BigCecil

Small ball theorem RIP

Rumours he might be back for ALCS. TBD.

Phillies fans doing the chop takes me back to 92 and Gruber and Alomar doing the chop after big outs in the World Series. That was so awesome.

Harper enjoying this trolling the Braves SS and taking some stares. Can’t wait for the next game. This is playoff baseball.

Also signed Devers to long extension in Jan 23. 11/331. After 2018 I never count them out. They also had a deeper run than expected in 2021 winning the wildcard and division series.

Sadaharu Oh is rumoured to be making a comeback.

HARPER smash! Wow. We got a ballgame.

I saw a funny tweet with a picture of a text message from Shapiro saying that he is going to blame Paul DeJong for the decision to pull Berrios at his presser.

Listened to David Samson on Blair and Barker pod this am. The 11 minute mark. FWIW his take was interesting. He was frank about it all. He said the presser was "terrible" (not a news bulletin) and inferred that Atkins version of events was not accurate. He suggested the first question to Shapiro should be "who talked about the decision to remove Berrios and did they discuss how Ross would answer the questions last Saturday?"

Adolis Garcia. Built like a Cuban Teo. Crushed that ball.

Please crush Kremer and the 0’s. It’s very calming when the Orioles lose. Like a warm blanket.

100%. Just shooting the breeze on possible options.

A 113 career bat low BB rate guy with 20 HRs 3 times who sucks on D. Career highs in HRs and WAR in '23. Solid bat to ball skills. I think someone will overpay on a 2 + 1 option deal in a weak market. He is worth a look I think. He is what he is at this point I think.

Alvarez is the bat we all want Vlad to be. Just unreal. Regular season. Post season. They were just comparing him to Delgado on the broadcast.

Reminds of some the Brave's great Maddux Jones etc teams. 1 ring. We beat them in '92. I'm sure they want another ring and there is some chaffed fans, but they are a consistently elite organization.

Abreu lessening the sting of an awful year with that playoff bomb off Gray.

Imagine being in the league since 2019 and getting picked off at 2B as the tying run with a runner in front of you, with your best hitter all year in a full count against a tiring pitcher on his last batter, in a playoff elimination game. Wake me up from this bad dream.

Its freakish. All coming together at the right time for AZ so far. The Brewers can't hit and Woodruff hurt. The LAD rotation decimated by IL and Urias suspension. Good timing. They still need 1 more vs LAD and thats a solid line up. I still think AZ will pile up this year based on longer series and talent level.

hmm...The O's won our D, and could be bounced tonight. 5 games is a short series too, and the loss of Bautista not really a factor so far. TEX has exposed their pitching and bashed the f*** out of them. Which we all predicted would happen during the season, but its happening in the playoffs instead (good). The frustrating part for me is our Jays this yr were exactly what they were in the season, in the short series. Lack of offense and 4th worst baserunning team in MLB according to fangraphs. We all hoped for a "playoff reset" that didn't happen.

Interesting. Not sure what the correct term is but this is probably statistically or mathematically verifiable over a meaningful sample size correct? HOU wins WS in '22. The best overall team in baseball. Anomaly? ATL is probably the best overall team in '23. Just my feeling but if they don't come back last night I think they are toast. I actually think they go on to win the WS now. Razor's edge the playoffs. However, I think it needs to be said that without their power (Riley) and D (Harris) which made them the best overall team (or one of), they don't pull that W out last night. Its better to have real talent than not and talent that performs. You need both. You can contrast that with LAD so far not getting much out of Betts and Freeman - two HOF players over 2 games being pitched well. A wildcard and 5 game series is different than a 7. More time for talent to show in a longer series arguably. The last 4 years of Jays results were elimination in 3 short playoff series and miss playoffs by a game. Completely random/luck and not so much reflective of talent? Just make it in and hope someone or few like Biggio ( D'arnaud equivalent) get hot?

AZ has a lot of talent and are well set up for a 5 game series. Not so much for 7. The LAD are hurting losing so many arms to IL and Urias suspension.

Michael Harris II's catch 45% catch probability -- and that doesn't fully capture the difficulty of the leap into the wall He needed to cover 92 feet in 5.4 seconds just to get there. His jump was +5.0 feet above average

Thx. Could not find it. Techno chimp. expected BA was .610 on that hit by Castellanos.

Ex Jays on AZ representing in the 1st. Miller heat getting squared up steadily.

Where can you find catch probability on that Spank? What a play. Braves for real. Lose this game they might be out. Win this and they may go all the way.