High and Tight.

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Twenty Seven, and a Contest Coming

To celebrate the Yankees 27th World Championship, I'll be running a contest on this blog next week with some Yankee-related prizes.

Congratulations to the Yankees and all of their fans.

Labels: 2009 world series, contest

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Simple Math.

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Monday, November 02, 2009

Since When Does A Pitcher Give Up Five Runs and Win "Player of the Game"?

Cliff Lee had a 6.43 ERA for the game, but the geniuses at FOX gave him the Player of the Game.

Utley? Sorry, buddy your two homers aren't good enough.

Labels: 2009 world series, awards, chase utley, cliff lee, phillies

posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 10:07 PM 0 comments

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 4:06 PM 0 comments

Gaudin Should Be Starting Game 5

Fact: AJ Burnett is much better at home.
Fact: Cliff Lee is pitching tonight and if the Yankkees can't muster anything against him, you waste Burnett.
Fact: Burnett would be on regular rest in Game 6.
Fact: This forces Pettitte to pitch on short rest.

I think Girardi is overplaying his hand here. We'll see.

Labels: 2009 world series, a.j. burnett, andy pettitte, joe girardi, pitching rotation

posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 12:17 PM 0 comments

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Jimmy Rollins *Did* Say the Series Would Be Over in Five Games, Right?

Labels: 2009 world series, jimmy rollins, phillies, predictions

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Great Job by the Umps Last Night

Not that it would have mattered in the outcome, but here's Robertson's four pitch walk to Jayson Werth

Labels: 2009 world series, david robertson, phillies, umpires

posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 12:05 PM 1 comments

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

WhatIf Sports Predicts Yanks in Six

As you can see here, WhatIf Sports rant 10,001 simulations of the World Series and the Yankees won over 70% of them.

The computer likes the New York Yankees to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in six games.

New York wins 72.3% of those series, with the most common occurrence being a six-game series win by the Yankees (21.3% of all series have this result - a seven-game New York victory is next at 19.0%). On average, the offensively-dominant Yankees have a 31-point higher average (.296 to .265), hit two more homeruns (9.9 to 7.8) and score 4.2 more runs (35.2 to 31.0). The Phillies only advantages appear to be in the "smallball" categories of speed and defense. Philadelphia averages 2.7 more steals (4.7 to 2.0) against the weak-armed Yankees' catchers and commits 2.1 fewer errors (2.4 to 3.1). As you can see below, the Yankees also appear to have the advantage in the starting rotation and the bullpen.

I also predict the Yankees in six, and think the MVP will be Alex Rodriguez (who got jobbed out of the ALCS MVP award).

Labels: 2009 world series, phillies, predictions, whatif

posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 10:34 AM 1 comments