Up to the Minute OPSes, Yankee Regulars:
Torres: .832
Gregorius: .832
Stanton: .830
Hicks: .833
Andujar is at .851.
This is important and deserves its own thread.
HFS!! They even have the same wRC+!!! We should start a second thread!!!!! From this morning:
Torres: 123
Gregorius: 122
Stanton: 122
Hicks: 126
Andujar: 126
German is at 117
In terms of why it happened, I have two plausible theories:
1) The Yankees players are all clones of one another. Clearly they've been altered superficially to confuse us, but baseball stats don't lie and are apparently driven by gene patterns.
2) Summary statistics like wRC+ and OPS obscure variation in player hitting profiles, and all these players happened to perform similarly this year. Weird measures can occur randomly in small sub-samples of a sparsely sampled high-dimensional space (i.e. curse of dimensionality).
3) The curse of dimensionality has a sinister mastermind behind it, whose goal is to torture you through baseball oddities because they are impossible to explain. Or maybe the mastermind is God, whose goal is to bless you with baseball oddities that are too awesome to explain. Either way.
OK three theories.