Red Sox/MLB 2024 Playoffs: Dodgers vs Yankees in the World Series - it has been 43 years since they last met.

[Dennis Bonvie]

Science?

It is f***ing Baseball

Much like its a business, not a game anymore.

 

[Mione134]

Fixed it for you (running away in my pinstripe pjs)

NEVVAAAAAA

lol

But I like you so I'll root for your happiness

 

[McGarnagle]

The starting RFs in the world series are going to be Mookie Betts and Alex Verdugo and we're sitting here after another DNQ with Dick Fitts and Wong in our hands to show for it.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Much like its a business, not a game anymore.

Spread sheets and stat nerds taking the human element right out of it.

 

[CDJ]

The starting RFs in the world series are going to be Mookie Betts and Alex Verdugo and we're sitting here after another DNQ with Dick Fitts and Wong in our hands to show for it.

Verdugo kinda sucks tho. For perspective Fitts was within 0.1 bWAR and fWAR of Verdugo for the season in 4 starts

 

[22Brad Park]

The starting RFs in the world series are going to be Mookie Betts and Alex Verdugo and we're sitting here after another DNQ with Dick Fitts and Wong in our hands to show for it.

Yankees playing Verdugo in left and Soto in right I thought.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

The starting RFs in the world series are going to be Mookie Betts and Alex Verdugo and we're sitting here after another DNQ with Dick Fitts and Wong in our hands to show for it.

Hey.. The Red Sox hired a science guy though

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Yankees playing Verdugo in left and Soto in right I thought.

Correct.

Just like all season.

 

[GatorMike]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848123825306861979

 

[Mione134]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848123825306861979

Another science nerd we don't need

 

[Mione134]

Watching Mookie Betts thrive is just depressing man.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Spread sheets and stat nerds taking the human element right out of it.

The problem is the stat nerds ideas work over a large sample size so they look smart with a 162 game season. But it falls apart in the playoffs because you dont have enough games for their "law of averages" to show up, no matter what you need game changers in the playoffs, guys who can and do go out there and hit the HR or pitch the shut out.

It's why the As never won a playoff series under Beane, but Theo's version of moneyball works. He uses the principles for the middle of the roster guys, but understood you still need sluggers/aces

 

[yazmybaby]

Watching Mookie Betts thrive is just depressing man.

Babe Ruth, Mookie Betts, Joe Thornton, Tyler Sequin, Sparky Lyle, the list goes on and on for us.

 

[GatorMike]

It's why the As never won a playoff series under Beane, but Theo's version of moneyball works. He uses the principles for the middle of the roster guys, but understood you still need sluggers/aces

I don't think Billy Beane's problem was that he didn't understand that teams need really good players to win in the post-season.

His issue was that he couldn't afford those players.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

I don't like the Dodgers or Yankees, two teams that spend their way to the top, no plucky underdog team to cheer on.

 

[EverettMike]

I think the early 2000s As issue was bad luck!

 

[BMC]

I wish both teams could lose.

 

[yazmybaby]

I don't like the Dodgers or Yankees, two teams that spend their way to the top, no plucky underdog team to cheer on.

I hate both teams as well, but will cheer for the Yanks, just because they are in the AL.
Will be interesting to see who the WS heroes are?
Soto / Ohtani?
I have a funny feeling the guys batting 7-9 will play a big part on both teams.