Broadcasters have been muttering this for weeks now, but really the idea that 2010 in some ways is showing a return in dominant pitching throughout baseball is starting to really come true. Pitchers are always ahead of hitters at the start of spring training and often the start of the season too.  Weather has an [...]

This thing about the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx striking the ‘core four’ Yankees, is ridiculous.  The reason they got that semi-lame moniker is because they have been playing the game and playing together for so long- which means they aren’t that young anymore.  If you thought that Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera were [...]

Jesse Spector has written a 6 keys to the game for the Yankees, because, well, what else do you write when there is an off-day in the World Series.
#1 She starts with Andy Pettitte.  Of course, the starting pitcher is a key to the game.  Duh.  But I want to add two things  here- first, [...]

Ahhhhh… we have indeed reached the beginning of the end of the 2009 season.  There may be two more games, but no more after that.  Indeed, there may only be one more game, and that is really the only thing we can be sure.
What we do know that sometime later this week that final moment [...]

So I was listening to some sports talk radio this morning when a caller called in wanting clarification on the term post-season records.   Since Andy Pettitte just stepped into sole possession of the Post-Season wins record with his performance in last nights clinching game of the ALCS, surpassing John Smoltz.  But, the important thing to [...]