by MKUltra at 12:39 PM on October 30
Unless, by "intangibles" you meant that A-Rod gets ahold of a bad batch of steroids, or maybe Madonna shows up in the dugout and "drains" his energy.
LOL AROID IS A CHEATER AMIRITE!!!!!!11111one
posted by MKUltra at 01:06 PM on October 27
Jeter Rivera Posada Cano Melky Gardner Joba Hughes
With all due respect, with or without Pettite, that isn't a championship team.
"Bought" talent on the '08 World Champion Red Sox: Beckett, Dice-K, Okajima, Big Papi, Lowell, half-season of Manny. It's not a situation specific to the Yankees.
MLB charges free-spending teams for every dollar above the Luxury Tax threshold and then sends that money back to small-market teams.
Which many small-market team owners put in their pockets rather than on the payroll. The Luxury Tax system is a poor solution to a real problem.
Who are the Yankees when they go?
Cano. Joba. Phil Hughes. Melky, despite not being a stud, is clearly a great clubhouse presence, though I have a feeling he'll get dealt in the offseason.
posted by MKUltra at 04:47 PM on October 21
Perhaps because Red Sox and most other teams don't buy 5-7 of the highest priced free agents each year. They actually have organizations focused on building internally.
Yeah, because the BoSox weren't interested at all in picking up Tex. I don't know for sure about CC and AJ, but I have to imagine they were in the mix for those two as well. Don't pretend Boston is some bastion of home-grown talent.
Besides, what's completely lost in this assertion is that the Yankees are fielding a lot of players they've brought up from their farm system:
Jeter
Rivera
Posada
Cano
Melky
Gardner
Joba
Hughes
That's just off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure there are some more folks in the bullpen I'm missing. Even Pettitte's a "native" Yankee- he came up with them, left, and came back.
posted by MKUltra at 02:06 PM on October 21
Eh, big deal. Does anyone still care about Zambrano? He's been in decline since '06, and the only year he got more than 16 wins was '07, when his peripherals took a sharp turn downward. He doesn't pitch deep into games and his K-rate is way down (his last start notwithstanding). And he seems like too much of a hothead to turn himself into a finesse pitcher.
The best thing that can come from this is that the new Cubs ownership gracefully accepts his retirement, then pointedly asks Soriano to follow suit.
posted by MKUltra at 01:24 PM on September 29
Why will baseball not just go ahead and post the damn list?
Hasn't this been covered a million times already?
Because they made a deal with the players to test under anonymous conditions. I agree it's frustrating to have "selected" names be leaked, but it's not fair to the players to release all the names because of some lawyers with an axe to grind.
What they really should do is release the names of those who leaked from the list, and have them disbarred (if not indicted, since I think what they did is illegal).
posted by MKUltra at 11:29 AM on August 10
Should I drop Magglio Ordonez for him?
posted by MKUltra at 11:24 AM on July 13
They signed the top 2 pitchers and the top hitter during the off season. If they end up being the beast of the east, those are your reasons.
There's no denying that Sabathia and Teixeira are dominant at their positions, but Burnett hasn't been much better than the rest of the rotation.
I think a lot of the Yankee resurgence stems from an attitude change, probably due to finally shedding the last of George Steinbrenner's fixation on short haircuts, suits, and other such "proper behavior". The Yankees, for the first time in years, actually look like they're enjoying themselves.
posted by MKUltra at 04:07 PM on June 03
Zack Greinke Wins American League Cy Young
Wow, such contention! For the record, I did mean "deserve" from a stats standpoint, rather than a flashier choice- let's be honest, wins and team finish tend to count disproportionately in this race. It's great to see someone chosen purely based on how well he pitched.
Or, put another way- has Sabremetrics finally infiltrated the mainstream?