{"id":76448,"date":"2020-09-27T01:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-maddening-streakiness-will-make-or-break-them\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T01:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T22:48:38","slug":"yankees-maddening-streakiness-will-make-or-break-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-maddening-streakiness-will-make-or-break-them\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees\u2019 maddening streakiness will make or break them"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees\u2019 maddening streakiness will make or break them<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe\u2019re going streaking!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Frank \u201cThe Tank\u201d Ricard, \u201cOld School\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Aaron Boone described his team Saturday morning as one that \u201ccan turn on a dime,\u201d and hours later, the Yankees put together 11 runs over a three-inning span, going deep three times, to trounce the Marlins, 11-4, at Yankee Stadium, and end a three-game<\/a> losing streak as well as halt a downturn that saw them drop five of six.<\/p>\n

With one game left before the playoffs begin, all we know for sure about these Yankees is they are as streaky as all get-out. It wouldn\u2019t surprise much if they win their first World Series<\/a> since 2009. It would surprise even less if they don\u2019t win a single postseason game before heading home.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t exactly shower you with confidence, do they?<\/p>\n

\u201cConsistency has certainly been an issue for us in the regular season this year,\u201d Boone said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to find that consistency if we\u2019re going to be a championship club. But I know when that group gets clicking, we have all the pieces necessary to go out and win and win big. We\u2019ve got to keep working to that. Keep grinding to find that consistency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DJ
DJ LeMahieu celebrates his double at second base.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s a radical thought: The reason the 2020 Yankees have been so streaky \u2014 you can break down their season into runs of 16-6, 5-15, 10-0 and now an ugly 2-5 \u2014 is because they have so many streaky players. So many anti-DJ LeMahieus.<\/p>\n

The amazing LeMahieu knocked four hits Saturday, raising his batting average to .359 and virtually ensuring that he\u2019ll win the Rod Carew Award (for the American League\u2019s batting champ) and become the first player to win batting titles in both leagues since the 1800s.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who\u2019s watched knows just how special a player DJ LeMahieu has been for us these two years,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n

I know how much you hate new-age metrics, but hang with me on this one: Baseball-Reference.com offers a measure called tOPS+, which measures a player\u2019s OPS against his own standards. With 100 being a player\u2019s career OPS, a tOPS+ of 114 would be 14 percent above that number, 86 would be 14 percent below it and so on. LeMahieu\u2019s career range for his tOPS+, going month by month, is a tight 14, from a high of 106 in August to a low of 92 in May. He is very much, as the Yankees dubbed him, a Machine.<\/p>\n