2019 MLB postseason thread

Altuve; great to see him do the walk off. Chapman gets beat with his second pitch. Love it.

 

The entire Eastern League and Texas League would each like a word....

 

North of St Louis AND west of Akron.

 

There are a couple of Class A leagues that currently fill in that geographic gap in the Midwest, if you're just trying to fill space.
The way the Double-A leagues are currently constituted, the teams are clustered pretty well together and travel isn't too difficult. There are travel partners for most of the outliers as well. So what's wrong with it, other than that it's not where you'd prefer it to be?

 

Ideally, it seems to me teams would want to locate their farm teams in fairly close geographic proximity to the parent team, so the players get acclimated to playing in weather conditions similar to the parent franchise. (Rookie leagues would probably still be best in year-round baseball areas.)
Also, it would probably be a positive factor in fans around the state building identification with players in the farm systems as they move up through the chain.
Suppose for instance the Tigers had their AAA team in Toledo, but then had an AA team in Grand Rapids and their Class A team in Lansing?
The Indians could have Columbus in AAA, Akron in AA and Bowling Green in A. White Sox, Indianapolis, South Bend and Ft. Wayne, etc etc.

Class AA, really, is the most important developmental level-- that's where the really MLB-ready guys frequently make the jump to the bigs. But really due to a convergence of historical factors and probably inertia, the AA leagues have evolved over time into three tight regions of the country, geographically remote from 2/3 of the franchises in MLB.

 

And, iirc he was the loser for the cubs until the rain delay ruined that.

 

It should be noted three of the World Series starters were in the rotation for the 2014 Tigers, who were swept by the Orioles in the ALDS

 

Gross. I saw someone similar on a sailboat in Annapolis yesterday.

Plastic, immobile Botox face.

Two obvious bolt ons, on full display.

The really funny part was she came onboard as the crew was showing how to put on a life preserver.

 

Yes, we won’t see the Yankees nor Red Sox next week.

Whew!

 

Nationals +195 'dogs in Vegas (Houston -235). I know the Astros are great, but a 2-1 return on a bet on a team with Scherzer and Strasburg seems like a very tempting value.

 

You also could look at that as betting against a team with Cole and Verlander.

 

Oh, sure. But 2-1 is very big odds in a World Series, almost to the point of denying the game's very randomness. It's a value bet. Those are never on the favorite.