MLB Playoffs Thread

gtcway said:
Looks that way but my dumb ass turned it off during the 7th inning to go to bed because I thought the Royals had no chance. Guess I've been watching the Braves too much:Sad:
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you missed a classic, one of the certifiable type. MLB should rerun this historic game. Ned Yost might made some blunders but his ballplayers did what they needed to do to get the win. A's catchers had no chance. Look like the 80's Cardinals out there.
 
CrimsonCowboy said:
SportsCenter ‏@SportsCenter 22s22 seconds ago

"Moneyball" falls short in playoffs again.

A's are 0-7 in winner-take-all games in the Billy Beane era.
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But it's a team constructed from collective genius. How is that possible? I guess all of life is a crap shoot.
 
50PoundHead said:
But it's a team constructed from collective genius. How is that possible? I guess all of life is a crap shoot.
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There's a line near the end of the movie Moneyball talking about the A's getting exposed in the postseason. As the Royals proved, you have to be able to manufacture runs, including bunting and stealing to win win-or-go-home games and short playoff series. A lot of those fundamentals get scoffed at by some way out there stat heads. But it's been proven time and time again. Power pitching and the ability to manufacture runs win championships.
 
I will take a VHS tape of the Royals 9th inning and beat the next person over the head with it that says strikeouts don't matter. How many runs did we see the Braves miss out on because they couldn't put together quality ABs in run scoring scenarios?

Oh, and I still want Aoki in the Braves OF next season.
 
AerchAngel said:
you missed a classic, one of the certifiable type. MLB should rerun this historic game. Ned Yost might made some blunders but his ballplayers did what they needed to do to get the win. A's catchers had no chance. Look like the 80's Cardinals out there.
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Need to check to see if it's archived on MLB.tv so I can watch from the 7th on.
 
Enscheff said:
I will take a VHS tape of the Royals 9th inning and beat the next person over the head with it that says strikeouts don't matter. How many runs did we see the Braves miss out on because they couldn't put together quality ABs in run scoring scenarios?

Oh, and I still want Aoki in the Braves OF next season.
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How about a CD and slit throats?
Too far?
 
bravesnumberone said:
There's a line near the end of the movie Moneyball talking about the A's getting exposed in the postseason. As the Royals proved, you have to be able to manufacture runs, including bunting and stealing to win win-or-go-home games and short playoff series. A lot of those fundamentals get scoffed at by some way out there stat heads. But it's been proven time and time again. Power pitching and the ability to manufacture runs win championships.
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Or you have to have a bullpen that can get 6 outs without giving up 4 runs.
 
I don't know how Bobby was as good as he was with certifiable idiots like Ned Yost, Terry Pendelton, and Fredi Gonzalez working for him.
 
gilesfan said:
Or you have to have a bullpen that can get 6 outs without giving up 4 runs.
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That's a pretty good bullpen all told and I am not going to advocate that small ball is the answer in the playoffs. It helps to have a team that can play flexibly, but sometimes things do or don't come together for a team in the short run without rhyme or reason.

I think Billy Beane is a very good general manager. But I do get a chuckle out of all the folks that somehow think that he invented baseball and Michael Lewis chronicled the event in Moneyball. Having read the book twice, I can only say that (and I'll admit that I've been more than a casual fan over the years) almost everything discussed in the book is pretty much conventional wisdom when to comes to the evaluation of players. Some of the things that Bill James and Voros McCracken and others have done provide a new set of lenses through which the evaluation can take place, but things like "batting eye" were talked about as long as I can remember.

This edition of the A's reminded me of the late-90's Braves' teams. Very good front line pitching. Solid bullpen. Power without much speed. Okay defense. And they met the same end. The folks over at the MLB network who were crowing after Beane's moves at the trading deadline that the rest of baseball may as well close up shop and that the A's now had more than enough pitching to go along with the most balanced line-up in baseball. I nearly choked. Go up-and-down that A's line-up with an unbiased eye and it doesn't look all that great.
 
Just pointing out that the power helped the As get a big lead in a game in which they win 99% of the time. Or if they hadn't taken Sam Fuld out.

It was battle of the bozos last night.
 
gilesfan said:
Just pointing out that the power helped the As get a big lead in a game in which they win 99% of the time. Or if they hadn't taken Sam Fuld out.

It was battle of the bozos last night.
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I was in bed, but I see that Melvin removed Crisp and slid Fuld over to CF with Gomes taking over in LF. Unless Crisp got injured, there's no reason Gomes should ever see the playing field in a close playoff game. One of the worst defensive OFs in baseball.
 
50PoundHead said:
I was in bed, but I see that Melvin removed Crisp and slid Fuld over to CF with Gomes taking over in LF. Unless Crisp got injured, there's no reason Gomes should ever see the playing field in a close playoff game. One of the worst defensive OFs in baseball.
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Crisp injured himself while batting in the top of the twelfth.
 
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