Yankees: Objects in Mirror are Closer then they Appear

[Imran Siddiqui]

You hoped for more than a 1.023 OPS and Gold Glove Defense? Damn, you Yankee fans are seriously spoiled .

[Arrian]

You know what I meant. His stats for the year, not just this month. I would be very pleased if those were his year total stats.

But he has still be very, very good. Just not GREAT, which is what he was brough in to be.

-Arrian, spoiled Yankee fan

[Imran Siddiqui]

You know what I meant.

Yeah, but it was just too good to pass up

Not like it had much adverse effect though. Unless you think a team with Soriano would be much better at this point.

Though I think Yankee pitchers are wishing that Jeter moves to 2B sometime soon, because they'd rather have the best defense guy on the field at SS .

[Lawrence of Arabia]

yeah, but that best defense guy isnt arod, its orlando cabrera!

(who cost only $2 million)

[Imran Siddiqui]

I know you are a homer, but come on now!

[Lawrence of Arabia]

and arrian, i think yankee pitching just needs to worry about not breaking their hands on walls.

although i gotta say loaiza looked kinda good his last start.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

walking barry everytime is better than pitching to him right? walking him everytime would give him an OPS of 1.000. right now he has an OPS somewhere around 1.300. that means he create's less runs when walked.

[Arrian]

Loiza didn't look good at all. He was this far (imagine me holding my fingers less than an inch apart) from falling apart at the seams last night. He "battled" and "gutted it out" and - most likely - got lucky.

They pitched to Barry last night. 0-3. The man is awesome, but he's also human. He should be pitched to in the right situations.

-Arrian

[Imran Siddiqui]

walking barry everytime is better than pitching to him right?

No, because it's been shown that OBP is 3 times more important than SLG in scoring runs.

OBP is a good stat to use at the outset, but in the end it is just adding two other stats together, so it doesn't account for which values are more important.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Look at it this way. Bonds is on pace for 370/608/826 in ~600 PA. That's about 238 outs, 310 total bases, and 224 walks. So Bonds is producing 534 bases of offense in 238 outs, a ratio of better than two bases per out (I'm ignoring stolen bases.)

And if we walk Bonds every time up? 600 bases, no outs. That's a ratio of infinity bases per out.

Bonds bats fourth in the Giants lineup. According to ESPN.com, Giants #5 hitters are batting .252, 25th in MLB. They are on-basing .311, 29th in MLB, ahead of only Montreal. They are slugging .379, 28th in MLB, ahead of Toronto and Montreal. Collectively, they have 155 hits (20th), 20 doubles (last), 2 triples (tied for 13th through 21st), 18 jacks (21st)... and 100 RBI, 10th in MLB.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

ORLANDO STRIKES AGAIN, YAKAH OVER THE MONSTAH, SOX IN 12.

and it was an espn game.

and baseball tonite was a sox fest. that was chill.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

sox vs. yanks, coming up on friday. any predictions? i say sox sweep.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

I predict that no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to buy a scalped ticket for less than 100 bucks

[The Emperor Fabulous]

What this series against the Orioles has shown us is that, if the Sox can keep games close, they can win in the end. Two 9th inning heroics, another two losses with 9th inning rallies. The key to beating the Yankees in the playoffs will rest on our starting rotation. If our pitchers can keep the Yanks from breaking away with a 5-0 score by the 5th, we can win. We'll beat the Yankees in the 8th and 9th as long as our starters don't give up a big opening lead.

[Arrian]

My prediction: Sox take 2 of 3. You've got Pedro and Shilling going in this series. Pedro's not gonna suck again. Shilling is en fuego. This leaves Wakefield, who we really should pound.

Of course, my logic on the last series (Yanks should win game 1, game 2 tossup, lose game 3) didn't exactly work out!

-Arrian