Originally Posted by tredadda:
True, but he was money when it mattered while Houston's vaunted offense is being shut out for the second time this series. Houston can't seem to win the big ones without additional "help".
I mean, there’s no doubting Houston’s talent, especially offensively, when you consider the last 6 post seasons, but they do have a habit of shrinking in the biggest limelights at the most important times (you know, when they’re not cheating of course). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief:
I mean, Soler and Rosario have both had massive seasons in the past so I really don’t understand what’s so surprising about them both turning it up a notch when they were traded from bottom feeding teams to an organization coming off 3 straight division titles and an NL Championship appearance. You add them to a lineup that already contains three guys who will likely finish top 10 in the MVP voting and you’ve got a pretty potent group. Not to mention Swanson, Duvall and D’Arnaud who won the Silver Slugger as a catcher last year.
Their young power arms in the pen all took another step and Morton and Fried were freaking dealing all postseason. There isn’t a team they could have run into that would have stopped them. So I guess I’m just not getting the “worst team in the postseason” talk. They thoroughly dominated every series.
But hey, I got to see the Chiefs win a Super Bowl and the Braves win a WS in a matter of 3 years, so I can officially retire as a sports fan at this point and be pretty damn content. :-)
Rosario has a career 105 wRC+. He has a postseason 198 wRC+ this year. Not the first time a mediocrity has gotten hot in October to win a WS for a team, nor will it be the last. There’s no other real way to characterize that though. [Reply]
