First off, I think it would be a good thing for most of you to go back to the beginning and reread all the blog posts. I think reading the WIN METHOD blog from the beginning is a must for any and all new comers here. It will give you a great perspective on the WIN METHOD and just how great it is.
Now here is a post I made ten years ago on a YANKEE thread in a baseball talk forum. Of course I got bounced from that forum, one of so many. Bounced by people who cannot accept challenge to their foul, corrupt, misleading, and false stats. Trying to get the WIN METHOD philosophy out was a challenge when having to deal with so many very ignorant people. However I found many people at all the forums who wanted something more about baseball than just bad statistics. Why didn't the players with great individual stats help lead their team to wins. What was wrong. I got several suggestions to create a blog about the WIN METHOD. Create the blog and we will come I was told.
I created the WIN METHOD blog two years after the post I will now insert here, and the WIN METHOD blog was started eight years ago. Nothing is edited and the following appears here now just as it was posted ten years ago.
""September 2006.
To discuss the WIN METHOD you must put aside your previous beliefs about what determines the qualities of a ‘best player’. The WIN METHOD is used by only one team in baseball. The WIN METHOD is designed to select players who meet the qualifications of the WIN METHOD and the needs at any given time of the team. The purpose of the WIN METHOD is to find players who MUST want to play for the team. They MUST want to win the World Series. And they MUST put individual achievements as secondary goals. The one on one interview process asks many questions, the answers given may then bring forth other questions. The WIN METHOD more than anything, is interested in getting into the psyche of the player. I have interviewed players and they don’t even know why they are being interviewed. These interviews have consistently gotten the best results. It is similar to you being interviewed for a job, only you do not know it. We interview soon to be free agents, sometimes as far as a year or more ahead of their free agency. College prospects are interviewed, prospective minor leaguers, and players in different countries. The inroads made in Japan in the past two years will reap benefits for a long time.
Getting to the nitty gritty. The WIN METHOD nor I make any deals or trades or any signings. The WIN METHOD is an evaluation tool as to whether or not a player will help the team succeed. NOT INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS BUT TEAM SUCCESS. Not every player signed has been a WIN METHOD selection. As you gentleman feel, there are people with the YANKEES who feel the same. Stats, stats, stats. I have gotten many reasons why a player does not want to be a YANKEE. My question right after that gets some fantastic responses. The question I ask is “Tell me why you don’t want to win and be the best.”
Think of the WIN METHOD as a scout giving a report on the players he is scouting.
The entire idea of believing in the WIN METHOD is a matter of personal psychology. Do you want to believe a player is best because of what he achieves for himself or best for what he achieves for the team. But a team is 25 players. Yes, and when they win they are the best 25 players, be it for a game, a series, a month, a season. Being a baseball fan for over 50+ years, preceding free agency, when players where signed by scouting or acquired by trades, I often wondered why did a player achieve more when he was traded to one team or another as compared to who he was playing for. As time passed I realized players achieved more because they where in situations they preferred and thrived on. Others did worse because they where not in situations they where satisfied with. I started talking to players relatively consistently in the seventies after I met with Mr.S. He helped fund my work.
In the nineties I and the WIN METHOD where ready. Mr.S. and I made a ten year deal, which was just recently renewed for ten more years. Getting back to basics. The WIN METHOD became most feasible with the onset of players being allowed to sign with whomever they wished. The magic words “whomever they wished”. Some poster in a recent thread stated Pedro Martinez would never play for the YANKEES and would rather play on the dirt fields in the Dominican Republic. Fine, then ask yourselves, why on earth would the YANKEES want to sign him? Why would any team want to sign him if he would not be in a situation he was happy with? Getting to our psychological difference in looking at players. The statisticians and the stat fans feel the best players are the ones who attain the gaudiest of individual stats, whatever they may be. And it makes no difference if the player or his team wins. Now the difference, the WIN METHOD people believe that winning is why baseball is played and winning makes for who is best. Right, the TEAM wins. That is the point and the goal of the game. NOT INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS. The team consists of 25 players and the 25 best players win the World Series every year. The WIN METHOD is based on stats also. Just a different way of judging them. ‘A’ hits 50 HRs in 600 ABs. ‘B’ hits 40 HRs in 400 ABs. As stat people, you can see the stats in two perspectives. Who is best. Depends on how you wish to see it. The WIN METHOD sees everything in the terms of WINS. The team wins because of what its players do to help the team win. And the team doesn’t need to have any player in the top of any individual achievement category. It may have a statistical leader, but it doesn’t make a difference either way. The only category the team wants to lead in is WINS. Making the playoffs and moving on through the playoffs. The best players achieve this for the team and therefor themselves. In essence you guys measure a player on his individual stats, the WIN METHOD people measure a player on his ability to allow ateam to WIN. A difference in psychology. Another WIN METHOD issue, is the selection of players who can perform WHEN it counts, in clutch situations, under pressure, under the spotlight. Not everyone can do this, and some fail dismally. It is never how much, but far more important, WHEN you achieve as a player.
