[Yes, it is very early in the season and unlikely that these stats will last...however, a full month, or 1/6th of the season, is not entirely insignificant]

1) After AJ Burnett’s great, eight strike-out, one run performance tonight, he now has a 1.99 ERA. This means the Yankees now have 2 starters with ERAs under 2, (Phil Hughes is at 1.44) and Pettitte is just over at 2.12.

This means that CC Sabathia, the Yankees’ number one starter, at 2.74 is the highest non-Vazquez ERA on the Yankee starting staff.

During the game today it was mentioned that the non-Vazquez starters’ combined ERA was 2.15; as Burnett pitched to a few batters after that, that number is lower (albeit probably only by a hundredth or two)

2) Two of the four lowest Yankee OPS’s belong to Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez (.622 and .767, not counting tonight), the 2-3-4 hitters have a .661 OPS combined, and yet the Yankees have had just one game–out of 26 played–in which they have scored less than three runs, and just three when they have scored less than four.

3) Apparently, no one has told Francisco Cervelli that you’re not supposed to go from AA to the Major Leagues and all of a sudden become a better hitter at this level than the others.

Also, the catch he made over the dugout railing tonight was fantastic. Dreamy eyes of doom and all.

There is a lot you can say to qualify these–ie, about ERA being a bad stat and that Teixeira and Nick Johnson are having some really, really bad luck on the baseballs they do put in play–but for the moment, I’m just going to enjoy this.

It’s good to be a Yankee fan.