The 2016 Major League Baseball season starts today. The New York YANKEES first game will be tomorrow in New York against the Houston Astros. The starting rotation has been decided, the twenty-five man roster has been decided, and tomorrow the drive for the playoffs will begin. This is not fantasy baseball, played by stat fraud fools who live by meaningless individual statistics, this is real baseball where winning is determined by what all players on each team contribute to help their team win the most often. These contributions are measured by wins and players producing at the right time, when it matters, and not by how much or how many stats they produce for themselves as their team fails.
The injury bug has bitten the YANKEES, as it has bitten every team in one way or another. First baseman Greg Bird is likely out for the season. Pitcher Brian Mitchell may be out approximately three months, and pitcher Andrew Miller with a broken bone in his non throwing wrist may have been the luckiest, and will lose no playing time.
Several YANKEE WIN METHOD youngsters are blooming and growing and are on the roster to start the season, and several more are on the near horizon and will start their season in the minors.
Several years ago the WIN METHOD made a concerted effort to find pitching talent each season and the YANKEES drafted many of these youngsters. The time is here for some of these youngsters and the time for others is just around the corner.
The YANKEE management led by the brilliant dealing of General Manager Brian Cashman have added several new players to this seasons roster and have deepened the bench for 2016. Also, three very possible future stars are so near. Catcher Gary Sanchez, right fielder Aaron Judge, and shortstop Jorge Mateo are getting closer to the major league roster every day. Playing regularly in the minors right now is best for them and their development. But they will soon be heard from.
Remember fans, it is a long season, there will be ups and downs, and as always only wins and winning will be the determining factor on which teams earn playoffs spots and go on to the second season. Let the stat fraud fools play their fantasy games. We will play for real baseball and root for our team to win and root for the contributions of each player to help our team win.
LETS GO YANKEES
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Quay, I agree, a ten game win streak would make for a big move.
Tanaka, Pineda, Eovaldi for the weekend vs. the Twinkies.
There has been talk, discussion, and debate here off and on for many years about ERA. I would like to throw in my point of view. I find ERA totally meaningless and more than that I find it invalid. The way ERA is calculated for pitchers gives them every advantage after a misplay by a fielder. The same pitchers also get every advantage after a great play by a fielder which may save a from runs scoring against him. I will give an example of each.
1. Pitcher gets 2 outs and then a fielder boots a ball, the pitcher snivels and then gives up any amount of runs in that inning and not one is counted against him just because the scoring says the inning should be over. The pitcher bears no responsibility for getting the third out and give give up walks, hits, and runs with impunity.
2. Pitcher loads the bases and then give up a shot into the gap between outfielders and one of them makes a full out dive for the third out to save three runs. Or the pitcher gives up a long drive that in of the outfielders climbs the wall for to catch and save a grand slam home run. Or the pitcher gives up a scalding in hopper down the line that the third baseman dives for, comes up with and throws the runner out.
Countless times, everyday pitchers are saved runs by their fielders and are not held responsible for runs they give up when the third out 'should have been recorded' but the inning continues.
Fans, do a little exercise and figure pitchers true ERA by using all the runs scored against them and not just the 'earned runs'. You will be amazed at what each pitcher real run given up average is. And that average doesn't even include the runs that are saved by fielders over his career.
William Mensom, Wow, I just calculated Cy Youngs. His ERA is 2.63, but when you calculate all the runs his average runs given up is 3.87. And as you said that doesn't even include all the runs his fielders may have save him.
William, Brian, all this does is reinforce that wins/saves are by far and away to rate pitchers. No question a pitcher can earn and or lose a win because of his teammates. Over a career those likely wind up close to a wash. But the runs allowed is all on the pitcher.
Wins over era all the time.
Ran some numbers on runs allowed by pitchers of their careers. Can't believe the difference between ERA and the runs really allowed.
In other words a pitcher can pitch a complete game allow 6 runs which none are scored as earned runs, lose the game and the stat frauds will laud him as a better pitcher than the pitcher of the other team who gave up only 4 runs, all earned and won the game. This is a pure definition of a stat fraud.
William Mensom...great great post. Facts kill.
Some of the differences were over a run per game.
The stat frauds have been fooling the novice fans with their garbage far too long now.
Wins is the reason for pitching and that should be goal and only goal for any and every pitcher. Everyone with any intelligence should be on the WIN METHOD bandwagon.
Tanaka opens weekend set tonight and I hope he wins no matter what his ERA is.
William....Your explanation of ERA and just how useless it is was fantastic. Thank you.
i second Lori's post.
