At least the Red Sox loss, but the Guardians look primed to take a Wild Card spot with how they are playing. Ideally we take the series against the Mariners and then coast the rest of the way against the A's and Angels. We should have a strong shot of getting a 1st round bye if we take 2 against the M's.
The Astros need to worry about winning their own god damn games and not what Seattle or anyone else does.
TRad3e hiM!!!….mOAr pRosPeCTs!!! (Certainly better than 2+ more seasons of elite gold glove/silver-slugger/all-star SS play).
Ugh, yeah that’s on me for forgetting about Greinke, especially considering I still b**** about Hinch pulling him. Urquidy was a rookie and had pitched minimal innings in his career at that time, point stands.
Idk about that. There’s a 116 win team that didn’t even win the pennant. Baseball has a long long history and tons of great teams that got bounced in the playoffs.
We all saw what happened when the team thought decent firstbasemen with defensive skills grow on money trees.
Compare those teams head to head. All metrics. the 2019 Astros possess/rank amongst the greatest teams in baseball history in many of the key performance indicators.
They do I just meant that I don’t think you can unequivocally call them the best MLB team to not win it all. Honestly the 2018 team was so good at preventing runs and still had a good offense they would be up there too.
I’d say the 2018 and 2019 teams were better than the two teams that ultimately won the WS. The 2018 had better pitching depth, but the 2019 team had a ridiculously good offense. In terms of overall WAR the 2019 team was better and the best of this recent run by a significant margin.
