World Series Pre-Series Discussion

[LLJ]

Jays in 4 or 5. Dodgers are trash. They haven't faced a real team yet.

The Brewers sweep was impressive but their offense in the Phillies series gives me optimism.

I remember when we swept the Rangers in 2016 we (and many pundits) thought we'd handle the Indians or at least be competitive with them. Then we quickly lost in 5.

[Basketball_Jones]

Biebers been getting hit around but somehow we manage with him so I don’t know. Scherzer was huge for us though in his last start but I still wouldnt promote him above “in case of emergency” type status right now.

[JCP11]

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If you had told me in April that between us and the Dodgers, we were going to be the big thumping team in the post season, I would not have believed you.

Without Bo and Santander for the most part on top of it doesn't make sense at all lol.

[JCP11]

Jays in 4 or 5. Dodgers are trash. They haven't faced a real team yet.

The Brewers sweep was impressive but their offense in the Phillies series gives me optimism.

The Phillies were stacked this year and the Brewers were the best team in baseball. Dodgers just showed that they were the superior team in both series. I honestly don't know if we have a chance or not but one thing I do know with this team is that they're going to fight and that's all you can ask.

[JN]

This might have been the craziest game of the regular season (3rd game in LA to avoid the sweep). Fluharty comes into the game up one run, bases loaded and one out.... saves the day and strikes out Ohtani and gets Betts to groundout.

This was a game where we fell down 3-1 early after two innings. We took the lead 4-3 in the top of the 8th.
Yariel Rodriguez comes in bottom of 8th, gets 2 guys out but walks 2 guys.
Jeff Hoffman comes in, walks two guys, making it 4-4, and then gets 3rd out of the 8th.
Jays come back in top of 9th to take lead 5-4.
Hoffman proceeds to walk the bases loaded. making his game line with 0.2 innings, 5 walks and 0 earned runs, and gets the win.

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[james vincent]

Chris bassit played well yesterday (small sample size, I know) and I think he should play more innings in one of these games in case Trey or Bieber struggle earlier in the game(s).

[Madvillainy2004]

Chris bassit played well yesterday (small sample size, I know) and I think he should play more innings in one of these games in case Trey or Bieber struggle earlier in the game(s).

His fastball was sitting at 94-95 that may play in the pen especially with how bad our other righties are

[Madvillainy2004]

Shout out Jonathan Clase for that 9th inning bomb off Helsley back in July lol

[Lateral Quicks]

We need to consider an alternative to Varland in early high leverage spots. He's allowed 4 home runs in just 11 innings this playoffs. Granted he's faced some elite home run hitters over that stretch, but it's not going to get any easier against the Dodgers. I'd like to see Braydon Fisher get a shot in that role.

I think ideally we split up the splitter throwers, so we go Yesavage/?????/Gausman. That gets Gausman extra rest, and has him going in game 7 if it gets that far. Who goes #2 is a real wildcard, though. It's probably Bieber, but you could make a case for Scherzer.

[Randle McMurphy]

We need to consider an alternative to Varland in early high leverage spots. He's allowed 4 home runs in just 11 innings this playoffs. Granted he's faced some elite home run hitters over that stretch, but it's not going to get any easier against the Dodgers. I'd like to see Braydon Fisher get a shot in that role.

I think ideally we split up the splitter throwers, so we go Yesavage/?????/Gausman. That gets Gausman extra rest, and has him going in game 7 if it gets that far. Who goes #2 is a real wildcard, though. It's probably Bieber, but you could make a case for Scherzer.

I don't think they'll wait a week to start their best pitcher again. Gausman probably goes Saturday.

[-MetA4-]

We need to consider an alternative to Varland in early high leverage spots. He's allowed 4 home runs in just 11 innings this playoffs. Granted he's faced some elite home run hitters over that stretch, but it's not going to get any easier against the Dodgers. I'd like to see Braydon Fisher get a shot in that role.

He is simply being over-worked, and by pitching him in essentially every game the batters are getting repeated looks at him. I don't give a crap who you are, at some point seeing the same pitcher game after game after game is going to give the edge to the batters. His fastball was also down in velocity to just over ~97 mph last night.