Lets sweep this series.
i might add. the official scoring on errors is so very subjective that it in itself invalidates ERA's.
A sweep of this series puts us 2 games over .500.
Yanks23245, A sweep would be fine, and then build on that by winning several series in a row.
William Mensom, A great disertation on the fallacies and failures of earned run average.
Right handed lineup tonight. Gardner and Didi only lefty bats in lineup.
Lets go Yankees.
Game time in minutes. Take game one. Lets roll.
Don't anyone forget. When the stat fraud pitcher losses, it is the offenses fault.
0-0 after 2.
Yankees up 4-3 after 4.
Tanaka has been struggling thru the first four. Plus afraud strikes out feebly with bases loaded in the fourth.
4-3 Yanks after 6.
Yanks up 4-3 after 6 and game now in Yankee bullpen hands. The big three.
4-3 Yankees after 7. Betances with a 1,2,3 7th. Miller next.
5-3 Yanks after 8 on Hicks HR as Miller has a 1,2,3 8th. Chapmans turn for the save.
5-3 Yanks after 8.
Chapman with a 1,2,3 strikeout 9th and the save. 5-3 Yanks.
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnnnnn.
Fianl 5-3 win in game one. Two more to go.
Getting back to the Barabara Striesand ERA, according to the stat frauds the Twins Milone pitched a better game than Tanaka tonight and only lost because his teammates let him down.
Tonights game is excellent proof of the garbage of ERA.
Oh will-I-am, how you guys like to cherry pick things and look at only one stat rather then the pitchers entire body of work when making your claim.
You also like to make arguments based on one game sample sizes- and use this as "excellent proof" - which is laughable.
It's funny how the wins leaders in the MLB all have sub 3 ERAs and average over 6-7 innings per start. I suppose that's too logical though that pitching deep into games and allowing few runs would lead to wins...No no the Yankees definitely don't need pitchers who could do that, they just need to KNOW how to win.
You'll never change, I realize now it's your lack of comprehension in how stats should be used that is the real issue. I think for the most part the people here are too old and stuck in their ways to teach that. Baseball has changed, as has its evaluation of players, the way you look at them is never coming back.
Pineda today. Hope we get the good Michael.
We are at .500 again. We can go well beyond. WINS will make it happen.
It is ignorant to think anything but wins and winning determines the best. Always has and always will. Stat frauds are trying to corrupt baseball with corrupt convoluted misrepresentations.
Steven, It has been stated here countless times that wins and winning always determine the best, be it for a game, a series, a week, a month, or for a season. That is not cherry picking. That is fact.
The wins leaders in baseball are the leaders because they win, nothing else matters no matter what credence you want to give it. ERA is BS. It has been shown in many posts here by many posters. One of the best being Early Wynns career as a 300 game winner and allowing over 5 runs per game.
I for one am not that old, but baseball has never changed as to the goal of teams every season. Wins determine the best, always has, still does, and always will. Just because some fools wish to adulterate the game with convoluted formulas and then blame teammates of their supposed stars that fail doesn't mean that the older posters don't know the game. In fact i think the old timers know the game better than anyone.
Steven Fischer, Please let me know when the team that wins a game on any given day is not the best team for that game on that day. Then extend the same data over a series, a month, a season. Wins and only wins determines the best.
Going for 3 straight wins today and would be a game over .500. Lets do it.
Teixeira off DL today.
Teixeira starting at 1b today.
Ike Davis DFA'd to make room for Teixeira. Most logical move.
The measure of a pitcher is not earned runs allowed, or even all runs allowed which is far more important than earned runs allowed, but is winning and losing. When anyone starts measuring ability on anything but the purpose a pitcher is pitching for (wins), they are trying to skew outcomes which in turn demeans the winning pitchers.
People. It is just six months until Christmas Day. Start thinking about shopping and then get your shopping done early. Really early. September 30 is a good goal.
Game time. Time to win. Wins are what determines the best. Best is to win. Win the game.
Patricia, give me a break.
Yanks down 1-0 after 2.
Yankees down 1-0 after 4.
1-1 after 6. Yankees go to the bullpen in 7th.
The Yankees and in particularly afruad have failed in when it counts situations so far today. afraud has left four men on base and has failed twice with runners in scoring position.
Betances with a 9 pitch 1,2,3 7th, but Yanks don't score. 1-1 game.
Miller with a 12 pitch 1,2,3 inning in the 8th, then Yanks score for 2-1 lead.
Yanks take 2-1 lead after 8.
Yanks up 2-1 after 8.
