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I can't stand those mother ers either. Best fans in baseball my ass.
gutsy performance from CK...would be awesome if the Dodgers could win 2/3 in LA
I can't stand those mother ers either. Best fans in baseball my ass.
It's on Hill. He has to provide the bridge twixt CK & KJ.
He doesn't have to be perfect, but, he's got to be really close.
& Roberts must resist the urge to go conventional and open up that rotation. It's too late for that, much too late. You have to go for it now. Grab the riding crop and lead them to the mound again & again. They want to be led, by Roberts. They'll do whatever he tells them to do. Tell them---Lead them.
He must pitch CK in Los Angeles and if necessary back in Chicago. However it has to be planned out it must happen. He must make 3 starts.
htf did Bauer even start this game? that's disgusting
Wanted it to be his Curt Schilling moment
Like this Tribe team a lot more than the 2005/2007 Indians, who were probably more talented but a bunch of chokers with an idiot manager.
One win away. Get this thing over with before we lose another pitcher for God's sake.
Blue Cucks
Tribe is scary. Speed and range at the key positions, big bats, and shutdown pitching. I think they're the odds on faves right now.
100% chance that Andrew Miller is on that Eric Gagne diet, tbh
100% chance that Andrew Miller is on that Eric Gagne diet, tbh
Honestly, he doesn't really over power hitters. He has a 6'7" frame with that sweeping delivery that is just a to hit, a la Randy Johnson or even Bumgarner (he's 4" shorter, but is also a lefty with a wide delivery and knee breaking curve).
Jays really need to send Martin to the glue factory. They also need more speed at the top of the lineup and in right field. Bautista is too slow for the outfield now. According to the metrics, the fly ball he missed in the first inning that turned into a double was caught 98% of the time.
***That catch by Crisp. So ing professional. All that focus on the game in progress.
***Napoli using all that experience to KNOW that fly ball is going to fall. Not even a risk. He knew it.
***Blue Jays giving away at bat after at bat. You shouldn't do that April - September. You cannot do that in October.
Indians are a juggernaut right now. Went through a Sox team every one had pegged as a shoe-in for the pennant like they weren't there. Jays have a nice foundation with their pitching staff and defense. 3rd in the AL in ERA+ and 1st in the AL in defensive efficiency. Funny enough, it's the offense that's the problem. The Jays were just slightly above league average in OPS and OPS+ and lead the league in grounding into double plays.
Pillar needs to work on his swing and turn into a viable lead off hitter, Martin needs the old yeller treatment, and Bautista should not be resigned. A few tweaks, and you guys will contend next year again.
Didn't wanna see the Blue Jays win the series, but I was kinda hoping to see them force it to six or seven games; makes the Rangers' choke look a lot worse.
Pillar is just too impatient to ever be a leadoff guy imo. As Great as Cleveland has been, the Jays at bats have been laughable (as they were over the last month of the season, with the league-worst offense).
Their inability to drive home RISP is probably bordering on historic. To have Bautista blame the strike zone (iffy at times) openly is just silly. There's no reason why Miller should be striking out 80%+ of the lineup over the course of 3 games. Or not being able to get to Tomlin at all in game 2.
Yeah they were playing extremely poor, I'm actually shocked at the ALDS. They were clearly motivated by revenge
I don't think the Rangers choked. Looking at their stats, they ranked just slightly above average in all the key metrics, while Jays were top 3 in ERA+ and defeff.
Texas was kind of like the 2011 Spurs. A decent team that gutted out wins and performed far above expectation.
The Red Sox looked good for about a month towards the end of the season, then fell into a big slump going into the playoffs. The rest of their season was a good offense and an inconsistent defense with terrible pitching; they were the favorites because the rest of the crop was mediocre (Blue Jays/Indians)/prone to choking (Rangers/Orioles). Indians have turned it on and look like they did early on, but some of the credit has to go to the AL just not being up to par.
I think that patience can be taught. And yeah, the Jays offense has been dead for two months. But like in any sport, defense wins les, and the Jays pitching and defense were elite this season, and all the players who contributed to that are young, so the Jays have a bright future.
Rangers choked in every way imaginable: their "Aces" got annihilated, their best hitters (Beltre, Andrus, Odor) batted well below .200, they failed to convert routine defensive plays, Banister played horrid lineups and continued to use relievers that got lit up all season, and when they actually managed to get runners on and into scoring position they couldn't score them. While the Rangers were definitely not as good as their record indicated (despite looking that way in May/June), they should've gone at least five in the ALDS and prolly won it.
But that begs the question, was it a choke or just the Rangers being the Rangers?
They had only a +8 run differential for a reason, and I think those reasons reared their head in the series.
But I do agree they choked on some key plays. In a vacuum, however, I think the Jays are the better team. Better on "paper" at every aspect of the game.
Average stats in the regular season or not, you don't leave 20 men on base in a series or have several players fumble routine ground balls multiple times a game.But that begs the question, was it a choke or just the Rangers being the Rangers?
They had only a +8 run differential for a reason, and I think those reasons reared their head in the series.
But I do agree they choked on some key plays. In a vacuum, however, I think the Jays are the better team. Better on "paper" at every aspect of the game.
you, Jobu...I do this myself
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