Defense, People

Recent winning streak evinces the importance of solid fielding every bit as much as the earlier losses. While playing tight, the Yankees benefitted offensively from some shoddy play on the part of both the Rangers and the Rays. Here's a theorem: the less yoyu give away in the field, the greater pressure you keep the opposition under, and the more liable they become to miscues of their own. Hence, on a statistical basis, the better defense you play the worse defense your opponent is likely to display, even though there is no direct causal contact between the 2 performances. We'll call this the law of asynchronous interdependency.