World Series Chat

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Who wins a footrace: McCann, Mauer, or Mathew Lecroy?

[drjim]

Looking forward to Darvish's audition for the big job in Minneapolis, tonight.

Looks like he'll fit right in as a playoff performer.

 

He has probably cost himself $30mil at least.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Kershaw, Koufax, Hershiser, Drysdale, all warming in the pen

[spinowner]

 

Who wins a footrace: McCann, Mauer, or Mathew Lecroy?

I have to repeat this story. It was in spring training, I think 2004. Mientkiewicz gets on base and LeCroy immediately starts getting on Gardy to let him pinch run. So Gardy sends him out and takes Mientkiewicz out of the game. After the game Mientkiewicz said it was the longest 2 1/2 minutes of his life waiting for LeCroy to make the journey from the dugout to first base.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

oh, and wait for it.... most dangerous lead in baseball!

[spinowner]

 

oh, and wait for it.... most dangerous lead in baseball!

I note this but I don't like this.

[snepp]

 

Who wins a footrace: McCann, Mauer, or Mathew Lecroy?

 

Rally Monkey.

 

 

With two broken legs.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Was Bregman on anyone's radar as a top third baseman. Not here.

 

 

.Though he was a 1-2 pick a couple years ago so maybe prospect followers know him well

[tvagle]

 

Looking forward to Darvish's audition for the big job in Minneapolis, tonight.

 

Looks like he'll fit right in as a playoff performer.

He has probably cost himself $30mil at least.

 

This works perfect...WS performance cast shadow of doubt...lowering cost and raising Darvish's drive to succeed

 

Win Win or the Twins!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

This works perfect...WS performance cast shadow of doubt...lowering cost and raising Darvish's drive to succeed

 

Win Win or the Twins!

agree, and we'll need to speak out against having Santana Berrios or Darvish pitch at all in the postseason for next years World Series run

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Does Bellinger always swing like that? ugly

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

McCullors out

 

Expect Keuchel and Verlander to pitch into the late innings maybe?

 

For the record, I think it's a little foolish to take McCullors out so early, but maybe the Astros know something.

[mickeymental]

do starting pitchers even matter?

[Guest]

Dodgers lineup has one player they drafted in the first round (Seager), plus one big FA signing (Puig). Couple of later round choices, a scrap heap pick up, and some relatively minor trades. Terry Ryan must be impressed.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

What i miss?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Was that a loogy sighting?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Maybe it's overwrought, but I like Tim Brown's writeup of the game. It hearkens back, for me, an older style of sports writing.

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/world-series-game-6-defensive-play-helped-force-game-7-065832847.html

 

"There are no pitch counts on Halloween night."

 

True dat.

Hmmm...

 

I might have thought every pitch counts on Halloween....

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Was that a loogy sighting?

There just haven't been enough commercials....

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Congrats to the Houston Astros.

 

1-0 record in November.

[snepp]

Welp, that's that.

 

 

Bring on 2018!

[Guest]

Twins quirks:

 

1: Francisco Liriano pitched in game 7 and Dallas Keuchel didn’t.

2. Juan Centeno has a World Series ring.

3. Walker Buehler did not pitch in the World Series. The Dodgers may now wish he was on the Twins.

[mickeymental]

this postseason brings to mind the 3-3-3 rotation idea: nine pitchers throw three innings every third game, which works out to 162 innings per season. your best pitcher or two might throw occasional four-inning stints. a handful of additional relievers bridge bad outings and work extra-inning games. i hazily recall la russa briefly trying it in oakland. 

 

from bill james online in 2009:

https://www.billjamesonline.com/article1004/

[spinowner]

 

Twins quirks:

1: Francisco Liriano pitched in game 7 and Dallas Keuchel didn’t.
2. Juan Centeno has a World Series ring.
3. Walker Buehler did not pitch in the World Series. The Dodgers may now wish he was on the Twins.

And Centeno was the only Astro not to see any game action in the WS.

[Doomtints]

Congrats to the Astros.  Although the teams were very different, we understand how the Astros fans feel right now. We felt it in 1987.

[Doomtints]

 

this postseason brings to mind the 3-3-3 rotation idea: nine pitchers throw three innings every third game, which works out to 162 innings per season. your best pitcher or two might throw occasional four-inning stints. a handful of additional relievers bridge bad outings and work extra-inning games. 

 

I don't know why you would pull a pitcher after an arbitrary innings count (esp one as low as 3) if he is doing well. No sport fits into these types of arbitrary boxes.

 

Pitching on 2-3 days rest is more tiring than one might think. I suspect the only thing this would accomplish is a bunch of dead arms by midseason.

[USAFChief]

 

Who wins a footrace: McCann, Mauer, or Mathew Lecroy?

no.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

no.

We could make Lecroy carry the equipment bag, to make it fairer?

[ashbury]

Who wins a footrace: McCann, Mauer, or Mathew Lecroy?

"Mike Scioscia's pregnant wife." -- old Tommy Lasorda quip

 

_{^{(but then all Lasorda quips are old by now)}}

[ashbury]

this postseason brings to mind the 3-3-3 rotation idea: nine pitchers throw three innings every third game

If your pitching staff is so deep that you want your 9th best pitcher on the mound for essentially as many innings as your best, then probably any pitching rotation will succeed.

 

Or if it's so bad that they're virtually interchangeable, then any plan will still come in last place.

[Mike Sixel]

this postseason brings to mind the 3-3-3 rotation idea: nine pitchers throw three innings every third game, which works out to 162 innings per season. your best pitcher or two might throw occasional four-inning stints. a handful of additional relievers bridge bad outings and work extra-inning games. i hazily recall la russa briefly trying it in oakland.

 

from bill james online in 2009:

https://www.billjamesonline.com/article1004/

Been preaching something like this for years. Especially when a team is terrible, without much pitching..... Like the twins were there last few years. Alas, they were not there right group to try something that brash