Why are so many managers terrible at bullpen management in the playoffs

[Shanemansj13]

How can a player like Cole care so little about winning a WS...strange

 

[rsw626]

Exactly! That being said, I still may pick one up to wear to my bowling league so people think I'm good.

 

[Pure Steel]

How can a player like Cole care so little about winning a WS...strange

Just wants his money now.....the 72-90 Angels await.....

 

[Shanemansj13]

I’m still waiting on him and Charlie Morton to get busted for PEDs. Their progression with Houston seemed fishy, Cole came from the NL to the league with more offense and started dominating. Morton was in his 30’s and found like 4 more mph on his fastball

Barstool Sports

Some years he was dreadful like in 2010. Others he was solid, but never threw more than 171.2 innings. He never had a season where he struck out more batters than innings pitched because he was never an overpowering pitcher. He sat out most of 2016 with a torn hamstring. Before he got hurt, this is what he looked like on the mound. What you’ll see is a good curveball, a 95 mph fastball, accompanied by a good two-seamer clocking in around 90.

This was one of his four starts he made before the season-ending injury. Whatever happened in that time off changed this man’s life forever.

Morton returned in 2016 with a NINETY NINE MILE PER HOUR fastball. He struck out more guys than innings pitched for the first time in his career and was dominant in the postseason.

1. Steroids (Allegedly)

If Morton gets caught this will be one of the more blatant uses of PEDs since the days of Brady Anderson when he hit 50 homers one year after having a previous career high of 21. I mean 34 year olds don’t just add 5 miles an hour to their fastball. I asked Tex on his thoughts and he said it’s probably steroids. It just has to be.

2. Dark Magic

It’s possible Charlie met up with Dr. Stephen Strange and had some crazy shit done to him. Maybe he entered another realm and had some spells cast upon him. It’s an avenue we have to investigate given the circumstances.

3. He Sold Himself To the Devil

Charlie Morton might be the Dave Portnoy of baseball. It’s possible, following that injury plagued 2016 season, that Morton got really low, contemplated sitting out baseball and was cornered by Lucifer himself. He presented Charlie with two options: Continue his mediocre baseball career and never achieve anything or sell his soul in exchange for added life to his fastball and win a World Series championship. I think this is a likely scenario given his immediate success and how we witness Dave Portnoy have similar luck on a daily basis.

4. The Rookie of the Year 2.0



I hate this movie and this kid. But maybe Charlie tripped, fell and banged up his arm during the offseason. Almost at the brink of hanging up his uniform, Charlie discovered that this freak injury caused him to throw 100 mph. This would mean his luck will run out soon enough and he’ll be back to barely touching 95 in the coming months.

The Bauer tweet is hilarious lolzz

 

[Cedrique]

I like it. Understated, but it gets the point across. You should be designing for all the top agents. And I'm sure Antonio Brown could use a logo guy.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Fuck the Astros...common sense says they have been cheating for years anyway

 

[Cedrique]

Barstool Sports

Some years he was dreadful like in 2010. Others he was solid, but never threw more than 171.2 innings. He never had a season where he struck out more batters than innings pitched because he was never an overpowering pitcher. He sat out most of 2016 with a torn hamstring. Before he got hurt, this is what he looked like on the mound. What you’ll see is a good curveball, a 95 mph fastball, accompanied by a good two-seamer clocking in around 90.

This was one of his four starts he made before the season-ending injury. Whatever happened in that time off changed this man’s life forever.

Morton returned in 2016 with a NINETY NINE MILE PER HOUR fastball. He struck out more guys than innings pitched for the first time in his career and was dominant in the postseason.

1. Steroids (Allegedly)

If Morton gets caught this will be one of the more blatant uses of PEDs since the days of Brady Anderson when he hit 50 homers one year after having a previous career high of 21. I mean 34 year olds don’t just add 5 miles an hour to their fastball. I asked Tex on his thoughts and he said it’s probably steroids. It just has to be.

2. Dark Magic

It’s possible Charlie met up with Dr. Stephen Strange and had some crazy shit done to him. Maybe he entered another realm and had some spells cast upon him. It’s an avenue we have to investigate given the circumstances.

3. He Sold Himself To the Devil

Charlie Morton might be the Dave Portnoy of baseball. It’s possible, following that injury plagued 2016 season, that Morton got really low, contemplated sitting out baseball and was cornered by Lucifer himself. He presented Charlie with two options: Continue his mediocre baseball career and never achieve anything or sell his soul in exchange for added life to his fastball and win a World Series championship. I think this is a likely scenario given his immediate success and how we witness Dave Portnoy have similar luck on a daily basis.

4. The Rookie of the Year 2.0



I hate this movie and this kid. But maybe Charlie tripped, fell and banged up his arm during the offseason. Almost at the brink of hanging up his uniform, Charlie discovered that this freak injury caused him to throw 100 mph. This would mean his luck will run out soon enough and he’ll be back to barely touching 95 in the coming months.

The Bauer tweet is hilarious lolzz

I didn't see the movie, but if he did gain arm strength by falling and hurting his arm I would be worried about his long term future. If I've learned one thing from Gilligan's Island it is that all it would take is another similar fall for him to lose all his super strength.


Then again, I guess the Astros could still hit him over the head with a coconut and use him as a transistor radio.....

 

[DragonfromTO]

I wasn't thinking about him earlier but here's a story about an old man that picked up velo. I did mention Driveline earlier and they are name dropped in this story quite a bit as well.

He's 37 and throwing 99 mph: Meet MLB's ultimate comeback story

 

[DragonfromTO]

I think AJ knew Cole had already checked out, even before the game:
https://nypost.com/2019/10/31/gerrit-cole-already-disowning-astros-im-not-employed-by-team/

Gerrit Cole wears Boras Corp hat, distances himself from Astros moments after World Series loss

Gerrit Cole, a pending free agent, wasted no time distancing himself from the Houston Astros Wednesday night as the star pitcher donned a baseball cap bearing his agent's logo and telling reporters he was "not an employee of the team."

Did he say/do something before the game then?

Post-game I assumed he was pissed off that his team had just lost game 7 of the World Series and he wasn't even used. Or exactly the thing that we're bitching about, only it had a direct and real effect on him (whereas I slept just fine that night ).