I do realize you will belittle, demean, and be unable to accept or comprehend. Have fun. Many do comprehend, accept, live it in their lives filled with success.""
The blog started slowly, and I realized I needed to try to kick start it a little. How. I announced some two major YANKEE signings before anyone in the press and or talking heads knew of them. On November 15, 2008 I announced that CC Sabathia would soon be a YANKEE. On December 11, 2008 it was announced officially that CC would become a YANKEE. Here is a link == http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3759182.
To make a point that I had the information no one else knew about and did not just make a luck guess, I posted on December 19, 2008 that Mark Teixeira would sign a YANKEE contract. That one no one expected. Four days later the YANKEES announce to the world that they had signed Mark Teixeira to an eight year deal. Here is a link == http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3790141.
Many fans started coming to the blog, those who loved winning and wins and the WIN METHOD built the blog to what it is now, the best baseball blog in the world. Those who did not agree with winning and wins determining the best teams and players (the stat frauds) went their own way to live and play in the fantasy world. In the past year the WIN METHOD has grown so exponentially I won't bore you with the stats, but just say we are well on our way to one billion views world wide.
In early July the YANKEE management made the decision to trade/deal some chips for young talent that the YANKEES could use. The YANKEES traded Andrew Miller to the Cleveland Indians for four players. The piece the WIN METHOD wanted was pitcher Justus Sheffield. He is now a YANKEE. Hate to say this, but Clint Frazier is not WIN METHOD, but by no means to the degree of the great baseball fraud Alex Rodriguez aka afraud, Lets hope the move to the YANKEE will help Frazier mentally and lets hope he will help the team. I will monitor his progress.
In dealing Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs the YANKEES got a fine haul of four players and I am particularly happy with the YANKEES reacquiring my special WIN METHOD pick from several years back, Adam Warren. The other three acquisitions will all make an impact on the YANKEES down the road.
Now here is some of the best news I can give you from this Junes draft. The YANKEES were lucky enough to draft as their number one pick a nineteen year old in Blake Rutherford. Blake is going to be a very special major league WIN METHOD player in the mold of Derek Jeter, and yes I will say it, maybe better. Here is information about Blake which is what separates many players. === Before the Yankees came calling, he had a commitment to UCLA since he was a high school freshman out of Simi Valley, California.
"UCLA was a real big thing for me," he said. "It weighed on my mind, but the Yankees were my dream team. To hear them call my name was a dream come true."
Rutherford said he sees himself as a center fielder, though he already has been moved around in the outfield. He also said he expects physical and mental challenges as the grind of a season kicks.
"I'm hanging in there," he said. "The training staff has been great.… The biggest transition is the mental aspect. You have to be mentally strong. I think that's something that kind of separates you." === The YANKEES got a gem.
More good news. Another pick from a year ago is quickly moving up the minor league levels for the YANKEES and in my opinion will turn into another WIN METHOD gem. Pitcher Chance Adams is going to be very special. Chance will be a big part of the rotation.
The YANKEES have tons of talent, both in the field and on the mound. Injuries have slowed too many players to name here, but their time will come and the YANKEES will be a major force to reckon with for many years to come. The future is oh so bright. Do not be surprised if things develop well for the minor talent the YANKEES will not have to go crazy in the free agent market with many stars coming out in the next few years. Maybe there will be a need for one piece if needed.
