I’m really glad the Packers play in the NFC so the Chiefs aren’t really consequential to us unless we reach the Super Bowl. I’d be absolutely sick watching them as another AFC teams’ fan and seeing how many 3rd and 4th and goals they get bailed out on with penalties.
Which secondary guys in particular do you think didn’t get enough work? It’s not like Koenig and Grant Anderson didn’t also get ridden pretty hard. Mears a little less so but that was partly because of the IL stint and he was definitely wearing down late.
But you can use your best relievers less often if your secondary relievers are better, I think was his main point.
I find it a little surprising that Miz never seemed to wear down? He threw his best innings in the playoffs. And we rode him far beyond what I thought would be his comfortable innings limit this year.
So I wonder if they are comfortable dialing him up to 170 next year.
Just as a matter of speculation, what kind of extension after next year do you think it would take to get Freddy to stay? 5 years/$175M? Not advocating for it more just curious.
I'd also venture to guess that if every hitter in our lineup produced the same ABs as Caleb Durbin in the NLCS, we’d have won the series, or at least would still be playing.
Maybe. But I guess I would still stand by my point that it wouldn’t make much financial sense for him to pitch for us for 20 million, when he can get 10 million to not pitch for us plus whatever another team will give him to pitch for them.
Gunnar would be a dream but I don’t think the Orioles would even pick up the phone. They will definitely see this past season as an aberration and expect to contend again.
I think the buyout makes it nearly certain he won’t be back. That’s a surplus of 1/10 for him on the option and he can do far better than that on the open market.
He proved he could pitch effectively after the shoulder surgery, that was the big thing for him. The lat strain is unfortunate but unrelated, and this is the first time really in his career that he’ll have an opportunity to enter free agency fully healthy. I think he deserves to take advantage of that and get 3/75 from somebody and I think he will.
I am ok with either way, keeping him or trading him. I think people will be underwhelmed with a Peralta return.
The comp is probably the Burnes trade, which was Ortiz, DL Hall, and Blake Burke. Has had some moments where it looked good but it looks like a whole lot of meh right now.
I don’t think Cruz is overall a big upgrade from Perkins and he’s not much younger.
If we are going to look for a CF I hope we take a bigger swing than that.
Miz for sure, Patrick for sure, Priester for sure. Freddy probably gets traded and I don’t think Woodruff will be back. Probably one vet signing like Quintana.
Then Henderson, Hall, Myers, and Gasser are all candidates for a spot,
The Dodgers averaged 3.75 runs per game in the NLCS.
We averaged 1 run per game.
Neither Freddy Peralta nor the 17 guys out of the bullpen is very high up on the list of reasons why we lost this series.
Crazy thing is, after Games 1 and 2 of the NLDS I thought “wow, it’s happening, the offense is waking up at the best possible time!”
And then that Game 2 was literally the last sighting. Seems like forever ago now.