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2025 MLB Playoffs Thread

pj said:
I think it's smart. Get rid of travel days and move the playoffs along faster. An extra home field advantage for the top team is good - it makes the regular season more meaningful.
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They should be reseeding the playoffs anyway. Once you hit the playoffs it should be by record only. You have 162 chances to win the most games possible. Reward the teams that win the most of them
 
jibsey said:
8 innings, 107 pitches, 12 K’s, throw 100 effortlessly.
Fried, Cole, Rodon, Schlittler, Gil are the starters
If they get a great pen over the winter which they likely will then watch out next year.
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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.

On to Toronto where the Yankees got swept in a 4-game series before the ASG and lost 2 out 3 after the ASG break meaning they only have 1 out of 7. Hopefully they can reverse those results in this series.
 
gsmooth said:
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.

On to Toronto where the Yankees got swept in a 4-game series before the ASG and lost 2 out 3 after the ASG break meaning they only have 1 out of 7. Hopefully they can reverse those results in this series.
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Agree, but so far their big power bats have mostly not showed up yet and they could be due.
 
jibsey said:
8 innings, 107 pitches, 12 K’s, throw 100 effortlessly.
Fried, Cole, Rodon, Schlittler, Gil are the starters
If they get a great pen over the winter which they likely will then watch out next year.
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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.
 
JMick said:
They should be reseeding the playoffs anyway. Once you hit the playoffs it should be by record only. You have 162 chances to win the most games possible. Reward the teams that win the most of them
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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.
 
HuskyHawk said:
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.
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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.
 
uconngb said:
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.
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He was only throwing 89-90 in college. Supposedly he only started hitting 100 this year.
 
JMick said:
He was only throwing 89-90 in college. Supposedly he only started hitting 100 this year.
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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.

Thing about 100mp is that it's not that unique anymore - it used to be when the average of most pitchers was topping out in the low 90's. Hitters are calibrated. Movement, secondary pitch quality & command, overall command are what separates.
 
uconngb said:
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.
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The son of one of my friends played at Northeastern with Schlittler. He came into Northeastern throwing around 90 and was 93-94 his last year at Northeastern. His last year also wasn’t too good which is why he slipped to the 7th round. Yankees did a good job with his development I guess.
 
HooperScooper said:
The son of one of my friends played at Northeastern with Schlittler. He came into Northeastern throwing around 90 and was 93-94 his last year at Northeastern. His last year also wasn’t too good which is why he slipped to the 7th round. Yankees did a good job with his development I guess.
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He is 6’6” 225. But the Yankee coaching just molded and improved on his raw talent. It’s pro coaching and it’s full time unlike college. His future appears bright but pitchers get injured so damn easily.
 
jibsey said:
He is 6’6” 225. But the Yankee coaching just molded and improved on his raw talent. It’s pro coaching and it’s full time unlike college. His future appears bright but pitchers get injured so damn easily.
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It's why keeping an eye on his, or any starting pitchers, pitch count from game to game in the regular season and in aggregate is so important. I loved that Schlittler went out there in the 8th and really wanted him to pitch in the 9th. But if that were a regular season game, he most certainly gets pulled in the 7th when he reached 100 pitches.
 
navery12 said:
This gives a MASSIVE advantage to the lower seeded team. All you have to do to get a home elimination game is steal 1 game on the road
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If you believe 2-3-2 gives the lower seeded team an advantage, it certainly wasn't a MASSIVE advantage if any at all-the historical data doesn't support that . The higher seeded team had the advantage. If the higher seeded team won at least 1 road game of the middle three after losing 1 of the first 2 home games they were either up 3-2 in the series with 2 chances at home to close the series or down 2-3 in the series with two games at home fight off elimination.

The common saying when 2-3-2 was instituted was the higher seeded team had all the pressure because if they lost 1 of the first 2 games at home they were in danger of losing the series without returning home because of the middle 3 games, while technically that could happen, that line of thinking was incorrect. The lower seeded almost never won all 3 home games in the middle. In fact, the first team to do so was the 2004 Detroit Pistons, after 19 years of the 2-3-2 format, followed by the Miami Heat in 2006 and 2012. And before the 2004 Pistons did that, the higher seeded team won all 3 road games in the middle 3 times with the Detroit in 1990, Chicago in 1991, and LA Lakers in 2001.
 
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gsmooth said:
If you believe 2-3-2 gives the lower seeded team an advantage, it certainly wasn't a MASSIVE advantage if any at all-the historical data doesn't support that . The higher seeded team had the advantage. If the higher seeded team won at least 1 road game of the middle three after losing 1 of the first 2 home games they were either up 3-2 in the series with 2 chances at home to close the series or down 2-3 in the series with two games at home fight off elimination.

The common saying when 2-3-2 was instituted was the higher seeded team had all the pressure because if they lost 1 of the first 2 games at home they were in danger of losing the series without returning home because of the middle 3 games, while technically that could happen, that line of thinking was incorrect. The lower seeded almost never won all 3 home games in the middle. In fact, the first team to do so was the 2004 Detroit Pistons, after 19 years of the 2-3-2 format, followed by the Miami Heat in 2006 and 2012. And before the 2004 Pistons did that, the higher seeded team won all 3 road games in the middle 3 times with the Detroit in 1990, Chicago in 1991, and LA Lakers in 2001.
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Your 2nd paragraph is close, but not exactly right with the complaint. The complaint was that the higher seeded team ended up playing on the road for the most pivotal game of the series, game 5
 
RuffRuff said:
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.

Thing about 100mp is that it's not that unique anymore - it used to be when the average of most pitchers was topping out in the low 90's. Hitters are calibrated. Movement, secondary pitch quality & command, overall command are what separates.
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100 mph is unique and not that consistently common in starters. Relievers, some of them.
Schlittler if you watched last night had them swinging at pitches high and not strikes because they just didn’t have time to judge them they had to get the bat moving. A lot of these guys are throwing 93-96 which is fast enough but that 5 mph extra is huge.
He shouldnt be able to keep that velocity for many years and actually I hope he doesn’t if it helps preserve his arm.
 

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