(04-30-2018 02:53 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 01:41 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Arizona isn't going to just fall apart.

Probably not, but they've got a bunch of guys outperforming their projections (which pretty much has to happen for a start like theirs). Some of 'em may regress. Injuries happen. AGAIN, not likely, but also not so remote that going 2-4 against them over the next couple of weeks eliminates the possibility. Honestly, I'm just ******* grumpy about this team and getting worked up about semantics. If you'd said "pretty g'damned important" or "kinda ******* huge" instead of "must" I probably would've just agreed.

Quote:Also like I said earlier- going the Wild Card Route is probably the worst for the Dodgers of almost any 1 team.

It's not better than sitting home, which is totally in play right now.

Thing is I don't think Arizona really does have guys going crazy. Pollock is finally back from his injury. Gotten almost nothing out of their Catcher or 2b. Ray and Greinke have not been as good as normal. Their pen makes it where it's such a short game. #3 by fWAR and #1 by ERA. But it's not like they were much worse last year- #11 in fWAR and #5 in ERA. And with the humidor now in Arizona- that's probably fueling some of the improvement- Arizona this year- home 7.17 runs per game away 8.20 runs per game. Last year- that was 9.91 runs per game home, 8.25 runs per game away. So road games almost exactly the same- but home games now having 2.64 runs fewer per game(for both teams).