This season we appear to have improved the roster in all areas. Adding Stanton, Walker, Drury, etc. will surely make this team better. Having Robertson, Kahnle, and Gray for the entire season should also improve the team. The only injury of consequence is Greg Birds bone spur, the surgery he just underwent, and him being out for about two months. As usual we will play the hand we are dealt and overcome all roadblocks and obstacles.
We have several players at AAA Scranton chomping at the bit while blooming and growing that will be heard from and make their presence felt this season. You know their names, Torres, Andujar, German, and others. This 2018 Yankee team is deep, has gained confidence and experience, and has backups close at hand.
As I started to write this post I noticed a post by Cory. I thought his post was very insightful and positive and I didn't want it to get bypassed because of being posted in a past blog, so I am reposting it right here now. Thank you for your post Cory.
----- I will be doing the ten game sets and posting them here as I did last season.
Here is the sets from last season.
10. 6-4
20. 7-3 = 13-7
30. 8-2 = 21-9
40. 3-7 = 24-16
50. 6-4 = 30-20
60. 7-3 = 37-23
70. 2-8 = 39-31
80. 4-6 = 43-37
90. 4-6 = 47-43
100. 7-3 = 54-46
110. 5-5 = 59-51
120. 6-4 = 65-55
130. 5-5 = 70-60
140. 5-5 = 75-65
150. 8-2 = 83-67
160. 7-3 = 90-70
Note the sets from games 61-90. We were 10-20. That is awful baseball. Still finished 91-71. With everything else staying the same if that 30 game skid could be bettered this season to just 15-15 that would mean this season could wind up 96-66. If we improve the three 5-5 sets from last season by one game that would take this season to 99-63. And if we raise the 3-7 set to 4-6 that could take this season to 100 wins.
It will be up to the players on the field producing when it matters most, but it is surely possible.-----
It is not only Cory with great posts, it is all of your posts, every single one of you from all over the world who post your comments and views here. And all of the readers of the WIN METHOD blog from all over the world, even if you do not post. We have surpassed 320 million views and are getting bigger and bigger every day. Yes, we still get some stat frauds, but they are good for us and also and serve a purpose. The stat frauds give us a guidepost and remind us of just how meaningless and useless their individual stats are. There is no doubt to anyone here who is a WIN METHOD fan that only wins can take a team to the playoffs. Only wins and winning as always, do now, and always will in the future, determine the best players and teams. THANK YOU ALL WIN METHOD FANS.
Now it is just about that time where we all stand up and cheer our team for the 2018 season!
LETS GO YANKEES
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Rain has move out of the Bronx. Game should be played. Lets go Gray, lets go Yankees.
Ben Rosen/Israel, Thank you for your comment. As you stated, no question.
Wednesday 4/25 6:35pm
Sonny Gray (R)
vs. Twins - Lance Lynn (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF
5. Gary Sanchez (R) DH
6. Tyler Austin (R) 1B
7. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
8. Austin Romine (R) C
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Basically a right handed hitting lineup against a right handed pitcher. All the youngsters are in.
Lets keep hitting, particularly when it matters, and lets hope Gray doesn't crash and burn us into the ground again.
The best part about this team, there is no foul cheating dirtbag like afraud on it and contaminating it.
Grayskies in the groove quickly. Walk and home run in 1st inning has Yankees down 2-0 before coming to bat. Hope the lineup scores runs tonight. Then again, maybe it was just a bad pitch with a man on. MAYBE!
Didi solo HR and Austin 3 run HR give Yankees 5-2 lead after three innings.
Grayskies after being staked to a 5-2 lead after 3 comes out in the 4th and gives up 3 consecutive singles and 1 run so far with 1 out. K for the 2nd out. Popup for 3rd out. Gets out of a big jam allowing only 1 run. That's a positive.
Yankees lead 6-3 after four.
Grayskies can't finish the 5th inning and can't earn the win. He leaves with the bases loaded and 2 out after throwing 104 pitches. A very poor outing no matter how you look at it. Green in and gets 3rd out on popup.
Yanks clinging to 6-4 lead after 7. Not closing it out, missed when it counts opportunities.
Final 7-4 win. Green gets the win as Grayskies comes up empty again.
Winning the first three games with the Twins guarantees winning the series. A chance for a four game sweep tomorrow with Monty starting.
Gray looks like a little leaguer on the mound. Throws too many pitches, and too few strikes.
