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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 9h

This is my active team for the week. The bolds are the high scores I'm currently using. I could bench Miller today if I needed to take a chance on someone perhaps getting more points than his banked 45. But I'm winning my matchup and don't need to take chances.

Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 10h

Well, the first day of the week, you start whoever is playing that night. And then you primarily start using your best players after that. Yes, if you bench someone, you lose any results they have in the bank. So anyone that really exceeded expectations just gets left alone for the rest of the week.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 10h

Leave him in! You're just taking each player's best result from the week. If you bench him, you lose that prior result.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 10h

Wish you'd joined our league. Didn't know anything about it a week ago, but seems fun and easy to manage.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 2d

The NL All-Star Game staff in 2023. Just two years ago!

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 5d

I think the Angels are trying to make a Hall of Fame case for Kurt Suzuki.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

Bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs, the World Series in the balance and now a word from our friends at Strauss.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

Probably worth noting that Servais used to do that plenty... let Muñoz set up and someone else close when appropriate. That stopped the day Wilson was named manager.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

Bassitt being used here is far more stunning to me than Bazardo last inning.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

Easiest managerial call of all-time. So, 50/50 chance.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

Sure, leave him in there. Gotta give him a chance to figure things out.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

It was weird. Though if he just keeps running in a straight line, I assume he takes the ball to the face or bill of the helmet instead and nothing gets called in that case (except the trainer).

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

That's just wrong, given the typical standards of what runners are allowed to get away with while going to second. If they wanted to start calling it regularly when runners are trying to interfere with throws, I'd wholeheartedly approve. But they never do.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

Whether or not it was the right call from Guerrero not to charge the grounder and take the free out from Raleigh/advance the runner is such an obviously fun and interesting thing to talk about and Davis and Smoltz just aren't capable,

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 6d

In 2023, the lineup that struck out more often won 10 of the 11 postseason series, with only the Astros-Twins in the ALDS going to the team that struck out less.

NLCS: D-backs 69 K, Phillies 60 K
ALCS: Rangers 55 K, Astros 47 K
WS: Rangers 44 K, D-backs 41 K

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 6d

Seattle has struck out 62 (!) times in six games of the ALCS

Toronto has struck out just 34 times

and that's why the Jays swept the series in four

Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 7d

Getting through that with just the one run and (hopefully) forcing Hoffman to throw two innings seems like something that really could pay off tomorrow.

And Hoffman has allowed three runs in an inning or less six times this year.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 7d

That was my first thought, too, but after watching it a few times, I let Suárez off the hook... short throw, little reaction time and hit the ground in such a bad place.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 7d

The fastball Clement hit was just 93.1 mph, 2.3 mph below Gilbert's season average. The slider Barger hit was 84.7 mph, 2.8 mph below Gilbert's season average. That last splitter was also 2.5 mph below his season average.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 7d

That these jackasses can't go five minutes without making a comment, often turned into a joke, about Alejandro Kirk's physique is something that should be addressed.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 9d

Also, the third homer came on a 98.9 mph fastball from Trevor Megill, which is the hardest pitch put into play today. None of Shohei's 15 pitches harder than that were more than fouled off.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 9d

Ludicrous. You could add in the Jays-Mariners game here, too, and none of Ohtani's placements would change... he'd still have the top three EVs and distances, the top 11 pitch velocities and the most whiffs.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 11d

Exactly half as many as Yuli Gurriel.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 12d

If you're truly trying to collect all of them, there's also Coco Montes, Luis M. Castillo, Elvin Rodriguez and Thomas Hatch.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 13d

Regardless of the craziness, just inexcusable that Teoscar didn't score. He was free to leave third base the moment the ball first touched Frelick's glove, and even waiting until Frelick came back down with it, he still had six seconds to make it home.

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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 16d

Had to check... it's John Jaha's career line.

Also in the exactly-141-homers club: Jackie Robinson, Bo Jackson, Scott Brosius and Chris Iannetta.

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