Jul

Red Sox/Indians series mean Yanks need to win

The Indians, whose 34 home wins puts them second in the Majors, host the Red Sox this week while the Yanks are playing the red-hot Kansas City Royals. The Yanks need to keep on winning (obviously), but it’s always a conundrum when two teams holding down playoff spots face off. Which team should root for? Well, in this case, I have to say the Indians. If the Yanks can take 3 out of 4 from the Royals, and the Indians can take 3 out of 4 from the Red Sox, the Yanks would stay 6.5 games back in the Wild Card and move 5.5 games behind Boston. But if not, as long as the Yanks win, they’ll gain ground on some team in front of them this week.

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dan says:

July 23, 2007 at 4:42 pm

the title of this should just be “yankees need to win.” oh wait, we said that in april, may, and june too didnt we?

Ben K. says:

July 23, 2007 at 4:43 pm

Well, that does go without saying, Dan. The Yanks always need to win. It’s more important this week, it seems.

dan says:

July 23, 2007 at 4:48 pm

cano and bj upton shared the AL player of the week award. cano we see all the time, but look at the year upton is having. .339/.423/.576 = holy crap. I don’t actually know how it’s humanly possible to have a .466 BABIP after 236 AB’s, but even considering that he’s having a ridiculous year

Kyle says:

July 23, 2007 at 5:06 pm

The BABIP is high but you should expect Upton to have a pretty high BABIP, he is hitting line drives in about 21% of his plate appearances, and with his speed a .350/.360 BABIP wouldnt be that outrageous at all, adjusting the BABIP to the .360 range would knock his BA down to like .280

John says:

July 23, 2007 at 5:57 pm

Where do you guys find BABIP listed?

dan says:

July 23, 2007 at 5:59 pm

http://www.fangraphs.com
(click “stats,” not the player’s name, to see stats in number form, if you click the name, they will appear in a graph, hence the name fangraphs)
awesome site btw

Joseph P. says:

July 23, 2007 at 6:07 pm

You can also find BABIP at Baseball Prospectus.

C-Note says:

July 23, 2007 at 6:22 pm

root for Cleveland to beat the shit out of the Sox, Cleveland has a MUCH more difficult schedule the rest of the way, while the sox schedule is comperable to the yanks in terms of playing teams with winning records(SOX have 15 games left with Tampa, hopefully the Rays can out slug the sox to win some of those)

NYFan50 says:

July 23, 2007 at 7:37 pm

Things don’t look good for Cleveland in the early going.

C-Note says:

July 23, 2007 at 8:50 pm

well, it works out either way– GO SHELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike R. says:

July 24, 2007 at 12:21 am

The Dynamic Duo hits Scranton!!! Looks like Kennedy and Joba are taking their show to AAA. Credit Pending Pinstripes for finding the story.

http://blog.nj.com/ledgeryanke.....moted.html

Mac says:

July 24, 2007 at 2:53 am