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Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Y’all have fun with this. I’m going to be over here watching scary movies instead. I’ll post reviews of some of my favorites, since I’ve no interest in analyzing this series. Oscar Wilde once described fox-hunting as “the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.” That’s pretty much how I feel about the World Series, which … [Read more...] about Playoff Gameday Thread, #20: Hell Week

Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images After hopeful signs in 2023, this year was a reversion to form Back in May 2023, I looked at the struggles of the Diamondbacks bullpen during the time of Mike Hazen as GM. At that point, the team has been below average in the “holy trinity” of pitching metrics - ERA, FIP and xFIP - every year since 2019, but there was some reason for hope, … [Read more...] about Mike Hazen still has a bullpen problem…

Photo by Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images Think of it this way... One of them has to lose! (MLB.com) Storylines to watch for star-studded World Series Game 1 It has been a very long week waiting for this World Series to start, right? The last NLCS game was played Sunday; Game 1 of the World Series finally begins Friday. That is too many days without … [Read more...] about SnakeBytes 10/25: Dodger Evil vs. Yankee Evil

Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Where does the homegrown pitching depth stand at this point? As we soak up the last bits of baseball before the long, hard winter with the baseball equivalent of choosing between the proverbial rock and a hard place, the D-Backs and their fans must continue to grapple with how agonizingly close they were to qualifying for the postseason. Of … [Read more...] about Thursday Tidbits: Pitching Depth