Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Probably the worst team in the playoffs ending up winning but I’m fine with this outcome. Because **** the Astros.
They caught magic in a bottle. That’s what baseball is more about than any other sport. They got hot at the exact right time and never looked back.
You’re doing them a disservice by calling them the worst team in the playoffs, though. Their lineup is freaking stacked. It’s not like Soler and Rosario haven’t had huge seasons in the past. There is absolutely nothing flukey about what they’re accomplishing. They convincingly beat everyone in their path. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief:
They caught magic in a bottle. That’s what baseball is more about than any other sport. They got hot at the exact right time and never looked back.
You’re doing them a disservice by calling them the worst team in the playoffs, though. Their lineup is freaking stacked. It’s not like Soler and Rosario haven’t had huge seasons in the past. There is absolutely nothing flukey about what they’re accomplishing. They convincingly beat everyone in their path.
I would say the Astros lineup is stacked. They scored a league leading 863 runs (over 70 more than the Braves for example).
The Braves are missing easily their best hitter (Acuna) but are getting ridiculously hot stretches from average hitters (which happens all the time in baseball) who will likely return to the mean come next April. Luckily for them, that hardly matters right now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Marcellus:
You should well know the hot team is the better team every post season. That’s when baseball really starts. This series isn’t even going 7.
If the series went 7, would that change the fact that the only reason the Braves even got in the playoffs was that they played in a terrible division?
They played well for a couple weeks in the crapshoot that is the MLB playoffs. It makes them the 2021 WS winner but I’m not sure it makes them the “best” team in 2021. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
If the series went 7, would that change the fact that the only reason the Braves even got in the playoffs was that they played in a terrible division?
They played well for a couple weeks in the crapshoot that is the MLB playoffs. It makes them the 2021 WS winner but I’m not sure it makes them the “best” team in 2021.
Flags fly forever. No one cares how well you played in the regular season, only the post season. Remember 2015. It's looking like the Braves were the best team as they also knocked off the Dodgers just to get to the WS. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
If the series went 7, would that change the fact that the only reason the Braves even got in the playoffs was that they played in a terrible division?
They played well for a couple weeks in the crapshoot that is the MLB playoffs. It makes them the 2021 WS winner but I’m not sure it makes them the “best” team in 2021.
They were 3 games under .500 on August 1st and won 2/3rds of their games over the last 54 games of the season (10 percentage points better than the Astros), and now that's carried over to another 15 games in the postseason.
That's 3 months playing as well as any other team, not just two weeks. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
They were 3 games under .500 on August 1st and won 2/3rds of their games over the last 54 games of the season (10 percentage points better than the Astros), and now that's carried over to another 15 games in the postseason.
That's 3 months playing as well as any other team, not just two weeks.
Does being the best team over the last few months mean you were the “best” team in 2021? I don’t think the argument fundamentally changes because their hot stretch extended to the end of the regular season. [Reply]
