Jon Lester is pitching tonight

fundingfather
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:57:01 +0000

“And gone is the love of the actual sport of baseball, the strategies behind hit-and-runs, sac-bunts and the double-switch, now it’s all about a 9-inning home run derby and trying like hell to buy the series every year.”

The only problem with that statement is that the Yankees aren’t just a HR team and only rank 8th in that category. To say that they don’t use baseball strategy is to say that Joe Torre does not know how to manage. He uses all of the strategies of baseball - including being patient when batting and that a “walk is as good as a hit” - thus giving the Yankees the top on-base-percentage in baseball (of course, having the second highest batting average also helps in that regard).