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FanGraphs Yankees-Guardians ALDS Game 1 Chat

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Chad Young

8:05

Scott Servais on having Ray face Yordan:

"We talked about it coming into the series. We talked about it pregame today. I looked at it in the 7th inning and said, hey, this could happen. So that was the plan going in. End of the day, you have a plan, we still got to execute it."

8:06

There's the answer and I have to say, I get executing a plan, but that plan was bad.

Dan Szymborski

8:06

I think it's a far worse choice when you've planned it ahead of time.

David Laurila

8:06

Ken Boyer's given name was Kenton Lloyd Boyer.

Ben Clemens

8:06

KLloyd

Dan Szymborski

8:07

If Servais got caught up in the moment and his gut told him Ray was the right move, then, like OK

Chad Young

8:07

If your plan with the game on the line against maybe the best hitter in the game is to bring in your homer prone SP in as a reliever for the first time in forever with two men on base...that's not great

ProfessorRossEforp

8:07

I always thought most lineup optimizers had your best hitter batting 4th.

Ben Clemens

8:08

I haven't run one of my own to check this recently, but the book had it basically 2>1=4>5>3

8:08

Is Yordan Alvarez the second best hitter in baseball?

Chad Young

8:08

Was he this year? Yes. Will he continue to be? I could argue he should be seen as the best hitter in baseball

Jeff

8:08

Hijacking the Servais decision: Who has a better career, Will Brennan, Will Benson, or Nolan Jones?

David Laurila

8:08

Jones, quite possibly by a wide margin.

Dan Szymborski

8:09

"Not much of a hitter" is a very gentle way of describing Hedges' offense.

Chad Young

8:09

Hedges offense is occasionally running into one and Cole's weakness is throwing balls that can be run into, so I guess that could happen?

YankeesOMGZZZZ1999FAN

8:09

I think His Honor, Judge, holds best hitter title until proven otherwise right now, no?

Ben Clemens

8:10

Yeah, no question Judge is the best hitter right now. Who would you take for next year? .... probably still Judge

TooDamnTall

8:10

I have to go teach an English class to students in China. Do you think putting the chat up on the projector is a good use of class time?

Dan Szymborski

8:10

Not if you've seen my spelling in chats.

Chad Young

8:10

Judge was inarguably the best hitter in baseball this year.

8:11

Why did Cleveland make Rosario the SS and Gimenez the 2B?

Chad Young

8:11

Rosario appears to be most comfortable at SS, and Gimenez wasn't even clearly an everyday player when the season started. As they settled in and performed, Tito tends to stick with what is working.

ProfessorRossEforp

8:11

Judge apparently best leadoff hitter ever lol

David Laurila

8:11

Let's not forget that Yordan Alvarez went 12 for 23 with five XBHs and six RBIs in last year's ALCS. He destroyed Red Sox pitching.

Ben Clemens

8:12

Yordan's career line is .296/.384/.590

8:13

And he's been playing hurt for 1/3 of that

Also he stopped striking out this year

8:15

It's pretty amazing; Judge has a career 163 wRC+, Alvarez 164

David Laurila

8:15

Probably not poll-worthy, but Oscar Gonzalez or Yordan Alvarez for biggest HR so far this postseason is an interesting question.

Ben Clemens

8:15

They're both tremendous

notslow

8:15

the guardians logo is so bland, big mistake passing on being the spiders, imagine the jerseys 👀

Chad Young

8:16

Sports team logos tend to be pretty bland but the Guardians name/look has grown on me. That said...agree, passing on Spiders was a miss.

Dan Szymborski

8:16

Is it just me or is Ron Darling sounding more and more like James Woods every year?

David Laurila

8:16

The Cleveland Spiders went 20-134 in their final season.

Tstats

8:16

Oscar because of the wild card G3 randomness factor and the clinching it led to IMO, and the game legit had 0 offense which helps

Ben Clemens

8:16

Biggest HR so far this postseason?

Oscar (41.7% | 25 votes)

Yordan (58.3% | 35 votes)

Total Votes: 60

Poll-worthy, imo

Chad Young

8:17

I voted Yordan - down 2 bottom 9 with two outs?

Ben Clemens

8:17

A fact I really enjoyed from my recap today: Julio Rodriguez accounted for 5 Mariners runs today. Alvarez accounted for 6 Astros runs.

Dan Szymborski

8:17

Yeah, Yordan was in a stickier situation for his team

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