2016 MLB Postseason Thread

I'm not familiar with All The Way Sports Illustrated. Is it a new vertical collaboration between them and Maxim?

 

Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Sinatra!

 

Shit ... I had to think a second! I remember some fuckheads from 'round here droning on and on about it, though ...

 

This is a stat I had not heard until today:

The team that hit the most home runs in a game went 27-1 this postseason. The only loss was by the Cubs in Game 3 vs the Giants.

 

Chicks dig the long ball

 

The smartest play in baseball is the three-run homer, to paraphrase Earl Weaver. Ben Lindburgh of the Ringer, 538, Grantland, he looked into it a few years ago and found that power teams do better in the postseason. It's still a crapshoot, but power helps.

 

The winning run was scored by the 2012 first round pick, after advancing on a deep fly from the 2013 first round pick, after he was pinch-running for the 2014 first round pick who led off with a hit.

 

So you're saying some prospects work out?

 

Apparently for the Cubs now, all of them do. The top prospects of a couple of years ago are basically 11-for-12 in being useful major leaguers. Sorry Arismendy Alcántara

 

That's why the 2009 Series was so weird. Phillies hit 11 homers in six games, lost in six. You gotta work hard at lousy pitching to do that.

 

Apparently, Everyone Was Watching Porn After The World Series

 

Well, I can tell you I was way too wired to go right to bed after watching my team in the World Series the two previous seasons.