JUSTgottaBELIEVE

And he strikes yet again. Brutal

In fairness, basically all of the top 10 teams in batting average were also the best offenses in mlb.

And yet, one starting pitcher standing out in the postseason is a big reason why teams have recently won World Series titles. Guys like Bumgarner, Verlander, Strasburg, and Montgomery last year come to mind..

Orioles was 2 games and they had two good SPs but very incomplete thereafter. Would have been exposed if they went deeper.

No because the Yankees have the only complete starting rotation of teams in the playoffs and they’ve been the most dominant pitching staff in the postseason thus far.

Landon Knack, the 27 year old rookie with the 4.72 FIP this year? Not sure that’s any better. And at least Crochet could give you 4 innings as an opener. Most of these starters are barely capable of doing that.

It’s amazing to me how most of these teams have worse starting rotations in October than the 2024 White Sox. You’re telling me these teams couldn’t use Crochet right now?? The Yankees are the only team with an actual 1-4 rotation full of starting pitchers and certainly seem to be the most complete team. The rest are cobbling together guys like Cobb, Brasier, etc. What is this???

https://friarsonbase.com/manny-machado-fernando-tatis-jr-get-absolutely-dragged-on-social-media-after-padres-flameout-01ja050cx9dg machado is getting torched on social media

this Padres fan thinks so and no it’s not me

If anything, it showed how much they missed Musgrove

Padres fans on twitter so pissed at Cease now that they’ve lost the series (and they lost 2 of the 3 games he started).

Don’t worry, they’ll have the lowest payroll in the division in 2025. I’ll be surprised if they top $80M.

Huh? Contreras had a 3.49 ERA in the postseason. Even Kershaw has decent postseason stats, it just looks bad because of how much more dominant he’s been in the regular season. 13 ERA in 4 playoff games, 3 of them starts, and not even able to get out of the 4th inning in any of those 3 starts is just really bad no matter how you want to spin it.

Many pitchers don’t even get 3 postseason starts over their entire career so no sample size doesn’t apply here. Mark Buehrle had just 4 (!) postseason starts over his entire career and he won a World Series.

Cease sucks in the postseason, it’s ok to admit. Hope it doesn’t cost the Padres the series because I can’t stand the Dodgers.

He’s no Madison Bamgarner that’s for sure! Edit: heck, I’d take a 35 year old Quintana over playoff Dylan Cease by a long shot

All that they’ll remember is losing in the playoffs to their arch rival Dodgers and that he choked in 2 of the 5 games. For his sake, they better win tomorrow…

If the Padres lose tomorrow, Cease is going to be public enemy number one in SD

I guess Dylan Cease is a choke artist come playoff time eh? Career ERA of 13 in 4 games now yikes

+Crochet. They have already been linked to him for months.

So what’s the solution? Just continue to draft high ceiling arms in the early rounds and hope you can develop enough to fill out a rotation as well as flip some for established veteran position players? Because they do seem to develop pitchers better than average, it’s just the position player side of things has been horrific.

Holliday is not a finished product judging by his defense at 2b and .566 OPS this season…

I’d contend the bigger problem has not been quantity vs quality but rather coaching/development. Until that’s addressed not much else works no matter what route they choose.

With a different owner, I would agree. The problem is this owner won’t sign any worthwhile free agents so how do you intend to fill all these roster holes? Did the Nationals or Padres trade Soto for a single prospect? Did the Guardians trade Lindor for a single prospect? Did the Cubs trade Yu Darvish for a single prospect? I guess there’s no right or wrong answer but considering the complete lack of depth in the Sox org right now I strongly prefer the quantity route at this point in the rebuild. I’m not interested in a single player return for Crochet.