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Advantage Rays as Maddon and Girardi Match Wits in Opening Series

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged , , on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The first two games of the Yankees’ season-opening series against the Rays have played out like the American League Championship Series. There has been so much unorthodox strategy employed, it’s almost as if the two managers are working backwards from the end of the year instead of easing into the start. On one side, Rays’ […]

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Piniella Makes YES Debut, Evokes Memories of First Opener as Bomber’s Skipper (Video of 1986 Opening Day Embedded)

Posted in Baseball, Video, Yankees, tagged , , , on April 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Lou Piniella made his regular season debut in the YES booth when he joined Michael Kay and David Cone in calling the Yankees’ season opener. Even though the disappointing 7-6 loss put a damper on the occasion, Piniella’s first Opening Day as a broadcaster evoked fond memories of his debut as manager of the Bronx […]

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Intentional Fallacy: First Inning Free Pass Backfires on Yankees

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged , on April 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstripe Alley) There was some logic behind it. Sean Rodriguez entered yesterday’s game with a respectable OPS of .782 versus lefthanders, including an .872 OPS in 23 chances against CC Sabathia. Meanwhile, Carlos Pena had only four hits in 39 times to the plate against the big lefty. So, […]

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Opening Day Oddities; Blue Jays and Indians Play Longest Game; Valverde Perfect No Longer

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged , , , on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Opening Day, or at least yesterday’s version of it, pitted the two teams with best and worst Spring Training records. The Toronto Blue Jays just wrapped the second best spring winning percentage (.774) in a non-labor impacted season since 1984, while the Cleveland Indians turned in the lowest rate of success (.241) over the same […]

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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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2012 Season Preview and Predictions

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Predictions, Yankees on April 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Spring Training is in the books, so now it’s time for prognostication. Listed below are my predictions for the 2012 regular season standings as well as the major award winners. In addition, a capsule for each division is provided. For reference, the Captain’s Blog had a great year projecting the standings in 2010, but didn’t […]

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Yankees, Mets Rekindle Spring Training “Rivalry”; Kenny Rogers Winces in Remembrance

Posted in Baseball, Mets, MLB, Spring Training, Yankees, tagged , on April 3, 2012 | 4 Comments »

For the first time in 16 years, the Yankees and Mets squared off under the Florida sun. Considering all of the interleague games, not to mention the 2000 World Series, played between the two teams since that meeting on March 30, 1996, not too many people probably remember the events that transpired that day. Just don’t […]

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