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Playoffs are set.   Best of 3 series with all the games at the higher seed.   AL (Tue/Wed/Thu-if-necessary) #1 Tampa Bay Rays vs #8 Toronto Blue Jays #2 Oakland A's vs #7 Chicago White

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When people blather this guy or that guy would never be on a winning team, I will remind them that TJ McFarland was named to his team's wildcard round roster this year.  So was Jonah Heim.

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Been thinking about last night's game.  For me, it was a great reminder that baseball is at its best, most exciting and most entertaining when a ball is put in play with runners on base: fielders

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Rosenthal just had the Cash interview postgame, laying out the critique, particularly the bit about Anderson letting in runs six straight games.

Cash gave the company line, "Everything enters decisions; we value information; makes sense to avoid any pitcher facing a Dodger hitter three times". 

One specific in Cash quote about Anderson having been "arguably best reliever in MLB last 2 years" an interesting choice of timeframe.  I do think a fair question is how adroitly, if at all, were Rays able to reassess guys day to day effectiveness.   Kenley's arguably best reliever in MLB last TEN years, and ya know...

I guess gotta dance with who brung ya.

Snell - "I believe in me, I didn't walk nobody.  For most of that game I was dominating every outcome possible.   I felt confident in how I adjusted, and what I was going to be able to do a third time"

Dodgers top 4 were 1-for-16 with 11K his four passes through the order.   A-Rod says these guys are ruining MLB.

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5 hours ago, OrioleDog said:

Rosenthal just had the Cash interview postgame, laying out the critique, particularly the bit about Anderson letting in runs six straight games.

Cash gave the company line, "Everything enters decisions; we value information; makes sense to avoid any pitcher facing a Dodger hitter three times". 

One specific in Cash quote about Anderson having been "arguably best reliever in MLB last 2 years" an interesting choice of timeframe.  I do think a fair question is how adroitly, if at all, were Rays able to reassess guys day to day effectiveness.   Kenley's arguably best reliever in MLB last TEN years, and ya know...

I guess gotta dance with who brung ya.

Snell - "I believe in me, I didn't walk nobody.  For most of that game I was dominating every outcome possible.   I felt confident in how I adjusted, and what I was going to be able to do a third time"

Dodgers top 4 were 1-for-16 with 11K his four passes through the order.   A-Rod says these guys are ruining MLB.

I am prepping for youth league playoffs.  Changed some stuff and then actually said out loud “ Nope.  You dance with the one that brought ya.”  And changed everything back ?

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7 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Had he gone six full all season?  Does anyone think he could go CGSO?

The postseason is all about second-guessing the playbook that you followed all year because it's not about numbers and data and track records, it's about setting up the revenue stream from the inevitable Disney movie about your improbable storybook run.

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7 hours ago, OrioleDog said:

 A-Rod says these guys are ruining MLB.

I'm more confident than ever that it's the right way to go.

I mean, I might have picked a different reliever who was pitching better. But "these guys are ruining MLB" is saying that we need to ignore the data and the information and the logic and gut it out like a man and win it all, baby.  You know, like Grady Little and Pedro.

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8 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Had he gone six full all season?  Does anyone think he could go CGSO?

Had he gone longer than 73 pitches all season?  Only 11 times including every start in the playoffs.  It’s very reasonable to think he could have given them 8 innings of scoreless ball without going over his season pitch count high.  

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8 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Had he gone six full all season?  Does anyone think he could go CGSO?

He hadn’t pitched 6 innings since July 2019.

 

but so what.  You can’t pull him there, especially for someone who had already set a record letting up a run in 6 straight postseason appearances.

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