If they care about fairness, I suppose so. But even 2-1 is better than this. The gaps between most of these team (all of them in the AL) don't warrant any significant homefield advantage.
The pitch clock has really helped stop these non-West Coast games from ending at 1 am.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous. it's a wild card series to get into the main bracket. make no sense.
It’s right up there with putting a ghost runner at second in extra innings during the regular season except worse because it’s the postseason.
That's not even in the same ball park as the ghost runner. You have extra playoff teams because the owners cried their way in. Your one of the extras no one wants to hear your crying. Win more games and you don't have to worry about going on the road.
MLB has the lowest % of teams making the playoffs of any North American pro sports league. Probably because the season runs too late. They aren’t like the play in teams. They are, at worst, like the #2 seeds.
I don't know if you're a Yankee fan or Bosox fan, but either way, you confirm the rest of the country's feeling that you don't believe the world exists outside your city limits.
And also a tough model to actually win with in the postseason, which is why you usually see them with disappointing early exits
This version isn't the version of the last decade. The previous teams didn't play as fundamentally sound as this. I don't know how much is Murphy's managing, but he's definitely made a difference. It's also not like the Moneyball A's. By fWAR, they're 6th in both pitching and batting. Only LAD is better in both.
We'll see, I think the Padres or Cubs both beat the Brewers next round in 4 games. Relying on putting together 3-4 hits to score runs is not an effective strategy in the postseason against elite pitching
Brewers Cubs is gonna be crazy.
Sox team is young, raw and mistake prone. Not ready. So many mistakes between yesterday and today. Bellinger leadoff pop up double kills them today. LF dropping a Judge fly ball and bad base running yesterday.
He’s gonna be a stud no doubt…..don’t like the prospects of having to face him for years going forward.
8 innings, 107 pitches, 12 K’s, throw 100 effortlessly.
That's their weakness and Weaver has taken a few steps back from last year. Having said that, Bednar was a good pick up from a mid season trade and Cruz came through in a big spot in game 2.
Agree, but so far their big power bats have mostly not showed up yet and they could be due.
How on earth did he last until the 7th round??? Even if he was totally raw, with that velocity you figure someone would take a shot they could teach him control. What a steal.
Yes, and Toronto, Boston and NY played in a tougher division by far than any of the other teams. They all probably win any other AL division. The run differential stats are wild. NY was #1, Boston #2 in the AL. Cleveland was negative.
Yeah it's crazy that the the toughest division in the league has to go through itself to get to the ALCS. Having every team in the same side of the bracket is dumb.
He was only throwing 89-90 in college. Supposedly he only started hitting 100 this year.
No ghost runners in the postseason - it's back to old fashioned extra innings
Certainly has the frame to support it. The size of pitchers these days is mind blowing - a lot of these guys are now rolling out there between 240-260. Rodon, Crochet, Yanks closer. These guys look like linebackers.