Monday, September 6th, 2010
Baltimore 4, NYY 3. This wasn't "Bad A.J.", but it certainly wasn't "Good A.J." either. Or was it? Maybe this is as good as A.J. gets these days? Used to be you could count on Good A.J. to show up about 40% of the time and ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
NYY 4, Oakland 3. As I've said before, there's nothing more predictable than A.J. Burnett's unpredictability. So after two terrible starts, you had to figure A.J. would pitch a good game in this one against the A's, and sure enough that's exactly what we got -- 6 innings, ...
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Chicago 9, NYY 4. Another series opener loss, another terrible start by A.J. Burnett, another anemic performance from the offense. The beat goes on. The streak of playing .500 ball now extends to 30 games. The streak of losing games when Burnett is the starting pitcher ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2010
Just how much of a Jekyll and Hyde pitcher is A.J. Burnett? Let's look at starts by Yankee pitchers using the metric runs allowed per inning for each start. Clearly, the best starts will be the ones where the starter had a R/IP of zero, and so far this year ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Seattle 6, NYY 0. As I guessed, it was Bad A.J. Burnett that showed up in this one. A.J.'s unpredictability has become sadly oh so predictable. Over the last 10 times through the rotation, it's been Good A.J. for two starts and then Bad A.J. takes a ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Toronto 8, NYY 6. After two straight shutout performances, you pretty much knew that we were due for an appearance by Bad A.J., and sure enough that's what we got. It's all way too predictable by now. But that's what I don't understand -- given how ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
NYY 8, Cleveland 0. So after being totally shut down by a rookie pitcher making his major league debut, you got to figure the Yankees would be in deep trouble going up against Cleveland's ace, Fausto Carmona, right? Actually if you're at all familiar with the Yankee offense ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
NYY 7, Kansas City 1. Good A.J. made a surprise appearance, scattering four hits over five innings of shutout ball before the rains came, and the offense once again put more than enough runs on the board, striking early for four in the first and then adding three more ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
NYY 9, Tampa Bay 5. What a whacky start to the second-half of the season this series was. In game one you had CC Sabathia getting the short end of a good pitchers' duel with James Shields, but then the red-hot Nick Swisher single handedly won the game ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
NYY 6, Oakland 2. So maybe there is something to the "A.J. Burnett needs pitching coach Dave Eiland in order to be effective" story. Yeah, small sample size, yada yada -- but 0-5 with an 11.35 ERA during Eiland's absence, and since his return 1-0 with a 1.32 ...
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