Yankees down the road with 2016 injuries, Bird, Mitchell, Clarkin, Kapreilian,DeCarr, German, Lindgren, Rumblelow, and others.
Look for Aaron Judge on the YANKEE roster in 2017 with Sanchez, Bird, Refsynder. Louie Louie, and more.
This season isn't over yet, but we learned a lot about many youngsters and they got the time to play everyday in the minors and that can only help to make them better. I f we do not make the playoffs, sure is is a disappointment, but you have to take the bad and turn it into a positive.
Mark Teixeira has announce he will retire at the end of this season and lets all thank Mark for his time and his contributions during his eight years as a YANKEE which does include a World Series championship. Mark put up with and played through countless injuries and gave his best all the time. So long Mark, thank you, and good luck in your future endeavors.
I hope I did not forget anything and I must thank all of the WIN METHOD fans from all over the world who come here everyday and help make this blog the best it can be. Wins and winning will always determine the best teams and the best players and don't ever let a stat fraud tell you differently. All the stat frauds have are excuses and they love to blame the other guys. They say they want to win, but only if it is their fantasy team in the world of make believe.
LETS GO YANKEES
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Thank you for all you do WIN METHOD, love ya,
You were right bigbadwolf. Another Jeter. WOW!!!
I always like reading a WIN METHOD post, so inspiring and uplifting.
Rutherford is just 19 years old and may be two years away. Will look for him and track him.
All hail WIN METHOD the greatest talent evaluator in the world.
Shalom WIN METHOD. You are one of a kind and a special man.
Lets go Yankees and lets go WIN METHOD.
Some powerful information and selections. Unfortunately there is no way to allow for injuries and major setbacks to any of the players.
Always number one in my book. Been here for a long time now.
Lets win tomorrow and take this series. Just play together.
Tanaka tomorrow to win this series and knock off another division leader.
The Yankees have announced an 11am news conference for this morning regarding afraud.
WIN METHOD, you sure make the Yankee prognosis appear bright.
To touch on the new conference today regarding afraud. I hope afraud does the right thing. The right thing in my mind may be far different than what others may think. I think you all likely know where I am coming from and what I am hoping for.
There seems to be almost a whole entire team of good MLB quality youngsters in the Yankee system and some will arrive at the top year after year.
Sunday 8/7 1:05pm
Masahiro Tanaka (R)
vs. Indians - Carlos Carrasco (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Jacoby Ellsbury (L) CF
3. Mark Teixeira (S) 1B
4. Brian McCann (L) DH
5. Chase Headley (S) 3B
6. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
7. Rob Refsnyder (R) 2B
8. Aaron Hicks (S) RF
9. Austin Romine (R) C
No afraud today...ever again?
Some of the Yankee kids are so young. Development time will vary for each.
Love the newest post from WIN METHOD. The future looks bright. Sitting here waiting for the Yankee news conference and hoping for the best for the team.
afraud will play his final game on this Friday August 12, 2016.
Will stay on thru Dec/2017 as player instructor/coach. Just make sure the kids are constantly drug tested.
We are blessed. And gain a roster spot.
afraud is really choked up. I bet he is surprised how he got away with getting paid so much by cheating the game from the very beginning. It is sad.
afraud says Hal Steinbrenner asked him to quit and reached out to him. Good job by Hal. You have to pay him, but at least he is not on the roster anymore.
We can now move forward as a WIN METHOD team, the cancer is cut.
What scares me is afrauds enthusiasm at touching the youngsters of the future.
I wonder if the Rays pitcher Friday night will try to lay one in there for afraud to put out of the park?
Interesting how afraud demeanor changed so quickly, now he is smiling and joyous.
Conference over. Bye bye afraud.
Finally the long afraud nightmare comes to a conclusion.
Game time.
It is so nice to know afraud will be gone. No more black hole in the lineup killing rally after rally and not producing when it counts.
The stat frauds are soiling their pants raving how great afraud was. Stat frauds love individual stats, lying, cheating, and drug use.