I don't think some fans realize how much they have overworked Varland. He pitched in 6 of the 7 games against Seattle, and in all 4 games against the Yankees.

The Mariners did the same thing last night and it cost them. Bazardo is a very good reliever, but that was his 4 appearance in the series.

[Natural11]

We need to consider an alternative to Varland in early high leverage spots. He's allowed 4 home runs in just 11 innings this playoffs. Granted he's faced some elite home run hitters over that stretch, but it's not going to get any easier against the Dodgers. I'd like to see Braydon Fisher get a shot in that role.

I think ideally we split up the splitter throwers, so we go Yesavage/?????/Gausman. That gets Gausman extra rest, and has him going in game 7 if it gets that far. Who goes #2 is a real wildcard, though. It's probably Bieber, but you could make a case for Scherzer.

I don't think the playoff 2-3-2 structure favors Gausman on game 3. Yeah we went to Seattle down 0-2 and still managed, but I think you really need your best guys in 1-2 to try to stop that from happening.

[duppyy]

Dodgers are scary, but this team has gone above and beyond. Let’s hope it continues.

[Randle McMurphy]

We need to consider an alternative to Varland in early high leverage spots. He's allowed 4 home runs in just 11 innings this playoffs. Granted he's faced some elite home run hitters over that stretch, but it's not going to get any easier against the Dodgers. I'd like to see Braydon Fisher get a shot in that role.

I think ideally we split up the splitter throwers, so we go Yesavage/?????/Gausman. That gets Gausman extra rest, and has him going in game 7 if it gets that far. Who goes #2 is a real wildcard, though. It's probably Bieber, but you could make a case for Scherzer.

I don't think the playoff 2-3-2 structure favors Gausman on game 3. Yeah we went to Seattle down 0-2 and still managed, but I think you really need your best guys in 1-2 to try to stop that from happening.

We also saw the benefit of having your best starters go first last night, they can still pitch two games and also pitch in a possible game 7.

Not that Gausman was particularly effective yesterday (understandably) but he probably still did better than any of our actual bullpen pitchers would have in that stretch of hitters.

[SFour]

I have a feeling Jays will pull it off, just like the Raptors did....I didn't lose faith when both teams were down 0-2, it's better to be optimistic imo. If they end up losing it's not a huge deal, they've been playing with house money for awhile now.

In sports anything can happen....who would've thought the Pacers were going to take OKC to 7 games in the finals.....nobody, that's why sports games are played and not simulated on a computer.

[Bank Shot]

Jays opening odds are similar to what the Raps' were vs. the Dubs. It's all lining up.

[JN]

Poor Kate.

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[Fairview4Life]

Poor Kate.

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Right. I'm sure she would have felt great if Vladdy hit it.

[Fairview4Life]

We need to consider an alternative to Varland in early high leverage spots. He's allowed 4 home runs in just 11 innings this playoffs. Granted he's faced some elite home run hitters over that stretch, but it's not going to get any easier against the Dodgers. I'd like to see Braydon Fisher get a shot in that role.

I think ideally we split up the splitter throwers, so we go Yesavage/?????/Gausman. That gets Gausman extra rest, and has him going in game 7 if it gets that far. Who goes #2 is a real wildcard, though. It's probably Bieber, but you could make a case for Scherzer.

I don't think the playoff 2-3-2 structure favors Gausman on game 3. Yeah we went to Seattle down 0-2 and still managed, but I think you really need your best guys in 1-2 to try to stop that from happening.

We also saw the benefit of having your best starters go first last night, they can still pitch two games and also pitch in a possible game 7.

Not that Gausman was particularly effective yesterday (understandably) but he probably still did better than any of our actual bullpen pitchers would have in that stretch of hitters.

Unless you have Zach Britton sitting out there.

[Madvillainy2004]

Poor Kate.

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Right. I'm sure she would have felt great if Vladdy hit it.

Mariners fans do not get to cry about the Astros cheating lmao