Bellhorn04
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Why is there no hierarchy? The only trustworthy guys left are Holmes and Peralta followed by Loaisiga and Trivino. Will Holmes and Peralta be available tonight is the question.
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All I can surmise is that Boone is afraid Holmes will get injured again if he rides him too hard.
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You two are like a pair of Rock'M Sock'M Robots. By now you both pretty much know what the other one is going to say, but you keep at it anyway.
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Speaking of injuries, at the deadline the Yankees traded for Bader, Benintendi, Montas, Trivino and Effross. Bader of course was on the IL when they traded for him. Benintendi, Montas, and Effross are all injured. Effross is having TJS and I don't think the other two will return even if the Yankees get past this series.
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And pitchers seem to be getting injured more and more often all the time.
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The Dodgers pen was also somewhat decimated. What do you think Roberts did wrong, exactly?
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Bradley posted a -0.3 fWAR at a payroll AAV of 12 million. He was NOT an asset.
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He got mixed up. He thought Schmidt started for the Yankees.
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He didn't.
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The Yankees bullpen is decimated. No Chapman No Britton No Green No King No Effross
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Ah, but if the playoffs are a crapshoot, and the 2022 Dodgers can win 111 games and have an unbelievable +334 run differential, and win 1 postseason game, that kind of blows the "timing" premise to kingdom come.
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Right, there was just one stretch from 1985 to 1993 where all the series were best of 7.
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It was a mess-up, but there's no way it should be allowed to be a crippler. If it's a crippler, then we should never pay tax again, ever.
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The five game series has been around a while though. In all of the Red Sox 4 titles they had to get through a best of fiver.
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Doesn't surprise me at all. A 2 out of 3 is an ultra-crapshoot no matter what park is being played in.
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My theory now is that there are about 50% crapshoot years and 50% non-crapshoot years LOL These best of 5 series are definitely conducive to crapshoots. Even the best teams will lose 3 games in a row during the regular season.
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And under the circumstances, why not go a little longer with Trivino and/or Loaisiga? Boone always seems to end up looking like a doofus.
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Phillies destroy Braves. Is it a crapshoot year?
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Like I said, I was mainly looking at 2022. Springs has a BTV of 17.5. Hernandez has a BTV of 2.5. BTV says we got our ass kicked in the trade.
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I was definitely looking at things through a cranky 2022 filter. As far as the Springs trade is concerned, the fact that none of us saw anything in him is irrelevant. We're not the ones who get paid to make the moves. The Rays must have seen something in him. And if Bloom is going to get credit for a pickup like Schreiber, as he should, he also has to take the heat for giving up a guy who has a good season, like Springs did.
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Renfroe and Springs appear to be two examples of Bloom making a good move and then rather quickly negating it with a bad move. One thing that worries me about him is a possible tendency toward being a little too unconventional or clever...sometimes being conventional is not a bad thing.
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As for Gallo, his career OBP of .325 is OK, but that career BA of .199 is bloody awful alright. Compare him to another Three Outcomes guy, Adam Dunn: Gallo 199/325/469/794 OPS+ 109 Dunn 237/364/490/854 OPS+ 124
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Moving the ghost runner from second to third by way of an out is generally a bad play unless it's a really weak hitter at the plate. Teams scored an average of 1.38 runs in extra innings this year. So playing for and scoring one run would frequently have resulted in a loss anyway.
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Nimmo is far from weak.
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The Mariners have played 4 games this postseason, one in which a 7 run lead was lost, and one in which a 4 run lead was lost.
