Enjoying this baseball game as much as any non-Royals game in a long time.
I wanted Atlanta to win at home in front of their own fans and have the Commish present the trophy on the field he stripped the All Star game from (the booing would have been epic), but watching them celebrate on the Cheaters home field will be just as glorious. [Reply]
Don't want to jinx anything, but if the Braves do finish this out, I'll be happy for Freeman. Guy has been one of the best in the game for a while and played through some shitty ass teams. If this is his last season for the Braves, what a way to end his career there. [Reply]
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, Anderson 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. :-) [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]