At least Gray kept us in the game, and earned a no decision. That is far better than a loss.
I think this event last night defines Gray and his problems. He comes out to pitch the 5th inning and with two on and two out he needs one more out to have pitched far enough to possibly be the winning pitcher. Gray gets the first two strikes on the batter who would be the third out and then fails to throw another strike, nibbling at corners trying to make the perfect pitch and walks the batter to load the bases. He is at 104 pitchers and he is taken out of the game with no chance of being the winning pitcher.
Thursday 4/26 1:05pm
Jordan Montgomery (L)
vs. Twins - Kyle Gibson (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) DH
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Tyler Austin (R) 1B
8. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Where is the weak spot in this lineup. Everyone bring your broom.
If I had to pick a weak spot it would be Austin. Caveat, Austin is a very nice weak spot to have.
My mother gave me this advice a very long time ago. Lets say you could take the best player from every team in the majors to build your team. That would give you 30 players. 5 of them wouldn't make your team since your team can only have 25 players. And then your bottom 5 players would be your "worst" players. Then you still have to play the season and you don't go to the playoffs and beyond unless your players produce when it counts and matters the most.
The most interesting and telling possibility of your team is you could have the league leader in every offensive and defensive category and still not make the playoffs unless your team WINS enough games.
Scoreless after two.
Monty throwing like Gray today. Over 70 pitches thru 3 innings and down 2-0 mid 3rd.
Yanks down 3-0 after 6.
Sanchez with walk off 3 run home run in bottom of ninth. Swwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeppp!
Final 4-3 win coming from 3-0 down.
Hopefully someone got through to Betances. He pitched the 9th inning in what looked to be a 3-1 loss and struck out the side with no nonsense. The Yankees came up for their last licks and scored 3 runs to win the game 4-3 and Betances earned the win.
On to LA to face the Angels this weekend for three games.
Very nice win today. When a starter is perfectly on his game like Gibson was today and has to be relieved, the relievers stuff is almost never as good as the starters. Thus the walk off win.
Louie Louie, Tanaka, and CC listed for Angel series. All night games, YES, FS1, and the despised espn Sunday night.
No one ever forget. Your not as good as when you are playing your best and you are not as bad when you are playing your worst.
Lets go Yankees.
Monty threw far too many pitches innings 1-3, but finished 4 and 5 very strong. Allowing 2 runs over 5 innings is not awful.
Interesting that in WIN METHODS March 28th blog he named three youngster and all are playing for the Yankees already this season in Andujar, Torres, and German. And still more to come.
No better way to start a road trip than to have your top three pitchers going 1,2,3.
The infusion of youth and this Yankees team is good. The young players know WIN METHOD baseball and want to win and help the team win. There are several veterans on the team to help lead the youngsters in the right direction, overcome the downs, and pitfalls, while learning how critical it is to produce when it counts.
10 PM game tonight. No work tomorrow.
We face a lefty tonight.
Friday 4/27 10:07pm
Luis Severino (R)
@ Angels - Andrew Heaney (L)
1. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Neil Walker (S) 1B
7. Miguel Andujar (R) DH
8. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
9. Ronald Torreyes (R) 3B
Eight righty bats. Austin serving 4 game suspension so Walker at 1B. Torreyes at 3B with Andujar DH. Lets open this series with a win.
Just play solid baseball tonight and produce when it counts.
If Louie Louie brings his solid game we will should do well.
We have been on a very nice run of no stat fraud posts here. They know they are fools and can't spread their garbage here. They know they won't get banned here, but they know they can't win a debate either because they are garbage. We go to their forums and post facts, wisdom, and knowledge that proves their arguments fraudulent. They then deem us trolls and ban us.
1-1 after 5.
Yankees down 3-2 after 7.
This has been one crazy game. Yankees getting snuffed by Angel right field Calhoun who has saved the Angels about 4 runs with great catches.
Judge has looked terrible tonight striking out four times. Maybe he is pressing to hard playing from where he grew up.
Yanks get a run in 9th to tie it at 3 with Angels coming to bat in 9th.
Didi HR puts Yankees up 4-3 in 10th. Chapman coming in to try for the save.
Chapman gets pop out, fly out, gives up double, pop out. Yankees win 4-3 in 10.
Final 4-3 come from behind win in 10.
It wasn't pretty, it wasn't easy, but it was a WIN.
