maybe we can get younger at one of the positions

I find it interesting that Maldy finished with a career high 15 HRs and even after a pretty decent second half still didn't finish above the Mendoza line.

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K that was fun. I'll post some final stats /rankings tomorrow.

But now the real season begins. Once Lance came back and looked right (~3 starts in), I was over this season. We're ready. This team is built to win it all. All that is left is to do it.

11 wins away.

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Let's go!

Handshakes and high fives to everyone on a fantastic regular season. Hell of a team. 106 wins!

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I am still amaze w/ the 106 wins. If you asked me back in early June, would have been happy w/ at least 90 wins. Great & weird season. Wish our bats were more consistent but I truly believe that it all came together at the right time. Can't wait to see the playoffs.

I'll trade less rapport for younger and hotter

Kansas City Royals Executive Vice President and General Manager J.J. Picollo announced that manager Mike Matheny and pitching coach Cal Eldred will not return for the 2023 season.

— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) October 6, 2022

Well, not as confident in our offense as I was last year, but that is more than made up for by the pitching. Elite pitching.

We saw how our "offense" did in the world series so lets hope they can just stay consistent and not go completely cold

I don't get the playoff schedule this year. Off day between ALDS games 1 and 2 makes no sense. All it does is give rest to the wild card winner.

Makes game one even more important in the DS.

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I don't get the playoff schedule this year. Off day between ALDS games 1 and 2 makes no sense. All it does is give rest to the wild card winner.

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Possible this has already been discussed but I hate the new playoff schedule because I don't think it builds in enough advantage for the teams that earn byes.

Bye teams have to basically take a week off and wild card teams get the benefit of continuous flow to their seasons. To me, that advantage should be offset by the wild card winner playing with more "fatigue" going forward.

If it was up to me, no travel day between wild card round and division round and definitely no off day between division series G1 and G2.

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MosesHallRAB04 said:

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I don't get the playoff schedule this year. Off day between ALDS games 1 and 2 makes no sense. All it does is give rest to the wild card winner.

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Possible this has already been discussed but I hate the new playoff schedule because I don't think it builds in enough advantage for the teams that earn byes.

Bye teams have to basically take a week off and wild card teams get the benefit of continuous flow to their seasons. To me, that advantage should be offset by the wild card winner playing with more "fatigue" going forward.

If it was up to me, no travel day between wild card round and division round and definitely no off day between division series G1 and G2.

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I don't like the weird day off between game 1 and 2 but the advantage is not having to play the wildcard round. That's' it. You play for the bye and get it. Baseball is not trying to give the teams that earn a bye more advantage than the bye which they earned.

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Makes game one even more important in the DS.

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THIS

The WC will either be throwing their #3, #4 if the WC goes all 3 games, or #1 on just 3 days' rest. By game 2, Their #1 and #2 will be back at full rest, assuming the #1 didn't go on short rest.

If it's JV vs Striping or Berrios, it's not a "must-win", but it feels like it would be a huge kick in the dick if we couldn't jump out in front. From there it would be much for evenly matched up. Manoah vs McCullers and Gausman vs Framber.

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Record: 94-68 106-54

OPS+
Altuve 125 160
Tucker 140 - 128
Bregman 120 - 133
Alvarez 145 - 187
Yuli 125 - 84
Brantley 110 - 125
Pena 115 (bullish) - 101
CF not sure
Maldy 70 - 69

ERA+
JV 145 - 220
LMJ 125 (+/- 80 innings) - 171 in 47 innings
Framber 125 - 137
Garcia 125 - 104
Urquidy 115 - 98
Odo 110 - 103

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Prediction results (actual in bold).

Funny thing is I thought I was relatively bullish to start the season but wasn't even close to bullish enough. Yuli was a fail. Not including Javier and his 152 ERA+ was a fail. Some were directionally correct, just not enough.

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Deluxe said:

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MosesHallRAB04 said:

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I don't get the playoff schedule this year. Off day between ALDS games 1 and 2 makes no sense. All it does is give rest to the wild card winner.

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Possible this has already been discussed but I hate the new playoff schedule because I don't think it builds in enough advantage for the teams that earn byes.

Bye teams have to basically take a week off and wild card teams get the benefit of continuous flow to their seasons. To me, that advantage should be offset by the wild card winner playing with more "fatigue" going forward.

If it was up to me, no travel day between wild card round and division round and definitely no off day between division series G1 and G2.

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I don't like the weird day off between game 1 and 2 but the advantage is not having to play the wildcard round. That's' it. You play for the bye and get it. Baseball is not trying to give the teams that earn a bye more advantage than the bye which they earned.

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I get that not risk losing in the wild card round is an advantage that you earn with a bye.

My opinion is that it's a scheduling disadvantage for the bye teams to have to take a week off while the wild card winners get to play continuously AND ALSO have the benefit of rest days before/during the ALDS. It would be easy for MLB to offset that advantage by not giving a travel rest day between series.

If you disagree, that's fine.

I can see how from a momentum aspect you rather not have to sit for a week but it's a huge advantage not having to play a 2/3 series prior to a 5 game series regardless of rest days during the ALDS.

I'll take the rest and being able to have everyone available starting the ALDS over the advantage of having momentum.

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I can see how from a momentum aspect you rather not have to sit for a week but it's a huge advantage not having to play a 2/3 series prior to a 5 game series regardless of rest days during the ALDS.

I'll take the rest and being able to have everyone available starting the ALDS over the advantage of having momentum.

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Fair enough. I'd still obviously still rather have a bye than not have a bye.