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  1. Ugly looking lineup for the Dodgers in an elimination game. Is Taylor pretty bad in CF?
  2. I think they should have gone with Giolito first to max out his innings this series. This team hits pitchers who are reliant on their fastball pretty well.
  3. Just throw it 80% of the time and see what happens lol.
  4. No. I think they were playing far below their talent level for that 60 game season and their playoff run was more akin to how they should have been playing the entire season.
  5. I'm not a big believer in that mattering much. If you think postseason experience is so material, then maybe we should start Greinke in game three or four? He has more experience than anyone on the roster. How much post-season experience did Framber have last year when he was by-far our best post-season pitcher?
  6. Neither of those SS prospects are going to be ready to contribute next season. Yankees were also near dead last in WAR for CF. You’re starting 1B is a rental. Torres hasn’t played well since 2019. Urshela has been a JAG this season. Like many other teams, the Yankees may exceed the LT threshold for a single season, but they aren’t going to go above it for multiple seasons and incur the draft penalties.
  7. It won’t make a difference. This was likely the Yankees best chance to win a WS for a long time. You don’t have money to fill the holes that have developed on your roster with all the arb money you will be hit with this off-season.
  8. We’re talking about hundreds of innings combined between these two teams over that time span. I guarantee the variance in offensive talent over a sample that large is less than 10% while the difference in results are substantially larger than 10%. It’s just silly to argue that they don’t have a marked advantage there. On the other hand we hit and field better than they do, which is hardly nothing and could also be the difference in the series.
  9. I don’t gamble on sports but I would put it at something like 55/45 Sox. Elite SP are just so valuable in the post-season where you can club other teams over the head with them in a way you can’t in the regular season where keeping them healthy is much more important than winning any particular game.
  10. Wonder if the Yankees clean house after this or if Boone is the sacrificial lamb. They’ve had some great teams but have come up short in the post-season and that’s what counts for a club like them.
  11. Lynn, Giolito, and Cease each have an xwOBA less than .300 since September 1. LMJ is the only Astros starter to meet that mark. Garcia is at .355 and Greinke is at an insane .447. Anything can happen in the post-season but, IMO, the Sox are more likely to win this series.
  12. Better to be lucky than good I guess.
  13. Their pen just isn’t that deep though. Brasier particularly isn’t that good.
  14. This seems like a very quick trigger by Cora.
  15. GS encompasses a number of things over which the pitcher has little to no control. In terms of K/BB and quality of contact, the things pitchers have a lot of control over, Eovaldi has been elite. He has a .267 xwOBA for instance since 9-1 which is as elite as it gets for a SP.
  16. It’s one start. He’s been significantly better than Cole since September 1.
  17. The Sox have three starters who have been as good, or better than, our best starter in LMJ, and that’s not even counting Rodon whom I’m assuming only pitches as a reliever/opener, if at all. It would be one thing if we had a deep and talented pen to fall back on, but that’s not the case at all as we only really have Pressly, Graveman, and maybe Pressly as well above average relievers. Stanek is great against RHB but you don’t want him pitching to Grandal or Moncada.
  18. I said above Cole has not been pitching very well lately while Eovaldi has been elite.
  19. It's tough because things fall off so dramatically after Lance and Framber. I don't like the idea of pitching either of LMJ or Framber on short rest as you're asking for a 4+ walk outing on short rest from them, but I also loathe the idea of having any of Garcia, Urquidy, and especially Greinke pitching more than 3 innings. Garcia and Greinke imploding in the second half has crippled the Astros' chances of advancing deep in the post-season, imo. The team is just going to have to score a lot of runs to have a chance.
  20. Eovaldi has been excellent this season. I'd give the slight edge to the Yankees with their pen but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Eovaldi out pitches Cole with how pedestrian Cole has performed over the past month.
  21. Yeah, i've been thinking for a while that may be where he ends up if the Yankees don't get him.
  22. Good hire, although i'm sad Max probably won't be posting as much anymore.
  23. The Yankees have actually hit the ball quite better than the Rays this season but have had very poor batted ball luck.
  24. I'd prefer the Red Sox. The Yankees ceiling is just much higher even if they haven't played up to it this season. Also, the Rays won a bunch of games this season but I don't see them making it to the World Series. Their offense, imo, is smoke and mirrors and their pitching staff is limited right now.
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