If Correa can get healthy enough for the playoffs, it's going to be really hard to beat the Astros in the postseason. Altuve is starting to get back into a groove. Springer has been playing a lot better.
Post-season is different. Better players do better. A lot of splits don't matter for postseason. Finding the best players is usually the best option for the postseason. The only splits I would be concerned with are how players handle pitchers with "stuff" and how much "stuff" does a pitcher have. I'm much more trusting in guys like Cole, Riviera, LMJ, Verlander than I am in the Keuchel's and the Quintana's of the world in the playoffs. I'd still take Keuchel, Quintana over most pitchers though. Batters that can't hit velocity or a sharp breaking ball should not apply. On the stats versus what players think, stats have won...just not the splits and common baseball stats. What happens in August, September isn't all that important in determining who the best players are for the postseason.
"Healthy enough" is the key. We should all just resign ourselves to Springer/Altuve/Correa/LMJ/Morton/bullpens not being healthy until next spring.
Astros have never won a series in Toronto as an AL team -- only win was '11. Rockets share a similar problem in Toronto.
So will the team be poppin bottles at 1-2am eastern if they win and the A's lose tonight? Wonder how that will work
I completely agree with you and it isn’t coincidence that the Astros have targeted starting pitchers with stuff... Verlander, Cole and Morton. Also is why I kept harping on us needing to upgrade our bullpen early in the year even when the numbers were good... we struggled against teams like NY and BOS when the pen came in. Pressly and Osuna address those concerns and having guys like LMC and possibly James able to come in let us match up against anyone.
Yup. But many less than better players do worse. I mean, some guys are not up to facing an ace almost every game
