2021 MLB Season / 21-22 Offseason Thread

[gunnar hendershow]

If the Mariners can win tonight the hell on earth 4-way-tie is in play for the AL wild card.

[Krabby]

1 hour ago, damshow said:

If the Mariners can win tonight the hell on earth 4-way-tie is in play for the AL wild card.

Let's go Seattle!

[Gabriel]

The top team in the NL Central is going to finish with more wins than only the last place team in the AL East. Everybody but the Orioles in the East out-won the Braves this season.

It's insane to think that it's possible for 3 teams out of the East could be playing post-season baseball. It's even crazier that anyone left behind would have made it in a weaker division.

[gunnar hendershow]

Their wins are probably right where they would be in other divisions based on the fact each had to play each other 18 games this season. But they all just whooped Baltimore all season and the division was basically decided by who whooped them the most.

Hoping for total chaos today. Go Rays, go Nats, go Jays, go Mariners, and go Dbacks (so O's can get the top pick).

[The Buscher]

Yanks win a 1-0 walkoff, Red Sox rally a comeback against the Nats and just hit a 2-run home run in the 9th

MLB Network showed a live look-in at the Rogers Centre where everyone is watching on the big screen having a collective heartbreak  

[Lowerdeck]

I'm a little surprised the Red Sox made it this far, but I'm glad they did.

 

Got a ticket for the game on Tuesday

[The Buscher]

ESPN executives are high-fiving in the hallways. 

[gunnar hendershow]

1 hour ago, CM Busch said:

ESPN executives are high-fiving in the hallways. 

They're petitioning Manfred to make it a Best of 7 wild card round.

[The Buscher]

As the league considers playoff expansion...here is the mess the 2021 playoffs would be if they used the same system as the gimmicky COVID season.

AL
1-Rays (100-62) (E1)
2-Astros (95-67) (W1)
3-White Sox (93-69) (C1)
4-Red Sox (92-70) (E2)
5-Mariners (90-72) (W2)
6-Indians (80-82) (C2)
7-Yankees (92-70) (WC1)
8-Blue Jays (91-71) (WC2)

NL
1-Giants (107-55) (W1)
2-Brewers (95-67) (C1)
3-Braves (88-73) (E1)
4-Dodgers (106-56) (W2)
5-Cardinals (90-72) (C2)
6-Phillies (82-80) (E2)
7-Reds (83-79) (WC1)
8-Padres (79-83) (WC2)

Snubbed: Oakland A's (86-76)

[The Buscher]

To no surprise, the Mets have announced that they will not be picking up Luis Rojas' 2022 option.

He was bad in 2020 but he was thrust into the job last-minute and then had to navigate a gimmicky season with every game amplified from the short schedule, playing under a different set of rules with a ton of double headers and the constant threat of players going down to COVID.  Giving him a mulligan was fair.  But he showed this year he was out of his depth. Good guy, but time to move on.

I doubt it happens in New York but Carlos Beltran absolutely deserves a chance since Hinch and Cora both got to come back.

[The Buscher]

It’s that magical day when 29 other fanbases can celebrate when theeeeee Yankees lose and their season ends.

[Your Mom]

Schwarber vs. Rizzo was a rough game for me. I love them both  

[Lowerdeck]

7 hours ago, Your Mom said:

Schwarber vs. Rizzo was a rough game for me. I love them both  

 

I wouldn't mind if JD left and the Sox kept Schwarber as the DH

[The Buscher]

He should've retired ages ago with how often clips like this surface.  It's like have he game called by the kids in the ballpark who don't know how to read trajectories or outfielder movements and therefore start celebrating every single fly ball.

[gunnar hendershow]

That's as we say in Baltimore, Scott Garceau-esque.

[GhostMachine]

Its always a good day when the Bold Boys From Boston shut down the Evil Assholes From The (Big) Apple.

[Your Mom]

2 hours ago, GhostMachine said:

Its always a good day when the Bold Boys From Boston shut down the Evil Assholes From The (Big) Apple.

Don't you talk that way about Rizzo!  

[Your Mom]

Postseason Baseball is really the best

What a game and the Cardinals lose! YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!

[The Buscher]

 

[GhostMachine]

Its always a good postseason when the Cardinals and Yankees get knocked out early. (It would require them not even making it to be a great one.) Now, if someone just knocks out the Braves......