Chip R (10-30-2020)
Revering4Blue (10-29-2020),Roy Tucker (10-29-2020)
The analytics were different because the managers used their starters differently. Bell let his starters go deep if the situation made sense. Cash never let Snell go deep. We don’t know how Snell would have done if he went deeper because he never went farther than 5 innings this season.
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For reference, Bauer was excellent this year in the 75-100 pitch category and 3rd time through the order. Not all pitchers are the same and should not be treated the same. Bauer also wasn't showing signs of diminished velocity. Its possible that it made sense to pull Snell, and not Bauer, and be analytically on side in both cases. People act like "analytics" creates hard fastened rules that point to hard lined conclusions. Analytics is simply the use of significant amounts of data used to craft decisions based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative factors. People are ignoring real evidence that Snell was showing a decline in ability, does perform worse after around 75 pitches, and does struggle 3rd time through the order, and rather basing the decision off of an awesome 5.2 innings during the first 75 pitches. Both factors should be taken into consideration, but generally, there was a larger pile of evidence and logic used to override Snell's dominance in the first 75 pitches of one particular game.
And how did that work for the Rays?
Hint, they were in the top 5 of basically every single pitching category this season despite having the lowest payroll in MLB.
They are robotic, and kind of unfun. But they make disciplined decisions that got them past every single team in baseball except a super elite team.
I felt the same way about David Bell pulling our guys super early last year. Luckily he gave Castillo and Gray changes to stretch out and prove themselves. Snell didn’t pitching 6 innings even once this season. Having a guy that could go deep into a game Bauer style may have been the difference between winning and losing the World Series for the Rays.
M2 (10-29-2020)
It worked just fine in the postseason. They beat every team except the one team that was actually better than them.
You make it sound like they underachieved in the postseason. Nothing is further from the truth.
If they had deviated from the strategy that got them into the playoffs, it’s most likely they would have lost earlier.
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