Author Topic: 2020 MLB Playoffs (Read 12017 times)

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #400:** October 18, 2020, 09:50:57 PM »

Barvery

Slateman · « **Reply #401:** October 18, 2020, 09:50:57 PM »

Wow helluva a play by Turner

Mathguy · « **Reply #402:** October 18, 2020, 09:51:39 PM »

That was a worse play than I ever saw in Little League

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #403:** October 18, 2020, 09:52:11 PM »

Quote from: Natsinpwc on October 18, 2020, 09:49:14 PM

Luckily Treinen is in to cool things down.

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #404:** October 18, 2020, 10:08:42 PM »

Barves need to go for history here - what's a massive NLCS choke without drunk baserunning? Time for a salami.

[edit: jinx]

NatNasty · « **Reply #405:** October 18, 2020, 10:45:46 PM »

Boom!

Slateman · « **Reply #406:** October 18, 2020, 10:49:13 PM »

Speaking of no rest

Slateman · « **Reply #407:** October 18, 2020, 10:51:33 PM »

392 million. Cant even hit .250 in the postseason

Slateman · « **Reply #408:** October 18, 2020, 10:53:29 PM »

Such terrible baserunning this game

Mathguy · « **Reply #409:** October 18, 2020, 11:01:50 PM »

So true - it's like there is a fear the team will never score again and have to take chances at every opportunity

Quote from: Slateman on October 18, 2020, 10:53:29 PM

Such terrible baserunning this game

NatNasty · « **Reply #410:** October 18, 2020, 11:19:38 PM »

Boom!

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #411:** October 18, 2020, 11:19:51 PM »

Slateman · « **Reply #412:** October 18, 2020, 11:20:03 PM »

He didn't miss that

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #413:** October 18, 2020, 11:55:19 PM »

Um well, bye Barves

sixthree175 · « **Reply #414:** October 19, 2020, 12:19:50 AM »

Thankfully the celebrities out on the left coast didn't get the satisfaction of crawling out of the woodwork and into those overpriced NLCS seats behind the dugout in Los Angeles.

The Barves will be a force next year for sure.

I wonder if Freddie Freeman prefers the orange Gatorade classic or the the blue G/2?

aspenbubba · « **Reply #415:** October 19, 2020, 07:28:23 AM »

How do the Dodgers afford their PR with the huge contracts to Betts Seager Bellinger Jansen Buehler Kershaw et al? Are they over the cap?

Elvir Ovcina · « **Reply #416:** October 19, 2020, 08:54:58 AM »

Quote from: aspenbubba on October 19, 2020, 07:28:23 AM

How do the Dodgers afford their PR with the huge contracts to Betts Seager Bellinger Jansen Buehler Kershaw et al? Are they over the cap?

Not sure if serious, but Buehler, Bellinger, and Seager don't have big contracts relative to their production. Buehler hasn't even hit arbitration yet. A huge part of the Dodgers' budgeting right now is that most of their rotation hasn't even hit arbitration yet.

Yes, they're over the luxury tax this year, but by less than a million; their (unadjusted for the short season) payroll was $50 million less than the Yankees, although Price opting out of the season helped that math a lot.

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #417:** October 19, 2020, 08:55:12 AM »

Quote from: aspenbubba on October 19, 2020, 07:28:23 AM

How do the Dodgers afford their PR with the huge contracts to Betts Seager Bellinger Jansen Buehler Kershaw et al? Are they over the cap?

Here were the numbers at spring training.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/mlb-team-payrolls-as-spring-training-begins/

Probably helped them when Price opted out.

The Chief · « **Reply #418:** October 19, 2020, 10:28:53 AM »

Just need the Rays to win it all now so that baseball will suddenly forget this joke of a season.

imref · « **Reply #419:** October 19, 2020, 11:17:49 AM »

Quote from: The Chief on October 19, 2020, 10:28:53 AM

Just need the Rays to win it all now so that baseball will suddenly forget this joke of a season.

Outside of LA, will anyone be rooting for the dodgers?

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #420:** October 19, 2020, 12:36:57 PM »

Quote from: imref on October 19, 2020, 11:17:49 AM

Outside of LA, will anyone be rooting for the dodgers?

well, I have a soft spot in my heart for both Dave Roberts and Mookie, but I probably root for the Rays (I like Kevin Cash, too). Not going to be negative about either team and will just enjoy watching them play.

By the way, how soon until this is known as the Andrew Friedman extra 2% series? That's the only

out of it.

Count Walewski · « **Reply #421:** October 19, 2020, 12:48:32 PM »

Quote from: The Chief on October 19, 2020, 10:28:53 AM

Just need the Rays to win it all now so that baseball will suddenly forget this joke of a season.

...and after all that, in a season where 16 teams made the playoffs and it was easier than ever before for a mediocre team to go deep in the postseason, we have a World Series between the team with the best record in the AL and the team with the best record in the NL.

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #422:** October 19, 2020, 12:58:28 PM »

Quote from: Count Walewski on October 19, 2020, 12:48:32 PM

...and after all that, in a season where 16 teams made the playoffs and it was easier than ever before for a mediocre team to go deep in the postseason, we have a World Series between the team with the best record in the AL and the team with the best record in the NL.

and a team with one of the highest payrolls against a team with one of the lowest. Should be interesting. I have to assume the Dodgers are heavy favorites.

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #423:** October 19, 2020, 01:11:31 PM »

Quote from: Slateman on October 18, 2020, 08:13:08 PM

Gonsolin is trash. Urias is a lefty so they'll want to use him situationally.

Is three inning situational use?

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #424:** October 19, 2020, 02:19:45 PM »

Quote from: hotshot on October 19, 2020, 01:45:57 PM

Quick series: Dodgers in 5.

Rays are + 175 which is about the same as the Nats were last year.