Official Post Season Thread

[Enscheff]

The Nationals had Strasburg and Scherzer, who were just flat better.

Keep thinking "luck" plays a huge role in a small sample. It rules your entire worldview (which is ****).

IT IS NOT A LOTTERY.

lol yes they were better in this particular small sample, and in another 7 game set Cole and Verlander could very well pitch better. They are very similarly talented pitchers.

It’s ok you don’t understand small sample sizes and variance. Maybe when you get to that chapter in your statistics class you’ll be able to grasp it...if you even bother to enroll in a class that challenging. I’m guessing that subject is beyond the capacity of your brainpan though.

 

[GeorgiaGirl]

This, to me, highlights the dumbassery of a 1 game Wild Card play in.

With old rules Washington's in regardless...they were the host.

But there's still plenty of what if and luck to talk about here. What if Yelich isn't hurt (he doesn't boot that play), and deadening the ball swung the pendulum back toward leaning hard on stud starting pitching and looking to just hit the ball instead of trying to swing for power.

 

[drewdat]

I rest easy knowing how hollow this must feel for Washington since we dealt the death blow months back.

 

[VirginiaBrave]

Looks I was right after all. Pitching, pitching pitching.

 

[Enscheff]

..........

 

[cajunrevenge]

The Nationals went all out with their pitching. I wont be surprised if Strasburg and Max fall apart next year and are never the same. We on the other hand pitched our best SP in game 3 and gave 4 ****ing starts to Keuchel and Folty. That was a losing strategy from the start. Just forfeit next time if we are going to play to lose. Let's win as many in the regular season and then just **** off. We have a special starter in Soroka and we start him once...... not going to get over that anytime soon.

 

[Super]

The Nationals went all out with their pitching. I wont be surprised if Strasburg and Max fall apart next year and are never the same. We on the other hand pitched our best SP in game 3 and gave 4 ****ing starts to Keuchel and Folty. That was a losing strategy from the start. Just forfeit next time if we are going to play to lose. Let's win as many in the regular season and then just **** off. We have a special starter in Soroka and we start him once...... not going to get over that anytime soon.

Folty was lights out his first game.

 

[nsacpi]

Folty was lights out his first game.

we dont mention things that dont fit the narrative

 

[thewupk]

The Nationals went all out with their pitching. I wont be surprised if Strasburg and Max fall apart next year and are never the same. We on the other hand pitched our best SP in game 3 and gave 4 ****ing starts to Keuchel and Folty. That was a losing strategy from the start. Just forfeit next time if we are going to play to lose. Let's win as many in the regular season and then just **** off. We have a special starter in Soroka and we start him once...... not going to get over that anytime soon.

Pitching was fine. The heart of our lineup not showing up is the reason we lost. end of discussion.

 

[cajunrevenge]

Folty was lights out his first game.

Which would have been ****ing amazing if he had one start. His starts have been all over the place and we started him twice instead of the consistently good Soroka.

 

[nsacpi]

Which would have been ****ing amazing if he had one start. His starts have been all over the place and we started him twice instead of the consistently good Soroka.

Soroka had a great first half but his second half numbers were ho hum.

Fried was our best starting pitcher in the second half.

 

[Super]

Which would have been ****ing amazing if he had one start. His starts have been all over the place and we started him twice instead of the consistently good Soroka.

Folty was outpitching Soroka down the stretch.

 

[thethe]

Pitching was fine. The heart of our lineup not showing up is the reason we lost. end of discussion.

Its this and only this.

Small consolidation prize to the Martin injury.

 

[cajunrevenge]

Folty was outpitching Soroka down the stretch.

Soroka is our ace. He shouldn't be usurped by the hot hand. His low pitch counts make him ideal to make 2 starts in a short series.

 

[Super]

Soroka is our ace. He shouldn't be usurped by the hot hand. His low pitch counts make him ideal to make 2 starts in a short series.

Soroka had been fading a tad down the stretch due to being young and never throwing that many innings. i probably would've given him 2 starts as well. but Folty had been pitching great, and continued to in his first start.

 

[striker42]

Folty getting two starts wasn't the problem. He was our best pitcher last year, has elite stuff, had been tremendously hot, and just dominated the Cardinals a few days earlier.

The problem was DK getting two starts. DK isn't the same pitcher he was a few years ago. He's okay but he's not incredible. Soroka and Folty should have been the two guys to get two starts.

 

[Carp]

Folty was lights out his first game.

He was. I was more disappointed DK to be honest. He wasn't bad by any means, just kind of "meh."

 

[Enscheff]

The Braves lost because Albies, Freeman, JD, Markakis and Mac decided not to show up.

The game 5 disaster was equal parts Folty, Fried and a devastating Freeman error.

A rotation led by Soroka, Fried and Folty is good enough to compete in October. Improving over that group in any meaningful way is probably too expensive for the Braves and their $130M opening day payroll, so folks might want to start thinking about creative ways to deploy the pitching talent already in the system.

 

[The Tariff King]

The Braves lost because Albies, Freeman, JD, Markakis and Mac decided not to show up.

The game 5 disaster was equal parts Folty, Fried and a devastating Freeman error.

A rotation led by Soroka, Fried and Folty is good enough to compete in October. Improving over that group in any meaningful way is probably too expensive for the Braves and their $130M opening day payroll, so folks might want to start thinking about creative ways to deploy the pitching talent already in the system.

Albies?!?!?! What??!?!

The best players by far were Ronald, Ozzie, and Swanson. Did you even watch the series?

 

[PawPawMaxwell]

I think he was referring to Albies failing to move Acuna after he led off with the double and triple.