Soldier
not redeemed with gold but with His Blood
Elite pitching/shutdown bullpen with relentless small ball hitting/offense is the winning recipe in the playoffs. The 2015 world series champions Kansas City royals surgically destroying the high powered flashy, homerun minded jays in that year’s ALCS still give me nightmares. They came at us in waves, hit after hit, run after run, stolen base after stolen base. They hit balls at will, got on bases at will, and scored at will in a cold blooded assassin manner. And every time they got a lead their bullpen shutdown us afterwards.
A young team full of Patient and selective Contact hitters with elite speed and elite baserunning IQ who tire out the pitcher by attrition during long at bats, who hit bunts, sac flys, singles, doubles and triples, who try to manufacture runs, who can steal bases, can drive in runs home, and who make sure to get on bases first and foremost>> older team full of impulsive one-dimensional slow-footed/plodding power hitters who swing at every pitch, always try to hit homeruns and never make the pitchers work hard for their strikes and never make them earn their outs, instead making their job easier with bad decision making at the plate.
I vividly remember the 2015-2016 veteran laden blue jays. Full of older, slow footed homerun smashers/long ball crushers and very few pure contact hitters (Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, josh Donaldson, Russell Martin, Troy « Tulo » Tulowitzki etc )Their offense was based on the long ball. We won games by 5-10 runs. Every win was a blowout or a close high scoring game. We had an average pitching and bullpen but we had an elite offense. Our motto in that era was « « Live by the homer, die by the homer»
situational ball was never used. On these Toronto teams there were Very few baserunners with elite speed who could steal bases. Dalton Pompey was the only one. We had a batting lineup full of homerun kings but two relentless teams full of contact hitters beat the jays with timely hitting, speed on the bases and suffocating bullpens in back to back ALCS (2015 royals and 2016 Indians)
These recent Yankee playoff teams are built the same way the jays were built in the Bautista/encarnacion era. They are built to hit homers that’s it. They are old, They can’t steal bases, they are slow and plodding, they cant manufacture runs, average at best bullpen, they can’t score with RISP. they lose in the playoffs in the same manner the old jays lost.
you hate the Red Sox, the dodgers and which other teams?
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. We motivated. Now let's win ths series against Twins coming up