Tanaka tonight. Good start to this three game series last night and we can take this series with a win tonight.
The magical season continues. Or is it the WIN METHOD tenet of producing when it matters. The Yankees come from behind with a run in the 9th to tie and then a run in the 10th to win last night in Anaheim. The Yankees scored four runs yesterday, three on sacrifice flies and one on a home run. WINS are the only stat that counts.
Getting an RBI with an out and a runner on third base with less than two outs is one of the best things a hitter can do to produce when it counts.
Runs on outs are big and win games that may ordinarily be lost without them. They were needed and won last nights game because of two great catches by Angel right fielder Cole Calhoun. Calhouns catches were examples of producing when it counts defensively. His play made for a tight one run game that could of gone either way. Stat frauds can't and or don't want to accept this.
Stat frauds only accept meaningless numbers. That way they play with themselves in the fantasy world.
If Tanaka does well like his last outing it should be a good game, and a game that could go either way. Hope Judge get over the yips.
Saturday 4/28 9:07pm
Masahiro Tanaka (R)
@ Angels - Garrett Richards (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Neil Walker (S) 1B
8. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Lets score some runs and lets win.
Lets keep it going guys. Yes you can.
Yankees put up five runs in first inning. Good start, but there is a long way to go.
Yanks put up a five spot in the second inning. Yes WIN METHOD fans 5 and 5 is 10-0 mid second.
Andujar is pounding the ball. Two bullet line drive hit so far tonight. A double and a single.
10-0 after 3. The good guys.
10-1 after six. They made it easy for Tanaka tonight.
It's nice to have a laugher every once in awhile.
Best thing about tonight's romp, the team didn't add on a boat load of extra meaningless runs.
We take another series. Playing well right now.
Final 11-1 win. Good start to western swing. But we ain't going to win them all.
CC's turn tonight with a chance for series sweep.
Wins and winning paints a target on your back. Every team, every pitcher will be looking to take down the big guys.
Angels throwing a lefty at us tonight. Lets greet him with open arms, or is it hot bats.
In the Angel series we have scored 15 runs and only 1 was by a home run.
I hope I don't jinx him, but Andujars' defense has not been an issue so far and his throwing across the diamond has been exemplary.
Sunday 4/29 8:07pm
CC Sabathia (L)
@ Angels - Tyler Skaggs (L)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Neil Walker (S) 1B
8. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Lets do it guys. Hope you brought the brooms from NY.
Mickey Littlebear, yep, we sure are due to hit a few dingers.
After Fridays 10 PM game and Saturdays 9 PM game, today's 8 PM game doesn't seem that bad. Except, tomorrow is a work day for many if not most.
Scoreless and hitless after three innings.
Yankees lead 2-0 after five. Sanchez 2 run HR.
2-1 Yanks thru 7. CC pitches seven innings and leaves with a 2-1 lead. Real solid effort.
Green hold, Chapman save, equals CC and Yankee 2-1 win.
Final 2-1 win and another series sweep.
A big win tonight. CC was fantastic and Green and Chapman did their job. A fourth inning double followed by a HR was the total Yankee offense. Just enough.
Onto Houston for another four game series with the World Champions.
Quay Ho has been looking for a ten game winning streak from the Yankees. Tonight they have a rare chance to do so. The drawback for the Yankees will be their starting pitcher, Grayskies.
Will he step up or dig his hole of ineptitude even deeper!!
Gray could change the opinions of knowledgeable Yankee fans tonight with a high grade winning effort when it counts. Gray needs to produce, and so far as a Yankee he has been sorely lacking.
Gray has had many chances with the Yankees. He is 28 years old with four full seasons in MLB.
He is not a kid still learning his craft. He should be at his peak. If this is his peak, the best the Yankees have is a very bottom end rotation starter, if even a rotation starter at all for a pennant contending team. How many chance is he going to get?
I get tired of the talking heads saying how much stuff Gray has, how is ball really moves, and other nonsense. If he can't win, more so win big games for a contender, then all the "stuff and ball movement" in the world is meaningless. This the "head" can't seem to get in their heads filled with mush.
My opinion, Gray pitches like a deer in the headlights. He needs to prove us all wrong and win.
I can only hope for the best tonight.
Yes we can, lets go Yankees, win one more for Quay Ho.
