World Series 2020

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  1. NYGalPal

    NYGalPal Well-Known Member

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    Tampa tied up the series with the Dodgers 2-2. What a great game and wow at that ending.
     
  2. JackBower

    JackBower Well-Known Member

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    That was the best game of 2020.

    Real good baseball games are always my favorite sport viewing. Either back and forth tonight or nailbiting 1-3 run games.
     
  3. Dierking

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    Gotta be in the Dodgers’ heads at this point.
     
  4. typeOnegative13NY

    typeOnegative13NY Well-Known Member

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    Rays on the ropes
     
  5. Dierking

    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    What a fucking monster
     
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    Randy with the GREATEST POSTSEASON EVER and he's a freaking ROOKIE!!!

    WE WIN GAME 6 AND WITHOUT KERSHAW WE WIN THE WS GAME 7!!!
     
  7. Dierking

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    Snell is fucking dealing.
     
  8. JetsNation06

    JetsNation06 Well-Known Member

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    His manager didn't think so.
     
  9. Dierking

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    His manager was a fucking idiot
     
  10. NYGalPal

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    Cash made such a stupid decision.
     
  11. DefenseWinsChampionships

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    Yes. Cash should have NEVER pulled Snell. He was cruising. And IMMEDIATELY after being pulled the LAD won the world series and immediately took the lead right after being pulled too early damn
     
  12. NYGalPal

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    He obviously took him out because it was his 3rd time through the order. If you're going to go with analytics and completely ignore the obvious then just get rid of the manager, and put an ipad out there.
     
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    matt robinson 17 Well-Known Member

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    Fixed it for ya
     
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    matt robinson 17 Well-Known Member

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    Aaron Boone is a cardboard cutout
     
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    I don’t think I’ve ever seen the WS end with two guys striking out looking. Feeble.
     
  16. JetBlue

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    Dave Roberts let off the hook for blowing the 2017 World Series with his decision to pull Rich Hill in game 2 when the Dodgers were up 3-1 and seemingly on their way to a 2-0 lead by an even worse pitching change when Snell wasn’t just doing well but was un-fucking-touchable.
     
  17. Dierking

    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    I can understand using analytics to get through a long season but in an elimination setting you really need your manager to, uh, you know, manage.
     
  18. Since1969

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    It's more than just the decision to pull Snell, who was pitching lights out. Equally bad was the decision to replace him with Nick Anderson, who was not exactly lights out recently. Cash showed slavish adherence to the analytics bible (yank your starter before his third time through the lineup): pull a starter who is cruising and has a low pitch count so you can replace him with a guy who's been lousy lately. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

    Maybe the third-time-through-the-lineup stuff makes sense during the regular season, but not in an elimination game with your ace on the mound and pitching very well.
     
  19. JetBlue

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    Seager, Betts and Turner were 0-6 with 6 strikeouts in the game and Seager and Betts 1-9 in the series versus Snell. The problem with Cash’s dependence analytics is that he clearly is very selective in which analytics to be slavish to in disregarding the most immediate and relevant analytics of Snell’s performance versus the Dodgers.
     
  20. Since1969

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    That illustrates one of the problems with robotic application of stats. A geek-manager can write off those abysmal batting stats with the phrase that the analytics guys use to write off anything they don't like: small sample size. Analytics work only if the guy making the decisions can place the numbers in a real-world context and can understand the limitations of those numbers.
     

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