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Ya dodgers were not only scarier but they were just flat out better. Lots of people are acting like the dodgers were washed, but they won 100 regular season games, were playing well down the stretch, dog walked the braves, and as you mentioned the 4 headed monster of a rotation. Tampa is good. I'm not taking anything for granted, but they are getting pushed by an 85 win team who barely beat the White Sox. That Yankee team they boat raced was good but a lot less scary without judge.

Joe Posnanski wrote a blog about how the world series will be lacking star power. I do take his point. There's no ohtani and there's no judge. Those are the only two mega stars in MLB right now in my opinion, but after that... Is there a bigger star in baseball than misiorowski? I don't really think there is.

I agree 100%. I think you summed it up pretty well. from the moment I saw Curt’s video I knew he’d be on the roster. I’d even take it a step further. Woodruff should start the game 4 bullpen game. It gives us the most leeway if it doesn’t go well and then we don’t have to worry about him getting warm for a specific situation. (I’m also hoping we have a series lead heading into game 4 but if we don’t, I’d backtrack on this comment 😂)

I'm feeling oddly confident going into this one. I think gasser delivers 4.2 scoreless and the bullpen and offense handle the rest.

Great writeup. I have a ton of faith in Gasser right now. Obviously you can slice up the endpoints however you want to paint a rosy picture but he's looked great from my sofa. In a vacuum, 18 batters make sense. 3 games in 3 days may play a role, but if we have a narrow lead I'm pretty confident Murphy will go to the pen in an attempt to lock it down.

Ashby probably is good for all 3 but maybe not Uribe and megil😂

I think he's a solid bench player who complements our roster well, especially over the course of the regular season. He has 1 elite skill which always helps you stick around a big league roster. I wish his obp was a touch higher. He seems to have the skills needed to be a good defender but he's a little error prone. In the playoffs, I wish our back up infielder had a little more thump, but that's a minor quibble. He's probably back on the roster next year in a similar role.

Ill admit that I was nervous about ashby and his playoff viability but he's been incredible. With 3 games in 3 days,we will probably my need some other guys to step up but winning the first 2 gives us a little cushion for a bad bullpen day

I think that’s certainly possible. that series last year took an emotional toll just like this one. But last year it was a lot about the divisional rivalry. The fact that cubs fans swarm our stadium. There were bigger swings of momentum and fewer close games so during the game there was a chance to just enjoy the game. this series, as was highlighted on the broadcast, was just relentless. Every inning felt like a grind the whole series.

So often in the Brewers playoff appearances it’s felt like we’ve run into the hot team (or just outright best team). You could see it this year- tons of people giving their predictions on tv, radio, newspapers, and podcasts were picking the Padres. And they were hot! They obliterated the Cubs. They have a raucous home crowd. An incredible bullpen. Some real studs in their line up and defensively. Best record/offense/home record/bullpen era since July. We’ve seen the brewers get to the late innings of playoff games before only to have their nearly unhittable relievers give up the lead. well this week we caught the breaks 3 times out of 4 on the end of game plays. The cable ball. The Chourio walk off. The Mitchell home run robbery. We got to feel what it’s like to be on this side of those plays. It feels great. sure they were only a wild card team. We had 103 regular season wins. But that padres team was tough. very grateful to have pulled that off.

Totally agree. I would predict the roster to be the same (barring some unknown injury)

Hurt not to close it out last night when miller and Morejon were unavailable. Both presumably available tonight. I feel good about wrapping it up. I think our offense has mostly been pretty solid. Some tough luck or well positioned defenders. Another 1 run game might send me to the grave though. Lol

I’ve barely been able to think about anything other than baseball all week. I hope that lasts a few more weeks.

Mccalvy addressed this during his AMA on Reddit this week. Sounds like Murphy expects bauers to play some OF in the playoffs. Combining Misiorowski not allowing a lot of balls in play with a lefty starting against us, this is the prime opportunity for him to start in RF. Might only last a few innings if they PH for Vaughn as soon as he has a matchup with a righty reliever. re: Ortiz, I can’t remember which reporter put it out there, but Ortiz will be on the nlds roster. but ya those two guys are probably the most banged up and productive versions of both will be important

I mostly agree with you. Anderson and Koenig might be cheap enough that they’d bring them back if they are still optionable. I’m too lazy to figure out if Anderson used up his last option this year or not. But if he can still be optioned, I’d bring him back. Zerpa is an interesting case. He’s probably missing half the year so I might non-tender him on that alone. Maybe they’ll be able to bring him back for a lesser deal.