Yanks up 1-0 after 2.
2-0 Yanks after 4.
This is usually the inning, the fifth, Yankee starters do stupid things and cost themselves the game.
Two out rbi double when it matters gives Yankees 3-0 lead after five.
Yanks up 3-0 after 6.
Tanaka comes out to pitch the 7th on 100 pitches. Gives up lead off double on one pitch and is taken out. Oh my!
Wilsonway
I don't think stat frauds love lying cheating and drug use...
3-1 Yanks after 7 as Warren gets out of the 7th allowing just the one run charged to Tanaka.
Clippard in for the 8th.
Steven Fischer, Fair point. Love may be the wrong word. Accept is a better word.
Clippard gives up run in 8th and Betances comes in to get 3rd out. Yanks lead 3-2 mid 8th.
Yanks up 3-2 after 8.
Yanks up 3-2 after 8. Betances to close it out.
Betances saves it.
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnnnn.
We take another series from a division leader and this was a second time against the Indians.
Teixeira comes up big defensively and offensively keying the win.
Good day for the Yankees. Two wins. The game and afraud on the way out.
Off day tomorrow. I hope Girardi doesn't use afraud in Boston. But who knows.
I'm not big on cheating, so I never liked afraud.
Now to take the bosux series.
Severino listed to start in Boston Tuesday.
Lets see now. The Yankees got 5 hits and the Indians got 8 hits. Meaningless. The Yankees scored 3 runs and the Indians 2. The Yankees got the hits when they mattered to win.
Lets see now. The Mets got 5 hits and the Tigers got 11 hits. Meaningless. The Mets scored 3 runs and the Tigers got 1. The Mets got the hits when the mattered to win.
Bye bye stat frauds.
Cal, better yet, bye bye afraud. You will not be missed by the fans who know better.
It is weird though how our recent lack of success has coincided with the Yankees worst statistical seasons over the last decade. Just a coincidence though, means nothing.
I just hope afraud doesn't play in Boston. And if he does he will get a full scale booing he has earned for cheating the game of baseball and the fans.
Steven, you dreamer you. The Yankees players have not produced when it mattered to win games. You do not win enough games, you do not go to the playoffs. Not complicated except for stat frauds.
You know you are a fraud when you do not talk wins and winning, but try to use stats to define a team and the players.
Jimbo
Pretty sure I didn't say a single thing in opposition to that. Why am I a dreamer?
Steven Fischer, worst statistical seasons is gibberish. Wins and losses are all that matter.
I think I was pretty clear when I said the Yankees players have not produced when it mattered to win games. You do not win enough games, you do not go to the playoffs.
Off day today. Five more days until afraud the fraud is gone.
Here is another for the stat frauds. Yesterday the Nationals got 2 hits and their opponent the Giants got 2 1/2 times more hits. The Giants didn't score a run for the game and the Nationals on just 2 hits did score a run to win the game. Again, it is when and not how many.
Actually, people who enjoy and appreciate stats deplore the users of performance enhancers because the numbers are distorted and cheapened. But I wouldn't expect that kind of distinction to be grasped here.
Mr. McKenzie: that's well within the bounds of normality. At most it could be called a mild anomaly. But over the long haul, hit production will be correlated with run production, which in turn (along with runs allowed) will be correlated with winning percentage. Not perfectly -- but to a high degree.
You use drugs to cheat and raise your performance and then take money because you cheated make you an embarrassment. That defines Alex Rodriguez, afraud, and he deserves no accolades nor acknowledgements for anything he accomplished via cheating. He is a disgrace and anyone who accepts his deeds is a fool, ignorant, and or a cheat.
Philip Stein wrote """""Actually, people who enjoy and appreciate stats deplore the users of performance enhancers because the numbers are distorted and cheapened. But I wouldn't expect that kind of distinction to be grasped here."""""
Your statement is patently false. You constantly see people lauding cheaters and 'all they have accomplished and done for baseball.' Their records are generally accepted, but I don't think by many if any here. The cheaters are paid vast sums of money after cheating, and don't have to give it back. It's like robbing a bank, and getting caught and being allowed to keep the money. You are so off base with your comment Philip, it is sad.
