Bellhorn04
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How can you say you try not to play the blame game when you keep saying over and over-more than anyone else-that the Kimbrel trade and the Pom trade were bad? When it comes to moves by the team brass, you play the blame game and you play it hard.
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It works both ways. When you start at home there can also be more pressure to 'hold serve'.
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But when it comes down to one decisive game, a lot of that goes out the window, because that one game will feature each team's best available pitchers going against each other.
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With all the discussion of HFA, I went back and analyzed the Red Sox history in winner-take-all games since the Babe was sold. There have been 13 of them, including the 1948 and 1978 1-game playoffs. Sox record in home games 2 wins 4 losses .333 Sox record in road games 3 wins 4 losses .429
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2016 Non-Red Sox Postseason Gamethread
Bellhorn04 replied to Youk Of The Nation's topic in Other Baseball
Showalter is getting hammered for this. If it was Boston it would be instant infamy for sure. -
It's kind of hard to believe Britton never got in that game.
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If Porcello and Kluber pitch the same, the bullpens will decide it. I don't believe the HFA has any effect. You do. We'll have to agree to disagree.
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I'll take better pitching and take my chances.
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One thing you might like in that particular article is that they measure 'Wins Above Monkey' instead of 'Wins Above Replacement'. Dusty Baker was .5 wins worse than a monkey in one of the bullpen management categories.
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Well, it is a pretty messed-up issue.
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What happened to small sample sizes?
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I wasn't upset until I learned it was his elbow he was receiving treatment for.
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A trifle extreme. Also, throwing someone off a cliff is quite dangerous for the thrower, too, in my experience.
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When you come down to a one-game decider the biggest factors are the starting pitchers and the bullpens, wherever you're playing.
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All that is understood. But again, history shows that it doesn't matter much.
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Everybody feels more comfortable playing the deciding game at home. But the hard cold historical facts show that it doesn't affect the outcome much.
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Martinez, Manny and Ortiz?
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True, but since it was after the trade deadline they were screwed either way.
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I haven't seen anyone here say that.
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Texas isn't even in the picture yet. We have to get past Cleveland and Texas has to get past Jays or O's.
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Maybe.
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Agreed - the overall conclusion, though, has to be that home field has been a non-factor either way.
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I think I read something about a playoff game at Fenway in 1978 too.
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He couldn't break the paradigm after all.
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It was 'shortly after the August 1 deadline', per the Globe.
