that's been their history but the fact that both teams have numerous glaring holes in so many areas, they won't be ws relevant anytime soon. There's plenty of other teams well ahead of them
The Yankees won 82 games despite probably being one of the more beatup teams. They can buy a couple of OFs and another couple of starting pitchers and easily be in the postseason picture (i.e., WS relevant) next year. It is hard to use money to take a 95 win team to 105-108 wins, but not hard to use money (~$100M) to go from 82 to 92-95 wins.
Outside of Cole, their pitching stinks. Lets see if they actually go out and get some relevant pitching. Toronto just tried that and revamped their whole starting lineup. We just saw how that turned out. They also just gave 6 years $100+ mil to a scrub Rodon. you can spend money sure. Doesn't mean you're spending correctly and its going to make your team win. Everyone thought the mets would just be a beast this season. We saw how that turned out. Padres/Yanks/Mets highest 2023 payrolls. All sitting at home in Oct Outside of Judge, nobody else on that field puts any type of constant production to win games on a daily bases. And this doesn't even address how atrocious defensively they are
In game 3, Bregman hit his 16th career post season homerun off of his 14th different pitcher. 12 of those 14 are current or former all stars. They have totalled: 39 all star selections 7 CY Young awards 2 Hoffman reliever of the year awards 26 top 5 CY Young finishes 1 MVP award.
Phils up 6-1. So many games this post season have been blowouts (and most against the top seeded teams)
Once again, Philly has gotten their mojo going at the right time. Calling up Rojas, moving Harper to 1B and Schwarber as far away from a glove as possible has really helped their defense.
Royce Lewis talking with Dusty before the game. -Lewis "I really respect you as a manager." -Dusty "That's nice, so what's your game plan?"
Harper’s staredown towards arcia is pretty awesome. The pettiness is funny and he got to do it twice.
There some serious assholes in Philly but overall, that whole stadium in general has just enough as5hole for that place to be a good time.
The Atlanta/Philadelphia series illustrates the old adage that great pitching beats great hitting in the playoffs (most of the time).
