Autumn Dreamin

2018 (Palka, Davidson, Abreu, TA)

Yep. With all the middle guys down after yesterday, Kay needed to hold that big lead into the 6th.

Hell yeah Tristan

Only the 3rd HR allowed by Hicks this season

Haven't seen anyone get to Hicks like this in a long time, wow

Improved process overall today though

Even early on, we played the A's when they were still above .500 lol

Kay and Martin both just stuck on 9 wins

101 this season

8 runs through 4 with no HRs is a somewhat different look for this offense

It's greedy to ask for more crooked numbers off deGrom, but they do at least need to keep him on pace to exit the game early. No way he should be seeing the 6th after a 40+ pitch first.

.266/.326/.532 in August so far

"Only" 176 HRs in his first 3400 PAs

Yep

Cannon's been solid for a while outside of getting bitten by the typical International League homer bug. 50K to 13 BB since July started, back to getting whiffs on the fastball. He should be able to give them innings.

Having only two challenges makes teams so cautious with the last one. In a 3 challenge world, Chase almost certainly pulls the trigger for the RBI walk.

He said they suggested a tweak to his hands/stance, which is something that can bear relatively quick fruit like with Vargas last season and Gonzo in the minors this year. But overall he hasn't really gotten much playing time to evaluate him on. I suspect Getz and co. were concerned about Peters' slump lingering on which would have potentially opened up more CF ABs for a guy with a high defensive floor there, but Peters has picked it back up since. Doyle did have that 110mph lineout vs. Manaea and his BABIP is low enough (.231) to suggest some bad luck, so time will tell.

Tigers have arrived at the "allowing Salvy to steal bases" portion of their season

Such a common misconception that someone once made a stat just to refute it: HRs account for a higher percentage of scoring in the postseason than they do in the regular season, so "live and die by the HR" offenses retain more production than "get 'em over, get 'em in" lineups. Hitting more HRs than your opponent is one of the stronger win predictors in general, and even more so in October.

Wow, I guess I missed him landing on the IL again. Really unfortunate, kid just can't catch a break this season.

There's a certain irony to using "don't trust Coors production" against Doyle...and then citing Adell's stats immediately after they've been inflated by playing there. Adell went 6-14 at Coors and is otherwise 10-48 (.208 average) as a Guardian. Go back a tick further and he was hitting .167 before getting to play another one of the worst teams in baseball where he got 3 hits against a 7 ERA LHP in SF. That one game + a Coors series accounts for 9 of his 16 hits (and 2 of his 4 HR) for Cleveland. He's 7-42 since the deadline when not playing the NL's bottom 2 clubs. He doesn't play CF. He would be worse than Braden on defense (and prior to his Coors trip, offense too). He's a worse platoon corner bat than Grichuk. I would have been content to keep Adams and Pereira personally, but of all the reasons to dislike the Doyle trade, not getting Adell instead is not one that makes sense to me.