Recent content by Illinicpa14

Great post and agree with 95% of this. I’d add that after seeing the hitting in bigger leverage games, I think we have a good regular season lineup with the non-quit and big swing approach when teams have to play a lot more worse pitchers. Once we got to those last 3-4 games, I really only...

I’m going Wednesday

Not saying this is the only reason - but we have a lot of resources into basketball right now the past few years and coming off a F4 and an E8 the past 3.

Hope the bullpen enjoyed the extra day off; Taylor, Hudson, and newcomb in particular now have had a few extra days off for one more push

Most guys need live ABs to stay locked and they had an off day today and injury risk for position guys is low. Often as well guys have incentives they are trying to trigger in the contract. They want to play their best baseball entering the playoffs. I think the closest to resting is their...

I saw some stat (prior to yesterday) that murakami, Braden Montgomery and colson ranked as like the dead last 3 hitters in the entire league by a bunch of metrics the past 3 weeks. You just can’t have 1/3 of your lineup be a black hole. I do think they will heat up a little more against some...

As bad as the past week has felt - currently the 2 seed with 9 games to go 6 at home; all vs losing teams and a worse SOS then every other contending team. How could you not like the chances? 4 wins probably is at least the wildcard and 5-6 wins probably wins the division. 6 probably also gets...

Because there’s no game 163, really the Sox just have to win 1 game in Cleveland. They clinch the tie-breaker on season series then. So with 19 to go; if you just don’t get swept there, with 16 “other” games you’d still be up 3 in the loss column to win the division vs today. A lot of weird...

Great work - the one caveat I’d say is the way they pick tournament teams and seeds is way different now then the early part of your analysis. Teams also schedule differently and then game those metrics way more then in the past (i.e. a coach in 2010 like Bruce Weber probably didn’t know what...

I’m not concerned at “PG” to initiate the offense; what I am not sure of is when it’s a 4 point game with 45 seconds left, who is breaking the press and getting the ball out of harms way…that seems more the question. That was the biggest pro of Boswell for last years team in crunch time. Break...

Can someone let me know when this thread stops being highjacked around USCs bench and where their 9th man is in our hypothetical rotation? Ive never seen such intense opinions on maybe the most irrelevant team to our success. And I hope they’re good - we play them at home and can get a Q1 win...

Doubt he’s playing November 10th

Maybe they can go steal one of the Michigan guys…

Seems like there’s 2 ways to mock this far out 1. Is with whose on the table and what they exist like right now if the draft was next month. 2. Trying to project and guess who takes a large step forward. In Mirks case here, that’s passing up guys that would have gone before him right now.

I also think internally they probably view Teel coming back this week and Murakami in 1-3 weeks as two big upgrades To the past months roster. For what they are doing, I also just don’t see too many difference makers in the grand scheme of things. They aren’t going to be in the Skubal...