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McCann channeling his inner EE so far.

MVPITO!

TA backing up that talk so far.

Lucas finally mixing that changeup in.

I love Adam Engel

Got hit hard twice, but no damage.

Mendoza just jinxed McCann that AB.

I think it has more to do with them having to play Grandal and McCann today than his ability to DH. I think he'll be in there tomorrow at DH.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/heres-who-is-going-to-win-the-2020-world-series-maybe/ Most of the guys over at FanGraphs have us winning this series. There's also 1 that has us winning the World Series.

Collins is on the roster.

The A's already released their starting lineup. We don't even have a roster released.

I mean he's a righty, so why should he care?

I'm curious to see the roster moves. I'd have to imagine Lopez won't be on the roster and we can squeeze a 3rd catcher in so McCann and Grandal can be in the same lineup.

I mean, there just aren't a lot of good left handed starters right now in the AL and NL Central. However, our combined OPS against all lefties is far higher than it is against righties. Here's the lefty starters we've faced (WAR values are fWAR) Danny Duffy - 0.5 WAR Kris Bubic - 0.5 WAR Brett Anderson - 0.6 WAR Tyler Alexander - -0.1 WAR Matthew Boyd - 0 WAR Tarik Skubal - - 0.1 WAR Jon Lester - 0.3 WAR Steven Brault - 0.8 WAR Rich Hill - 0.7 WAR I count a total of 3.2 WAR. Also Tim Anderson alone put Matthew Boyd into negative WAR territory. Yes, none of those guys were elite, but there just weren't a lot of elite left handed starters this year. If you go look at the Pitcher WAR leaderboards, the first lefty that pops up is freaking Marco Gonzales. Are the A's lefties better than most of the guys we faced? Probably. But does that mean our numbers against lefties are just propped up by bad pitchers? Doesn't appear so.

It might actually benefit Eloy to sit tomorrow since Grandal will probably DH. If he can't run well enough on that bad foot, he really shouldn't be playing the OF. Especially in Oakland.

This almost sounds like EE is not going to start. But what do I know?

It's interesting they're going Luzardo over Manaea, considering Luzardo is a rookie. Manaea didn't exactly fair well in the one playoff start he got last year.

Luzardo game 1. Bassitt game 2.

Isn't Jimmy going to be suspended? How is his appeal still going on?

The game where Crede got ejected cause the umpire said he let the pitch hit him on purpose? It's always something out of our control in that damn stadium. I remember we almost swept them in Oakland to start the year in 2016, but the A's were terrible back then.

He's clearly fathom

They probably go with Manaea in game 1.

TV schedule is out. Sox play at 2 PM in games 1 and 2.

It sucks cause I thought he turned a corner after his starts against Cleveland and Minnesota. But after he gave up the Bote homer today, he went back to his usual shit.

Why would we need to when we have Crochet and Bummer already? In what situation would you throw Rodon ahead of those 2 guys in a high leverage situation? Especially in the playoffs, where you throw your best guys regardless of how little rest they have.