What happens when the Jenga pieces begin to be removed from such a flimsy structure?
The Yankees were always a delicate concept this season. They have a 26-man roster by rule. But most days too many spots were filled by the geriatric or journeymen used to making every spring-training road trip.
However, through overuse and/or regression to the mean — it turns out that Ian Hamilton, Tommy Kahnle and Nick Ramirez aren’t actually the three greatest relievers ever — the pen has gone from the majors’ best to a nine-game period as arguably the worst. The Yanks are 2-7 in that time.
by removing exit velocity and keeping the ball out of the air. Their 52.2 percent ground-ball percentage from the pen was the third best since Fangraphs began tracking the stat in 2002.beyond the back pageBut in the nine games after July 4, the ground-ball rate was 41.8 percent and the before-and-after horror followed: the second-worst ERA , homers allowed and slugging percentage plus a 12.9 walk rate and 16.6 whiff rate.
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