Monday 4/30 8:10pm
Sonny Gray (R)
@ Astros - Charlie Morton (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
4. Gary Sanchez (R) DH
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
7. Neil Walker (S) 1B
8. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
9. Austin Romine (R) C
Judge out of lineup tonight. Smart move by Boone in my opinion for several reasons.
Tonights game will end Tyler Austins suspension. Full strength tomorrow.
Gray puts Yankees down 1-0 after one.
Yanks down 1-0 after 3.
Yankees trail 2-0 after five and have no hits.
Yanks down 2-0 after six. Gray does go a credible six innings. IF he can pitch like today going forward he will be the fifth starter. He is pitching the game the Yankee lineup has done nothing.
Final 2-1 loss. There goes the win streak stopped at nine.
There were many good thing for the Yankees in tonight's game. Just got beat by a brilliant effort from the opposing pitcher and the defending World Champion team.
Almost Quay Ho. I bet we will get another chance this season.
Over the last two games our pitchers only gave up three runs, but we only split the two games. The bats were pretty much silent and that is not good. If the bats get going we have a better chance to win games because the pitchers can;t be really good all the time. Maybe Monty will get support tonight.
You want to know why the Houston Astros are world champions. How about the way they scored their first of only two runs last night. Pure WIN METHOD. A single to start the inning, a balk moves the runner to second. A ground out moves the runner to third. A ground scores the runner. Yes another out scoring a runner from third with less than two outs. The difference between winning and losing.
Steve, those low profile runs are vital so many times. In close games they are the deciding factor. But those runs do not fulfill stat frauds agenda. They only want to know how much and how many. That is the reason the teams that go to the playoffs only go because of wins.
This is a big game tonight in relationship to this series. Four game series and a win evens it. A loss and you are down two and need to win the last two games just to play .500 ball for the series.
I remember all the managers in the WS saying game two was always vital. If you last game one you almost had to win game two and if you won game one winning game two gave you a great advantage.
Tuesday 5/1 8:10pm
Jordan Montgomery (L)
@ Astros - Justin Verlander (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
8. Tyler Austin (R) 1B
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Austin is back. This lineup needs to produce when it counts tonight. Play as a team.
For the umpteenth time, when hitting stay in the zone. You have to make the pitcher throw strikes and when he does you need to produce.
Lets go guys, lets overcome last nights loss.
I believe that the best is yet to come from our youngsters. Torres and Andujar are newbees to MLB are will only get better. They are good now, but the best is yet to come. And I still have high hopes for Greg Bird. His rotten luck is overdue to change for the better.
When the Yankees had Jeter, they did reasonably well against Verlander. Verlander is 4-0 so far and will be tough.
Monty out after one inning. Something had to be hurting. He had easy 1,2,3 nine pitch inning.
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0-0 after 4.
Monty left with elbow tightness. Lets hope for the best.
What a game. Scoreless after seven.
Sanchez 3 run top of ninth HR. 3-0.
3-0 Yankees on Sanchez HR.
Yankees tack on another run and lead 4-0 with Astros coming to bat. Chapman in to try to close it out.
Chapman with a 1,2,3 9th. Yankees win one heck of a game 4-0.
.Final Yankees win 4-0. After Monty left with elbow issue after one inning. The Yankee bullpen stepped up big time. German 4 innings, Green 1 inning, Betances 1 inning, Robertson 1 inning, Chapman 1 inning, all allowing no runs. Team effort for the win.
If you watched this Yankee/Astro game and yesterdays, you likely saw the two best teams in baseball play some truly great baseball.
Louie Louie tomorrow night.
The ninth inning started with a Judge single, Dido double, Stanton K, Sanchez HR. Hicks single, stolen base, advanced to third on a productive out, and scored on passed ball.
Look at producing when it counts for the other team. The Astros had several chances throughout the game where a hit would have scored men on base, but they failed every time.
Gus Papa, your post summed up game twos very eloquently. Now that we are even all we need is to win one of the next two games and we will have played the defending World champions even in their home ballpark.
Louie Louie be an ace tonight. Earn the win and this will be a great road trip.
Lets go Yankees, yes you can.
Wednesday 5/2 8:10pm
Luis Severino (R)
@ Astros - Dallas Keuchel (L)
1. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF
5. Gary Sanchez (R) DH
6. Tyler Austin (R) 1B
7. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
8. Austin Romine (R) C
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Didi only lefty bat in lineup.
