jacksonianmarch

He is what he is. Although I will say, Whitlock throwing balls down to a lefty is a bad move.

This. And they seem to be chasing pitches up in the zone and popping them up. Really inventive approach by Pivetta. Most pitchers try to keep the ball down, but he lived up in the zone and was very effective

Castro is a mistake hitter who mostly sucks

How does Laz Diaz catch a home plate assignment in the ALCS? That guy is absolutely awful

Whitlock

Cashman actually doesn't exist. It's a well designed puppet with Hal's voice and Levine doing the puppeteering

This has the makings of a very big inning

Baker has dementia

I am pretty sure Bloom has earned the benefit of the doubt. I also will worry about every guy he picks up off the trash heap as he seems to know which piece of dogshit can be pressed into a diamond

Phil Maton is the Houston savior? How is that guy even sniffing this game?

Houston is in a slump. Pivetta was good, but he kept the ball up in the zone and the power hitters couldn't avoid the weak popups. It is absolutely telling that the sox pitchers are dominating with the fastball. A great hitting team should hit fastballs well, but not this Astros team this post season. Very strange indeed

George bought the Yanks in 73. His team won in 77 and 78 then rattled off an 18 year hiatus before the dynasty was built. His teams won 4 more times before his death in 2008. Hal took over shortly before George's death and has been the owner for 14 seasons, seeing the title only once. While he has continually fielded $200 mil teams, he has been unwilling to go far beyond the other teams, actually being outspent nearly every year be it by the sox or dodgers. He has never had a different GM, he has kept the same old guard his father handed over to him while the game has changed vastly around him. Hal has also run the Yanks as a business, maximizing squeezing every dollar out of the fans while not reinvesting it into the product on the field. Hal has taught his personal monkey, Cashman, to never question the Yankee way and even shoot down any chance Hal isn't "totally invested" in the team while employing a puppet in Boone and even extending him. It is clear the direction is wrong. Yankee fans should be pissed.

Why the ever living f*** is Taillon waiting til Oct 28 to have surgery?!? Should have happened 2 weeks ago. It’s a 5 month recovery time! He’s gonna miss the first month or two rebuilding arm strength

No words honestly. Your team underachieved and you get a three year contract. I wish I could underachieve like that and get a raise

Boone back on 3 year deal. f***!!

The Sox punched them right in the face and the Astros cowered. Look at them in the dugout. They look dead.

This series is over. The Astros have no fight. Wow. Quitters

Renfroe career year. Dalbec was Babe Ruth the second half. JD recovered from being a minus player to be very effective. Devers and Xander were prime. Kike had a career year. Vaz was slightly down, but not far from career norms Arroyo has always sucked Pivetta had a career year. Eovaldi had a career year. ERod was down Sale returned and was solid in the regular season Schwarber came on and became Babe Ruth I am absolutely right in my assessment that the sox have benefited from good health (minus covid, but everyone had a covid outbreak to an extent) and prime or better performance from nearly the whole team. Expecting the same to happen next year will return you to where the experts thought you'd be. You are right, though, that the Yanks are gonna decline if they stand pat and cannot afford that

Schwarber just killed the Astros. They're front runners and the sox punched them in the mouth

Here is the thing about the Yanks. Prior to 2021, we knew the Rays were good but had just offloaded two of their prime pitchers. Nobody thought they would be this good, this fast. They are. We all thought the Jays would be on the rise. The meteoric rise in their win total late points towards a dominant team for 2022. The Red Sox played way over their skis all year and Bloom is a genius. The sox recovered faster than expected and will be in the mix next year. Yanks cannot just add one guy and expect to take the East. They need to move around their assets to create a dominant club or else they may end up 4th in the division

Disagree. I think there needs to be an advantage for winning home field. If you win the first game in the series and have a chance to end it before it goes back to the advantaged team's home field, then I don't think that is right unless you sweep

Honestly, the team that has home field has to win their first two games. When they don't, you allow the "underdog" to gain momentum. I actually do think MLB should adopt the 2-2-1-1-1 approach. I wonder with Houston's SP injuries whether the sox will even allow this to go back to Houston

As I have said before on the sox, they have been playing over their heads all year. That is a credit to the manager. They are winning despite not having good pitching, defense or baserunning. What they are doing is jumping out to leads and then holding on for dear life later in games. If the opponent comes back, they scrape across a run late to win using all means necessary, small ball included. What Cora is doing this post-season and how Bloom put their lineup together is something that will be emulated. The sox have moved Dalbec out of the lineup and put Schwarber in which saves 7% K rate (BD 34%, Schwarbs 27%). The rest of the "meat" of their lineup makes better than average contact. Average this year was 24% for all big leaguers. Look at the lineup Kike 18% Verdugo 18% Bogey 18% Martinez 23% Schwarber 27% Devers 21% Vazquez 17% Renfroe 22% Fact is, the sox were 20th in walk rate yet were second in slugging and 3rd in wOBA. Sox were also 11th best in K rate in the bigs. It is not all about the walks. Yanks were a lineup of guys who hit homers, walked and K'd. Sox are showing that an approach of guys who make contact and can drive the ball out of the park is FAR better than waiting on 2 walks and a dong.

The Dodgers head home with a chance to turn the tide on the series. The Braves did their job in securing their home field advantage. Remember last year, the Braves were up 3-1 on the Dodgers and lost the series

Nightmares