(10-23-2018 12:30 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  

(10-23-2018 10:06 AM)stever20 Wrote:  kind of interesting- Red Sox have 14 position players/11 pitchers for the WS roster, while Dodgers have 13/12.

Dodgers did bring back Scott Alexander and took off Caleb Ferguson off the roster.....

Not sure why the switch, but did see that Ferguson's velo was down in his last couple of appearances.

It's just a guess but maybe the extra fielder for the BoSox is to counter the likely micromanagement of relievers the Dodgers will employ.

This is interesting. Most of these stats are pretty even, except runs/game, which of course is the scariest (apologies for format/alignment)...

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Offense    Red Sox    Dodgers
Runs/Game    5.39        4.93
AVG          .268    .250
OBP          .339    .333
SLG          .453    .442
wRC+        110    111
HR           208    235
SB           125    75
BB%           9.0    10.2
K%          19.9    22.6
Exit Velo    89.6    88.4

I think what it boils down to is SB. Not that SB is a super valuable stat, but I think it indicates the "little things" the Red Sox do to manufacture runs; hence the signficantly higher runs/game total.

1 thing that's interesting is fielding.. Red Sox with 77 Errors to 100 for the Dodgers. Playoffs Dodgers with 7 errors to 3 for Boston.