2022 MLB Playoffs

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, markedman5 said:

Either the pitching in this Tampa Cleveland series is out of this world or their offenses suck.

Yes. 

[Hopper]

48 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I’m genuinely surprised how much I’m enjoying this wildcard weekend. A tip of the cap to MLB for this new format. It’s intense and exciting without the complete chaos of that 2020 postseason. Four games a day over Friday and Saturday is just the right amount. 

100% agree.

[yourout]

Wow what a script flip in Toronto.

9 to 5 lead in the 8th and now it's 9 to 9 and Springer is out with a likely concussion after colliding

[markedman5]

Blue Jay fans aren’t enjoying it……..?

[Hopper]

New game in Toronto!

What a difference between this game and the Indians/Rays game earlier.

[Brock Beauchamp]

22 minutes ago, Hopper said:

100% agree.

Now just expand the league to 32 teams and I think we’ll have a really nice equilibrium. 

[Brewcrew82]

3 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Now just expand the league to 32 teams and I think we’ll have a really nice equilibrium. 

Yes. And move us into a different division than St. Louis. Stupid Rays and A's...

[HarryDoyle]

JBJ is in Toronto???

[jason21nl]

Man I love the playoffs 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Have to say, been some wild, fun baseball. Home playoff games in Seattle and Cleveland are going to be insane.

[Brewcrew82]

Grisham homers again. Off Scherzer and DeGrom in back to back nights. Trade still worked out quite well for us, though. 

[Pugger]

Go Phillies.  I don't want those stupid Cards anywhere near the WS this year.

[Brewcrew82]

Pujols and Molina on the basepaths....LOL

[Brewcrew82]

And Goldschmidt and Arenado both K with the tying runner on base in the eighth. Just keeps getting better and better. One more inning, Phils!

[edfunderburk]

If the Cardinals lose - three more outs - they’ll be eliminated without winning a playoff game 

They’ll have no more playoff wins than the Brewers 

That would be nice

And … next year, there’ll be no more Pujols or Molina

That too will be nice

[markedman5]

 

[yourout]

16 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

If the Cardinals lose - three more outs - they’ll be eliminated without winning a playoff game 

They’ll have no more playoff wins than the Brewers 

That would be nice

And … next year, there’ll be no more Pujols or Molina

That too will be nice

Would be even better if Arenado opted out and went somewhere else.

[Brewcrew82]

And they're out! So long Pujols and Molina. We won't miss ya. 

[HarryDoyle]

Thank God the Phillies got in instead of us, otherwise the Cardinals would be celebrating right now.

[wiguy94]

I cannot believe that Marmol let Yadi (and his 51 wRC+) hit with 2 outs in the 9th inning as the tying run at the plate. He got bailed out by a Yadi devil magic bloop single, but man it would would have been sweet if that game ended with Molina and everyone crapped on Marmol for not pinch hitting Carlson or Gorman far superior hitters.

[hawing]

The baseball universe feels better already. Like a disturbance in the force has been reduced.  Weird. 

[owbc]

Regular extra innings is terrible. They shouldn’t even do it in the postseason. Nobody wants to sit around for hours waiting for a solo HR. By the end of that Brewers/Dodgers one in 2018 I didn’t even care who won, and that game probably cost us the pennant. 

The runner on 2nd rule is what it is, but I think it would be more fun to take away a defender every inning (8 on defense in the 10th, 7 in the 11th, etc.). Reward putting the ball in play. 

Of course the 1-0 game is immediately followed by a 10-9 one because that’s how baseball is. 

And you can bet that the Guardians will show up at Yankee stadium and suddenly remember how to hit. 

Good riddance to the Cards, their playoff exit couldn’t have been scripted any better. 

[pitchleague]

I’m really surprised that the classies’s fans didn’t stick around and cheer enough to get Molina and Pujols out for one final curtain call.  Even in defeat, they are supposedly so classy so I really thought they would have made one more appearance for the fans.

 

but, yeah, good riddance!

[UpandIn]

2 hours ago, yourout said:

Would be even better if Arenado opted out and went somewhere else.

It'd be...so much better, but he's so hell bent on staying and they can make the Rockies basically chip in and help pay for it. 

The Rockies are paying 20 million MORE to Arenado or STL. STL if he opts in, Arenado if he opts out.

So if Arenado opts out and he can get 5 years 175, that's really a 5 year 200M for him. 

Right now he's getting 5/144 I believe.

So St Louis would be stupid to not go to him, offer maybe 20M signing bonus, 20M guaranteed for 2027(he has a 15M salary that year) and then do something with 2028, add a team option for...IDK, 45M and a buyout at 10M.

Maybe he gives them a "hometown discount," and they just add 40M to his existing contract(which again, includes the Rox paying out 4M of his deal each of the next 5 years). So he doesn't get as much as he could, but he seems to love the righteous, indignant clowns in St Louis, so that seems the most likely outcome to me.

 

But I really would love to see them lose him. 

 

[yourout]

4 hours ago, UpandIn said:

It'd be...so much better, but he's so hell bent on staying and they can make the Rockies basically chip in and help pay for it. 

The Rockies are paying 20 million MORE to Arenado or STL. STL if he opts in, Arenado if he opts out.

So if Arenado opts out and he can get 5 years 175, that's really a 5 year 200M for him. 

Right now he's getting 5/144 I believe.

So St Louis would be stupid to not go to him, offer maybe 20M signing bonus, 20M guaranteed for 2027(he has a 15M salary that year) and then do something with 2028, add a team option for...IDK, 45M and a buyout at 10M.

Maybe he gives them a "hometown discount," and they just add 40M to his existing contract(which again, includes the Rox paying out 4M of his deal each of the next 5 years). So he doesn't get as much as he could, but he seems to love the righteous, indignant clowns in St Louis, so that seems the most likely outcome to me.

 

But I really would love to see them lose him. 

 

That move by Colorado might have been the stupidest in the history of Major League baseball.