Yankees v. Mets

Tonight is the start of a three game series at Yankee Stadium.  April intracity games are probably bequeathed by former commissioner for life Allan Huber "Bud" Selig, the gift that keeps on giving.

Pre-season:

New York teams combined: Mets/Yankees split starting nine. Tuesday, February 3, 2015

I don't usually write about current games other than if there is a larger topic but this has my interest.

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Brian McCann*	31	12	55	49	7	11	2	1	1	8	0	0	1	11	.224	.273	.367	.640		18	1	3	0	2	0
2	1B	Mark Teixeira#	35	15	65	51	9	10	4	0	5	13	0	0	11	11	.196	.323	.569	.892		29	1	0	0	3	2
3	2B	Stephen Drew*	32	14	54	45	5	8	1	0	4	8	0	1	7	10	.178	.283	.467	.750		21	2	0	1	1	0
4	SS	Didi Gregorius*	25	14	50	45	2	9	1	0	0	4	2	1	3	9	.200	.260	.222	.482		10	2	1	0	1	0
5	3B	Chase Headley#	31	16	68	62	8	15	1	1	2	9	0	0	6	19	.242	.309	.387	.696		24	3	0	0	0	0
6	LF	Brett Gardner*	31	12	52	42	11	12	1	0	1	4	5	1	5	7	.286	.388	.381	.769		16	1	2	3	0	0
7	CF	Jacoby Ellsbury*	31	15	73	63	13	18	2	0	0	1	4	3	9	11	.286	.384	.317	.701		20	1	1	0	0	0
8	RF	Carlos Beltran#	38	13	54	49	4	9	4	1	0	7	0	0	4	15	.184	.241	.306	.547		15	1	0	0	1	1
9	DH	Alex Rodriguez	39	15	62	49	11	13	3	0	4	11	0	0	13	17	.265	.419	.571	.991		28	0	0	0	0	0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
10	OF	Chris Young	31	14	48	42	8	15	5	0	4	9	0	0	4	8	.357	.426	.762	1.187		32	0	1	1	0	0
11	UT	Gregorio Petit	30	12	26	21	3	4	2	0	0	4	0	0	3	8	.190	.280	.286	.566		6	0	0	1	1	1
12	UT	Garrett Jones*	34	9	23	22	1	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	.227	.261	.364	.625		8	1	0	0	0	0
13	C	J.R. Murphy	24	7	17	13	3	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	4	.231	.353	.385	.738		5	0	0	0	1	0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Travis d'Arnaud (15-day dl)	26	11	45	41	5	13	1	1	2	10	0	0	1	4	.317	.356	.537	.892		22	1	2	0	1	0
2	1B	Lucas Duda*	29	16	66	57	9	20	7	0	1	9	0	0	8	11	.351	.439	.526	.966		30	1	1	0	0	0
3	2B	Daniel Murphy*	30	16	60	53	5	9	3	0	1	9	0	0	6	4	.170	.250	.283	.533		15	2	0	0	1	2
4	SS	Wilmer Flores	23	14	52	48	8	13	1	0	3	7	0	0	2	10	.271	.314	.479	.793		23	1	1	1	0	0
5	3B	Eric Campbell	28	8	33	24	8	6	1	0	0	4	1	0	7	2	.250	.394	.292	.686		7	2	0	0	2	0
6	LF	Michael Cuddyer	36	15	62	55	10	15	3	1	1	8	0	0	6	17	.273	.355	.418	.773		23	2	1	0	0	0
7	CF	Juan Lagares	26	16	66	63	7	17	1	0	0	7	1	0	2	14	.270	.288	.286	.574		18	2	0	0	1	1
8	RF	Curtis Granderson*	34	16	64	50	11	10	1	0	0	4	2	0	14	9	.200	.375	.220	.595		11	1	0	0	0	0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	3B	David Wright (15-day dl)	32	8	35	33	3	11	0	0	1	4	2	0	2	5	.333	.371	.424	.796		14	1	0	0	0	0
10	MI	Ruben Tejada	25	6	17	14	1	3	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	0	.214	.353	.357	.710		5	0	0	0	0	2
11	OF	John Mayberry	31	8	14	12	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	0	2	3	.250	.357	.667	1.024		8	0	0	0	0	0
12	LF	Kirk Nieuwenhuis*	27	14	14	12	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	5	.000	.143	.000	.143		0	0	0	0	0	0

	Yankees	Mets
C	Brian McCann	injured
1B	Mark Teixeira	Lucas Duda
2B	Stephen Drew	Daniel Murphy
SS	DiDi Gregorious	Wilmer Flores
3B	Chase Headley	injured
LF	Brett Gardner	Michael Cuddyer
CF	Jacoby Ellsbury	Juan Lagares
RF	Carlos Beltran	Curtis Granderson
DH	Alex Rodriguez

David Wright would take 3B but he is injured. 1B is closer than I had expected. Duda has a lot of buzz but when I compared his offense to that of Mark Teixeira it was surprisingly competetive. Duda has only one homer? One? I don't pay much attention to the Mets but I hear his name mentioned so I thought he must be homering. Tex has 5 HR and he's an excellent fielder.

