Here it is the last month of the 2013 MLB regular season and the drive to the playoffs is on. And yes, this YANKEE team is in the hunt and could still reach the playoffs this season. WIN METHOD fans, and all baseball fans, think of the playing time lost by so many YANKEES this season. I bet we couldn't name everyone, but lets try. We lost regulars, then we lost replacements for the regulars, then we lost subs for the replacement players.
Jeter, Teixeira, Granderson, Cervelli, Youkilis, Hafner, Phelps, Nix, Almonte, Nunez, and you can throw in sad to say Afraud. Add in the smaller injuries to several others for various amounts of time and you have more games missed than you can shake a stick at.
Through all the injuries the WIN METHOD has selected enough quality players producing just enough and at the right time to help keep this years YANKEE team in the playoff dog fight. The YANKEE season isn't over yet.
It is as it always has been a matter of WINS. Only WINS can take a team and a player to the second season. Nothing else matters, no stat of any kind, be it an actual reality based stat or a convoluted misleading man made stat used and relied upon only by the most foolish of baseball fans.
A question that that the stat frauds can't handle and refuse to answer is....would you rather go to the playoffs because you won enough games, or would you rather lead the league in stats and not make the playoffs???
The interesting story of this season and what we need to take away from this season, is just how well the WIN METHOD can produce, even in the worst of times, and then just how great a season 2014 will look to be. First things first, lets all root for this YANKEE team to reach the playoffs this season. No matter what happens the rest of the year, this 2013 YANKEE team has done the WIN METHOD and Joe Girardi proud. Lets roll.
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 600 of 1095 Newer› Newest»How about that. Andy Pettitte in his last career start pitches a complete game and earns a 2-1 win. What a way to end a HOF career.
Yanks win final series of season and can go for a sweep tomorrow. 2-1 final.
First Mo now Andy. Great careers and great winners.
A glorious final game from Andy Pettitte. Now go enjoy your family.
Everyone has to pack it in some time WIN METHOD. Do what is best for you and your family. No matter what, thanks.
Huff is starting the season finale.
Finish the season with a sweep. Go Yankees.
Say goodbye Afraud. Hopefully you are toast.
Yankees down 1-0 after 4.
1-1 after 9. Yankees using many of their youngsters and looking good.
1-1 after 11. Don't want the season to end?
Yanks explode for 4 in 14th for a 5-1 lead. Now to finish it off.
Robertson in to close it out in the 14th.
DRob 1,2,3 for the Yankee win.
Nice end to a tough season. Sweep the last series with three wins in a row.
Finish 8 games over .500 and take third in the AL East. How good could have this team had been without the enormous amount of crippling injuries. The most injuries and games not played by the injured in the history of baseball.
Now we will see what the off season brings. Who will go, who will stay, and hopefully one banned player.
Now to sit back and root for the American League to win it all.
I think the Rays will move into the playoffs tonight.
Someone has to say it. Wait till next year.
WIN METHOD can only select the right fits, but it is up to management to sign them.
Tampa Bay leading Rangers 3-1 after 5.
The AL East win the wild card play-in game last night.
I'm anxious for the 2014 season already.
Even without making the playoffs, this season was very respectable considering all the injuries on injuries on injuries.
The final 8 teams are set for the second season. Let the eliminations begin and the best of the best will be the winners of the World series,like it or not stat frauds.
28 in 14.
Is it next year yet?
Some of the dumbest people I have come across are stat frauds.
Stat frauds are the losers of lifes lottery.
Rays lead Indians 3-0 after 4.
The AL East Rays win again and knock off other wild card Indians.
Next season is going to be fun. With all our young talent and the elimination of major injuries we should have a banner year.
We could very deep next year. To many aren't knowledgeable regarding our depth.
Confidence Yankee fans. 2014 will be a season to look forward to.
The AL (superior league) playoffs start today. The best team and players always win.
Afraud hearing should be over today and decision in supposedly no more than 25 days. My decision would take just 25 seconds. Banned for life.
sux lead Rays 5-2 after 4.
Yankees have offered Girardi a contract for 2014.
In regards to afraud, I find it a disgrace that anyone would support a liar, fraud and cheat
who cheated baseball the fans and his family, no matter what uniform
they are wearing.
