OmarComing25

Lol, you are easily the most reactionary poster on this site and that's saying something.

Those are definite concerns but they apply equally to if not more to all of the other AL contenders. No one on Tampa, Toronto, Boston, Cleveland, New York (sans Cole), Oakland, or Houston (sans Greinke and maybe McCullers) has that dependable history where you can be very confident about them in the playoffs. And I'd argue we're still in better shape in regards to this than most or maybe all of the contenders in the AL.

The Fangraphs odds have the Dodgers at the highest chance at 16%. The Mets are 2nd at 12% and the White Sox are third at 11%. The Astros and the Padres are the only other teams in double digits at 10.5% and 10%. That seems about right to me.

Well sure, but again that's the same thing for every team. There's never going to be a team in baseball that isn't going to have the field heavily favored over them to win the title.

There isn't a single contender you couldn't say the same exact things about, especially in the AL.

Yep. You can’t blow saves if you’re never given a lead.

With that hit Grandal's BABIP is no longer lower than his wRC+

With the way he talks about the Sox you'd think they have the Tigers record.

Clearly out

Came in with a .417 BABIP against so Codi was due for some batted ball luck.

I'd almost have Hendriks pitch the 8th to get through the heart of their order.

Stats like WAR and wRC+ (especially the latter) are measuring actual performance though, they're not meant to be predictive stats.

Moncada wasn't at the bag

Rodon

Madrigal now on pace for ~4 fWAR.

Current MLB ranks: Position Player fWAR: 2nd wRC+: 2nd SP fWAR: 2nd RP fWAR: 2nd Overall pitching fWAR: 2nd Overall team fWAR: 1st Defense (UZR): 8th Run differential: 1st Playoff odds: 3rd

Abreu's numbers in high-leverage situations the last three seasons: 2019: .291/.348/.527/.876 (119 wRC+) 2020: .300/.400/.450/.850 (126 wRC+) 2021: .231/.450/.462/.912 (162 wRC+) He's actually improving every year. I know this is your schtick so whatever but at least make sure the numbers even somewhat agree with you before committing to the bit.

Wonder how the ump scorecard will look after this game

That third pitch was the exact same speed and location as the pitch before right down the middle, how did Collins not kill that?

Rodon throws much more slowly in the first inning so the Indians took advantage of that by being aggressive early, nice to see he's already ramped things up.

Means is a lefty right?

4 straight scoreless outings for Marshall

You needing to go out of your way to attack Mercedes at every opportunity whenever TLR gets criticized even when it's completely irrelevant is beyond pathetic.

He also could have just chased Baez to home plate and tagged him there and the inning is over, so many different ways he screwed up on that play it's impressive.

I think he's safe