Philip Stein, Typical baloney. Always excuses. There has never been an excuse used here at the WIN METHOD blog for wins and winning and determining the best teams and players. We don't care if you win by 1 run or 10 runs, if you get 0 hits and win or 20 hits and win. By god, there was even World Series winning team with negative runs. You end with "Not perfectly -- but to a high degree." The difference between stat and the WIN METHOD is the WIN METHOD is perfect.
Louie Louie, Eovaldi, Pineda listed for the bosux series.
Gil
I'm sure the "win method" is perfect in regards to defining the best teams (i.e. whoever wins the World Series is the best team - I won't argue at all against that.
However, you can't argue that winmethod is "perfect" as a player evaluation tool. Their have been a number of failed Yankees draft picks and signings.
Shysters come here spewing stats and their benefits, evading the truth of their false results, lauding players who fail to lead their team to the promised land, and then blame their teammates for not helping. The WIN METHOD lauds all players for their part in helping their team succeed.
As WIN METHOD posted. Read this blog from the beginning and see the difference between fraudulent stat fraud lies and the honor and truth of the WIN METHOD.
Steven Fischer, I am pretty new here, I don't recall WIN METHOD saying the WIN METHOD was a perfect player evaluation tool, but that it was the best available tool.
Gil McKenzie, I think there may be a bit of ambiguity here. The WIN METHOD is also the best player rating tool and that may be confused by some as also being evaluation tool. The WIN METHOD when speaking of evaluation of players has been usually meant to acknowledge the players of the winning team as the best, but based on their contribution to their team. In other words the 25th bench utility player is not better than a starter on another team, but he is the best 25th bench utility player in baseball.
Fair. I feel like extremes are thrown around here far too often.
I.e. to call stats useless, is untrue. Joe Girardi uses stats in order to make some of his lineups and pitching decisions (i.e. will put a righty into the lineup who typically hits lefties better when a lefty is on the mound). So to call stats useless, it's not really true.
I'm also not sure that stats are "lying". Again, it's just data. I don't see why we get so emotional over it. People can use, or not use it, as they please.
I would think that since WIN METHOD created the WIN METHOD and he is the only person who uses it, (there may very well be other teams and people doing similar), and WIN METHOD is only used by the Yankees, the success of the Yankee team since its inception is second to no other team in baseball. That makes it the best.
Steven Fischer. If I recall, it has been stated on this blog that everyone uses stats to a degree. When we rip stat frauds here, we are ripping the use of stats as saying who is the better player because a player achieves many or more. Achieving many or more does not make a player the best. The player may be the best but it is not because of the numbers he attained personally. To use stats to say a player hit the most HRs is fine. Or a pitcher had the most K's is fine. Etc. To use stats to the extent that a player may do better against a certain pitcher is fine. Casey Stengel used a right/left lineup 60 years ago. Stat lie when people use them to say the player with the most HR's or the pitcher with the most K's are the best.
I think most everyone who comes here realizes this, it is common sense. I do not understand why you are unable to look at the WIN METHOD this way.
bigbadwolf, you may be speaking to deaf ears, a contrarian, or fill in the blank.
bigbadwolf
I am perfectly able. I appreciate you note that stats are used to some degree, I think when people here say that stats are useless, they are taking it too far. Pretty much all I was saying.
Steven, it has been said many times throughout the blog that stats are used by people. Just don't use them to say who is a better player. If you want to say a player is a great hitter because his ten year career average is .340, and has been to the playoffs four times. I would agree. If you try and tell me he is a better player than the ten year career average hitter of .280 who has been to the playoffs eight times, won three pennants and won two World Series, I would disagree. I would always take the winner. Wins and winning determine who is best.
Ok, I don't think we're really arguing anything. That's perfectly fine view point.
It's been said that stats are used by people, but it's also been said that stats are useless. Bigbadwolf recently said the scouts and stats are useless (something along those lines). I just think that's extreme, but it sounds as though you agree.
I hope the fans in Boston boo the heck out of afraud. And don't let up.