The gall of afraud is astounding. He is utter garbage.
With luck afrauds 211 game ban will be upheld.
sux up 2 game to 0 on Rays. A's - Tigers 1 all.
Ban Afraud for life. Prove to all players that no matter who you are or how big you think you are, you will pay the price and you will go down the Rangoon receptacle.
The sux do score runs.
The best thing for the Yankees this winter would be for Afraud to be banned.
Patiently awaiting Afrauds guiltyt verdict and banning.
Begone Afraud.
What does anyone think of Girardi staying or going?
Long time no stat frauds here. I think they are tired of being made fools over and over with logic and common sense.
Come on stat frauds, talk to us, try to say something that makes sense.
I think Girardi will stay a Yankees.
Girardi signs four year deal. Great news. Now the players know who will be in charge for the long haul.
Great for Joe, the Yankees, and the fans who know baseball.
Great news having Joe back. Can't wait to see how good this team will be without the overwhelming injuries from last year.
I'm glad Joes back. He knows what he is doing and how to handle the players.
Glad Girardi is back.
Last playoff playin game tonight. Go A's.
2014 is going to be a Yankee year.
No word on Afraud yet?
Baseball, America greatest game, has now come to the final four teams for the 2013 season. The bosux will host the Tigers in the superior league, and the Dodgers will host the Cardinals in the inferior league. My picks..sux/Dodgers.
Good move bringing Girardi back. I'm pulling for sux and LA.
Great blog, sure beats the idiots on most of the baseball forums. Count me in.
The best thing with Girardi coming back is that the players respect. All but maybe Afraud who respects only lying, cheating, drugs, money, and his own ego.
Welcome southernbelleshell. Post often. We are glad you are now part of the best baseball blog in the world.
Thanks johnsindc. I love Girardi coming back and we will win it all next year.
Cards win both games at home by one run. In the drivers seat.
Alot of pitching in the playoffs so far.
aren't the Yankees interested in a highly touted Japanese pitcher?
Good move by Girardi signing for four years with Yanks.
The bosux came up big when they needed to last night. Now head to Americas lost city 1 and 1.
Even Tim McCarver knocked the stat frauds last night.
When McCarver calls out stat frauds you really know they are useless tools.
The playoffs have been pretty boring so far.
sux even series with Tigs at 2 games each.
Cardinals up 3 games to 1 on Dodgers and bosux/Tigers even at 2 games a piece.
I wish some stat frauds would post here, I would love to get in on this.
The Yankees' farm system has not been productive in recent years. Can WIN METHOD please shed some light here?
The 2013 season was pretty interesting from a "Win Method" perspective. The Yankees scored fewer runs than they allowed. You'd have expected them to be below .500. But they were eight wins over .500. That was lagrely because they had baseball's best record in one-run games (30-16). They may fall back to earth in this area without Rivera. The team could easily remain middle of the pack.
Welcome Pat. The WIN METHOD is all about winning. Nothing else matters. Teams win and reach the playoffs in many different ways. To sum it up, wins and winning is the desired goal of each team or should be. Unfortunately that may not be the goal of individual players.
The Yankees have stayed in contention for two decades now since the inception of the WIN METHOD. It has put countless players on the field over the years and countless more were used in deals for seasoned players. This past seasons team was carried by many young Yankee players who were just good enough to keep the team in playoff contention right ot the end of the season.
Not all players who have drafted become big name stars, but many do contribute to the making of winning teams. Winning is the goal of the WIN METHOD, not super name players, but players who win. This is what made the Yankees contenders this season even with all the injuries.
Picking up where others left off. I could name many names of our minor league system who have helped the Yankee teams win over the past two decades. Some had higher individual stats than others, but that is not important, the wins are what are important and that is what was achieved by the players the Yankees have developed.
Hey there Pat M... Post any questions or concerns.
What you want to keep in mind regarding the WIN METHOD is that nothing supersedes wins. Example, two teams play a three game series and one team wins 1-0 and 1-0 and loses 15-1. Stats the winning team scored one run per game and gave up five. The losing team two games to one had better stats in all categories, hitting and pitching. One problem they lost the series. the WIN METHOD espouses winning baseball as a team, not individual statistics.
Bosux-Tigers 2 games each. StLouis up 3 games to 2 over LA.
