Game Thread: 8.2 Disco @ Worms

[tzill]

The Giants are solid, but they do tend to feast of teams weak bully arms. You don’t tend to see those guys in the playoffs. Like in the NBA playoffs, rotations tighten up in the MLB post season.

Meanwhile, the Giants only really have a few solid bully arms, and no shut down arms. Lots of chicken wire and bubblegum, though.

All of that gets mitigated if the SP are consistently going six plus innings. Lately, that's been a big problem.

 

[calsnowskier]

All of that gets mitigated if the SP are consistently going six plus innings. Lately, that's been a big problem.

That doesn’t happen in baseball in general anymore, though.

I am with you that I like that kind of baseball better, but that kind of baseball is dead, unfortunately.

 

[msgkings322]

That doesn’t happen in baseball in general anymore, though.

I am with you that I like that kind of baseball better, but that kind of baseball is dead, unfortunately.

Yep, bullpens matter a lot more in the playoffs

 

[LHG]

Problem is, FZ, in the playoffs the pitching matters more.

Especially the SP.

The Giants are solid, but they do tend to feast of teams weak bully arms. You don’t tend to see those guys in the playoffs. Like in the NBA playoffs, rotations tighten up in the MLB post season.

Meanwhile, the Giants only really have a few solid bully arms, and no shut down arms. Lots of chicken wire and bubblegum, though.

Maybe FZ knows something we don't?

 

[msgkings322]

Maybe FZ knows something we don't?

I do usually defer to that so here's hoping

 

[calsnowskier]

Maybe FZ knows something we don't?

Of course. But we have seen through the Boch years that playoff baseball is completely different from regular season baseball. I always got the feeling that Boch treated the regular season as nothing more than extended spring training. I don’t get that feel from Kap.

 

[LHG]

Of course. But we have seen through the Boch years that playoff baseball is completely different from regular season baseball. I always got the feeling that Boch treated the regular season as nothing more than extended spring training. I don’t get that feel from Kap.

Granted, I haven't really paid enough attention to the playoffs these last few years to see if the rule remains true (I tend to check out a bit on the details if the Giants aren't in the playoffs), but the last time the Giants made the playoffs was 5 years ago and the last time we won it all was 7 years ago. Could things have changed since then?

 

[filosofy29]

Maybe FZ knows something we don't?

Well he was part of the A’ss and Doggies for all of their recent championships…

 

[msgkings322]

Granted, I haven't really paid enough attention to the playoffs these last few years to see if the rule remains true (I tend to check out a bit on the details if the Giants aren't in the playoffs), but the last time the Giants made the playoffs was 5 years ago and the last time we won it all was 7 years ago. Could things have changed since then?

What hasn't changed is the almost total randomness of baseball playoffs due to short sample sizes. We'll either get lucky again or we won't. But some factors do make it easier and lockdown bullpens help. Got the Royals theirs in 2015 (and almost in 2014...but we had our own lockdown pen named Bumgarner...we don't have that weapon this year). This year the White Sox are like the 2015 Royals in their pen with the addition of Kimbrel to Hendricks and the rest.

 

[calsnowskier]