(10-10-2017 01:20 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(10-10-2017 01:04 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(10-10-2017 12:28 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(10-10-2017 11:37 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  Been awhile, but finally have the chance to pop back in and say hey. Everything has been really busy lately , so I haven't had the chance to do our usual back and forth. Also, baseball was such a joke for me this year, so there's that.

Anyway, boy did Kluber prove stever right. Talk about one of the best down the stretch performances. Every game seemed like 7-9 innings, with double digit K's. Very very impressive.

Watched the last few innings of the Sox game at work yesterday. Tough loss, but I'm glad the Astros are moving on. If the Indians don't advance, I'll be rooting for the Astros. One problem for them is McCullers performance. If he isn't on top of his game, they're a little thin at SP. And while they have a very good pen, it's nowhere near that legendary pen that the Yankees are rocking.

Lastly, if the Nats flame out in another division series, will Matt Williams be the one having the last laugh? So far they look like the same old Nats postseason team that can barely scratch a run across.

it was eerie quite frankly going back to July 7 and looking at the numbers i was projecting.
Kluber 15-4 with a 2.25 ERA in 195 innings
Sale 18-6 with a 2.90 ERA in 225 innings

Kluber finishes with a 2.25 number and Sale with a 2.90 number. I should have gone to Vegas :)

It's going to be really interesting to see what the Red Sox do with Sale going forward. His last month and a half collapse was just amazing. While Kluber was amazing, if Sale had been able to pitch reasonably well down the stretch, he would have won it. But a 4.64 ERA from August thru yesterday with 17 hr in final 75.2 innings just killed him. I think the Red Sox made some serious mistakes with his usage in August/September. I do think they managed him to some degree trying to get him to win the award. And it backfired.

As far as the Nats/Cubs series- a lot of credit has to go to the Cubs starters. Kendricks, Lester, and Quintana are 3 really good starters. Cubs were the best team in the NL post all star break at 49-25. Tonight will be fun. Hopefully send to a game 5 and get a chance to move on to LA.

Great to have you back swoosh!!!! Now we just need Brookes Owl to get back and we're set.....

you were eerily spot on. You missed a great chance to buy a lotto ticket. It just seemed like every time he went to the mound he spun a dominant performance. And you're right, the Sox did not do a good job managing Sale's workload and it seems to have backfired. Although in fairness he pitched really well yesterday. Yes, he gave up a HR, but the Astros have a dominant lineup. Can't really blame him for yesterday's loss

yeah I was waiting for bad Kluber to show up like we knew was out there, but he never did. Just remarkable. Then goes out game 2 and gets lit up.

Sale looked great yesterday. Boston was in a no win situation in the 8th I thought. You could tell Sale was tired, but you couldn't take him out.

Sale really an interesting case. One of those where you can't use the awards to show how good he is. I mean- last 6 years(or time when Sale a starter)- only Kershaw and Scherzer have a better fWAR than Sale does. But Sale had 3 years with his FIP and ERA both in 3's- so not going to win there. Then a year where his FIP was 2.73 but his ERA was 3.41- not going to win that. In 2014 his ERA was 2.17 and FIP was 2.51- but he only had 26 starts and 174 innings. Kluber that year had 34 starts and 235 innings to go along with his 2.44 ERA and 2.35 FIP. That's a gap in innings that is too much to bridge. And now this year.

It's funny, because you used to be the one who always talked about the jekyll and hyde results of Kluber