2020 MLB Season Baseball • Page 105

This is everything

 

Yanks in 3 was easily the best bet of the playoffs. I'm sorry. Until I see otherwise. Twins or A's vs yanks.... they fold. They dont compete. Feel bad for them but come on guys.

 

lol what

 

Yanks went 2-4 against Oakland this year

 

....in the playoffs. The A's at least try, I'll give em that, but the twins are miserable

 

this is a bad take. don't take away from what those guys accomplished last night.

 

We have a pretty below average rotation/bullpen, aside from berrios/odo. Pretty certain the only player with playoff experience is marwin. Sure we didn’t play our best games, but saying we are “miserable” is laughable.

 

The yanks? I mean theres nothing more to say. They embarrassed the team they always embarrass. Gonna need more than Jake odorizzi

 

Against the yanks? Miserable.

 

they won 101 games. they have more than just Odorizzi.

they put up more WAR in pitching this season than NYY, and NYY were only 1% better in wRC+.

NYY won both series 2-1 in regular season.

you can't go off of reputation. this MIN team can play. NYY played a great series and beat a quality opponent.

 

Until I see it, I'm sorry I just wont believe it. I do think reputation and history play a part, especially when it's so dramatic. This yankee dominance over Minnesota is dramatic.

They need real pitching.

 

The ignorance is hilarious at this point

 

You call it ignorance I call it easy money. The only way you're going to beat the yanks is to limit their offense and the twins pitching isn't good enough to do that.

You're not gonna see 100 win teams be that dramatic underdog very often.

But look you won 100 games, I'm sure you'll be back next year. And hey I wanted the twins to win it all. They were the team I wanted to win the most,but they gotta figure out how to beat the yankees

 

last thing I will say... Twins were top 5 both in FIP and xFIP

asking for more than that is silly.

 

I'm not being flippant here. Everyone plays shit teams. But is there a way to see how they did, pitching wise, against teams over .500? I dont know the answer to that

 

v sports radio in here rn

 

i really so no point to this exercise. if you do that, you're eliminating good offense's that happen to have shit pitching, which is the reason they are under .500. its not answering the question you are seeking.

if you can't trust a sample size of 1,500 IP against MLB competition, i don't know what to tell you.

 

I'm very familiar with NY's dominance against Min and still didn't want to face this particular year's team

 

lol wtf is going on in here

sometimes it hurts when a bad take runs into facts

 

We both said it earlier this year too!

 

the dodgers are 100% going to disappoint tomorrow

 

hoping for something like this tomorrow

hopefully braves fans can at least agree that rafael furcal was kick-ass

 

i can’t believe you bet on baseball without knowing how to find that

 

Effectively Wild today talked about the feeling so far that the balls seem less juiced/not flying as far this postseason. And that apparently the home run rate is down like 15% from the regular season. It could definitely be small sample size but there is some anecdotal evidence to support the idea: Acuña not hustling on the ball off the wall that he thought was gone, as well as Goldy’s wallscraper that looked like a moonshot off the bat.

Of course, those are supremely anecdotal, however, it’ll be interested to see how the rest of the postseason plays out. I feel so conditioned to expect every ball hit somewhat well to the outfield to fly out of the park yet that hasn’t been the case thus far on some balls that look well struck