moonslav59
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Why not mention Kike? Whitlock?
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I was thinking more about coming back to win the WC1 against OAK, who has a very difficult schedule going forward, or coming back on NYY or TOR should they pass us. I'm not ruling out the Rays, but it will be very hard. Here are the records of the best teams from 2020-2021: 112-63 LAD 110-65 TBR 103-74 SDP 103-73 CWS 103-72 OAK 103-72 SFG 99-77 MIL 97-77 HOU 96-79 NYY 94-80 TOR 94-81 ATL 0thers: 90-87 BOS -
The Yanks play at OAK 4 games at the end of August: someone has to lose. The Yanks play TOR 7 times by the end of the year and end the season play TBR for 3. TOR plays at SEA for 3 starting tonight. Someone has to lose. They play the CWS 4 games, soon. They also play OAK for 3 and at NYY for 4. They end the season playing TBR 6 times & NYY 3 times in their last 19 games. OAK has this stretch starting 8/16 4 @ CWS 3 v SFG 2 v SEA 4 v NYY later, they play 3 @ TOR & 3 v CWS. They end the season with 3 @ LAA, 7 v SEA & 6 v HOU
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Funny. You thought the 2021 team would lose 90 games, but that's not "shambles." 2020 was not "shambles," because it was shortened. The end of 2019 was not "shambles," because the start of 2019 was so good. Bloom turns things around, quickly, and DD gets the credit. Nice try.
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Clutch vs. choke - do these numbers mean anything?
moonslav59 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Baseball
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If we can come back in games so many times, we can come back in the standings as well.
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I'd like to see the "ghost runner" start in the 11th or 12th inning. 7 inning double headers will be gone, after this year.
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It's not hard to trade away top prospects, either. He did keep Devers, and I'm glad he did that, and I, for one, do not have a problem with what DD did, because it got us a win and a fantastic journey in 2018, but I also knew all along, a price would be paid later, and that later is now (and 2020).
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I don't think there is a pitcher like the one we both want, this winter. That's why I think we'll sign an aging pitcher to a short term deal, and hope we get "that guy" we want, in 2023 or 2024. We may need that aging pitcher to pull a pre-2021 Verlander for us to win in 2022.
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That's why I mentioned it's not just pitch-calling, but relationships and comfort levels. It may not be called a "skill," but it is certainly real for many pitchers.
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Does it matter the reason for better success? Did you see the massive disparities over the longer term sample sizes I posted? Almost all showing anybody and just about everybody getting more success with our pitchers than Vaz did/does?
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Yes, Schwarber has taken longer to return than I bet Bloom expected. That hurt the most. I think a couple minor roster moves or non moves hurt a little. (Missing a Houck start, waiting to call up Sale, not replacing Marwin or Arauz with Munoz...) I think the next 2 weeks makes or breaks us, and some turning points might be... Sale's first start (Sunday). Schwarbers first few games. Arroyo's return. The Yankee 3 games in 2 days series.
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Why would anyone "wish" that? It would expose a serious mental flaw with one of our key pitchers. I'm still not sold on needing a third pitch to get by the third time around.
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Nightmare on West Street.
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True, and we had a mess of pitchers on the IL or 10 day wait periods. I think they were viewed as stop gaps that failed miserably. Bloom was not going to give up anything promising, and teams were asking for more than he wanted to give up. We'll see how it plays out.
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Chavis was the same as free.
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And, many pitchers rave about how one specific catcher helps them, immensely. Others, like maybe ERod, it doesn't seem to matter much.
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I get it, and I'm buying into it, now, with Houck. Do you think it's possible Houck reads about his horrific third time through stats and it's in the back of his mind, when that first guy gets up the third time? I think he let up 3 straight hits, yesterday once the top of the order got up the third time. (I'm not as stubborn as I seem. lol)
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Somehow, we are still one up in the loss column after going 3-13 over the last 16 games. The updated standings for the AL: 70-45 TBR 68-46 HOU 68-48 CWS 67-48 OAK WC 1 66-51 BOS WC2 (-2.0 from WC1 and -5.0 ALE lead) 63-52 NYY -2.0 WC2 62-52 TOR -2.5 WC2 61-55 SEA -4.5 WC2 Perhaps a bright spot awaits us. We play 3 vs BAL, have a day off and then play @NYY for 3 games in 2 days, then another day off before coming home to play 3 v Tex & 3 v MN, then 3 @CLE before our next showdown vs TBR for 7 of the next 10 games. The Yanks do not get a day off before the doubleheader on Tuesday. After today's weird day off (on a Friday), the Yanks play 12 games in 11 days. 2@CWS 1 v LAA 3 v BOS 4 v MN 2@ ATL day off 4@ OAK 3@ LAA
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They'll both be gone once Sale, DHern and Brasier are called up. You know, when we picked up Rios & Valdez, I heard the same rumblings.
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I couldn't disagree more with that video... "Maybe, Cashman had to give up more because the other teams paid the salaries..." "Maybe?" LOL!
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I've never been one to buy into the third time through the line-up rants, and sometimes I wonder if pitchers read about it so much, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, but with Houck, he might be better as our long man- taking Whitlock's role. We need a FA SP'er, and Sale, Eovaldi and Pivetta look like they have slots for 2022. I'm fine with giving Houck a shot, but I like Whitlock better as a starter and Houck better as a RP'er, next year. I'll wait to judge Brasier after we see what he does over the next 6+ weeks.
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Big chance pissed away.
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Tyler Anderson hit the 2 run dinger in the bottom of the 9th for the CWS win!
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Judge & Stanton with 2 run fingers in the 9th to give the Yanks an 8-7 lead! Damn!
