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How does OG look like at the 3? And Mikal at the 2? Presumably these are their best positions. SSS but still.
The starting lineup of KAT, Mitch, OG, Bridges, and Brunson looked very good. You can probably bet that we will see that starting lineup on opening day vs. the Cavs. After that, Brown might make adjustments as more data is available, but the Cavs’ twin towers lineup makes it the obvious choice for starters. Beyond that, Hart is banged up so it makes the decision easier.
Honestly, I don’t get why it should be even a little bit controversial.
If I understand the schedule correctly, we next play the Timberwolves Thursday night. This is a big contrast with Philly. The Timberwolves have a healthy and deep roster along with rim protection inside. It’s a good test for us.
“I keep hearing Garrison Matthews…is a legit contender for the roster spot earmarked for a shooting specialist that Landry Shamet hopes to claim”
I’ll be at that game in great seats, thanks to a very generous friend. I’m expecting a pretty serious ambiance, as it’s Brown’s first game at MSG and Julius and DDV will be in the house. Last year’s Knicks-Wolves game at MSG was a loss. KAT was out and Thibs started Sims and played Precious 35 minutes. DDV was also out that game.
Alan, I think it would be prudent to give Garrison Matthews a very good look before deciding to go with Shamet over him. What bugs me about him is that in spite of having a bigger physical frame than Shamet, he doesn’t have Shamet’s defensive motor. Not that Shamet is a good defender, just a pesky one, whereas Matthews seems a bit soft and slow.
Ultimately, I think that if one of those two get the nod, it will be Shamet.
remember years ago dogging the kids for spending so much time on youtube, fast forward some time, and there i am, was looking through vids today and noticed they had the full Ankalaev versus Pereira 2 fight from ufc 320 last night, first fight was a 5 round back and forth split decision win for Ankalaev…going in to the fight last night Pereira claimed he was only about 40% for the first fight, which sounds like fighter speak for – i had a bad night…last night did not last so long…
they need to come up with a whole different sport for Pereira, that guy is insane…
The band Geese from Brooklyn are blowing up right now, and are justifiably being called the first great Gen Z rock band. I think their new record is amazing. They would have fit in very well in the Bowery scene in the early 00’s alongside The Strokes, TV On The Radio, Interpol, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They’re the rare kind of band where all the members are essential and all have identifiable personalities. They’ve been together since high school and are now in their early 20’s and they have that sound of a band that has spent thousands of hours in a rehearsal space hashing stuff out. A rare quality these days.
Singer Cameron Winter might not be everybody’s cup of tea, as he is a strong flavor: somewhere in between Julian Casablancas and Tom Verlaine as a vocalist. But they are legit. They play with some fucking balls and have style, and the writing is on point.
This tune “Getting Killed” gets me pumped every time I hear it. There are more user-friendly ones on the record if this one is too scant for your taste. Try “Cobra” for a look at their more song-based side.
Now i’m off to our beautiful stadium*, to watch a Porto-Benfica, a game that can be compared to a Knicks-Celtics. They are our rivals, a must win game, i hope it ends well. See you later, good people of KB.
somewhere in between Julian Casablancas and Tom Verlaine as a vocalist
With a dash of Yorke? At least on that first “Getting Killed” tune.
Thx for the tip.
The Jets are an utter embarrassment.
Apparently so are the Giants, the Raiders, and somehow also the Ravens.
The NY football teams are so bad not sure if you combine their best players into 1 team they’d even make the playoffs.
the demise of the raven’s is really unexpected…they’re not supposed to suck like the rest of those teams…
He’s called ‘beloved,’ but I despise Kevin Harlan’s voice. His actual descriptions of the games are fine; but he sounds like Howard Cosell without being so hateful it’s funny. It’s an over-excited nasal drone that’s a bit like a dentist’s drill to me.
someone brought it up last season about tuning in to some knick games with just the crowd noise playing – i love the idea of watching a game with just the crowd noise…
BY FAR the best offense in baseball seems to be swinging at a lot of garbage out of the zone again.
Who had a position player pitching the last two innings for the Tankees in a playoff game on their bingo card?
Toronto has to have hacked into the Yankees’ pitchcom, amiright? 🙂
46 strikeouts so far this postseason. Just 10 runs scored in 4.5 games.
October’s only random if you can get the bat on the ball.
maybe the yanks aren’t a better team than the jays…
Judge is doing his part…sort of…
Starting on October 22nd Knicks will save NYC…
46 strikeouts so far this postseason. Just 10 runs scored in 4.5 games.
