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2022 Season | Series #5 | Guardians @ Yankees | April 22-24, 2022

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I wanted to bump up a couple of posts from back in April... during the series at the Yankees.
In retrospect, that BS after the Saturday April 23rd game might have been just what the team needed in the long run....


The game was lost but due to what happened after, I suspect this season has been won..

That WAS a bad loss! That was the start of a 7-game slide!
 
That WAS a bad loss! That was the start of a 7-game slide!
Correction: That was part of a 7 game slide...
It was not the 1st loss in that slide..

Again, the team lost the battle but won the war (by winning the AL Central and achieving the post-season)
 
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Games in April mean absolutely nothing in October.

In the last 30 days of the regular season NY scored three more runs than the Guardians in two less games.

Team wRC+....NY 126....CLE 110

Team ERA.....NY 3.27....CLE...2.74
Team FIP.......NY 3.54....CLE...3.33

Probably the two closest teams to the Guardians that NY played in Sept were Tampa and Baltimore. They played six total games against those two...all at home...and went 3-3, but outscored them 32-16. The Yanks won three blowouts and lost three low scoring affairs.

Obviously, it is doubtful that the Guards will win a slugfest. But they have a shot in the pitching duels.

There really aren't any major kinks in the NY armor.

By fWAR they rank first in batting, first in defense, and second in pitching for the season.

The Guardians rank fifth in batting, third in defense, and third in pitching.

The Yanks have a big advantage at home, going 57-24. On the road they are a pedestrian 42-39. The Guardians have been equally successful home and away at 46-35.
 
These are the players no longer here that played vs the Yankees this season:

Franmil
Bradley
Mercado
Lavastida
Clement
Palacios
Leon

These are the pitchers:

Allen
Tully
Pilkington
Shaw
(Sandlin)
Gose
Castro

Have never played against the Yankees:

Bo Naylor
OGonz
Brennan
Benson
 
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Games in April mean absolutely nothing in October.
Yep, those losses are excluded from the W-L totals in the final standings or for playoff seeding.
 
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Talk about purposely being tone deaf to the point.
Maybe if Cats didn’t always exude the tone of “I know everything so the rest of you should listen,” then I wouldn’t try to pick part his arguments.
 
Maybe if Cats didn’t always exude the tone of “I know everything so the rest of you should listen,” then I wouldn’t try to pick part his arguments.

We are in the playoffs, have won the first series and are all Guardian fans here, cant we just put positive thoughts only out in the universe right now?
 

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