Who? Cole? He was out all season so I don't think you can count that. They were in much better shape than the Sox who had to start a rookie with 5 games under his belt in game 3. I'm a Sox fan and I think both teams weren't very good. Yankees slugged their way all season but if you watched them play they lacked fundamentals and played stupid baseball a lot. The Sox were a dumb team also but had less talent.
Cole, Schmidt, Loaisaga, Cousins. Gil came back in August after missing the first four months of the season and hasn't looked like the same pitcher.
None of whom are as good as Fried, Rodon, or even Schlittler it seems.
I think a healthy Cole and Gil are better than Rodon and Schlittler is a rookie who you didn't even know existed two weeks ago. The Red Sox fan above is complaining the Red Sox had to start a rookie pitcher. Loaisiga and Cousins were very important in the bullpen.
I’m just reading the thread now. It would be great if we never see that DP again because there should be no chance of it happening. baserunning fundamentals are often pathetic in MLB. It drives me crazy.
Tied for 4th all-time with 22 postseason home runs.
LAD SPs have given up 2 runs in 23 innings. The BP has only had to throw 4 innings in 3 games.
Shades of 1988.
LAD is basically like an NBA team, slow play the reg season, rest up the players that matter and save it all for the post season. They are the anti-Yankees as a team that plays the reg season good enough, then brings in the cavalry with post season profiles once the playoffs kick in. They've figured it out.
The Dodgers are cheating the sport, of course it's not technically cheating because it's allowed. The commissioner and the CBA are a joke. I don't blame them for doing it because they're allowed to but it makes a mockery of the sport and any sort of fairness, they have well over $1 billion in deferred contracts.
Max Scherzer is one of the all-time badarses in baseball. I'll be sad when he hangs them up, he's everything I still love about baseball and sports. There's hardly any athletes today I can think of who seem like they're willing to kill for it, Max is one of them.
Hence the beauty of the NFL and why it remains the most popular sports. Take a look at this year, parity galore.
Dodgers are anti Yankee in the fact where not winning a world series is viewed as a failed season. That used to be the Yankees standards not anymore. Hal is satisfied with just making the playoffs the Dodgers aren't.
Yanks are built to take big cuts up and down the roster, and mash mediocre to bad regular season pitching. When the playoffs roll around, they're just a bunch of guys with giant holes in their swing that good to great pitchers can K. They stink at the little things, defense, situational baseball and making contact. 3rd most K's in MLB.
Max is great. I love the passion. They showed a clip last night of Max pushing s teammate out of the way. He is intense. Too bad he’s 41
The brown/blue eye thing scares me.
Creepy as f - like a Batman villain.
when John Schneider the manager of Toronto was asked about his conversation with Max on the mound, he commented that Max looked at him with both colored eyes. John left him in the game at that point.
Analytics have ruined the game. The nerds are essentially trying to get starting pitchers to go 4-5 innings. Good for Max, loved to see that.
""It was awesome. I thought he was going to kill me," Schneider said. "He locked eyes with me, both colors, as I walked out."
Well said
They're paying a billion more dollars than any other team in deferred contracts. Unless JP Morgan and the like start owning teams, or Elon and Zuck decide to buy teams they will have a wildly unfair advantage over the rest of baseball.