That’s not surprising to anyone who has watched them over tha past 15 years. They are an all or nothing / free swinging team that struggles vs quality pitching.
Giving up 19 runs in the last 9 innings with Max Fried giving up 8 hits while throwing 98 after he pitched a great game five days ago, that’s the stunning part.
If the Knicks want to pull some minimum roster size chicanery like they did last season, then salary dumping Dadiet will allow them to sign all of Brogdon, Shamet, & Matthews. I believe two of the players being unsigned for a little less than the 2 week max is enough.
In this scenario Diawara signs a 2-way deal.
“If the Knicks want to pull some minimum roster size chicanery like they did last season, then salary dumping Dadiet will allow them to sign all of Brogdon, Shamet, & Matthews. I believe two of the players being unsigned for a little less than the 2 week max is enough.
In this scenario Diawara signs a 2-way deal.”
I think it would be suboptimal to sign both Shamet and Matthews. I’d rather they bump Evboumwan to a roster spot and replace his two-way spot with Diawara, although that could have implications for Diawara’s rights status. Jemison earned praise from Brown so I can see him sticking on his 2-way, and McCullar seems to have at least some potential.
Trading both Dadiet and Kolek opens up a host of possibilities. That might be the way to go.
then salary dumping Dadiet will allow them to sign all of Brogdon, Shamet, & Matthews.
Wouldn’t dumping Kolek do the same? I thought he made more than Dadiet.
Other way around, Hubert.
The Yankees led the league in BB% this year and had the lowest chase rate in MLB last year. Couldn’t find team chase rate for this year.
Just wild to think that they’re a free swinging team that swings at everything. How’d they get all the walks?
Just wild to think that they’re a free swinging team that swings at everything. How’d they get all the walks?
The Yankees struck out the 3rd most in the entire MLB. That’s kinda the definition of free swinging. Only the awful Angles and Rockies struck out more.
The Yankees struck out 1,463 times to 1,099 for the Blue Jays
I’m really not sure you should blame the Yankees offense for their playoff results. They scored 7 runs in today’s loss. BBA was right, something went wrong with the pitching. It is true they have a lot of strikeouts, but they also have a lot of home runs and home run hitters often have a lot of strikeouts, so this is kind of a feature of their offense. They have scored 21 runs in five playoff games, which is about four runs a game. I don’t think that is so bad against playoff pitching.
“They scored 7 runs in today’s loss.”
This is misleading. They were losing by double-digits and being no -hit for 5+ innings before extended garbage time kicked in.
How does a team lead the league in walks if it is free swinging? The only way to get a walk is to NOT swing. You can’t be a free swinging team and lead the league in walks, that is an absurdity.
If anything you can make the argument that they are TOO selective and get too deep into counts by taking too many pitches. But free swinging? That does not make sense.
They scored 7 runs in today’s loss
They struck out 10 times in the first 4 innings.
They were getting no hit through 6 1/3 by a kid making his 4th start of the year.
Then after Toronto mercy ruled their ass up 13-0 the lineup suddenly erupted against the bottom of their bullpen.
They can hit bad pitching. That’s all they’ve done for the last 15 years.
JK is absolutely right, the Yankees are the opposite of a free swinging team. They’re just doing their usual October pressing on offense. In fairness though even the championship Yankee teams usually struggled offensively in the playoffs compared to their regular season success but their pitching always stepped up and they never beat themselves with mistakes like Boone’s teams love to do.
Still if they can win Game 3 they’re setup perfect for Game 4 with Cam on the mound and Toronto having a bullpen game with I assume Lauer pitching the bulk innings so at this point just hoping to show some pride and force a Game 5.
Of course maybe they’ll finally learn their lesson to not shit the bed in June and July so they’ll have the number 1 seed and home field again next year…
Funny part is during the regular season the Yankees scored 51 more runs than Toronto and allowed 36 less runs. They more than doubled Toronto’s run differential but are now 1-8 in games at Toronto this year.
I’m really not sure you should blame the Yankees offense for their playoff results. They scored 7 runs in today’s loss. BBA was right, something went wrong with the pitching. It is true they have a lot of strikeouts, but they also have a lot of home runs and home run hitters often have a lot of strikeouts, so this is kind of a feature of their offense.
