Author: /u/bordomsdeadly

This is our last off day of the season, so I figured now would be a great time to look at all of our pitching options heading into the playoffs

​

​

​

* Will Smith’s Stats are only with the Astros, if Braves stats are included it changes to

​

​

​

We are only allowed 13 in the post season, with at least 18 guys with above average pitching. 19 honestly, because being average as a starter is more valuable than being average as a reliever.

I’d been trying to update this in the Post-Game threads, but my son was sick over the weekend, so I was unable to really get on and post within a decent amount of time of the games ending

​

Magic # to clinch:

​

Playoffs: 6

​

Division: 11

​

Bye: 7 (Must win division to claim Bye)

​

1st Seed (AL): 16

​

In addition a 101 win season would guarantee a winning All-Time Franchise record at the end of a season for the first time in Franchise history.

​

We are currently 1 game over .500 All-Time (Best record among expansion teams)

​

The earliest we could clinch a playoff spot is Thursday 9/15, although I believe this weekend is a more realistic time frame.

​

The earliest we could clinch our division is Sunday 9/18, but again, I think adding an extra 3 or 4 days is a little more realistic of a time frame.

​

Wednesday 9/21 is the earliest we could lock up the 1 seed, but I do not expect to do that in the minimum time frame at all. But if we play well, hopefully within 3-5 days of that we could be all locked up and secure.

As the title says, Fangraphs shows Mancini as the only person to play Left Field this season and have a positive value doing so.

​

Of course defensive metrics are always a little screwy, but this should be good enough to let him have some real playing time out their to see hoe he performs.

​

Worth noting, they show Alvarez has a stronger arm than Tucker, and while this makes sense because of Yordan’s size, I feel like Tucker’s arm is much more consistent.

​

That said, if Yordan could learn to consistently come in on his catches and help generate some extra momentum, at his size I think he could play a small corner outfield spot (MMP LF, Yankee Stadium RF, etc.) with above average defense.

Just a review of who the top performers on our team are.

Here are the Top 5 in Various offensive categories

All Stats are since joining the team, Ignoring guys like Dubon, Mancini, & Vazquez’ stats with other teams

​

Player who were traded away, or are on the 60-Day IL were ignored (RIP Brantley’s 2022 season)

​

Any surprises? Or is it about what you expected?

​

2017 11-17

2018 14-13

2019 19-9

2020 13-11

2021 13-13

2022 10-10 (so far)

Stop acting like the sky is falling because we’ve played me baseball for a month.

We’ve had1single dominant August since we started our current run of being a Perrennial contender.

This team is still good. Really good. And I bet we hit 100 wins by the time the season is over.