The New York Yankees went on an absolute shopping spree this winter and spent in excess of $500 million bringing in the likes of Jacoby Ellsbury, Carlos Beltran, Brian McCann, Masahiro Tanaka, Brian Roberts, Kelly Johnson, and others but the team actually did worse, record wise, than the 2013 Yankees did. Is the record column the only place where the 2014 Yankees were lacking in comparison to the 2013 Yankees? The answers may surprise you, keep reading.
2014 Yankees: record 84-78 (-31 run differential) -- Pythagorean W/L 77-85
Rk | Pos | Name | Age | G | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | |||||
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Team Totals | 32.9 | 162 | 633 | 1349 | 247 | 26 | 147 | 591 | 112 | 452 | 1133 | .245 | .307 | .380 | .687 | 93 | ||
Rank in 15 AL teams | 13 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 12 | ||||||
Non-Pitcher Totals | 32.9 | 162 | 633 | 1347 | 247 | 26 | 147 | 591 | 112 | 452 | 1127 | .246 | .308 | .381 | .689 | 94 | ||
Rk | Pos | Name | Age | G | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO |
2013 Yankees: record 85-77 (-21 run differential) -- Pythagorean W/L 79-83
Rk | Pos | Name | Age | G | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | |||||
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Team Totals | 31.9 | 162 | 650 | 1321 | 247 | 24 | 144 | 614 | 115 | 466 | 1214 | .242 | .307 | .376 | .683 | 88 | ||
Rank in 15 AL teams | 10 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 13 | ||||||
Non-Pitcher Totals | 31.9 | 162 | 650 | 1321 | 247 | 24 | 144 | 613 | 115 | 466 | 1202 | .243 | .308 | .377 | .685 | 89 | ||
Rk | Pos | Name | Age | G | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO |
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
So $500 million got you an older team by a full year, although Hiroki Kuroda, Ichiro Suzuki, and Derek Jeter all returning from 2013 another year older did not help. The team also scored 17 runs less, won one less game, drove in less RBI, and had comparable numbers pretty much everywhere else across the board. Was Robinson Cano THAT valuable to the Yankees and their offense or were these stats skewed a tad by Alfonso Soriano's incredible second half? I don't really think it matters, both teams missed the playoffs when their All Star's were retiring.
So $500 million got you an older team by a full year, although Hiroki Kuroda, Ichiro Suzuki, and Derek Jeter all returning from 2013 another year older did not help. The team also scored 17 runs less, won one less game, drove in less RBI, and had comparable numbers pretty much everywhere else across the board. Was Robinson Cano THAT valuable to the Yankees and their offense or were these stats skewed a tad by Alfonso Soriano's incredible second half? I don't really think it matters, both teams missed the playoffs when their All Star's were retiring.
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