Lets finish this road trip with a bunch of runs in each of the final two games.
okiened, the Yankees are overdue to put up a boatload of runs.
Looks like Monty out at least six weeks with elbow strain. The Yankees don't tend to rush guys back which is good.
Stanton (finally) first inning two run home run has Yankees leading 2-0 after one inning.
Stanton second HR of game puts Yankees up 3-0 after four.
Yanks up 3-0 after 4.
Seven complete. 3-0 Yankees. I would feel a lot better with a couple more runs.
Vladimir Tinzak....Well the Yankees got 1 of the 2 runs you wanted. Lead 4-0.
Final. Yankees win 4-0. Louie Louie with a complete game shutout.
Louie Louie throws a complete game shutout. 110 pitches. Total domination and still throwing over 100 MPH in the ninth inning.
What a solid effort from Louie Louie. Has to be one of the top if not the top pitcher in baseball.
1-10 5-5
11-20 6-4 = 11-9
21-30 9-1 = 20-10
Three ten game sets complete and third one is brilliant.
Tanaka tomorrow and no matter what happens it has been a very successful western road trip.
Stanton had all four RBI's tonight.
The Yankees have been playing some really good baseball the past two weeks. It is unsustainable. If the drop off, when it occurs is not drastic all will be fine as the team moves to the top of the standings.
Win by one run or win a laugher. It is still just one win at a time.
We did not play 9-1 ball last season in any ten game set from the beginning of the season to the end. We played two 8-2 sets. So, this seasons 9-1 set is a high bar for the team.
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Thursday 5/3 2:10pm
Masahiro Tanaka (R)
@ Astros - Lance McCullers Jr. (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Neil Walker (S) 1B
7. Miguel Andujar (R) DH
8. Ronald Torreyes (R) 3B
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Torreyes at 3B and Andujar at DH.
Lets earn the win guys. Good pitching and hits when it counts carry the day. A home run or two or three won't hurt.
Yankees leading 3-0 after three innings of play.
After six scoreless innings of great pitching from Tanaka the Astros put together one heck of a garbage inning in the seventh and score four runs to take a 4-3 lead after seven.
The Yankees had chances to put this game away and failed too many times. Also the Astros hadn't scored for 28 straight innings and they were very do to score. Plus they did put together a garbage inning. But that is why they are the Champions. They don't give up. Live and learn young Yankees.
Yanks down 5-3 going into 9th and their last at bats. Never give up.
Yankees come back with 3 in 9th to take 6-5 lead. Chapman in to try for the save.
Lets go Chappie. Lets get this win.
Here we go. Three more outs. One out on K. Two out on infield popup. Batter reaches first on K as ball gets by Sanchez. Ground single to left. Men on first and second two outs. Three out on K. Notice the Astros did not give up and had a chance right down to the last pitch.
What a game. Final 6-5 win with 3 in 9th. 6-1 road trip against two very good winning teams.
How about Andujar and Torres each with BIG when it matters WIN METHOD hits in the ninth. Torres good for 2 RBIs that tied game.
Come on home guys. You did us fans proud. Together we are the WIN METHOD.
Had work today so I DVR'd the game. It will be great to watch all the action quickly because I can skip over the uneventful innings. Still great to watch even knowing the outcome.
The Yanks come home and host the Cleveland Indians for a three game weekend series. Tapped to start each game are CC, Gray, and German.
Yankees home for nine games. 3 each with Cleveland, the sux, and A's.
The Yankees scored 6 runs today, none on HRs, the game winning RBI scored on a ground out and a man on third base with less than 2 outs. Production when it counts.
We are back home. Keep the winning going.
Any hitter in our lineup can hurt the opposing pitcher at any time, and do it consistently. There is power, there is speed, and there is blooming and growing confidence.
Keep us on a positive footing and moving forward tonight CC.
The Tribe split a double header yesterday and had a 7 run inning in one game and a 9 run inning in the other. Lets watch CC cool off their bats.
Would be great to take these three series at home.
As usual, let's take the first game of this series. Everybody contributes.
Friday 5/4 7:05pm
CC Sabathia (L)
vs. Indians - Josh Tomlin (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Gary Sanchez (R) C
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Neil Walker (S) 1B
8. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Lets win another guys. Everyone hits when it counts.
I love the Yankees. I love winning. I love this blog. I love the WIN METHOD. Lets go Yankees.
