Having just finished analyzing the Yankee’s pitchers and infielders, we now turn our attention to the Yankee outfielders and catchers. In the off season the Yankee acquired Carlos Beltran to play right field. He has already broken down at the age of 37. The starting outfield now consists of Ichiro Suzuki, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Brett …
The All-Star game represents the symbolic half-way point in the MLB season. The half-time break is always a good time to evaluate your baseball team’s future. In a previous posting I declared there would be no baseball in October in New York. Nothing has changed my mind. But, what I would like to talk about …
The data for instant replay presented below was obtained from the MLB. This data includes the first 381 instant replay reviews that occurred in the first 759 games played this season which represents about one-third of a season. Below are the 381 initial calls that were challenged, classified by type. Unlike the NFL …
The two greatest sports’ speeches were given by two men dying of hideous diseases. Jim Valvano was awarded the inaugural Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award at the first annual ESPY Awards. The last line of his speech was “Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch …
The 68th Yankee Old-Timers’ Day was held on Sunday, June 22, 2014. The ceremonies began at 11:30 a.m. with the introduction of about 50 Yankee Old-Timers including Hall-of-Famers Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Rickey Henderson and Reggie Jackson, as well as Joe Torre, who will be inducted in the Hall-of-Fame in July of this year. Johnny Damon …
The baseball season of 2011 was the first year that MLB put into effect a new paternity rule. The rule was adapted to provide a guilt-free accommodation for the player and at the same time try to make life easier for the manager. The new rule allowed players to take up to three days off …
I received via email from Dr. Cornelius Meyer, emeritus full-professor of psychology at Quinnipiac University, a wonderful family baseball story. I hope you enjoy reading his story about baseball, Father’s Day, and the “Green Monster”. Dr. Meyer states, “This was a special Father’s Day for my family, and it is with a sense of pride …
Dr. Stan “The Stats Man” is currently on vacation. To keep the blog current I will be submitting postings written by students in my Baseball and Statistics course at Quinnipiac University. The posting below was submitted by Julianne Giordano, a Post Undergraduate student, and is about a special sports day in the life of her …
This blog was contributed by Vincent Yancigay, a student in my Baseball and Statistics class. Within the past week, Mike Abramson from the New Britain Rock Cats visited our Baseball and Statistics class here at Quinnipiac. The New Britain Rock Cats are the Double-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. Mr. Abramson is the Vice President …
In my home office I have a picture of George Brett being restrained by teammates at home plate. The incident occurred in a game between Kansas City and the Yankees played in 1983. There was a rule in baseball that if the pine tar on your bat was too high you would be called …