But who has gone with a 3-man rotation recently? Sure, a team COULD do it, but it just doesn't happen.
It's been awhile but it's still a possibility that I don't like PLUS the extra off day makes it easier to yank your DO early when he's in trouble because you can use a starter from earlier in the series who may be available only because if that extra day rest ( see MadBum in 14 WS) or because your entire pen got an extra day. ALL postseason series should have 1 off day and no more imo. That keeps it most close to the regular season
Actually it doesn't. During the regular season you don't fly from DC to LA (or vice Versace) without a travel day (normally).
Eh teams travel all the time without an off day. A 4 hour flight instead of a 2 hour one is irrelevant if it keeps the series legit. As I said the extra off day almost always favors the team with the worse record because they simply aren't as deep generallt. If you really want the best teams to advance this would do it better than anything else you could do
Coolio, but you got to listen to me when I say the regular season is biased against teams with elite bullpens because you can't use them for 2-3 innings without consequence like you can often times in the playoffs. A lot of times this lack of "depth" is code for it's not depth being applied aggressively. Postseason is a different game, and it SHOULD be that way.
So much schadenfreude potential
