This is a preview of the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter about all things baseball, featuring analysis and opinion about the game on and off the field from the perspective of the informed outsider.
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Newsletter Excerpt, September 22, 2023 -- "Big Weekend in Texas"
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Newsletter Excerpt, September 21, 2023 -- "Thinking Inside the Box"
This is a preview of the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter about all things baseball, featuring analysis and opinion about the game on and off the field from the perspective of the informed outsider.
You can subscribe to the newsletter for one year for $79.95 using your PayPal account or major credit card."With the three teams separated by a half-game, I am going to break format here -- no boxscore line -- to lay out an emerging, if unlikely, nightmare scenario developing. It is possible that we’re headed for a three-team tie in the AL West. The Mariners play their last ten games against the Rangers and Astros, so unless they play very well or very poorly, we’re not likely to get a lot of separation in this group between now and next Sunday. We could wake up on October 2 to the following:
"Team A 91-71 #2 overall seed in the AL, bye to the Division Series
Team B 91-71 last wild card team, off to Minnesota for the Wild Card Series
Team C 91-71 year’s supply of Rice-A-Roni
"Now, I’m opposed to using tiebreakers to determine playoff berths, so I come in with my own biases here. I think what happened between the Braves and the Mets last year should have caused MLB to rethink this process, but it didn’t. If, a year later, one team goes 91-71 and gets the #2 seed, and one team goes 91-71 and gets a boot in the ass, we’re going to be able to heat the Dakotas all winter with fire from the takes.
"Baseball teams play 162 games over 187 days to determine who’s the best. If that’s not enough, one more game -- two if necessary, even -- should be played to make that determination. The AL West may be about to make that point better than I ever could."
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Newsletter Excerpt, September 19, 2023 -- "A Miracle?"
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Monday, September 18, 2023
Joe Sheehan Newsletter, September 18, 2023 -- "The Orioles' Future is Now"
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Friday, September 15, 2023
Newsletter Excerpt, September 15, 2023 -- "Duel in the Desert"
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Newsletter Excerpt, September 14, 2023 -- "Thinking Inside the Box"
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Montgo’y (W, 9-11) 7.0 4 0 0 1 3
We started the week wondering if the Rangers could do enough to stay in the race. They, uh, did. Last night’s obliteration of the Blue Jays locked up a series win, pushed them into the #2 wild-card slot and kept them within a game of the Astros in the AL West. The Rangers, who lost Max Scherzer for the season Tuesday night, bounced back behind their other big deadline pickup.
For the second straight season, Jordan Montgomery has changed teams at the deadline and shown out. He has a 3.59 ERA and 3.55 FIP for the Rangers in eight starts, averaging six innings a start and walking just nine of 191 batters faced. Depending on how you feel about Nathan Eovaldi’s reliability, Montgomery might be the Rangers’ #1 starter in the postseason, ahead of Eovaldi and Jon Gray.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Newsletter Excerpt, September 12, 2023 -- "Talking Trout"
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Monday, September 11, 2023
Joe Sheehan Newsletter, September 11, 2023 -- "Showdown In The Six"
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Friday, September 8, 2023
Newsletter Excerpt, September 8, 2023 -- "Rookie Revival"
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Newsletter Excerpt, September 6, 2023 -- "Thinking Inside the Box"
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Newsletter Excerpt, September 4, 2023 -- "Reset"
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