Deb F, afraud may not play in Boston, but if he does he will receive what he deserves, derision.
afraud will get a subdued and polite ovation at the Stadium. What happens if he K's will be interesting.
We move forward by winning the sux series.
Most fraud fans have given up but we can still reach the playoffs. And the playoff roster could have Sanchez, Judge, and more on it.
Yes we can reach the playoffs Paul, yes we can.
Sweep the bosux. Let it be, let it be.
I am really looking forward to these games in Boston the next three days. Louie Louie.
Please Joe Girardi, please don't put the fraud in the lineup and hurt the teams chances this series.
Sharon,NC --- I agree. I don't think Girardi ever wants to use afraud again and Friday can't end soon enough, and the fraud, only loved by the most ignorant, corrupt, and cheaating fans in the world.
I could just imagine Hal and afraud meeting-------
Hal, Good morning afraud, just want to let you know I am kicking you off the team
afraud, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Hal, we will give you a send off Friday at the Stadium and then that's it.
afraud, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Hal, you will get paid all the monies you are due for this season and next.
afraud, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Hal, We will also pay all monies you are due for next year, thank God your last, and we will name you special advisor and whatever.
afraud, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Hal, you are out of here after Fridays game, and do not have to show your lying face until spring training next season, but you don't really have to show your face, and it is best if you don't show your face and stay away from all the young players you are trying to contaminate.
afraud, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Hal, good bye and get out of my office.
afraud, good by, I'm so wonderful.
Warren, you made my day. That is so so funny.
Fantastic Warren. Love it.
That sounds like afraud. ""I'm wonderful""
Good job Warren. Hilarious.
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Priceless.
Love it, you should get paid for it Warren.
Louie Louie to show his stuff tonight.
Five stars for Warren. You must have bugged Hals office.
Take the series in Boston.
And say good riddance to afraud.
Makes for a good week.
afraud never heard the phrase about drugs....just say no. Great parody Warren.
I just see afraud sitting across from Hal with a big smile on his face, knowing he has gotten away with highway robbery and defrauding the game of baseball. And then thanking Hal as Hal kicks him off the team.
Nice Warren. I really did laugh out loud.
Tuesday 8/9 7:10pm
Luis Severino (R)
@ Red Sox - Rick Porcello (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Jacoby Ellsbury (L) CF
3. Mark Teixeira (S) 1B
4. Brian McCann (L) DH
5. Starlin Castro (R) 2B
6. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
7. Chase Headley (S) 3B
8. Gary Sanchez (R) C
9. Aaron Hicks (S) RF
No afraud. Spread the good news. Warren, Hal was great.
afraud turns my stomach. Glad he will be gone. Cheating turd.
Lets go Yankees, take the sux series.
Four more days and afraud is kaput.
Do it Louie Louie. Your time to shine.
Warren Hammond, i just read you post. Fabulous. Posters here have been asking the Yankees to chuck afraud for an awful long time now. Finally he is chucked.
Take tonights first game guys. Louie Louie lead the way.
I have been uplifted with what the Yankees have done the past two weeks. I can't wait to see some more of the youngsters.
Swwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppp.
WIN METHOD baseball time.
Yanks up 1-0 after 2.
2-2 after 4.
bosux lineup producing when it matters and take a 5-2 lead after 5.
Yanks down 5-2 after 6.
Louie Louie roughed up and pulled in the fifth.
Yanks down 5-2 going to 9th.
Yankees load the bases with two out in 9th with winning run at plate in Ellsbury. Ellsbury walks and makes it 5-3 with bags full and Teixeira up. WHEN WHEN WHEN. Teixeira strikes out looking.
Final 5-3 loss, but went down fighting.
it is always when you produce that determines wins. bosux produced, Yanks did not.
I mean, but it's really how many runs you produce compared to the other team. Literally that's how a win is determined.
Yep, a tough loss last night. We had our chances. Recoup tonight.