C’mon! The were no hit for 5.1 innings with 11 of the 16 outs via whiffs. They were on the short side of a 11-0 game when Toronto took out their starter after 78 pitches and the Yankees scored 7 times against non high leverage relief.
They scored one whole run yesterday.
The “feature” of their offense is a big part of the reason they haven’t won a title in 16 years.
Gil having trouble yesterday wasn’t surprising, but even though Fried struggled vs Toronto (11 earned runs in 24 innings total and a 6.35 ERA in 11 innings in 2 starts @ the Rogers Center) today’s meltdown was absurd.
JK is absolutely wrong, respectfully.
Their “usual October thing” isn’t “pressing”. It’s the sudden disappearance of all the mediocre pitching they accumulated their BB% against over 162 games.
On a brighter note, Luke Weaver’s ERA is down to 135.00 and the high leverage relievers are fresh.
I’m wrong about what? That it’s impossible to lead the league in walks and also to be a “free swinging” team?
Is Juan Soto a “free swinging” hitter because he strikes out a lot? Or does he have an 80 plate discipline tool?
I believe it about the Yankees being good hitters of bad pitching. But that’s better than being bad hitters. Of course as a fan you worry about it. But everyone faces better pitching in the playoffs than they did in the regular season. That’s part of the playoff challenge. It was similar for the Knicks when they had a great record against lousy teams but couldn’t beat Cleveland or Boston in the regular season. I still think that if their starting pitching had held up against Toronto, their offense might have been enough.
As for free swinging, if you strike out a lot but were swinging at pitches that would have been strikes anyway, you can still be considered a disciplined hitter.
I’m wrong about what? That it’s impossible to lead the league in walks and also to be a “free swinging” team?
Yes.
I don’t know what the hell this team did for 162 games to lead the league in BB%. My guess is they largely accumulated those stats against pitchers who don’t make it to October.
Through 5 postseason game they have been the very definition of free swinging.
if you strike out a lot but were swinging at pitches that would have been strikes anyway, you can still be considered a disciplined hitter
You clearly haven’t been watching the last two games because nearly every K has been on a terrible pitch well outside the strike zone.
If this ain’t free swinging, I don’t know what is.
Okay yeah, I’m not wrong. That is an absurd argument. Here’s a better argument I’ll make for you on your behalf: “the Yankees reliance on a TTO strategy when it comes to hitting hasn’t panned out well for them in the postseason.”
That’s a lot better than “they’re a free swinging team that only walks against bad pitchers, as if other teams don’t also face bad pitchers,” which is a horrible argument.
They led the league in walks! This is insanity.
The argument is that the Yankees have been swinging at garbage for 5 postseason games.
Your counterargument is that they didn’t do that in the regular season.
Here’s a better argument I’ll make for you on your behalf: “the Yankees reliance on a TTO strategy when it comes to hitting hasn’t panned out well for them in the postseason.”
Yes, that’s literally the argument I’ve been making about Cashman since 2018.
The efficacy of TTO is greatly reduced when you adjust for the change in population of pitchers in the postseason.
Almost every pitch out of those whiffs was a nasty breaking ball with hellacious spin. The ones that weren’t were mostly high velo fastballs on the black. One or two looked like guesses where the hitter was sitting fastball and guessed wrong. The curve to Rice looked like it got a lot of plate.
Probably 8 of those were filthy pitches. Yes, even the high fastball to Judge was nasty considering the way that guy was spinning the breaking stuff at the bottom of the zone.
That wasn’t “garbage” they were swinging at, that was filth they were swinging at.
Almost every pitch out of those whiffs was outside the strike zone
Fixed it for you.
The K’s are up. The walks are down. There aren’t many home runs.
It’s just been one outcome. And it’s been like that in every postseason for a very long time.
Don’t tell me the BB% of the regular season to counter. Do a side by side of every regular season vs postseason.
You’d have to do it for every team in the league, as every team in the league faces more difficult pitching in the postseason.
I bet if you did a quality analysis of this, you’d find that the Yankees’ k rates and walks and SLG and other key stats have variance very similar to other teams in the postseason compared to the regular season across that timeframe. In general your numbers are gonna go down because you’re running into better pitchers. Maybe you get an outlier team here or there on either end of the spectrum because of the small sample sizes involved, but I’d be surprised if their numbers dipped significantly more than other teams over that period. I’d be curious to see a study like that.
Almost every pitch out of those whiffs was a nasty breaking ball with hellacious spin.
