mvp 78

Woop woop

Having Betts at 2b so that Machado can dirty slide into him seems like a great idea.

I’m not saying he can’t, just saying it’s unlikely.

6 innings in 4 years.

Tito for now. If Cora wins this WS and has sustained success, it’ll be a conversation.

Would like to hear Jacko’s opinion of Jansen’s heart condition.

Jeffress was horrible. Maybe he shouldn’t have gone to the pen for another inning and waited for Hader.

Over

I posted pictures of him taking IF practice a few weeks ago.

Mookie COULD play 2b, just seems unlikely.

Only if you shove that polyanna s*** up your old wrinkled ass.

https://twitter.com/2080_John/status/1053145063700590593 Who here likes dingers?

I trust Cora more than I trust myself or any of you other dingbats on here. He's shown over and over again that he's able to deftly manage not only a full season but the playoffs too.

If it was a great idea, Cora would have done this in the regular season.

Bandwagon fans.

JBJ had a 583 OPS in the ALDS.

3 hits in 5 games. Pump the brakes a little bit. I'd rather have JDM and Betts in the roster than JBJ. MAYBE sit Beni?

Pollyannas? This team won 108 games in the regular season and are going to the World Series. Anyone who defended every move by DD and Cora seem to have faired better with their arguments than terminal naysayers.

So the Sox BEAT the Astros then. If the Sox did the punching you can't say the Stros "lost it".

"A lot of his home runs this year were those balls that creeped into the Crawford Boxes," Hinch said. "That's a little bit of bad luck in the ballpark." BUT THAT'S THE PARK YOU PLAY 81 GAMES A YEAR IN?!?!?

Verlander's comments weren't absolutely terrible, but don't blame the stadium dude: “I struggled in the Crawford Boxes,” he said. “It’s funny. We’re playing the Red Sox, and the only two places those are hits are here and Fenway (Park). “Other than that, they did a fantastic job of laying off my off-speed for the most part. They probably are one of the toughest battles top to bottom of any lineup I’ve faced all year.” Of the strike that wasn’t, he said, “I thought Chris did a good job. That one, personally, I thought it was a strike. I’ve been known to be wrong from time to time. I thought it was really close, and I wanted it, but I thought Chris did a fantastic job. Those guys have been really good back there.” “Devers put a decent swing on his,” Verlander said. “It was the Moreland one that was kind of debilitating. It was just over the left fielder to lead off an inning when we’re already down one. That was tough to deal with.” Of the Moreland double, he said, “I saw Tony jump, and I was having flashbacks to the catch he made a couple of days ago and begging for that. But (Ian Kinsler) was able to punch one, and then there was a 330-foot popup for a three-run homer, and that’s all she wrote.”

A year after Houston won the first title in the team's 56 seasons, Verlander had a rare off night in an elimination game and the Astros lost the AL Championship Series to the Boston Red Sox in five games. "This year's team is better than last year's team," third baseman Alex Bregman said. "Everyone in here will have a little bit of an edge to play with, a chip on their shoulder knowing that we believe we should have been back-to-back champions." BUT THOSE INJURIES!!!!!!

Reminder that one missed strike call ruined their season somehow: Two quick strikes to Martinez kept him in rhythm. Verlander spun an 0-2 slider to put him away. Statcast showed the pitch nestling into the low corner of Martinez's strike zone. Home plate umpire Chris Guccione deemed it a ball, bringing Verlander to a stop as he pranced the mound. The crowd booed, still salty over the Game 4 interference brouhaha. Verlander readied for a pitch he did not think was necessary. He spun a wretched curveball. Martinez mauled it. The solo home run landed 396 feet away atop the train tracks. Boston boasted a lead it would not blow.

But is he clutch?

Would trade Murphy and Gabbard for Gagne all over again.