Chapman with a 1,2,3,4 9th on 10 pitches for another save and another Yankee win 2-1.
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnnnnnnn. 3 in a row.
Final 2-1 win. One game over .500.
First time poster here. I did post this in response to bigbadwolf on the baseball fever Yankee forum several years ago.
Takes more than over analyzing stats to win in this league and this is coming from a former stat head with fantasy baseball and baseball in general. When you watch baseball long enough... you realize there are no stats to measure grittiness.
More, more, more wins.
I remember you yankeeclipper21. Welcome into the light and out of the darkness of stats. Post often.
Nice win today. Pineda solid, bullpen solid, just enough runs to win.
Also, spent time reading the NYY baseball forum and let me play stat fraud for a moment. I added the IQ's of the top 50 posters there and the total IQ came to 21.
Steve, it looks like a race to the bottom to see who has the lowest IQ, or who is stupidest, or who can make the dumbest post. And it is a scramble or utter ignorance.
We go for the series sweep tomorrow afternoon and four consecutive wins. Lets do it.
Just have to keep winning.
All systems on go for a sweep today.
Eovaldi starts today and Nathan really needs to get his act back together. He has been the most inconsistent starter this past month.
I wonder if Girardi will use any or all of the big three bullpen today after all three have pitched two days in a row. None however, threw a lot of pitches each day.
Several players have stepped up their game, some are holding their own, and several need to upgrade, then their is the one who is a complete disgrace to the team.
We could use a few more runs. A small laugher would be fun.
Lets give the magnificent three a day off. Eovaldi goes a minimum of six innings and the Yankees lead by at least five runs.
bigbadwolf, thanks for the welcome. The light is mind boggling after years of blind stupidity of stat frauds.
Lets do it guys. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
Yankees down 1-0 after three innings.
Yankees down 1-0 after five and the Yankees have gone down 15 straight times. no Yankee has reached first base for five innings.
This has got to change and change big time. NOW!
It changed fast Sal, but not the way you meant it. With 2 out and no one on Eovaldi gives up a walk and then 3 consecutive home runs and the Yaankees are down 5-0 coming to bat in the 5th .
Hicks doubles with 2 out in 6th after 17 straight Yankees had been retired.
Yankees down 5-0 after 6. Finally got a hit.
Is that WINMETHOD that posts on baseballtalkpro.com? Why does he have so much time to post there but never here? He posts daily there it seems?
Down 6-0 after 6. Another golden opportunity given away. Just not moving forward.
The Yankee pitchers and lineup seem to have taken a different route to save the bullpen magnificent 3. The pitchers give up 6 home runs, the lineup doesn't hit and there is no need for the magnificent 3.
Steven Fischer, that is not WIN METHOD. It has to be an imitator that is trying to get recognition via the WIN METHOD name. Some of the posts there are insane.
Final 7-1 loss.
now we head into a four game series with Texas. We need 3 of 4.
Hopefully Teixeira's HR is a sign of something good.
Today was a downer.
Bright spot. The big three closers are rested.
Nova, CC, Tanaka, Pineda for Texas series.
Nova starts off the series tonight. Start off right with a win.
Bring up Judge, kick afraud off the team and we win the division.
Playing .500 ball won't get us into the playoffs.
Alex, that would be the recipe.
Agree guys. Judge would give us many options and a real player. Beltran can DH.
Anyone hear anything about Kaprielian?
Castro the only righty bat in lineup tonight. afraud benched again.
Sue, Kaprielian hurt his elbow back in April and the Yankees have given him a lot of time to recover and rebuild. Goal is to comeback sometime in July and close out the year.
Taking all four games of this series would be a giant step forward.
There may be rain issues with tonights game.
Rain delay.
Yankees lead 2-1 after 2.
Nova very consistent. Every time the Yankees get him a lead, he gives the runs right back.
Yankees down 4-3 after 4.
Yanks take 5-4 lead after 5.
Yankees up 6-4 after 7.
6-5 Yankees after 8.
Rain stoppage in 9th inning. Yanks up 6-5. Chapman in to try for the save. Walks first batter, 3-1 on second batter, umpires cover field.
Still in rain delay, well over an hour now.
After a 3 1/2 hour rain delay the Yankees lose to the Rangers 9-6. The umpiring crew showed total disdain for the fans for allowing the game to be delayed for such a long amount of time as almost every fan left the park and did not get to see the ending under very trying conditions.
Last night was a sham and it was the umpires fault. The game could easily have been halted after the any of the innings and concluded today. The fans were cheated and the umpiring crew should be made to refund the fans ticket dollars.
