MLB POSTSEASON THREAD

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which teams advance to the LDS?

  1. dbags

    2 vote(s)
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  2. brewers

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  3. marlins

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  4. phillies

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  5. rangers

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  6. twins

    2 vote(s)
    33.3%

  7. jays

    1 vote(s)
    16.7%

  8. rays

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    “I try not to be reactionary and get ahead of things,” Roberts said. “I just can’t predict the future. The way [Lynn] was throwing the baseball, I didn’t expect that.”

    this the same asshat that has pulled a hundred pitchers on a roll, sure bet clown
     
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    The long, the short and the tall...
     
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    ...and we all fell for it again!
     
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    Have they fired him yet?? No??? You keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you get. Then again, the Braves kept Bobby Cox around for all those years and he only won one.
     
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    the arrogance and stupidity of our front office is astounding
    three time ws champ bochy was available but they stuck with roberts
    wonder whatever happened to that bochy guy…
     
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    SF let him go for mr sunshine butthole and his anal litics no wonder we keep our little butt boy around
    some kinds of people will never admit they could just be wrong
    rooting for Tex big time
     
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    Gaspar Gomez says "what about me?"
     
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    Roberts needs to go. He effectively lost games one and three by leaving a starter in way too long.

    I understand wanting to give your (de facto) ace a chance to right himself, but it was pretty clear from the start Kershaw had nothing. Well, clear to almost everyone.

    As for Lynn, how can anyone on the planet be so completely unaware of his well-documented habit of giving up bombs and then so painfully slow in taking him out? It really took four solo shots to make Roberts realize there may be a problem?

    Time to pull the cord AF, our nation turns its angry rage to you.
     
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    oh, well now it all makes sense
    :sarcasm:

    “I think just for me, it was a situation we needed to get a hit. And I just think with the left-on-left, the ball going away from him, it’s a sinker. David [Peralta] has a tendency to put the ball on the ground. We needed to get a hit. I just think with the left on left, the ball going away from him, it's a sinker … Austin [Barnes] is a guy that's been in many postseasons. It was a chance to get a righty on a lefty. And he just expanded."

    Dave Roberts     on the decision to pinch-hit Austin Barnes — Dodgers Nation | October 12, 2023

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    not everyone drinking the kool aid
    not holding back either
    gotta love it
    • “I thought Dave Roberts did his worst managing job last night. Worst I’ve seen in years,” MLB Network analyst Brian Kenny said. “There’s a lot of failure to go around, but there are certain things you can control. And when you are eliminated from your postseason without using your best pitchers, that is under your control, that is under your manager’s control.”


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    Open letter to Dodger Ownership/GM:


    Here’s the thing. You can be as complimentary as you want on Roberts. You can say his decisions aren’t that bad. You can blame the players for failing to play well under the brighter lights. You can point to his stellar regular season winning percentage, year after year. You can say he’s a nice guy and everyone likes him and he keeps the clubhouse loose and fun. Hell, I know you wouldn’t do this, but you can even promote the fact that he’s multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and any other boxes he checks for you.

    And… YOU STILL HAVE TO FIRE HIM.

    You have to fire him for the last two postseasons alone. You have to fire him because the team he is leading followed up on a 111-win season losing in the first round to an 89-win team, with a 100-win season losing in the first round to an 84-win team. Even if we ignore everything that happened before 2022, these last two failures are monumental enough to fire him. Under his leadership, the franchise is setting the kind of records you don’t want to be on the wrong side of.

    But if two years are not enough in your mind, then you have to fire him for his eight years as manager. Eight postseasons of high hopes - often as the number one or two seed overall - and the ONLY year that didn’t end in utter disappointment was a 60-game season with the playoffs performed in front of cardboard cutouts. You have to fire him for losing to the 93-win Nationals in 2019 despite winning 106 games. You have to fire him for losing to the 88-win Braves in 2021 despite another 106-win season. You have to fire him because while other teams are finding a way to bring home the trophy, his team has failed to in seven straight non-pandemic shortened seasons.

