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If the Yankees Aren’t Playing, Does Opening Day Make a Sound?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankees, tagged on April 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Baseball is in the midst of its third round of Opening Days, but the Yankees remain among the teams who have yet to play a game.  Along with 2009, the team’s April 6 opening date marks the latest it has waited to launch a non-labor impacted season since April 7, 1992. In order to accommodate the […]

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Springboard Effect: Does a Good Exhibition Record Translate to the Regular Season?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Spring Training, Statistical Analysis, Yankees, tagged on March 30, 2012 | 6 Comments »

Break up the Toronto Blue Jays! Entering play today, Jose Bautista and company have been tearing up the Grapefruit League, compiling an impressive 22-4 record, which represents the highest spring winning percentage since 1984 (excludes the abbreviated 1990 exhibition schedule). If the Blue Jays maintain their above .800 winning percentage, they’ll join the 1997 Marlins […]

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Breaking Down the Yankees’ Spring Training Roster…in 1986 (Video Included)

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Nostalgia, Spring Training, Video, Yankees, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Over the next six weeks of Spring Training, there will be plenty of time to breakdown the Yankees’ roster and assess the team’s prospects for the 2012 season. Before looking ahead, however, I thought it might be fun to travel back 26 years and see how the Yankees looked heading into the 1986 season. Provided […]

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It Happens Every Spring: A 111-Year Retrospective of Yankees Spring Training

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Spring Training, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged on February 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »

(This post was originally published on February 16, 2011) For 16 years, Tampa has been the Yankees’ spring training home, but it still seems like just yesterday when the team’s camp was located down the coast in Ft. Lauderdale. I am sure most fans who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s still reflexively hearken […]

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A Historical Look at Baseball Attendance and Fan Loyalty

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankee Stadium, Yankees, tagged , on February 3, 2012 | 12 Comments »

The business of baseball is as strong as it has even been, and nowhere has that been more evident than at the box office. Even in the midst of significant recession and slow economic recovery, average major league attendance has remained above 30,000 and started to trend back toward the all-time record level set in […]

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Grabbing the Bullpen by the Horns: What Is the Optimal Strategy for Using Relievers?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, sabermetrics, Statistical Analysis, tagged on January 28, 2012 | 22 Comments »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstripe Alley; unless otherwise noted, WAR refers to fangraphs’ calculation of the metric) Is it better to maximize the number of times a reliever can be used or the length of his appearances? Yesterday at frangraphs.com, Dave Cameron tried to answer that question by comparing bullpen performance over the last 30 […]

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Yanks Better Off Welcoming Posada Back Than Saying Goodbye

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Hall of Fame, MLB, Roster Analysis, Yankees, tagged on January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Considering how many great players have passed through the Bronx, one might think retirement press conferences would be a rite of winter for the Yankees, but when Andy Pettitte decided to walk away last February, it was only the third time the franchise had the opportunity to bid farewell to a former great in such a […]

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