Actually this is not literally correct, because Yesavage’s bread and butter is a splitter, not exactly a high RPM breaking ball. I was aware of him because of his similarity to Mets prospect
Jonah Tong, who throws from a similar arm angle. Yesavage is particularly nasty because of his four seamer-splitter combo— the four seamer has the same induced vertical break that Tong gets, but he also throws that splitter that the bottom falls out of. That is truly a nasty combination of pitches.
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How does OG look like at the 3? And Mikal at the 2? Presumably these are their best positions. SSS but still.
The starting lineup of KAT, Mitch, OG, Bridges, and Brunson looked very good. You can probably bet that we will see that starting lineup on opening day vs. the Cavs. After that, Brown might make adjustments as more data is available, but the Cavs’ twin towers lineup makes it the obvious choice for starters. Beyond that, Hart is banged up so it makes the decision easier.
Honestly, I don’t get why it should be even a little bit controversial.
If I understand the schedule correctly, we next play the Timberwolves Thursday night. This is a big contrast with Philly. The Timberwolves have a healthy and deep roster along with rim protection inside. It’s a good test for us.
Jake Fischer: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcstein/p/restricted-free-agency-is-over-at?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I’ll be at that game in great seats, thanks to a very generous friend. I’m expecting a pretty serious ambiance, as it’s Brown’s first game at MSG and Julius and DDV will be in the house. Last year’s Knicks-Wolves game at MSG was a loss. KAT was out and Thibs started Sims and played Precious 35 minutes. DDV was also out that game.
Alan, I think it would be prudent to give Garrison Matthews a very good look before deciding to go with Shamet over him. What bugs me about him is that in spite of having a bigger physical frame than Shamet, he doesn’t have Shamet’s defensive motor. Not that Shamet is a good defender, just a pesky one, whereas Matthews seems a bit soft and slow.
Ultimately, I think that if one of those two get the nod, it will be Shamet.
remember years ago dogging the kids for spending so much time on youtube, fast forward some time, and there i am, was looking through vids today and noticed they had the full Ankalaev versus Pereira 2 fight from ufc 320 last night, first fight was a 5 round back and forth split decision win for Ankalaev…going in to the fight last night Pereira claimed he was only about 40% for the first fight, which sounds like fighter speak for – i had a bad night…last night did not last so long…
they need to come up with a whole different sport for Pereira, that guy is insane…
The band Geese from Brooklyn are blowing up right now, and are justifiably being called the first great Gen Z rock band. I think their new record is amazing. They would have fit in very well in the Bowery scene in the early 00’s alongside The Strokes, TV On The Radio, Interpol, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They’re the rare kind of band where all the members are essential and all have identifiable personalities. They’ve been together since high school and are now in their early 20’s and they have that sound of a band that has spent thousands of hours in a rehearsal space hashing stuff out. A rare quality these days.
Singer Cameron Winter might not be everybody’s cup of tea, as he is a strong flavor: somewhere in between Julian Casablancas and Tom Verlaine as a vocalist. But they are legit. They play with some fucking balls and have style, and the writing is on point.
This tune “Getting Killed” gets me pumped every time I hear it. There are more user-friendly ones on the record if this one is too scant for your taste. Try “Cobra” for a look at their more song-based side.
https://youtu.be/T5nf0kFQddc?si=yyI3Q1zJ9suHqoRz
https://youtu.be/y3udPM2ehAo?si=5scPgL_cmThxTJOr
LOL
Now i’m off to our beautiful stadium*, to watch a Porto-Benfica, a game that can be compared to a Knicks-Celtics. They are our rivals, a must win game, i hope it ends well. See you later, good people of KB.
*here’s a photo: https://arena.rtp.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/est%C3%A1dio-do-drag%C3%A3o.jpg
Very cool looking, cyber! Have fun and good luck!
With a dash of Yorke? At least on that first “Getting Killed” tune.
Thx for the tip.
The Jets are an utter embarrassment.
Apparently so are the Giants, the Raiders, and somehow also the Ravens.
The NY football teams are so bad not sure if you combine their best players into 1 team they’d even make the playoffs.
the demise of the raven’s is really unexpected…they’re not supposed to suck like the rest of those teams…
He’s called ‘beloved,’ but I despise Kevin Harlan’s voice. His actual descriptions of the games are fine; but he sounds like Howard Cosell without being so hateful it’s funny. It’s an over-excited nasal drone that’s a bit like a dentist’s drill to me.
someone brought it up last season about tuning in to some knick games with just the crowd noise playing – i love the idea of watching a game with just the crowd noise…
BY FAR the best offense in baseball seems to be swinging at a lot of garbage out of the zone again.
