Yeah it absolutely hurts the Yankees. Who are the 4 starters? Tanaka, Pineda, Severino and Nova? I wonder what the heck would happen if one of those guys gets hurt.
Eovaldi says hes ready, but will probably be pitching out of the bullpen in the alds if the yankees reach that point
This is kind of crap that shouldn't be allowed in print: http://espn.go.com/newyork/mlb/stor...baltimore-newyork-yankees-pitcher-cc-sabathia I get that its the hot story now but what players do inside the clubhouse before or after the game, as long as it's not illegal, should not be reported on.
Ichiro is coming back to the Marlins for possibly his final year. 65 hits away from 3k. I thought he would have gone back to the Mariners to finish off his career but i am glad he chose to stay. Will be a fine moment in Marlins history, first player to reach 3000 in a Marlins uniform.
Ellsbury is on the bench for tonight's play in game. Good thing for the Yankees he only has 5 years and 110.7 million left on his contract (assuming the Yankees don't pick up his option in 2021).
Good thing Matt Harvey has little controversy surrounding him so that "getting stuck in traffic" and missing today's practice isn't a big deal.
Seemed like old times last night with Arod coming up in a big spot in the playoffs and failing to get the big hit followed by the boo birds. Anyway anything can happen in a 1 game playoff but the better team won. The Yankees were clearly out of gas during the last 3 weeks or so of the season. Should be interesting to see what they do in the offseason, I bet they sign one of the big name pitchers because why not.
I think most saw that outcome. Yankees limped into the playoffs. Gardner, Arod, McCann, Ellsbury etc beaten to heck and back. No Teix. Nova back form TJ, Pineda and Evodali with injury problems of there own. Heck i might be the exception for Yankee fans but i'm actually happy they made it this far. Anything can happen once you make it. They had there chance. Oh well.
Yeah I think it's fair to say, without taking away any credit, that the Yankees really overachieved this year. I do think there are a lot of holes/flaws in their current roster so they're going to have to make some moves in the offseason.
Probably a smart move. Zobrist wouldn't have been the difference between the Yankees winning the division or last night. Plus Warren was pretty helpful out of the pen and gave the team an emergency starter insurance towards the end of the year.
Go Cubs Go! First playoff win for one of my teams since 2003, and man does it feel good! On to St Louis to get some revenge against those bozos next!
Overachieved? I dont think so, most pundits saw them as an 84 or 85 game winner - +2 games wasnt really overachieving, the al east was a ****hole division. Did some players over achieve, sure, but most players on that team under-performed, terribly. Regardless, they limped into the playoffs, they looked like hot garbage since about august 15th and honestly, they didnt deserve to win last night. PS A-rod missed the lollipop cutter - did you see the pitch trax location -
With Arod yesterday, all i can say is, at least he made contact with the ball. Sad that the Bucs are out after having 98 wins. I know this is the first time something like this happen, but baseball needs to make the first series at least a 3 game series. It comes down to who has a better Ace and not, who has a better team. Crazy thing is, if this was 4 years ago, Cubs would be out of the playoffs all together with 97 wins.
Overachieving by even making the playoffs. But the only players that really underperformed were Ellsbury and Gardner in the 2nd half. The others either performed better than expected (Arod, Teixeira especially) or about in line what everyone expected them to do.
They can't make it a best of 3 series because then the division winners have to sit out for nearly a week to play a baseball game, which is unfair to them. I'm fine with the one and done game. Sure it's unfair because anything can happen in 1 game but the teams didn't win the division and MLB wants to have a penalty in place for that.
Also good to see Sean Rodriguez continue to bring his tough guy act from TB to Pittsburgh. The guy is a joke, hope he had fun boxing a water cooler.
Mets vs Dodgers.... Degrom vs Kershaw Syndergaard vs Greinke If you like pitching, this may be the series to watch. LAD was one of the worst teams vs hard throwing pitchers and the mets are the only team with 3 pitchers in the top 15 in fastball average speed (Syndergaard Harvey and Degrom ranked I believe 2nd, 4th and 15th). Whichever team can actually generate offense should win. Hopefully that's the Mets.
yeah but it sucks when the two teams in the wild card would have won any other division in baseball, but their own. And i get it, its a rare thing that happen this year. I just think they need to change the playoffs. one game playoffs are terrible. And i get it throws off the division winner, but they still have an advantage if a team plays 3 games, has one day off and goes to the division winner staidum to play a game. IMO atleast
The Musketeer in Game 1 (Yes, I want credit for starting that nickname) Thor in Game 2 and the Dark Night in Game 3
In 1993 the Giants won 103 games, had the 2nd best record in all of baseball yet didn't make the playoffs because the Braves had 104 wins and thus won the NL West. The Giants had 6 more wins than the 3rd best team in all of baseball, the Phillies, that year. It's not fair but situations like that do happen. The only fair way to do it would be to just have two leagues AL and NL, 1 division each league, top 4 teams make it from each league, 1st seed plays the 4th, 2nd plays the 3rd. And of course have an actual balanced schedule where each leagues plays the same teams the same number of times.
I think that's better. I get divisions and they are fun for rivalries but they need to get the best teams in the playoffs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If they want the truly best teams in the playoffs they need to get rid of all the divisions and go to a balanced schedule where every team plays each team the same amount of times. Otherwise teams in a weaker division can beat up on the bad teams and pump up their records. Also interleague really hurts as it's not fair that, for example, the Yankees have to play the Mets each year because they are interleague "rivals" while it forces other teams in the AL East having to play other NL East teams because they are forced rivals just because. Also I think the NL would need to adapt the DH because it does put AL teams on the road in NL parks, especially in August & September, a disadvantage or not having their DH in the line up.
And keep the active game day rosters at 25 all year long....if you want to increase roster end of year fine, just name your 25 for that day.
I think that interleague is great. Its the forced every year rivalries that are the problem. It needs to be set up like the NFL, where a team from the NL plays an equal number of games against each team in a division in the AL, and then rotate divisions the next year, and so on. There are very easy ways that the schedule could be set up that way and be very fair to everyone, it would just require playing fewer division games.
As a Cubs fan, I'm pulling for the Mets. I don't want to face Kershaw and Grienke, and I also think that the start times of the games would be more reasonable for me on the East Coast, should the Cubs make it to the NLCS. (and we went 7-0 vs NYM this year, though I know that the team is better now than they were when we played them )
[video=twitter;652227725315436545]https://twitter.com/JLester34/status/652227725315436545[/video] I LOL'd
Glad my degenerate texas pick cashed. Everyone said no chance and once Donaldson went down with a head injury i felt it definitely has a chance... Hope he is okay tho.. David Price is now 0-6 in the playoffs and Gallardo is 4-0 against the jays this year.