Steven, take your factual statement a step further. It has been shown here countless times how losing teams outhit the winning teams. Emphasizing the point it is not how many nor how much but when the hit(s) are produced. The losing teams lineup BA for the game is .300. The winning teams BA for the game is .200. Meaningless, it is only the win that counts. Going back to your statement ""it's really how many runs you produce compared to the other team. Literally that's how a win is determined."" True, but you don't need to score 10 runs to win if your pitcher pitches a shutout or gives up just 1 or 2 runs.
Eovaldi starts tonight. We need the win.
Hitting when it counts is vital. So is pitching when it counts. Preventing runs when runners are in scoring position also helps win games. ERA is not real indicator of a pitchers ability to pitch well when it counts. Giving up runs when your team has a good size lead means nothing except it does raise a pitchers ERA. There is no question wins determine the best and it is very much all 25 players on the team contributing to those wins.
Lets get some hitting and pitching when it counts for the rest of the season guys.
3 more days and afraud is gone. Things are looking brighter.
I find it amazing that MLB allows these guys to cheat and lie, and then make money off of their cheating and lying. MLB execs should be embarrassed, but if they are making money they just look the other way, make excuses, or ignore.
Warren Hammond, I enjoyed your post re Hal and afraud.
MLB could do themselves a whole lot of good by just having a room at Cooperstown for the acknowledgement of all the stats put up by all the cheaters in baseball and segregating them from the clean players. Clean and dirty should not be commingled.
Hear hear Sal. Sad to say baseball is not the only institution that rewards lying and cheating.
Wednesday 8/10 7:10pm
Nathan Eovaldi (R)
@ Red Sox - Drew Pomeranz (L)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Jacoby Ellsbury (L) CF
3. Chase Headley (S) 3B
4. Mark Teixeira (S) 1B
5. Starlin Castro (R) 2B
6. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
7. Gary Sanchez (R) DH
8. Austin Romine (R) C
9. Aaron Hicks (S) RF
Another day another dollar, another game without afraud. Your the man Joe G.
Lets go Yankees, even the series.
Something to ponder. We only demean stat frauds and afraud here. Soon there will be no more afraud.
Game time, lets go Yankees.
Scoreless after one.
Something happened to Eovaldi, did not come out to pitch 2nd inning.
0-0 after 2.
Eovaldi left game with elbow pain. Headed to NY to see doctors.
Yanks down 2-0 after 4.
Something to ponder. Most other forums and blog don't need to demean anyone. They focus on baseball. That'd be cool.
Yanks down 4-1 after 6 and have used all bullpen but for Warren and Betances.
Steven Fischer, I will be semi polite and not say your post is an out and out lie. So I will just say you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
afraud coming in to pinch hit in 7th and gets well earned standing boooooooooooovation.
Yanks down 4-2 men on 1st and 2nd no outs When it matters spot. Pop fly to right.
It's funny you followed that up with another demeaning post.
I have no incentive to lie, it's an observation. This blog focuses 50% on demeaning Arod and calling stats and people that use them stupid and 50% on baseball. Most other places are baseball and news around baseball.
Ellsbury and Headley with big hits when it matters tie game 4-4 and still batting in 7th.
Steven....I don't think anything anyone says can demean afraud any worse than he has done to himself with lying, cheating, more lying, and more cheating.
Teixeira walks to load bases with 2 out and Castro coming up. WHEN
Castro doubles for 2 runs. 6-4 Yanks mid 7th as Didi pops up for 3rd out.
Steven Fischer, being polite again, again you post errantly and have no idea what you are talking about. To make what you call an observation, one would have to conclude you are blind.
Yanks hanging with Clippard in 7th. Only have Warren and Betances to get nine outs. Clippard gives up leadoff single and Warren is coming in.
No matter what, this team has given their all tonight and win or lose should be proud.
Come on Adam. Show us why you are WIN METHOD special selection.
Warren K's Hill, and then K's Leon for two outs.
Yes, Warren gets third out. 6-4 Yanks after 7.
Sanchez leads off the 8th with HR for 7-4 lead.
Will-I-am
Disrespectful and classless response.
Congrats to the rook on first homer
Yanks tack on 2 more runs in 8th for 9-4 lead.
Steven Fischer, thank you, from you I take that as a compliment.
