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I mean, is it Boone's fault that Kahnle didn't throw strikes?
Smoltz seems oddly clueless about things sometimes. A starter pitching an inning on what would be his bullpen day is pretty common in postseason. We did that a bunch of times in 2019.
This World Series showed how important defense is. Hello Wood, Young and Crews.
It shows how much depth you can buy when your payroll is hundreds of millions more than average teams
But the Yankees didn't have that depth, despite a huge payroll.Did they really use money to buy Edman and Kike?
Reluctantly the Yankees in 6. Though I really like the Dodgers versus the evil empire. Dodgers don't have the starting pitching .
A team spends $1B on their roster and wins the World Series. Yay Baseball!
Not even close. Roberts did a masterful job of cobbling together a pitching staff to shut down the Yankees.
So resign Gallo?
What the Dodgers told their players in scouting meetings was the Yankees were talent over fundamentals. That if you run the bases with purpose and aggression, the Yankees will self-inflict harm as was exposed by Betts, Tommy Edman, Freddie Freeman, etc. That the value was very high to put the ball in play to make the Yankees execute. They mentioned that the Yankees were not just the majors’ worst baserunning team by every metric, but the difference was vast on the field between them and the Padres, who the Dodgers beat in the NL Division Series, but were impressive in this area. They were thrilled at how short Yankee leads were at first base to potentially be less of a threat on pivots at second, where Gavin Lux does not excel. They said their metrics had the Yankees as the worst positioned outfield. They were amazed how many times relay throws came skittering through the infield with no one taking charge and how often Jazz Chisholm Jr., for example, was out of place or just standing still when a play was in action.