Who had a position player pitching the last two innings for the Tankees in a playoff game on their bingo card?
Toronto has to have hacked into the Yankees’ pitchcom, amiright? 🙂
46 strikeouts so far this postseason. Just 10 runs scored in 4.5 games.
October’s only random if you can get the bat on the ball.
maybe the yanks aren’t a better team than the jays…
Judge is doing his part…sort of…
Starting on October 22nd Knicks will save NYC…
That’s not surprising to anyone who has watched them over tha past 15 years. They are an all or nothing / free swinging team that struggles vs quality pitching.
Giving up 19 runs in the last 9 innings with Max Fried giving up 8 hits while throwing 98 after he pitched a great game five days ago, that’s the stunning part.
If the Knicks want to pull some minimum roster size chicanery like they did last season, then salary dumping Dadiet will allow them to sign all of Brogdon, Shamet, & Matthews. I believe two of the players being unsigned for a little less than the 2 week max is enough.
In this scenario Diawara signs a 2-way deal.
“If the Knicks want to pull some minimum roster size chicanery like they did last season, then salary dumping Dadiet will allow them to sign all of Brogdon, Shamet, & Matthews. I believe two of the players being unsigned for a little less than the 2 week max is enough.
In this scenario Diawara signs a 2-way deal.”
I think it would be suboptimal to sign both Shamet and Matthews. I’d rather they bump Evboumwan to a roster spot and replace his two-way spot with Diawara, although that could have implications for Diawara’s rights status. Jemison earned praise from Brown so I can see him sticking on his 2-way, and McCullar seems to have at least some potential.
Trading both Dadiet and Kolek opens up a host of possibilities. That might be the way to go.
Wouldn’t dumping Kolek do the same? I thought he made more than Dadiet.
Other way around, Hubert.
The Yankees led the league in BB% this year and had the lowest chase rate in MLB last year. Couldn’t find team chase rate for this year.
Just wild to think that they’re a free swinging team that swings at everything. How’d they get all the walks?
The Yankees struck out the 3rd most in the entire MLB. That’s kinda the definition of free swinging. Only the awful Angles and Rockies struck out more.
The Yankees struck out 1,463 times to 1,099 for the Blue Jays
I’m really not sure you should blame the Yankees offense for their playoff results. They scored 7 runs in today’s loss. BBA was right, something went wrong with the pitching. It is true they have a lot of strikeouts, but they also have a lot of home runs and home run hitters often have a lot of strikeouts, so this is kind of a feature of their offense. They have scored 21 runs in five playoff games, which is about four runs a game. I don’t think that is so bad against playoff pitching.
“They scored 7 runs in today’s loss.”
This is misleading. They were losing by double-digits and being no -hit for 5+ innings before extended garbage time kicked in.
How does a team lead the league in walks if it is free swinging? The only way to get a walk is to NOT swing. You can’t be a free swinging team and lead the league in walks, that is an absurdity.
If anything you can make the argument that they are TOO selective and get too deep into counts by taking too many pitches. But free swinging? That does not make sense.
They struck out 10 times in the first 4 innings.
They were getting no hit through 6 1/3 by a kid making his 4th start of the year.
Then after Toronto mercy ruled their ass up 13-0 the lineup suddenly erupted against the bottom of their bullpen.
They can hit bad pitching. That’s all they’ve done for the last 15 years.
JK is absolutely right, the Yankees are the opposite of a free swinging team. They’re just doing their usual October pressing on offense. In fairness though even the championship Yankee teams usually struggled offensively in the playoffs compared to their regular season success but their pitching always stepped up and they never beat themselves with mistakes like Boone’s teams love to do.
Still if they can win Game 3 they’re setup perfect for Game 4 with Cam on the mound and Toronto having a bullpen game with I assume Lauer pitching the bulk innings so at this point just hoping to show some pride and force a Game 5.
Of course maybe they’ll finally learn their lesson to not shit the bed in June and July so they’ll have the number 1 seed and home field again next year…
Funny part is during the regular season the Yankees scored 51 more runs than Toronto and allowed 36 less runs. They more than doubled Toronto’s run differential but are now 1-8 in games at Toronto this year.
