Newsletter Excerpt, October 31, 2021 -- "Game Four"

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"The Braves, however, are taking away hits at an incredible rate -- their implied DER of .734 would have led MLB this year and been one of the best marks ever. The Braves are also striking out the Astros at a very high rate relative to the Astros’ established level. Fewer balls in play and fewer hits on those balls in play -- with some help from cool nights in Atlanta -- have made it hard for the Astros’ offense to function."

Newsletter Excerpt, October 30, 2021 -- "Game Three"

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"There’s been a lot of focus on the trade pickups Alex Anthopoulos made in July, but the real difference between the playoff Braves and the regular season Braves is that three of the team’s top four relievers, none of them stars, none of them dominant in 2021, have stopped allowing runs."

Newsletter Excerpt, October 28, 2021 -- "Tick Tock"

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"We’re pining for an era of baseball that never existed. From almost the moment baseball went to nighttime World Series games, those games have ended after 11. There are exceptions -- the 1983 Series seems to have been played with chess clocks, as was that ’77 one Reggie ended -- but for 40 years, World Series games have ended after 11 p.m, and sometimes after midnight."

Newsletter Excerpt, October 27, 2021 -- "Game One"

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"Valdez was decidedly not pitching well, and Yimi Garcia had been warmed up. There was just no reason to let Valdez pitch to Duvall and the run of hitters who would follow. That two-run mistake by Baker shaped the rest of the game."

Newsletter Excerpt, October 26, 2021 -- "World Series Preview"

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"This is the primary battleground of this series: The Astros’ ground-ball staff against the Braves’ fly-ball hitters."

 

 

 

Newsletter Excerpt, October 24, 2021 -- "Thinking Inside the Box"

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"Football championships are won by quarterbacks who have the ball in their hands on every play. Basketball championships are won by the best basketball players in the world, touching the ball on almost every possession, taking over the game as the clock winds down, controlling it, owning it.

"Baseball championships are won by whoever’s turn it is to bat, whoever is asked to pitch. No one knows what’s coming, and that’s why we watch."