CC goes tonight.
johnsondc
You think many of those fans would be able to make a second trip and come see the game during the day today? People work during the day and most just wouldn't want to make a second trip...
CC was off last time out. Hope we rebounds tonight.
Steven Fischer, It wouldn't have to be a second admission. Depending on what inning the umpires should have decided to halt play, the game could have continued at anytime after 5PM today and that would have even allowed people with tickets for tonight game to get a little extra baseball.
So, do you think it was good for the fans to halt the game for 3 1/2 hours and have no one there at the finish?
Would like to see CC get seven innings tonight.
I've never seen a game start at 5PM with another at 7PM to follow with almost no break in between. I don't know if there's something within the player union that wouldn't allow for that - but I've just never seen it done.
Don't think it was good - but remember it was actually Joe Girardi who pushed for the delay in the 9th when he saw that Chapman was uncomfortable on the mound, Texas was actually arguing that the game should've been continued - so it's not as if the Yankees are blameless.
Rain delays in general are never good for the fans and lead to low attendance at the end of the game, and rarely allow for any perfect solution. It was an unfortunate outcome, but if the Yankees had held their lead I doubt there would be as big an issue with it.
Steven Fischer, the game would have been continued from whenever it was halted. Continued games have been played many times and usually start before the regularly scheduled game. When teams routinely played double headers years ago, and not the day/night kind with two separate admissions, but two games for one admission, there was just a twenty minute time frame between the two games. Girardi did what he felt needed to protect his player (players). The umpires should have halted the game at the end of any inning long before the ninth inning. At no time should a game be halted in the middle of a pitch count. If Girardi talked the umpires into halting the game, he therefore made fools of them.
Agree, rain delays are not good for the fans. However, most delays are within reason. A 3 1/2 hour delay is unconscionable.
Last night, Yankees 16 hits and 6 runs. Rangers 9 hits and 9 runs. Does this help everyone to visualize what WHEN it matters means?
afraud back in lineup tonight. That is not good.
We have lost far too many games so far this season that we could have easily won.
Yanks down 2-0 after 2.
Yanks down 2-0 after 5.
Yankees down 2-0 after 7 and things ain't looking good.
Sad to say, I am getting the impression that the forces may be against us this year. Nothing is going our way in so many ways.
Final 7-1 loss.
There is nothing to say.
We have played 7 games of a 9 game home stand and are 3-4. We need to win the next 2 games just to be 5-4 which is not that great for a home stand.
Tanaka tonight and we need the win.
I'll say it. afraud on the roster is lunacy. And it is not just because he is a dirtbag. No player on any team should be allowed to block the development and playing time of better younger more productive players. afraud is a 100% waste and a disgrace. He laughs every time he fails when it counts and walks back to the bench to take another nap until it is his time to fail again. He is walking to the bank every time. Let him walk to the bank, just not wearing the uniform with the NY logo. Kick him out already.
Cal Fuerst. We still have to pay him. I agree. Release him outright. If he still wants to play and some other team is stupid enough to let him, fine, let him contaminate some other team.
Getting back to the fallacy of stats. Another example.....Last night, Elsbury doubles to lead off the 8th inning, Refsynder flies out deep to right and Elsbury moves to third base, Refsynder is charged with an at bat. afraud pops a medium fly to center field and Elsbury scores, afraud is not charged with an at bat and gets an RBI. afraud benefits because of Refsynder at bat and Refsynder gets punished while afraud reaps the reward. Just more meaningless stats.
Facts kill johnsondc. Also, afraud delivers again when it didn't matter.
I find it mind boggling just how many of our minor league pitchers have had major injuries this season. It is uncanny.
Lets go guys. We need many wins.
Beltran diagnosed with minor hamstring strain. Day to day.
Again, yet again. 1st and 2nd no one out, afraud grounds into a double play and kills the inning. 0-0 after 1.
1-1 after 2.
Yankees trail 5-1 after 4.
Yanks down 6-2 after 7.
Down 7-3 after 8.
Yankees come back with six 9th inning runs for a 9-7 walk off win.
Theeeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
The team won and had to play around the biggest black hole in baseball in afraud the skel. afraud wax the only out in the 6 run 9th inning rally to win the game and afraud was responsible for 6 of the 25 outs the Yankees had tonight.
Big big win. We needed this, hope it creates something big.
Refsynder, Elsbury, Gardner, McCann 3run HR, Castro, Didi, game winning walk off 2 run HR.
Come back tomorrow afternoon and pound, grind, grit, produce when it counts and win.
We WILL overcome, and we WILL succeed.
