2019 MLB postseason thread

Wake me when a team at the bottom actually wins the thing.

Also, wake me when a team near the bottom can contend consistently rather than having to tear things down as soon as they get them built.

 

Nobody said it was a guarantee, but it is a significant advantage. Teams shouldn't have to lose money to contend, but some should absolutely be forced to spend more than they do. No way in hell teams should be allowed to pocket the revenue sharing money.

 

The Pirates are the best example. It is always about the next season or the next rebuild even though they have had a ballpark that is in the discussion for the best in the game since 2001. They have been lying to their fans for decades about doing everything they can to compete. The real directive is to make sure the team makes a significant profit each year while spending what they think will be just enough to keep the fans from abandoning the team entirely. Then, when enough fans wise up and stop paying for tickets, they blame the fans for not having money to spend on the team.

 

Nothing will wake you up. That’s proven every day here.

 

That used to be orioles philosophy. Then they decided that owning a regional sports network was more profitable and winning didn’t matter. If you had cable in the MD/DC/VA area you had to have the RSN. Collect a few dollars every month from millions of cable subscribers and pay out minuscule rights fees to the team, which you own. Then make stupid baseball decisions and be politically against signing international free agents.

 

CD, I get that you are still hurting over the verbal beating you earned and received on the Lauer thread, but do us all a favor and stop dragging your pain into other threads. Thank you.

 

Haha. You really are touched. The Royals and the Mets faced off in the 2015 World Series with the 18th and 21st highest payrolls. Again, half of the 10 playoff teams this year were below league average — including the Rays, who were dead last. Instead of conceding I’m right, you go to “well, a truly bottom team hasn’t won — which isn’t true and thus why nothing will wake you up. Not even football win probabilities, which you don’t like bc they run counter to your gut, which is moronic.

Marlins had 25th highest payroll when they beat the Yankees in 2003. Rays had 29th when they lost to Phillies in 2008. Rockies had 25th when they lost to Red Sox in 2007.

Do those facts wake you up? Of course they won’t. You have far too much pride for someone who is consistently wrong.

As @poindexter said, that’s why you’re a bad poster, the worst here.

 

You’d also have to concede that only a team like the Yankees could afford to pay Jacoby Ellsbury 21.2 million for 2 consecutive years and not want him to play. And not have that wasted payroll interfere with the team’s ability to put their best product on the field.

 

Of course. They can afford to be dumber. Which is why teams like Oakland and Tampa are exceptional because they are smart. If the Yankees were smarter — say, by not altering their lineup during every game of the ALCS — they might have won a World Series this decade.

 

If Yankees could have had a healthy Sanchez, Stanton, Encarnacion and Judge from Sept 1 through the playoffs they might have won one this year.

 

They might have. Playing your best baseball in October trumps all. Hell half Astros lineup slumped in the ALCS, with a team OPS that was 200 points lower than their league leading number in the regular season. Altuve saved their ass — with a little help from Chapman’s moronic decision to try to get him out with his second best pitch.

Red Sox had everything go their way in 2018, with career years and an absence of major injuries. They also were bold in having Chris Sale close out the dodgers in the 9th inning of game 5 — and he struck out the side. That could have backfired and made him unavailable later. Fortune favors the bold. Aaron Boone having a different lineup each game was not bold; it was over-meddling.

 

No one with the a bottom five payroll has won a World Series. Yes, you can cherry pick a few examples of teams in the bottom 10 getting there, but that's still a very small number when compared to the teams near the top winning it.

Seriously, this is three threads you have chosen to shit upon just because you can't handle how bad you looked on the Lauer thread.