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All this stress could have been avoided simply by cashing in some insurance runs.

Really poor situational hitting top to bottom today.

Because Santana, Perez and Schoop have all been used.

This is why you don't use Santana first off the bench leading off in the 3rd. Would be a fantastic situation for him.

Shaw is just a really, really bad hitter if the opposing pitcher is left handed.

Still better than the NFL At least you can say they have to watch 22 people at once. Baseball umps have one thing to look at in 95% of situations and they still manage to suck at it.

Cain should have been standing on 1st. No excuse for an umpire to blow a strike call that badly when the stakes are this high.

This umpire sucks at his job.

Thanks for nothing, Perez. Terrible AB.

Come on Aguilar, not a good AB.

Braun seemed....really mad.

Was screaming and pointing. Too loud to hear anything. From 5 feet away?

Granderson may be saved for defense later. They have Broxton for that. Granderson isn't a guy you save for defense. Not a good defender.

MVP!!! MVP!!

Santana probably wouldn't have been my choice there. Thought for sure they'd use Granderson and save Santana for later.

He shouldn’t have to on that play. Maybe he shouldn't, but he could hold up a stop sign like any 3rd base coach with an ounce of sense in the moment there.

Yeah it's on both of them really. Dumb move by Braun and Sedar just kind of paced around like a deer in the headlights.

Can't take the bat out of Aguilar's hands like that.

What were you thinking??

Yes, I think that is safe to say. As others have said, not a lot of fire power from the Rockies from the left side of the plate. Looks like Woodruff/Guerra, Chacin, Peralta for the starters in this series. Would be very different if they faced the Cubs of course. It is interesting though they're going bullpen instead of starting either Anderson or Davies. Finally, I would point out Cedeno could have been used as a LOOGY, but he really isn't one. His splits are almost identical. That's really just because he's been effective against RHP this particular season. For his career lefties OPS more than 200 points less against him than righties (.583 vs .796), which I would say definitely qualifies him as a LOOGY.

I don't think Lyles would make it if we were allowed a 30 man roster let alone a 25. Not so much a knock on Lyles as a statement of the competition above him. Plus he has extreme Oliver Drake reverse splits, not ideal for a Rockies lineup.

It's all about matchups. Peralta matches up much better with the Rockies than he would with the Cubs. Yeah, been saying that for weeks. If I'm not mistaken, the Rockies have been a possible matchup for quite some time. Yet, Peralta was noticeably absent from everyone's 25 man. Now, all of the sudden without any announcement from the team or push from the media, something has changed. Just an observation. I've been pushing those matchup numbers, his dominance vs RHB, and what I'm hearing from those in the know for weeks now. It seems like some of it stuck. It's simply interesting that a guy everyone was ignoring is magically being added in everyone's predictions without an explanation for the change in heart. The explanation was given. Matchup. When most of these roster predictions were made early on the assumption was that we would be a Wild Card which would have definitely matched us up against the Cubs in the NLDS.

But that's the thing, we don't have one. Chacin is the closest thing and he's the only one I can see getting a start in the traditional sense. I can honestly see us basically going bullpen days/matchups in every game but Chacin's start. Maybe Gio gets a traditional leash too. Miley...I can't see it. It would be unprecedented to carry 13 pitchers on the postseason roster, but I don't think it's impossible.

Now that we know our postseason opponent for the NLDS, we can customize our 25 man to that opponent. I'm not even going to separate starters from relievers -- the lines are just too blurred, and I can't even see any starter besides Chacin going beyond the 4th. I am tempted to include Guerra. I am, frankly, tempted to leave Miley off the roster for this series. I am tempted to leave off Schoop. I am not sure what I'm going to do there yet. It's going to be tough for spots. OF - Granderson, Yelich, Braun, Cain, Santana This is really hard. I can't leave off Santana, not the way he's been swinging and what he brings as a bench bat. I didn't want to leave Broxton off either. He's got a very specific a role as the only PR option late, and they love tightening up the OF defense late. I just couldn't find room. Perez probably becomes that guy, but you'll lose on some OF defense. IF - Moustakas, Schoop, Shaw, Aguilar, Arcia, Perez, Pina, Kratz I couldn't leave off Schoop. Maybe if the Rockies didn't have lefty starters, I'd go for it. Everyone else here is a total lock. P - Chacin, Miley, Davies, Gonzalez, Woodruff, Peralta, Jeffress, Knebel, Hader, Soria, Cedeno, Burnes Like I said, I wanted to disclude Miley as he is not a good matchup for the Rockies, and his last two starts have been very bad. But his body of work wins out. It doesn't mean he'll go long, or even start. Dan Jennings is not making the postseason roster, I don't care if Tom Haudricourt said he's certain to make it. Cedeno is the better LOOGY, and beyond that you're just getting into luxuries that they don't have room for. Peralta is my new dark horse. He's murder against righties, which makes him a great fit for this series. I was torn between him and Williams for the final spot. I went with Freddy because he can go multiple innings. Woodruff has been way too good lately to leave out.

I look at it this way, between Cubs and Rockies, it's probably a crapshoot anyway. So seeing the insufferable fanbase suffer tonight doesn't break my heart. And anyway, it will be nice to have actual homefield advantage. I think for sure that would have been a concern.