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MLB Playoff Thread

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26 minutes ago, pantherphan96 said:

on paper the Sox should have beaten the Indians but we all saw how that series played out. I'm not sure how effective Schwarber is gonna be after being out for so long. The Indians are gonna run on the Cubs, especially on Lester, and they remind me of the Royals with how they can beat you with smallball. This was the WS I wanted to see after the Sox got eliminated so I'll be happy with the result either way. 

Royals were the biggest overachievers in sports last year, probably in the last century.  Experts rightly predicated that going into this season and they fell fast, but baseball is baseball and anything is possible.    No one plays more small ball than the Giants and the Cubs beat them.   Cubs have a historically good defense built for small ball and because of no DH, Madden has played that all year.   Giving him the DH For 4 games is almost cheating.  People haven't been that successful running on Lester, because Ross is throwing most people out regardless.   Now, when Montero is catching Arrieta, anyone can run lol.  Schwarber can still hit and will still scare them, even as a decoy it's a nice development.   if the Indians weren't so right-hand heavy I don't think Kyle would be on the roster though because he can't hit lefties.  

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1 hour ago, Kevin Greene said:

Stopped reading at our bullpen is bad, lol.

cya next year, we'll figure this out.

Your bullpen got blasted by the Cubs.  What are you talking about?  Old boy Blanton got rocked.  You had to pull in Jensen for 3 because no one else on your team could come in.  You had to keep Kershaw in when he should have pulled after 3 because no one else could come in yet.  Yes, the bullpen is bad.

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2 hours ago, Zaximus said:

Royals were the biggest overachievers in sports last year, probably in the last century.  Experts rightly predicated that going into this season and they fell fast, but baseball is baseball and anything is possible.    No one plays more small ball than the Giants and the Cubs beat them.   Cubs have a historically good defense built for small ball and because of no DH, Madden has played that all year.   Giving him the DH For 4 games is almost cheating.  People haven't been that successful running on Lester, because Ross is throwing most people out regardless.   Now, when Montero is catching Arrieta, anyone can run lol.  Schwarber can still hit and will still scare them, even as a decoy it's a nice development.   if the Indians weren't so right-hand heavy I don't think Kyle would be on the roster though because he can't hit lefties.  

I forgot about Ross but I meant that they will be able to run on Lester because he is almost incapable of throwing to first. Cleveland stole the most bases in the AL and they don't get caught often. I agree about the Royals but I would say the Indians play a better version of smallball than either them or the Giants. Think this series is gonna go to Game 7.

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There are people in my office that think the Cubs will sweep the Indians.  

 

You would think after going 72 years without going to the World Series they would be a little humble. 

 

Pulling for the Indians and moving closer to being a White SOX fan. 

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7 hours ago, Zaximus said:

Your bullpen got blasted by the Cubs.  What are you talking about?  Old boy Blanton got rocked.  You had to pull in Jensen for 3 because no one else on your team could come in.  You had to keep Kershaw in when he should have pulled after 3 because no one else could come in yet.  Yes, the bullpen is bad.

It would be really, really, really hard for you to be more wrong.

 

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Incidentally, the Dodgers also posted this stat on their rookie starters this year:

" Nearly half the starts for the 2016 #Dodgers came from brand new Major Leaguers, with the team going 40-30 (.571) in those games. #DodgerInside"

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13 hours ago, Kevin Greene said:

It would be really, really, really hard for you to be more wrong.

 

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Incidentally, the Dodgers also posted this stat on their rookie starters this year:

" Nearly half the starts for the 2016 #Dodgers came from brand new Major Leaguers, with the team going 40-30 (.571) in those games. #DodgerInside"

Yeah those definitely look like playoff status, but wait, they aren't.

 

Typical Trump supporter lolz

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11 hours ago, pantherphan96 said:

Kluber with WS record 8 K's thru 3 innings. Wow.

Dude is sick, doesn't help when ump is giving you the home team garbage truck sized strike zone either.   This was the same for the first Kershaw game the Cubs had too.   They need to hurry up and just go to robo-ump honestly.  

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