Neither team is loaded. SS is downright weak. 2B is about a push. RF is an embarrassing push. LF batting is close but Gardner can really run the bases and is a CF in LF; he can go get them. McCann and Ellsbury, 2014 free agent signings, are paid way too much for way too long but they are clearly better than their Met counterparts.

Yanks have 21 homers ... and A-Rod. I'd love to see him at least tie Willie Mays against the Mets on the all time career home run list. Make both the Mets fans and Steinbrenner Kids squirm. How often would that happen?

Pitching:

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Masahiro Tanaka	26	2	1	.667	3.22	4	4	0	0	0	0	22.1	14	10	8	2	7	0	24	0	0	2	90	126	3.02	0.940	5.6	0.8	2.8	9.7	3.43
2	SP	CC Sabathia*	34	0	3	.000	4.35	3	3	0	1	0	0	20.2	22	11	10	1	4	1	20	0	0	1	82	93	2.34	1.258	9.6	0.4	1.7	8.7	5.00
3	SP	Michael Pineda	26	2	0	1.000	5.00	3	3	0	0	0	0	18.0	22	10	10	2	2	0	20	0	0	0	75	82	2.62	1.333	11.0	1.0	1.0	10.0	10.00
4	SP	Nathan Eovaldi	25	1	0	1.000	3.12	3	3	0	0	0	0	17.1	24	6	6	1	5	0	14	1	0	3	77	131	3.24	1.673	12.5	0.5	2.6	7.3	2.80
5	SP	Adam Warren	27	1	1	.500	5.40	3	3	0	0	0	0	15.0	16	10	9	2	8	0	6	0	0	0	66	76	5.60	1.600	9.6	1.2	4.8	3.6	0.75
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
6	CL	Andrew Miller*	30	0	0		0.00	7	0	6	0	0	6	7.1	2	0	0	0	4	0	15	1	0	0	29		1.02	0.818	2.5	0.0	4.9	18.4	3.75
7	RP	Dellin Betances	27	3	0	1.000	0.00	8	0	1	0	0	0	9.1	5	1	0	0	7	0	12	0	0	1	39		2.74	1.286	4.8	0.0	6.8	11.6	1.71

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Bartolo Colon	42	4	0	1.000	2.77	4	4	0	0	0	0	26.0	22	8	8	3	1	0	23	0	0	0	100	127	2.91	0.885	7.6	1.0	0.3	8.0	23.00
2	SP	Jacob deGrom	27	2	1	.667	0.93	3	3	0	0	0	0	19.1	19	2	2	1	3	1	17	0	0	0	78	381	2.44	1.138	8.8	0.5	1.4	7.9	5.67
3	SP	Matt Harvey	26	3	0	1.000	3.50	3	3	0	0	0	0	18.0	17	7	7	2	1	0	24	2	0	1	75	102	2.34	1.000	8.5	1.0	0.5	12.0	24.00
4	SP	Jon Niese*	28	2	0	1.000	1.50	3	3	0	0	0	0	18.0	20	5	3	2	8	0	11	1	0	0	85	237	4.79	1.556	10.0	1.0	4.0	5.5	1.38
5	SP	Dillon Gee	29	0	1	.000	5.60	3	3	0	0	0	0	17.2	21	11	11	3	3	1	12	0	0	0	73	63	4.42	1.358	10.7	1.5	1.5	6.1	4.00
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
6	CL	Jeurys Familia	25	0	0		1.86	10	0	9	0	0	8	9.2	4	2	2	1	3	0	12	0	0	0	35	195	2.86	0.724	3.7	0.9	2.8	11.2	4.00
7	RP	Carlos Torres	32	0	0		4.26	8	0	0	0	0	0	6.1	6	3	3	1	0	0	7	0	0	1	24	87	2.91	0.947	8.5	1.4	0.0	9.9

Masahiro Tanaka pitched yesterday so he is not a factor in this series. Probable starters:

Jacob deGrom v. Michael Pineda

Matt Harvey v. CC Sabathia

Jon Neise v. Nathan Eovaldi - push

All three could be close. Sabathia is coming off a solid start and Harvey has mostly been a big strike out guy but with a 3.50 ERA. The Yankee bullpen is much better.

I don't see too much for either team to brag about but those bragging rights are up for grabs.