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Buddy Kennedy gets a ring

Game 7 winning homer > Game 4 homer

That's pretty harsh on Little If they don't roster him they lose a lot of utility. I'm not sure Lauer and Fluharty are enough to get advantage of the sizeable career splits from Ohtain, Muncy, and Freeman. Yes they are still good against LHP but you can kind of turn them from mashers into normal hitters in a tight spot. Ohtani career 169 wRC+ vs RHP 130 vs LHP Muncy 130 and 113 Freeman 151 and 120 The gamble with Little is the same as it has been all year. Walk risk. In certain situations he makes sense against these guys. Lauer and Flu have less walk risk but a higher chance of getting touched up. I do want to dump Yariel off the roster for Nance though.

Don't need Berrios anyway? Have better long and short relief coverage from Bassitt and Lauer

We didn't talk about this enough IKF pimping a double play feed Dwayne Wade style

What was the lowest get in the door price you guys saw for last night's game? Resale.

This offense though. If you can tag George Kirby for 8 runs, and Max Fried for for 7 runs, then you can blow up basically anybody.

Yes the path to victory would include some 8-6 style of victories but you probably can't win four games that way. Would need to sneak out one or two 4-3 kind of wins supported by clutch pitching. And luck. Get lucky!

Huge underdogs but the Jays: Have hit good SP all playoffs long Have a superior, rock solid defense Have enough tricks in the SP bag to keep it close The Dodgers have a good pen but it's not invincible. Sasaki, Vesia, Sheehan, Banda, Treinen. Banda and Treinen were near replacement level in the regular season. Vesia is a lefty sitting 93. Sasaki taking over that closer role could be a sneaky blessing - what if the gas can Sasaki from the regular season shows up? Yeah he throws 100 and looks nasty but his K-BB isn't dominant in the playoffs. He's giving up contact. It might be a closer matchup than oddsmakers are telling you. I do trust that the Jays will have a solid gameplan against these Dodgers SP and will do better than the Brewers, who probably also had a solid gameplan because that's what they do but probably didn't have the actual raw talent to support it that the Jays do. Milwaukee was a bit worse than Toronto at the core offensive skills in the season, and they were perhaps too reliant on sneaky-good role players and value adds, whereas Toronto kind of has all of that but also the big boppers in Vlad and Springer. Chourio, their preternatural star, was hobbled all series with a nasty hamstring strain. Andrew Vaughn and Brice Turang don't exactly make anyone nervous. Steal game 1 and make it a series. The Jays bullpen is terrifying at this point and I am not sure what the hell they will do. Gulp.

Why not Gausman??? I don't get it

Maybe Bieber can settle in now. They didn't hit anything hard there. Made good pitches to finish off Rivas and Robles. Also was a good pitch to Randy

Okay Bieber I need to relax

I have diarrhea

Hmmm. Naylor hitting third tonight. Robles in for Canzone.

Still a chance for you to just delete this post

Louis Varland has pitched in every postseason game but one and he has a 2.80 ERA and xFIP Elite, and what a total professional trooper

The Mariners are all RHP SP

Need to be outside of grand slam territory LOL

I don't know if jerj kerby even knows how to not throw strikes

Flip Barger and Varsho but I like that idea

Someone needs to find Grant77 We need a ceremonial post about how horrible Seattle is and how their defense is the worst in the history of the American League. It seems to work when he says this.

I've thrown up 5 times already today

The Jays have the opposite scenario. They could use everybody but Bieber going 5+ innings would be massive.

Seattle must almost be tempted to go full bullpen game Munoz - 2 IP Brash - 1 Bazardo - 1 Speier - 1 (try to give him for the Varsho-Clement-Barger lane) Woo - 2 or 3 IP Kirby is barely needed and is he the weak link?

How built up is Woo? How many pitches can he throw? Feel like they will go with Kirby but with a very quick hook, and Woo is the next guy. Munoz is probably good for two innings today. If they don't get to Kirby and Woo is good, that means the key to the game might be to run up Woo so the Ms have to use some other relievers in the middle innings.