C’mon! The were no hit for 5.1 innings with 11 of the 16 outs via whiffs. They were on the short side of a 11-0 game when Toronto took out their starter after 78 pitches and the Yankees scored 7 times against non high leverage relief.
They scored one whole run yesterday.
The “feature” of their offense is a big part of the reason they haven’t won a title in 16 years.
Gil having trouble yesterday wasn’t surprising, but even though Fried struggled vs Toronto (11 earned runs in 24 innings total and a 6.35 ERA in 11 innings in 2 starts @ the Rogers Center) today’s meltdown was absurd.
JK is absolutely wrong, respectfully.
Their “usual October thing” isn’t “pressing”. It’s the sudden disappearance of all the mediocre pitching they accumulated their BB% against over 162 games.
On a brighter note, Luke Weaver’s ERA is down to 135.00 and the high leverage relievers are fresh.
I’m wrong about what? That it’s impossible to lead the league in walks and also to be a “free swinging” team?
Is Juan Soto a “free swinging” hitter because he strikes out a lot? Or does he have an 80 plate discipline tool?
I believe it about the Yankees being good hitters of bad pitching. But that’s better than being bad hitters. Of course as a fan you worry about it. But everyone faces better pitching in the playoffs than they did in the regular season. That’s part of the playoff challenge. It was similar for the Knicks when they had a great record against lousy teams but couldn’t beat Cleveland or Boston in the regular season. I still think that if their starting pitching had held up against Toronto, their offense might have been enough.
As for free swinging, if you strike out a lot but were swinging at pitches that would have been strikes anyway, you can still be considered a disciplined hitter.
Yes.
I don’t know what the hell this team did for 162 games to lead the league in BB%. My guess is they largely accumulated those stats against pitchers who don’t make it to October.
Through 5 postseason game they have been the very definition of free swinging.
You clearly haven’t been watching the last two games because nearly every K has been on a terrible pitch well outside the strike zone.
Here’s all 11 K’s:
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1nz1ez9/highlight_all_11_strikeouts_from_trey_yesavage/
Two were in the zone.
If this ain’t free swinging, I don’t know what is.
Okay yeah, I’m not wrong. That is an absurd argument. Here’s a better argument I’ll make for you on your behalf: “the Yankees reliance on a TTO strategy when it comes to hitting hasn’t panned out well for them in the postseason.”
That’s a lot better than “they’re a free swinging team that only walks against bad pitchers, as if other teams don’t also face bad pitchers,” which is a horrible argument.
They led the league in walks! This is insanity.
The argument is that the Yankees have been swinging at garbage for 5 postseason games.
Your counterargument is that they didn’t do that in the regular season.
Yes, that’s literally the argument I’ve been making about Cashman since 2018.
The efficacy of TTO is greatly reduced when you adjust for the change in population of pitchers in the postseason.
Almost every pitch out of those whiffs was a nasty breaking ball with hellacious spin. The ones that weren’t were mostly high velo fastballs on the black. One or two looked like guesses where the hitter was sitting fastball and guessed wrong. The curve to Rice looked like it got a lot of plate.
Probably 8 of those were filthy pitches. Yes, even the high fastball to Judge was nasty considering the way that guy was spinning the breaking stuff at the bottom of the zone.
That wasn’t “garbage” they were swinging at, that was filth they were swinging at.
Fixed it for you.
The K’s are up. The walks are down. There aren’t many home runs.
It’s just been one outcome. And it’s been like that in every postseason for a very long time.
Don’t tell me the BB% of the regular season to counter. Do a side by side of every regular season vs postseason.
You’d have to do it for every team in the league, as every team in the league faces more difficult pitching in the postseason.
I bet if you did a quality analysis of this, you’d find that the Yankees’ k rates and walks and SLG and other key stats have variance very similar to other teams in the postseason compared to the regular season across that timeframe. In general your numbers are gonna go down because you’re running into better pitchers. Maybe you get an outlier team here or there on either end of the spectrum because of the small sample sizes involved, but I’d be surprised if their numbers dipped significantly more than other teams over that period. I’d be curious to see a study like that.
Actually this is not literally correct, because Yesavage’s bread and butter is a splitter, not exactly a high RPM breaking ball. I was aware of him because of his similarity to Mets prospect
Jonah Tong, who throws from a similar arm angle. Yesavage is particularly nasty because of his four seamer-splitter combo— the four seamer has the same induced vertical break that Tong gets, but he also throws that splitter that the bottom falls out of. That is truly a nasty combination of pitches.