We did it.
Pineda today and we have to keep the momentum of a big win going forward.
Marty Hall, I think your post of all the positive at bats by the Yankees in the last inning last night and the omitting of the only failure in the inning was very big of you.
Please, please never play afraud again.
We need a win today to have a winning home stand, barely.
Yanks down 1-0 after 2.
It had to happen before, but this is my first time that I can say all six batters for both teams in one inning all struck out.
Yankees down 1-0 after 4.
1-1 after 6. Pineda with 12 Ks thru 6 innings.
1-1 after 7 as Yankees leave bases loaded.
1-1 thru 8.
Yankees win it 2-1 scoring on a wild pitch.
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
Back to .500.
Yankees head out 10 day 10 game road trip before all-start break. Winning six would be wonderful.
39-39 right now. If you are a Yankee fan and have given up on the season you are an utter despicable fool. And really not a fan.
Swen, harsh but so true.
We still didn't hit when we had the chances. If we keep doing what we have been doing we will keep getting what we have gotten.
The Yankees travel to San Diego and play three games with Eovaldi starting tomorrow.
Win each series and move forward.
There are many teams in the same boat as the Yankees. Which one rises will depend only on wins and winning.
June is over and June was a disaster for Eovaldi. We will see what happens tonight.
Agree Bob....Eovaldi needs to start winning again.
Guys, the whole need needs to start winning at a near .580 clip for the rest of the season. That would mean maybe 88 wins and a shot at the playoffs. .600 clip is best case scenario and could mean 90 wins.
Never give up. You gotta believe. Yes we can. Never stop fighting. Losers quit. Stat frauds are fools.
When you honestly take into account all the injuries so far, this team has really held together quite well to be .500 for the first three months of the season.
Lefthanded lineup tonight but for Castro and Eovaldi.
Is anyone going to around for the game tonight. It is hard to stay awake when a game start at almost 11pm.
Ben
I'm not sure what you mean. We've had mostly minor injuries this season- why are you acting like we've had a lot? We've missed a few weeks of CC and teix, and that's pretty much it.
Eovaldi with nothing again and the Yankees trail 6-1 after 5.
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YANKEES NEWS 120
Greg Bird to undergo season-ending surgery
by Andrew Mearns Feb 1, 2016, 3:00p
2.
Mitchell breaks toe, will be out 3 months 39
by Christopher Novak Mar 31, 2016, 11:05a
Bad news for both the Yankees' ace reliever and a key piece in the bullpen, too.
3.
What does Rumbelow's injury mean for Yanks' depth? 5
by Kunj Shah Apr 13, 2016, 11:00a
The Yankees bullpen took a hit with Nick Rumbelow missing the rest of the year, but they should manage to survive.
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Arm injuries could threaten NYY youth movement 6
by Jason Hecht Apr 26, 2016, 5:00p
With Branden Pinder and Nick Rumbelow already out for the year with UCL tears, and James Kaprielian shut down indefinitely, the Yankees can only hope that arm injuries do not further threaten their...
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Parmalee, Ackley, Lindgren, Teixeira, Williams, Shreve.
Yanks down 6-2 after 6.
Yeah for the most part that's all backup players and back end bullpen players. Almost no starters, almost no starting pitchers, and none of the big 3 bullpen. You've named like 6 injuries and almost none to critical players.
We've been very healthy thus far.
Yankees down 7-2 coming to bat in 9th.
That is only your opinion.
Yankees with big 9th inning rally for 4 runs and fall 1 run short as both Elsbury and Gardner fail to produce in the biggest of situation of just a hit to tie the game. Final 7-6 loss.
I wanted more than anything to have The Yankees Win posted for all you guys. Sorry.
We fell one run short, but we didn't give up and kept trying. Lets win the next two.
will-i-am, thanks for staying up and the info.
Yes, thanks will-i-am. Too bad we lost.
Nova goes tonight and if does what he did last time out we should be in good shape for a win.
Tonights game starts at 10:10PM. 1/2 earlier than last night. With holiday weekend maybe a few more posters tonight?
We just haven't been able to blow by .500 ball.
Did you get some sleep will-i-am?
jimbo, yeah I'm caught up. Tough loss, we had two guys who could have tied it. But they didn't, and that has been the issue all season.
I am still waiting for my 10 game win streak.
0-0 after 2.
Looks like we have a pitchers duel. No score thru four.
0-0 after 4.
1-1 after 6.
Betances in the game and can't hold Nova's 1-0 lead in 6th.
1-1 thru 7.
1-1 after 8.
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