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Originally Posted by O.city
For sure.
But it's about what they'd have to do to catch the Cubs. I'm thinking the WC is about best case scenario, even then, the teams they're running with are probably better.
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I have had precisely zero buy-in with the Brewers even when they were like 9 games ahead of us. You can't win with a pitching staff like they have and butchers just about everywhere on the field defensively.
They're trying to 'slow pitch softball' their way into the playoffs and I just don't see it working out for them. Yelich and Cain are dynamic, well rounded players and the rest of them are just braindead sluggers.
That's a team that will run hot and cold and I suspect they'll run more cold than hot down the stretch, especially as their bullpen starts to get a little tired.
I'd imagine they'll finish around 85 wins and out of the post-season. And I can't buy into the Phillies AND Braves making it to the post-season either. So much youth on those squads that I think one of them stumbles. Beyond that, if there's a team with a tougher schedule than ours, it's AZ. They're leading the division right now but it wouldn't surprise me to see the Rockies overtake them.
Amazing - AMAZING - stat. The Rockies just finished a stretch of
46 consecutive games against teams over .500. In that period they went 30-16. There have only been 2 instances in baseball history of a team playing that many consecutive games against winning records and those 2 teams won 15 and 22 games respectively.
The Rockies are playing exceptional baseball right now and I expect they win the West when all is said and done. The D-Backs may end up undone by their scheduling and the Brewers/NLE team just don't seem likely to hold on.
The Cards may pull this off. Winning the next 2 series would obviously be huge but I'd be satisfied with a single W against Colorado. Mikolas, Gant, Gomber is a terrifying trio to send out to that stadium and with the young relievers struggling to K guys (and Hicks struggling to simply put the damn ball over the plate), I can see the Rockies putting up a couple of 10-12 run games if we're not careful. I mean uuuuuuugly outings.