Three perfect games: Humber, Cain, HernandezWas rooting for the Dodgers till' the last out so I'm not overjoyed by the season, but as a baseball fan it was a good one,
-Mike Trout had the best rookie campaign ever and possibly the best incomplete season too
-Bryce Harper and Giancarlo Stanton showed with the long ball that they're gonna be fun to watch for a while
-Stephen Strasburg avoiding the path of Mark Prior (if I were in the Nats spot I'd save some of his regular season starts for the postseason instead but w/e)
-Chipper Jones, Big papi, Derek Jeter, Ichiro and probably many more I'm forgetting are showing they can be clutch in the later stages of their careers
-The Oakland A's shocking everyone (sorry Stallion)
-7 no-hitters (2 perfect games)
-Fernando Rodney and Craig Kimbrel both breaking closer records
-A triple crown winner???
I haven't covered everything but I'd say it's been a cool season and I like the all of the clubs in postseason contention as clubs. It wasn't the Dodger's year with Kemp and Either out of the lineup for chunks of time and the #2 starting pitcher Billingsley going down anyway so I won't be too bummed about having to watch other teams make their runs.
Can you blame us? You hit the nail on the head, we're the best team in the AL and can't win our goddamn division...Three perfect games: Humber, Cain, Hernandez
Also lol at how mad the rangers fans are. I still think they are the team that is best set up for the postseason in the AL, provided they can get past the wild card game.
Best set up to win the AL pretty much means best team in ALI didn't say the rangers were the best team in the AL...
Messed up my post and troll I just can't see any team who blew that big of a lead winning anything lol the yankees aren't that good of a team imo
Victory tastes O so good
@The Exeggutor, its Yankees v. Wild Card team, since we're the 1 seed, so we'll play either the O's or Rangers for the ALCS
Plus, we're winning anywho, why would u say we lose in ALDS O.o
Because I think the Braves are better than the Nationals and the Rangers are better than the Yankees...?I don't get why people who have made picks already favor the wild card teams so much. What's the reasoning or rationale behind it? Personally I can't see whoever wins the wild card play-in game beating either the Yankees or the Nationals.
Braves are much more veteran (which is a huge deal in the playoffs), have a really hot pitching rotation right now (Medlen is better than anyone in the MLB right now), and the Nationals don't have Strasburg. I think Atlanta wins the series. No accident you finished with the best record in the bigs? I mean, no offense, but your schedule was kind of a joke. The NL East was pitiful this year for you besides Atlanta.Why? It's no accident we finished with the best record in the bigs. And we laid an absolute beat down on the NL Central, remember
I am penalizing the Braves. That's why I don't see them getting past anyone besides St. Louis and Washington lol. The Braves have crushed the Nationals the second half of the season (when they've been relevant). Some of Gio's worst performances have come against the Braves. Medlen has dominated the Nationals multiple times now.Medlen will only pitch 1 game out of 5, due to pitching the wild card game, whereas Cy Young candidate Gio Gonzalez will go twice. Also Atlanta played the same NL East so how can you penalize the Nats for that but not the Braves?
That would be true, except the Nats finished 42-30 (.583) inside the NL East and 56-34 (.622) outside.No accident you finished with the best record in the bigs? I mean, no offense, but your schedule was kind of a joke. The NL East was pitiful this year for you besides Atlanta.
Minor's been great lately too (1 earned run in his past 31 innings). I'd certainly rather have him than fucking Ross Detwiler or Edwin Jackson.That would be true, except the Nats finished 42-30 (.583) inside the NL East and 56-34 (.622) outside.
I'm not sure of the exact schedule, but if the Braves win on Friday Medlen wouldn't be able to pitch more than once against the Nats, if at all. He's been amazing, and Hudson's been great, but the Braves would probably have to start Minor/Hanson in games 2 and 3, and those are not the two guys I'd want to pitch in the middle of a playoff series.