OK, maybe the bullpen doesn’t warrant an A.

It warrants an A if the standard is avoiding big problems. But, maybe that shouldn’t be the standard.

But, it definitely does not warrant anything close to an F.

The team is 5th in the league in RSAA. That doesn’t warrant a D.

It doesn’t matter how you break it down between starters and relievers. 5th <> D.

And the Yankees only have 3 relievers with a negative RSAA and none with a RSAA worse than -4. I just took a look at the Wednesday equivalent of the Sunday RSAA list. Not only doesn’t the bullpen warrant a F, it really warrants an A. The only team in the league that is worse than the Yankees in those areas are the Red Sox.

~~~A D in pitching?~~~

It’s the “F” for the pen that brings down the overall grade.

For a team that’s underachieving this badly, the grades aren’t a surprise, but the “Catching/Game Calling” grade seems a bit overblown. Not the catcher’s fault that the team cycled through a bushel load of injured pitchers in April, or that the pitchers don’t care to hold runners on.

But I suppose any team that has Wil Nieves can’t go any higher than a C-, just by virtue of his presence on the roster.

A D in pitching?

The Yankees came into today’s game 5th in the league in RSAA and will almost certainly move up to 4th when today’s games are added to the stats.

If 4th in the league is a D, what kind of GPA would you give for the league in pitching? About 0.5?

Sure, most times, it’s on the pitcher. Still, it seems like the Yankees catchers are hardly throwing anyone out at all. And, for the times where they have a chance, and fail, that the grade applies.

~Catching/Game Calling: D~

You’re faulting the catcher’s throwing because other teams “run at will”? It’d be nice if most of the pitchers didn’t take extraordinary time to even get the pitch to the plate. How many times have you seen a runner on 1B be nearly halfway to 2nd before the pitch is delivered?