If Abreu botched that for them with Rafaela camped under that would’ve been an all-time playoff blunder. Luckily for him no one will remember this play by next inning.
5 relievers with > 1 fWAR, and that includes Mason Miller who only pitched 20 innings for them. Deepest bullpen of all time? Miller, Morejon and Robert Suarez were all 2 WAR relievers this season. Absolute embarrassment of riches in that bullpen.
David Morgan would be their mopup arm and he's nasty.
Who would've thought 5 years ago that Nick Pivetta would be the ace of a wild card team. You'd probably think he would be starting for a low budget team like Cleveland who finally got him to stop giving up bombs. Everyone called it, if he could lower his HR rate he could be a very valuable pitcher and the Padres are definitely reaping that.
Ah, I must've misheard then. To be fair, putting a guy to debut in a spot like that in the playoffs is tough, but if he's on the roster then this is as good a time as any to give him that vote of confidence.
Not exactly a huge vote of confidence for the Tigers that they barely won this game with their ace shoving on the mound. Offense was Cleveland-like in this game, bailed out by their ace.
For these playoffs I would say Skubal but you could really go either way. Skenes might be harder to square up, Skubal has the better K/BB rate.
Starting next year Skenes might take the crown, will be fun to follow.
This is what they do. If there's one thing you gotta commend them for, their baserunning is aggressive and exciting. They all run like this is the last runner they'll ever have on base.
He's clearly safe. Cleveland baseball lol, BS chopper to 2B for a hit, a well deserved walk by an incredible hitter, and then the worst run scoring single you've ever seen. Demons.