Warren pitches a 1,2,3 8th. WIN METHOD Warren gets all six men he faces, leaving the 9th inning for Betances.
Yanks up 9-4 after 8.
I'm going to say it anyway. No jinx. What a nice win.
Betances 1,2,3 9th with 2K's for the save. Really good win. Yes we can, and will.
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
Final very nice win. 9-4 come back from down 4-1.
Try to win this series tomorrow. How many pitchers from Scranton will be on the shuttle?
We got to work around afraud again. At least he didn't hit into a double play.
I hope Pineda can throw a big game and give us some innings. Whatever, Hopefully Girardi will pull a few more rabbits out of the hat.
Why are you getting so worked up anyway. Do you think the demeaning stuff is an important part of this blog? You wouldn't rather this blog, or any other, focus more on baseball?
After a very strong come from behind win last night a chance to take this series today. Lets go Yankees.
Steven Fischer, It was your comment """""Something to ponder. Most other forums and blog don't need to demean anyone. They focus on baseball. That'd be cool.""""" that brought on the responses. As stated by others, your comment is patently false.
Wouldn't it be great if last nights win created a swell of momentum.
Just keep winning series and all will work out in the end.
Great, it's not patently false - I won't muddle the blog and post links, but there are other baseball forums I go to well the talk is strictly Yankees baseball, player update, moves etc. There's no piling onto single players or ridiculing of people that have different opinions.
Even still, it doesn't make demeaning posts any better cause "some other forum" is doing it. That's a pretty lame excuse.
Here's some fun history:
On Wednesday, Gary Sanchez became the 14th player in Yankees history whose first major league home run came at Fenway Park, the Elias Sports Bureau notes. The big names on that list include Lou Gehrig (1923), Elston Howard (1955) and Don Mattingly (1983).
Not bad company
Pineda in another big outing tonight. Shut them down Big Mike.
Steven, you keep beating the dead horse you rode in on.
1. It is patently false.
2. You are welcome to post links to baseball talk forums. We could use some laughs. Please do.
3. afraud deserves nothing by derision for what he has done to blacken baseball with cheating and lies, just like he has done to his family. Only fools and/or people that would do what he did praise him.
4. You are always welcome to your opinion. However when you say something stupid be ready to accept the ridicule. The is no political correctness nor fantasy baseball, just the truth.
Boy - everyone's so friendly around here!
Steven Fischer, I hope you are not thinking of the nyy forum.
Yes we can make the playoffs. Only the garbage has given up.
Chad Greene, I agree whole heartedly.
First report on Eovaldi elbow is 'inflammation of elbow'. Eovaldi to be shut down for two weeks.
johnsondc, that should open a start or two or three for some of out minor leaguers to start on the big team.
Continue the big hits guys. Lets go Yankees.
Thursday 8/11 7:10pm
Michael Pineda (R)
@ Red Sox - Eduardo Rodriguez (L)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Jacoby Ellsbury (L) CF
3. Chase Headley (S) 3B
4. Alex Rodriguez (R) DH
5. Starlin Castro (R) 2B
6. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
7. Gary Sanchez (R) C
8. Austin Romine (R) 1B
9. Aaron Hicks (S) RF
afraud the black hole hole cancer in the clean up spot tonight.
I can only pray the afraud goes out with a bang, so he can give the stat frauds something to BS about. If he goes out big let it at least help the team to win and take this series. Lets go afraud. If I hold my breath I may die.
The goal is for the team of 25 to win. The Yankees have played under a handicap all season and are still in contention.
Girardi showing too much class batting afraud cleanup.. I would have batted him 9th.
This whole scenario should never have happened. afraud should have been kicked out long ago.
Two more days of afraud. Then the birds will sing.
Game time.
Yanks down 1-0 after 2.
1-1 after 4.
Yankees trail 2-1 after 5.
Yanks down 2-1 after 6.
bosux intentionally walk Headley to load bases to face afraud with one out. afraud hits 15 foot grounder for rbi out. But Yankees take 4-2 lead mid 8th.
Yanks rally for 3 runs in top of 8th for a 4-2 lead.
Cessa with a perfect 8th. Yanks up 4-2.
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