    You have to fire him because we, the fan base, are sick of being completely embarrassed by the team each October. You have to fire him because nobody remembers second place, let alone eighth place the last two years (I take that back – people will remember the colossal blue choke jobs these two years). You have to fire him because that’s what corporations do when they lose out to their competition year-after-year if they want to return to success – they fire their CEO. You have to fire him because we refuse to accept participation trophies and the “everybody’s a winner” movement. You have to fire him so that we can start to put this atrocity of a record behind us and have something new to look forward to next season.

    You may think it’s not fair to put the blame on him, but this is not about being fair, it’s about saying we’re not okay with mediocre results. If you keep him on as manager, you might as well get a billboard on the side of the freeway and announce, “We’re happy with just division wins!”

    There’s no other acceptable course of action. You have to fire him.
     
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    I agree that the general underacheivement (losing to inferior teams on an annual basis) is enough to get Roberts canned. But let's not forget all of the objectively terrible in-game decisions he's made. He should've been fired in 2019 at the latest.

    Remember pulling Rich Hill early in game 2 of the 2017 WS?
    Then doing the exact same thing in 2018?

    Remember game 5 of the the 2019 NLDS?
    Kershaw came out of the bullpen and got the last out of the 7th for us against a LHH. Great!
    But for some reason, instead of bringing in Maeda (who was our 8th inning guy up to this point), Roberts sends Kershaw (a short rest relief appearance, mind you) out for the 8th.
    Leadoff HR by Rendon. Does Roberts take Kershaw out? NOPE.
    HR by Soto.
    Tie game.
    Now he brings in Maeda.
    Maeda strikes out 3 consecutive batters.
    There's no way this is how the "evil F.O." scripted the game. This was all Dave.
    This snowballed into using Joe Kelly for multiple innings.
    We all know how that ended.
    To me, this was the definnitive game he should've lost his job.

    When he wasn't fired in 2019, and subsequentally won the fake WS in 2020, I knew the Dodgers were screwed.
     
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    @DodgerLove

    I agree that baseball managers are the least responsible for their team's performance (especially compared to NFL).
    Ultimately, it is up to the players.
    Dave didn't tell Kenley to give up a HR to Marwin Gonzalez. Dave didn't tell Mookie and Freddie to go hitless.
    So, I can understand why the F.O. has been slow on the trigger.
    But I think Dave undermined this defense in his press conference

    Dave admitted in his presser that he needs to do a better job getting his team ready for the playoffs.

    If baseball managers make little difference in the outcome of games (generally speaking), and the roster is constructed by the F.O. to win 90-100 games every season, then the manager's ONLY job is to rally the troops and motivate.

    And he just admitted he hasn't done that.

    From every angle, he needs to go.
     
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    no lie, i was all of those as well
    except the teaching part
    otherwise there’s a good chance i’d be incarcerated
     
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    Brian Kenny wasn’t the only one to toss blame Roberts’ way as fellow MLB Network analyst Rob Parker also chimed in with his take on the underachieving Dodgers’ skipper.

    “Terrible job, I’m sorry. I’m so tired of all the excuses. BK, this is what I’ll ask you. This is what I hear. ‘Oh, well it’s not fair. He doesn’t hit, he doesn’t pitch.’ Well when they win World Series’ a manager gets credit and he didn’t hit or pitch in those situations. You can’t keep winning 100 games and lose the first time you’re in the playoffs. The divisional round, this is now two years in a row where they’ve gotten knocked out. It cannot continue to happen.”
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    we’ll start with this…

    David Bearman@DavidBearmanPFN
    104 win Braves
    101 win Orioles
    100 win Dodgers
    All out. Won a combined 1 game after a week off.​

    No one with more than 90 wins still alive.​

    If MLB’s goal with new format was to make 162-game season meaningless, they accomplished that.​

    What a joke.​

    8:23 PM · Oct 12, 2023 · 941.7K Views​
     
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