Angels/Yankees Breakdown

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Anyone seen any good movies lately?

that made me laugh

My bad. I had someone else look up the stats and they gave me Aybar’s errors as in the 30/s (His career total at SS) rather than his season total). My mistake

The Angels are better this year but the Yankees still have a better team.

^ that’s funny ^

So we’re lucky…I think I’ve heard that rumor before

stopped reading right there.

Don’t ttry to tell me the Twins are coming back because they can’t win 3 straight

I hate this kind of shit. Why play the game with logic of that sort?

Angels in however many they want.

This statement infuriates me, and makes me wonder if i’m the only one who’s eyes still work.

A quick simulation of the first two games assuming the matchups of Lackey vs Sabathia and Weaver vs Burnett has the Yankees with the following (see below) win probabilities. Of course if the Twins somehow stretch the Yankees out, the pitching matchups could be different on the Yanks side.

Game #1: 66.28%
Game #2: 60.36%

Doesn’t mean the Angels will lose those two games of course, but just some info. I expect Vegas to handicap these games quite the same, perhaps weighted a little more towards the Yankees. I know the betting public loves the Yankees, but I can’t see the Yankees being the 74+% favorites at home that they were against the Twins.

vr, Xei

  With the emphasis an the ‘Her’
  Get your ass back to ny FuckWeevil.

As this post is wrong or misguided on many levels, but really is only in his perspective that he has majorly failed. A common trait of a die-hard Yankee fan.

Offense
The Angels and Yankees are relatively equal in terms of offensive might; however, the offensive prowess is accomplished in dramatically different ways. The Angels start with good baserunning skills, smart 1st to 3rd, small ball, and the potent hitter placed strategically throughout the lineup. Not to mention having unfathomable clutch-factors with RISP. The Yankees, on the other hand, play for the longball and almost exclusively so. Since they play in a park little bigger than most little-league infields, they can accomplish this feat without much struggle whilst at home.
advantage: neutral-ish @ Yanks
big big edge to Angels @ Angels

Benches
Benches, yes, we are deeper, younger, faster, and more prepared for injury and replacement. The Yankees are old, getting older, and require key players to be healthy for their style of game to continue.
ad: Angels

Defense:
Catching: Again, both catchers on the Angels do throw like inept women: Mathis way too high, and Napoli way too low. Posada is lucky if his throws make it back to the pitcher, while Molina, touted for his defense and game-calling, hasn’t had nearly as much success at throwing would-be runners out as you might think. mini-ad: neutral
First: Teix is better than KMo, though KMo is significantly better this season than last and is better now than the beginning of the season. You can’t disregard Teix’s ability to get to the ball and his lightning-quick reflexes. mini-ad: Yanks, but barely, and the gap is decreasing.
Second: Cano is garbage; HK and Izturis are not. mini-ad: Angels
Short: Jeter is shit in terms of talent, but the guy does have some fucking 6th sense, it’s almost ridiculous. He’s always in the right place at the right time.
Third: Figgy is a fantastic 3b. Somehow. But ARod still has flashes of his former defensive brilliance. mini-AD: Angels, but barely, and not for lack of talent.
OF: The Angels are just so, so superior in every way:
Rivera >>> Damon in terms of range and especially arm strength,
Torii >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cabrera in every measure of human worth,
and who the fuck is in right for the Yanks…? anyone? Does anyone even play over there? It doesn’t matter, because Bobby is solid enough “so that it doesn’t matter”. Douche. mini-ad: Angels, by miles.

Stadiums: Can the Yanks even fill their brand-new, one billion dollar stadium? No one can even afford to get in without mortgaging their townhouses or selling bums to the city. But there are wo words for the advantage of the Angels at home. Words that strike such terror into the hearts of opposition everywhere, that they only dare be uttered during the playoffs: Thunder. Sticks.
Boom. mini-ad: Angels.

Baserunning: This is exceedingly in the Angels’ favor, but not for the reason of stolen bases alone. Sure, the Angels do that exceptionally well, but the Yanks averaged around the same amount of net stolen bases/game. The real advantage comes in the gutsiness of the runners going first to third, and all small ball moves, executed with machine-like precision. Do the Yankees have anyone who can consistently perform a bunt, and beyond that, anyone who could even make it to second on a bunt?
Advantage: Angels

Team pitching: The Yankees have the clear bank-roll edge, but outside of CC, 1/2 of Burnett, the occasional stellar gem of Pettitte, and MoRiv, who do the Yanks have that can perform on the big stage?
The Angels have Lackey, who is coming off of a 7.2 IP shutout effort against the tough Red Sox offense and is pitching better than his already good 11-8, 3.83ERA, 139K injury-shortened season would indicate. Next is Weaver, who has something to prove, and you’re seeing it on the mound now from the 16 game winner. Kazmir is, indeed, a wild-card, but he can be. Given the Angels have Ervin Santana, Joe Saunders, Darren Oliver, and Matt Palmer (a veritable 11 game winner) all pitching out of the ‘pen, they have depth beyond the Yank’s wildest dreams. Who you going to put up against it, Joba? Chien-Ming? Good luck, there, hoss.
Ad: Angels, ever so slightly.

Closers: MoRiv. is better in every way, but Fuentes has more saves… something to think about there combined with all of the knowledge above.
Ad: Yanks

Managers: If Scioscia doesn’t get manager of the year this year for scotch-taping together a 97 win team out of a despair-ridden team wrought with anguish over the death of a fallen comrade, having 4 SP on the DL on opening day, and doing without Vlad AND Torii for 6 weeks at the same time, there is no justice in the world. What has Girardi done? He couldn’t even coach a 200mil team to the POST-SEASON last year. Now he has even better players, 8 of whom are making 20million or more per year, and he’s got them to the championships. Congratulations, you did what your organization paid a quarter-billion dollars to do. Ku-fucking-dos.
Also, Scioscia was a better catcher as a rookie than Girardi ever was in the history of any time. Tell me who YOU’D rather run into as he’s blocking the plate.
Advantage: Scioscia and his Angels.

Well, that’s about it. I’m tired, and now I’m steaming pissed about this post, despite its relative courteous nature. I’m going to bed and waking up Friday afternoon to watch us whomp the big, bad 26-time WS champs on their own turf.

Not to steryotype Halos fans but Anaheim fans from what people who’ve gone to Angels Stadium tell me are most like a cult cherring when the scoreboard would tell them to but not when Lackey or Weaver would have 2 strikes on someone.

I appreciate your effort man, but this is blatantly false. Maybe we can be passive during the regular season, but during the playoffs, it’s a different story. Being at Game 1 in person, I can tell you that the fans were not only cheering, but standing during multiple 2 strike counts by Lackey and Oliver, standing when we had runners on base, standing many other times. Joe Torre remarked during the 2002 playoffs that he thought the fans might have been the loudest he’s ever experienced.

And I have never cherred in my life, but I do cheer for my Angels.

you’re dismissed. go crawl back into jeter’s ass.

Get the fuck out of here