Comments on: What in the World Series is going on here?

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:35:50 +0000

Hey! How dar…oh…yeah, never mind.

By: mackie66

mackie66 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:12:08 +0000

easy answer, knock off about 30 games of regular season and drop two teams from the pplayoffs

By: paperlions

paperlions — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:19:49 +0000

Actually, if you wanted to put those stats in a season long context for TEAMS.

The Cardinals would lead all of MLB in OBP and would be 3rd overall in SLG….as they have put up BETTER numbers in the post season than they did as a team during the regular season, when they were the best offense in the NL.

You can’t compare team stats to those generated by individual players and expect to get a meaningful comparison.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:06:02 +0000

The 5th best team in each league is playing, and at this point has to be favored. Strange year indeed. One would have to expect some mediocre baseball given that fact alone.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:04:25 +0000

Don’t forget about all of the crappy fielding, so it really could be the 2012 Rays out there.

By: amaninwhite

amaninwhite — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Tell me that you honestly believe that you’ve been watching nothing but high quality baseball so far this October.

By: albertmn

albertmn — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:12:31 +0000

You can’t really look at a team average and then equate that to one player. You will always have a few weak hitters in a lineup, especially with pitchers in the NL. So, that will always drag down the average. But, with that said, how could you call the Cardinals average a fringe regular as a corner OF? A .342 OBP would have tied you for 32nd among all qualifiers. Spread it to 600 ABs, and you would have 23 HRs and 103 RBIs. But, since this is a team average, that would be equivalent of getting a .342 OBP, 23 HRs, and 103 RBIs from EVERY spot in the lineup, including the pitcher’s spot. I think every team in MLB would take that, even with the .249 BA. The highest OBP for a team in the NL for the regular season was the Cardinals at .338, so their OBP is better in this series.

The other three teams are indeed struggling. But, you can’t pull team averages, and then try to use that as an example and compare those to what would be one player and try to say it would be a poor player. I would take nine spots in the lineup with .342 OBP, 23 HR, 103 RBIs.

By: polegojim

polegojim — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:49:53 +0000

AL bats will break out… I hope the NL pitching stays exactly where it is!

Go TIGERS

“…which is a worse ERA than every NL team besides the Rockies posted this year.”
Now that’s funny. Way to go Mr. O’Dowd, the Rockies made the news again.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:39:24 +0000

Yes savior. Said the “man in the white Texas Rangers jersey.”

By: stoutfiles

stoutfiles — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:34:49 +0000

The pitching would have been much better had Strasburg pitched. Who knows, with the way these teams are hitting the Nats could have won the World Series had they pitched him, but now we’ll never know, a dark cloud hanging over the organization raining “what-ifs” everyday for years and years.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:32:51 +0000

Good pitching…poor hitting…Hey! My Rays made the AL playoffs after all!

By: savior72

savior72 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:03:53 +0000

^^^Texas Rangers fan alert^^^!

By: amaninwhite

amaninwhite — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:11:07 +0000

Mediocre play in the playoffs has reigned supreme for a few years now, with the most glaring and recent example being Game 6 of last year’s World Series. It makes for unpredictable games, but you’ll find few highlights to use in How-To videos.

By: darthicarus

darthicarus — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:10:36 +0000

Aren’t the lower offensive numbers to be expected though? All the “experts” say that the pitching is better during the postseason as teams are only facing the best pitchers every game (though the NL appears to have given their bullpens the duty of being the “aces” so far).

The ALCS appears to have more clutch hitting in place instead of steady offensive outbursts which would go back to the “pitching is tougher in the postseason” theory. Take out the 4th inning of the NLCS and you have a 2-0 game with some insane bullpen pitching by both teams.

By: sumerduckman

sumerduckman — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:55:13 +0000

The correct headline should read, ” What in the wide, wide, world of sports is going on here!”, said with your best Slim Pickens accent.

The simple answer would be that these guys are just stinking tired/fatigued. Most of these managers have been whipping the same horses for a while, and they are just worn out.

The exceptions are the guys that have taken over slots for ones that have gone on the dl, like Kozma for Furcal, and the guys that have just recently come off the dl and know how to dial it up like Chris Carpenter.

By: zzalapski

zzalapski — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:05:26 +0000

Every AL pitcher this month is chilling with Kate Upton? As if there weren’t enough perks to being in the big leagues…