Any minor leaguer can blossom at any time. Some take several years, some less. The only important thing is helping the team win and the Yankee farm has helped the team win more games over the past two decades, reach more playoffs and win more World Series than the farm of any other team in baseball.
There is only one stat in baseball that determines the best players and the best teams. WINS, only fools and or people who do not know baseball would think something else.
I for one would not mind seeing Cano leave the Yankees. He hung around afraud to much and became contaminated similar to Melky Cabrera.
Thanks, William M. -- a little food for thought. Your point holds true over short series, for sure, but not so much over the long haul that is a full season. Just five teams in major-league history have made the playoffs scoring fewer runs than they allowed: the 1984 Royals, 1987 Twins, 1997 Giants, 2005 Padres, and 2007 Diamondbacks. Only one of those teams won the Series, the '87 Twins. With the wild card, we may see more such teams make it into the playoffs, where it's more likely you can be outscored in a short series yet still come out on top. But it's still not that likely that they'd even get a wild card.
i think what will be most interesting next season is the starting rotation.
You are right Pat. And logically scoring more runs and allowing less should mean more wins. But a team can do the above and still not make the playoffs and lose out to a team that scores less runs and allows more. The point being and what WIN METHOD has shown us, is that the win is the desired outcome and the most wins gets a team to the playoffs. In essence nothing else is as important.
Pat, William, how do you guys feel about defensive stats?
Hi Ben, i have absolutely no use for the convoluted man made defensive stats. Anytime I talk baseball with a fan who uses them in his argument regarding the defensive prowess of players, I state my opinion and then tell the guy he has no idea what he is talking about and knows nothing about baseball. The end.
Throwing in my two cents, the zone fielding stats are completely flawed, totally inaccurate, and in finality, useless.
Defensive metrics are so subjective and have more flaws then you can count. The are worthless and only used by the most ignorant of fans.
sux with a 4-3 win take 3 game to 2 lead over Tigers and home to Boston.
I agree, defensive stats are useless and meaningless.
Nest game for Dodgers and Tigers is a must win. Only by winning can each team play another game. WINS and only WINS determine the best.
Elimination games. Do or die. Win or go home.
Winning is the only thing that matters and winning is the only thing that ever will define the best.
Just like Mo, Jeter will not retire on an injury . Pride alone will have him rehab all winter like a beast and then come back for one more All Star year just like Mo . Then ride off into the sunset and wait for the HOF to call . Just like Mo . Class , style, honor and integrity and what every MLB player should strive to be like .
The Afraud decision has been delayed significantly. What a load of BS.
Great post Yankeediehard and welcome to the WIN METHOD world.
The St.Louis Cardinals have made it to the World series and will represent the National League. They accomplished this and became the best team and the best players in the National League by only one mean. WINS, wins determines the best teams and the best players.
Get it over with sux.
The best team and the best players will win. That is WIN METHOD tenet.
Here is something many of you might like. From one of the best players of all time.
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”—Mickey Mantle
Mantle was the best I ever saw. Also he would have been 82 tomorrow the 20th.
The sux take out the Tigers. The World Series is now the sux and the Cardinals.
Interesting fact stat frauds regarding this WS. The team who gets four wins will be the world champion, no matter what any other stat is used or made up by you fools.
I can't believe they are waiting half a week to start the WS.
I see WIN METHOD is out doing his thing. We will be a playoff team again next year because of WIN METHOD.
When you read some of the talk forums that knock the Yankees after all they have accomplished over the past two decades, one would think the Yankees never made the playoffs, won no pennants and won no World Series. But again, the facts get in the way ant the WIN METHOD truth wins out. The Yankee organization has been the most successful in MLB over the past 20 years.
Victor, I second your comment.
Fred, the stat frauds will just swear that the best team did not win if they don't meet their stat agenda.
How much success the Yanks will have next season will depend on just which of the young ones develop quickest, what Pineda will offer us, and a signing or two.
I hate the Afraud fiasco hanging over our head. What a load of garbage he is.
Never thought I would say this, but go sux.
sabremetrics = garbage
Afraud and his shyster lawyers trying to break the arbitration rules. the cheat fraud will stop at nothing.
Good one Cory. Add on
stat frauds = garbage men
I can't believe we are still waiting for the WS to start.
