Newsletter Excerpt, October 11, 2022: "Playoffs 2022: ATL/PHI Preview"

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"Like the other teams that have created some separation in MLB, the Astros and Dodgers, the Braves have absurd pitching depth. We’ll see how they fill the last spots on their playoff roster, but they have 11 pitchers who threw at least 25 innings for them with no more than a 3.78 FIP."

 

Newsletter Excerpt, October 10, 2022 -- "Playoffs 2022: Rest or Rust?"

 

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"We have seen what happens when a team with three or four days’ rest plays a team with one day of rest: They win more than 70% of the time. If you have a bank-shot theory as to what happens after that, I am all ears, but I have a very hard time attributing it to rest."

Newsletter Excerpt, October 9, 2022 -- "Wild Card Catch-up"

 

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"After the last two days, in a season when it most definitely does matter, I can say with confidence that this playoff format is designed to break baseball fans’ brains."

Newsletter Excerpt, October 7, 2022 -- "Playoffs 2022: Notes"

 

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"In 2014, the Royals were last in the AL with 95 home runs. Then they hit four in three games against the Angels in the Division Series, all at critical times. They hit four more in a sweep of the ALCS. The team defined by its lack of power turned into the 1961 Yankees for a week and won a pennant."

 

 

Newsletter Excerpt, October 6, 2022 -- "Playoffs 2022: Key Weaknesses"

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"Guardians: Since the league expanded to 30 teams in 1998, just five teams have made the playoffs while hitting fewer than the 127 homers the Guardians hit this year. Now, three of those won pennants and two won the World Series, mostly clustered in the mid-2010s low-power period. Since the Royals won the World Series in 2015, though, no team with fewer than 180 homers has won a playoff series. If the Guardians go down, it will be because their long-sequence style doesn’t work in the playoffs."

 

Joe Sheehan Newsletter, October 6, 2022 -- "Awards"

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American League MVP

1. Aaron Judge
2. Shohei Ohtani
3. Jose Altuve
4. Andres Gimenez
5. Julio Rodriguez
6. Adley Rutschman
7. Mike Trout
8. Yordan Alvarez
9. Justin Verlander
10. Jose Ramirez

 

National League MVP

1. Paul Goldschmidt
2. Sandy Alcantara
3. Nolan Arenado
4. Manny Machado
5. Michael Harris II
6. J.T. Realmuto
7. Mookie Betts
8. Aaron Nola
9. Austin Riley
10. Dansby Swanson

 

AL Cy Young Award

1. Justin Verlander
2. Dylan Cease
3. Shohei Ohtani
4. Alek Manoah
5. Kevin Gausman

 

NL Cy Young Award

1. Sandy Alcantara
2. Aaron Nola
3. Max Fried
4. Carlos Rodon
5. Spencer Strider

 

AL Rookie of the Year

1. Julio Rodriguez
2. Adley Rutschman
3. Steven Kwan

 

NL Rookie of the Year

1. Michael Harris II
2. Spencer Strider
3. Brendan Donovan