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Originally Posted by zekester91
Are you sticking with a 5 man rotation in the playoffs? your number 5 pitcher gets rocked by the number 2 of the other team and then your ace is coming back rusty after having about a week or so off and comes in rusty.
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I can't answer for Mntwins but in my experience you can see it coming. Your team scores 1000 runs in the season and then gets 8 runs in a 5 game series. For example your Ace starter who averages 1.9BB/9 innings all season walks 6 batters and allows 6 hits and 8 runs in 2 innings in the first game of the playoffs. He then shows the dreaded ice cube and is useless for the remaining games.
For the other team it can be a MR turned starter with an ERA of 7.5 who pitches 8 innings of 5 hit ball against you. Or a guy with 37 contact who has two 2-HR games (I know contact doesn't lead to HR but I've never even had a player on my team with 37 contact
).
It's not the one-offs that bother me, that's Baseball. It's the fact that it can happen 4 and 5 seasons in a row, often when you are the best team in both leagues by 20 games or more. That challenges credulity.
On the flip side has anyone posted about winning the WS with a WC team (not one with 100 wins
) or a sub 90 win team? If that's happening with some regularity then I have less of a complaint.
Maybe we should have a poll.