No score thru 3.
Torres 3 run HR and Judge solo HR in 4th give Yankees 4-0 lead.
I think the Yankee 8 and 9 hitters, Andujar and Torres are better than any team in baseballs 1 and 2 hitters.
5-0 Yankees thru 6. CC goes 6 scoreless innings 3 hits 0 walks. Betances in for 7th.
Shreve in for the 8th and stinks up the game, allowing all four men he faced to score. Robertson has to be used and he allows a run as Indians tie game at 5.
Just when you think you have the game in hand. Wow, baseball is a great game. Lets go guys, still work to do.
Judge walks with the bags full for a 6-5 lead. Chapman in to try for another save.
Chapman with two wild pitches gives up a run. 6-6. More work to do.
Andujar with a walk off RBI single with two outs for the 7-6 win.
Final 7-6 nail biting thrilling win in what should have been a 5-0 easy win.
Oh my, what a win.
We do it again tomorrow. Gray is our starter. Do we get Sonny Gray or do we get Grayskies?
CC got a no decision yesterday after pitching six innings of scoreless baseball and leaving the game leading 5-0.
REFRESHER: Lets look how the WIN METHOD looks at no decisions. A no decision is not a bad thing and it may not even be a good thing because of all the events and or possibilities that make for a no decision. For example, CC last night we may say CC did not get the win because of the performance of others beyond his control. The same can be said if CC left the game losing 5-0 and then the performance of others beyond his control came back and evened up the game so CC could not be the losing pitcher and would get a no decision.
Therefor the WIN METHOD looks at a no decision as a value of exactly what the pitchers win percentage is. Be it for a year of his career.
CONCLUSION: No decisions do not change a pitchers win/loss percentage. The team would win at the same rate their won/loss record was over the pitchers season and career.
EXAMPLE: A pitcher starts 30 games. His record is 15-9 with 6 no decisions. The W/L percent for the pitcher is .625, so we then value a pitchers no decisions at the same .625 be it for a season or over his career.
CONCLUSION: If a pitcher over his career has a .600 W/L percentage, all his no decisions over his career are viewed as a .600 percentage.
Saturday 5/5 1:05pm
Sonny Gray (R)
vs. Indians - Trevor Bauer (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) DH
3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
5. Neil Walker (S) 1B
6. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
7. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
8. Austin Romine (R) C
9. Ronald Torreyes (R) SS
Didi and Sanchez out and neither is DH. Judge DH. Torreyes SS. Romine C.
Very nice Cory.
We will see what Gray gives us today. A step forward or backward? Forward would be great.
Cory, what no formulas or contrived made up fake stats. You kill the stat frauds with facts and the real world.
Two innings. Six up six down for each team.
0-0 after 4.
Yankees score 4 runs in 5th inning on just 1 hit, but get 3 walks and 2 Indian errors. Lead 4-1 after 5.
Gray finishes six strong innings and leaves leading 4-2. Green coming in for the 7th.
5-2 Yanks after 8. Robertson coming in in th 9th to try to close out game.
Final Yankees win 5-2.
It looks like Gray took another step forward today. That is good for him and the team. The eighth and ninth batters were big again today for the Yankees. Today it was Romine and Torreyes.
Nice start to the homestand. Chance for a series sweep tomorrow.
German starts tomorrow. Last time out he was thrown into the game unexpectedly when Monty injured elbow. Lets see how he does having time thinking about this start.
Lets go Yankees. Wins are all that counts.
Just throw strikes German. Yes you can.
German gets a major chance, as many in the past have gotten. Hoping he steps through the door and never looks back.
Sunday 5/6 1:05pm
Domingo German (R)
vs. Indians - Mike Clevinger (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Gary Sanchez (R) C
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Neil Walker (S) 1B
7. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
8. Tyler Austin (R) DH
9. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Stanton out today. lets go German, lets go Yankees.
Boone has been giving everyone a day off here and there. 18 straight games with travel right after a game that concludes a series is a lot of wear and tear. An extra day off here an there to go along with a scheduled day off is good for players. It clears the mind and provides a different prospectus of a game and what is happening. Add in the added wear on catchers and they should get even more time off. It works great when you have the players the Yankees have because the team doesn't miss a beat.
Trust you stuff German. Lets go guys, support your young pitcher.
Scoreless thru 3.
0-0 after five. German has done well.
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