World Series game one tonight in Boston.
I don't dismiss stats out of hand. I wouldn't rely on them entirely either. It's not something on which you have to take a black-and-white position. For example, I just looked at a SABR article that explores dfensive metrics in depth. It included this reasonable, balanced line: "Just as a front office’s attentiveness to the statistical analysis of defense doesn’t guarantee success (the Mariners, for example, have gotten off to a woeful start this year), neither does willful neglect of it necessarily mean a team is doomed to flail around near the bottom of the standings."
sux jump out to 3-0 lead after one.
There are some stats that are factual and then there are others that are convoluted man made stats which are pretty much totally useless. There is no man made defensive stat that has any real life value or accuracy. When players produce is far more important and game defining than how much they produce. When players produce are conducive to winning games and wins determine who gets to the playoffs.
Here is how I look at stats. A guy has a batting average of .320 and another has an average of .260. All well and good, but which one is the more productive hitter for his team?
I have an example for you Pat. A small sample, but very apropos, because it is a relief pitcher scenario, and a relief pitcher may throw only 60 to 80 innings over a season.
Three game series. Your 8th inning reliever hasn't pitched in a week and in game one with his team losing 6-0 the manage wants to give him some work. He pitches one inning and allows four runs. His team loses 10-0. In games two and three he pitches the 8th inning of each and pitches a perfect 3 up 3 down inning in each. His team wins both games 3-1 and 2-0. His ERA for the 3 games is 12.00, but he gets 2 holds and his team wins 2 games of the 3. How important is his ERA. In my view, it is meaningless. Also those 4 runs over @ 60-80 innings does impact his ERA to a significant degree. That is what the WIN METHOD is about. The wins are what counts and what defines the best not the individual stats.
Boston up 7-0 after 7 1/2. Give the sox game one.
Nice game by the sux last night to start the series with a convincing win.
The test of any stat is taking it to the extreme and looking at the outcome you get. When you take wins and the WIN METHOD to the extreme what you get is a 162-0 season. There is and never was anything more telling and accurate than the WIN METHOD. I have yet seen or heard from anyone to prove wins do not determine the best.
If the Cardinals don't win tonight their backs will surely be against the wall.
Will the sux take game two at home!
Cardinals take game two 4-2 and head home for what is now a best of five series to see who is the best in baseball.
Relatively sloppy baseball so far for two world series teams.
Just wanted to let everyone know I have not disappeared, but on the road talking to countless possible WIN METHOD YANKEES of the future. Ethically can't reveal anything here or now, but will again try to beat the world with upcoming news. Stay tuned.
Lead the way WIN METHOD. Make the Yankees the best. Love ya,
Get it done WIN METHOD.
Good hunting WIN METHOD.
Remember Yankee fans, when the talking heads throw out the name of a player in association to the Yankees, that may not be true in any way. Since it appears the Yankees must pay a premium to players they sign just because they are the Yankees, the Yankees try to show interest in almost every logical player available to drive up the price the other team may have to pay.
i say the bosux take game 3 tonight.
Big puppy will play 1b for the sux tonight.
Another example last night just why baseball is the greatest game. First time in the history of the game a game ended like it did last night, on a fielder obstruction call allowing the winning run to score automatically.
Errors are still deciding this WS.
The onus is on the sux now.
No matter what, the world series is not as glamorous as when the Yankees are in it.
sux down 1-0 after 4 in a game they really need to win.
bosux hold 4-2 lead after 7.
How about that as Mel Allen used to say. Second WS game to end on a play that no other WS game ever ended on.
Series is even. Now it is a 2 of 3.
I think tonights game five winner will also win the WS.
It now can be said. Game six for the Cardinals is a must win.
The question will be can the sux get a win from whoever pitches for them in game six and game seven if needed?
It all comes down to a win for the sox or two for the Cards. Nothing else counts, nothing else matters, despite what the stat frauds will try to tell you.
The house of cards falls tonight.
Tyler Austin may very well become the next great Yankee.
bosux pounding hapless Cardinals and lead 6-0 after 4 innings and are destined to bring another World Series championship to the superior American League.
Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox and all of their fans and supporters the 2013 World Champions of baseball who have the World championship back to the American League East Division, the greatest division, and the American League, the greatest league. Well done.
