2023 MLB League Championship Series thread

Make that a 6 run lead and 14 RBI’s for Adolis in this ALCS. He’s pushing across runs like he’s angry.

If Garcia was any good, he’d steal home here.

Garcia still 2 single post-season RBI’s shy of Freese’s 21 in ’11. He may still have at least 4 more games to catch David.

It cannot be disputed that Dusty Baker COMPLETELY mis-managed the top of the 4th.

If Houston is smart this will be his last game as their manager.

r/Esteemed Rat

Who is the ALCS MVP? Gotta be Adolis Garcia. The dude is a freak!!

Whatever he is, he’s successful. The one series that will always stand out to me was the ’12 WS four game sweep of the Giants over the Tigers. I was pulling for Detroit after what the Giants had done to the Cardinals after they held a 3-1 game lead in that season’s NLCS and were one win away from another pennant. Three of those 4 WS games were very close and were up for grabs by either team. It was the first time that I really took any notice of Bruce Bochy as a manager. He’s a good one.

In the game of baseball it’s no good to have a name of a European country, Bikemike. A last name such as Cuba, Dominican, Rico, Mexico, or even Tokyo would be okay, but names like France, Sweden or Poland are no good in baseball. And we both know if Dusty would have handed the baseball to a guy named Manny that the Astros would have had a chance…

Bochy is evidently better than some other managers at taking the front office spreadsheet edicts and putting them into action

Some front offices are better than others at accepting diverse philosophies.

I’m not sad the Astros lost. They have stayed really good for a long time. They didn’t just hit the lottery and put a couple of great seasons together.

Do we think it’s Luhnow?

He was with the Cardinals 2003-11 and the Astros from 2011-2020.

The Cardinals spun down by 2015 about 4 years after he left.

If the Astros start to decline next year – 2024, the parallel will be pretty hard to deny…

He’s an owner / executive of a Mexican League team right now.

If the Astros start to decline next year – 2024, the parallel will be pretty hard to deny…

The Stros hired Baker and the Cardinals hired Matheny, so I don’t think they are following the same post-Luhnow path. But we’ll see where they go from here. They might still just hand the keys to the wonks and wait for the magic.

Yeah, and unlike almost everyone else, they got caught.

Bochy is evidently better than some other managers at taking the front office spreadsheet edicts and putting them into action.

Actually the Rangers canned their longtime analytic guru of a PBO and replaced him with a guy who actually played baseball. Then Bochy was hired so he may not have to pour over the spreadsheets before each at bat.