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The amount of Guardians fans that view pitchers as though they have stamina bars, like in MLB The Show, is ridiculous.
Rays starters consistently gave them 6IP.
That's a big effing deal.
If you don't recognize that, or dismiss it, you have no idea how we lost that series.
The real issue in the offseason, even more than personnel, is developing a path that leaves gas in the tank in October.
After decades of being unable to finish, of course it is THIS team that will win the World Series by fighting off elimination again and again and again.
Guy who didn't know that they needed to win games in the WBC thinks Guardians should pitch Gavin Williams in Game 6.
"If they can squeeze by this game tonight and have a fully-rested Gavin Williams [for Game 7], the advantage definitely goes to the Guardians."
#MLBCentral reacts to Stephen Vogt saying Williams won't be an available option for Game 6.
We all knew when we signed him that Shawn Armstrong would start the biggest game of the season, and that game would be an elimination game in the ALCS. Right?
#4 is a terrible QB who manages to elevate his game to average when it has mattered most. That's a credit to him.
What could this team be with competent QB play?
It's also a career high for both Rasmussen and Martinez...
"He feels good. His stuff is still there. This is more innings than he's ever thrown in his life by almost 70 now. So of course, I think that might be playing a part in it. But just look at the way that kid competed and battled for 2 innings. I mean, those two innings could have gotten away from him, but that's who Parker is"
#Guardians Stephen Vogt on Parker Messick's outing in Game 5 and if he thinks the workload is starting to tax him
#GuardsBall @WEWS
I could listen to Trevor talk baseball all day.
I'm not sure he's on the money with this one, but I do think he's onto something.
If strikeout rates keep climbing, bunting might actually become the smarter play — and the math backs it up.
Here's the thought experiment:
Say the K rate is 50%. That means you only put the ball in play half the time. If you hit .300 on contact, your real average when you factor in all those strikeouts drops to around .150. That's brutal.
Now look at bunting.
Bunt success rates sit somewhere in the .200 range — maybe low twos, maybe even the ones. But here's the key: a bunt attempt wipes out the K rate entirely. You're making contact by design. You're forcing the defense to react.
So if your true average with a normal swing craters to .150 because you're striking out half the time, and a bunt gets you on base at even a .200 clip — the bunt is the higher EV play.
That's not a small-ball romantic argument. That's just arithmetic.
The deeper question is what batting average on bunts actually looks like at the MLB level. My gut says low twos. Could be lower. But even in the ones, it might still beat a .150 effective average from a hitter who whiffs every other at-bat.
As K rates keep rising across the league, the math on unconventional contact strategies is going to get harder and harder to ignore.