You are all class WIN METHOD. I second your view.
Thanks WIN METHOD fans.
WIN METHODS acknowledgement of the Red Sox success is the greatest of compliments the Sox could receive. Coming from the greatest baseball talent evaluator ever, the Sox fans should really be proud. WIN METHOD knows that winning determines the best and the Red Sox for 2013 are the best.
Love ya,
Enjoy bosux fans. But remember next year is not that far away and the Yanks will be there to take you down.
The went from last in the AL east to winning the WS in one season. The Yankees are far stronger and in better shape than the sux were.
My thoughts on one of the foulest people I know. Afraud. For the past 4 years, he's totally sucked the life out of the Yankee team and only made headlines for his failures on and off the field. He makes Reggie Jackson look like Mother Teresa. One way or the other, I don't want to see this guy in Yankee pinstripes ever again.
Some real good pitching should be the number one task for the off season.
Jeter and Yankees have agreed on a one year 12M contract for 2014. YES!
If Jeter comes back at near normal level, his character and performance will lead the Yankees to the playoffs.
Jeter locked is step one. Keep moving forward and keep improving.
slowly but surely the Yanks will be built and ready for 2014.
The best bet for the Yankees may be in taking a shot at the Japanese pitcher Tanaka. We will know what WIN METHOD told the Yankees when the posting bids come out.
Jeter knows how to win and leads by example. He is worth his weight in gold. Or is it World Series rings.
Best Yankee blog I have come across.
The Japanese posting fee process has been delayed and it will now run into MLB FA signing season.
In all the discussions everyone seems to be forgetting about Texieria coming back and being a potent bat in the middle of the lineup and 4A defense at first base.
Glad to see the World Series is back in the superior American League. The American League has dominated the World Series since its inception.
I have all the faith in the world in WIN METHOD, with the proof in the pudding being what the Yankees have accomplished since his recommendations where put into effect by Mr. Steinbrenner.
3 1/2 months fans.
Not soon enough jimbo. Not soon enough.
It will be a long winter or dealing and decisions.
Mo received AL comeback player of the year award today.
Rivera and then Jeter deserve every accolade they can get. Two of the classiest players in baseball history.
You know Jeter will be 2014 comeback player of the year. That is as close to a given as anyone could expect.
Jeter and Rivera. Character, humility, respect for the game, team mates, and opposing players. And the best at thier positions during the era of their career.
The core four. Don't forget Bernie Williams and Andy Pettitte. Neither caused any problems and both had character. Only Andy strayed for a couple of seasons.
Williams wasn't part of the core four. Posada was. But Williams was a sure solid fifth wheel. Posada also had the character of the others at the highest level.
Isn't it funny how some players are no trouble ever, and then there are those who are sick demented individuals.
They were a major part of the Yankee successes. All they wanted to do was win and we all know that wins determine the best.
I hope Jeter goes out on a championship season. He deserves it for all he has done.
I wonder where Hughes will wind up.
All seems to be quiet on the baseball front.
Trade rumors come out of the woodwork and many are started by writers and talking heads just to give then something to say.
All is quiet on the trade/free agent front right now in YANKEE land. Interviews are constant all over the world and hopefully the fruits of my labor will be seen in the 2014 season.
Stay safe WIN METHOD, Love ya,
Go get 'em WIN METHOD
The proof is in the results. The Yankees have accomplished more and won more than any team in baseball since WIN METHOD has been the guiding force. Even this past season, with all and I do mean ALL the injuries this team endured, they still were in the hunt until the last few games of the season. Simply amazing, but in reality, just plain fantastic and the best method in baseball of selecting talent is the WIN METHOD.
Bring home the bacon WIN METHOD.
You are so right William. There is no better proof than what actually and factually happened. The Yankees and WIN METHOD have been the best in baseball.
I think the Yankees are going to be competitive next season, if not the best in baseball.
Mr Mensom is always right.
Yes we can and we will.
It looks like the Yankees will have somewhere between 80M and 110M to spend. Afraud needs to get banned for the team to be in the best position possible.
Afraud has been a thorn in the side of MLB and the Yankees. We can all go back and read how WIN METHOD said Afraud was not WIN METHOD and the Yankees should never had signed him.
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