The Yankees’ pitching staff has prioritized strikeouts

Jan 18 2020 by Pinstripe Alley

 
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If there is a weakness on the team, it’s infield defense, but 15 K’s a game takes care of that

A week ago I wrote about a potential liability for the 2020 Yankees, their infield defense. If we assume that the starting infield, from left to right, is Gio Urshela, Gleyber Torres, DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit, based on 2019 fielding data there’s only one clearly above-average fielder in the bunch. As we say so often though, a run scored is the same...

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