2018 MLB Week 1
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Afternoon games are so stupid. Not ashamed at all by playing the manager card and working from home today.
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My warm take: the Astros-Indians series is a total mismatch and lots of people are vastly overestimating Cleveland’s chances based on their performance in 2016 and 2017. I don’t think a 103 win team from the AL West and a team that went 42-44 outside of the AL Central are remotely comparable.
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Houston had 108 third-order wins, according to Baseball Prospectus. Cleveland had 92. So yeah.Joe K wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:52 am My warm take: the Astros-Indians series is a total mismatch and lots of people are vastly overestimating Cleveland’s chances based on their performance in 2016 and 2017. I don’t think a 103 win team from the AL West and a team that went 42-44 outside of the AL Central are remotely comparable.
On the other hand, that's a difference of one win per 10 games. And they're only playing a best of 5.
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I’m looking at Cleveland’s projected pitchers (with the starters moving to the pen) against Houston’s hitting versus righties.
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Putting in Bauer to get shelled in relief is an interesting choice by Francona. Probably doesn’t matter though, because this Astros team is a juggernaut.
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Sale is painting tonight.
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Didn’t age well.
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And while I agree astros are favorite, the Indians are certInly a good team. I could see them turning this series around if they can win today.
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I don’t know. I really think Indians aren’t that good and probably would’ve missed the playoffs had they been in any other division in baseball. I can’t get past the losing record outside of the AL Central. Guys like Donaldson, Encarnacion, Allen and Miller are nowhere near as good as they were a couple of years ago.
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Working on a theory that Aaron Judge hits the ball far.
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Disagree. No way of knowing when the ball's secured in the mitt. Conclusive evidence? No.
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Dave Roberts doing zero managing is somehow still in this game. Maybe we needed this game as a throwback to when the manager's job was to chew on sunflower seeds.
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Didn’t Francona used to be a good in-game manager? Because leaving Bauer in to die in the 7th inning, when he was pitching for the 3rd straight game and was obviously struggling, was inexplicable.
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Usually my predictions aren’t that good, but my high level of bullishness in the Astros seems warranted so far.
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Roberts did some managing there not walking the 8th hitter. But Hill could not get out the pinch hitter Suzuki.
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I was wondering WTF he was doing, too.
Of course, he was hamstrung because Andrew Miller isn't what he's been the past few years. But yeah, to hell with the starting pitcher. Go with Brad Hand there to start the 6th.
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Sevy looks off and Eovaldi doesn't go deep into games. Might be time to switch from booze to coffee.
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Does not compute.
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Coffee keeps me awake longer than booze!
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But...booze
Is a perfectly acceptable coffee additive.
Is a perfectly acceptable coffee additive.
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How is Angel Hernandez here? And by that, I mean how is it that Trump hasn't appointed him to an important government post?
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Good news. You can go on to bed.
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I don’t have spray charts handy but why is judge playing so far off line?
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Man Hernandez is having a howler.
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Apparently in Boone's regime there's nobody tasked with confirming with the game's starting pitcher the BP session start time?
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I'm hearing Sevy went out to the pen with under 10 minutes to go before game time. Apparently he thought the game was delayed.
Don't teams have a pre-game checklist, akin to a preflight checklist? I mean, the stadium isn't going to go down in flames, but there are 24 other players, and about 50,000 fans that really want the starting pitcher to be ready for the start of the game.
I mean, this has to fall under the responsibility of the pitching coach to confirm with the starting pitcher the BP session time? And when he hasn't made it out there yet, it's up to Grandpa Larry to go find Sevy?
And then there's the fact he rushed a session in under 10 minutes. Once they realized where Sevy was, why didn't they just get somebody like Tarpley up to start the game so that Severino could enter it fully prepared?
It'd appear there's been a ton of failure that occurred here tonight, and a lot of it played into the fact the Yankees are now down 10-1.
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I have no idea if it would be Rothschild or Harkey or what but that certainly seems like a serious fuck up. Unless he was sick, I can’t see how any of that happens.