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Their bullpen is 5-6 deep with guys Francona can trust. Instead he went with the guy who hadn't pitched for 2 weeks with a 5 ERA on the season. It was a bad decision.

It's crazy how many good relievers the Guardians have. They have 5 relievers who were worth at least 1 fWAR this year. The Sox had just 2.

That is on the replay crew as well, but as a manager you gotta be more alert there.

Is Francona trying to throw the game? First he starts Civale and now he won't challenge a clear safe call at first.

Cortez lost his rhythm with the injury. Ramirez had to come up with a hit there.

Well when you can just bloop hits and have them fall like that, who needs homers?

That's the third time the Yankees have fucked up on a ball hit like that.

The Guardians have been blooping hits all series. It somehow doesn't feel cheap at all. I'll just call it even.

I think Judge's is a homer in a lot of stadiums. But Stanton's is more likely to be a double. It had a .820 xBA.

Guardians just got porch'd twice in 2 innings hahaha

The rain tried to take them out of Civale starting but they still went with it.

You never want to lose a series with your best starter sitting in the dugout.

Starting Civale already backfired.

I feel like if that guy did have real sources and decided to start a podcast talking about behind the scenes rumors...he's gonna lose those sources real fast.

I think Peralta is the only guy who might not have been available tonight. But even then he only threw like 8 pitches last night.

No game today probably benefits Cleveland as they can go with Bieber tomorrow. Yankees might be able to go worth Cortez, but I think the difference between Cortez and Bieber is bigger than the difference between Civale and Taillon.

Yeah I don't understand why teams are all interviewing this guy. The Royals have sucked for years. Being Matheny's bench coach doesn't really expose you to smart baseball decisions. Espada has at least been with Houston for a long time and is exposed to winning baseball.

Yup. There's celebrating and then there's plain old disrespect. Naylor was trying to disrespect Cole to get into his head.

Not to mention the farther Cleveland gets, the more likely their ownership might actually spend money this off-season to make the team better.

I've never seen a guy celebrate like he hit a walk off homer when his team was still down 1 in the middle of the game.

So the Yankees lost Michael King, Chad Green, Aroldis Chapman, Zach Britton, and Ron Marinaccio in their bullpen and they're still somehow pretty good in relief. Cashman did a great job of finding guys like Peralta and Holmes and turning them into really good relievers.

Boone is using Wandy Peralta like Renteria used Jimmy Cordero

Which genius decided there should be an off day between games 1 and 2 in the ALDS?

I think Naylor had a real good game against Cole back in the playoffs in 2020.

I almost wonder if the shift being gone next year might hurt Cleveland. So many of their cheap hits are because of the shift.