Shit, we might have 3 good pitchers for the playoffs.

That's all you need.

Granted, the opponent will have 3 good ones as well. But with our offense, we got a shot at this fucking World Series.

It's baseball. I know. But I'm guessing Vegas will have the Sox in the top 4 odds to win it once the playoffs start.

We are not allowing you on the bandwagon.

It's not like our 1-2 is Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling. They aren't going to carry you through 4 rounds of playoffs when going against a good team's 1-2.

Yes, I think Dunning is pretty good and I don't know why the Sox were so reluctant to give him regular starts earlier in the year. He was excellent before the injury and appeared fully recovered by spring training.

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Giolito and Kuechel are pretty good. What American League team has two that are clearly better? If they get Bummer back they also have a bullpen that can lock down games after 6 innings.

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Keuchel to the DL.

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It's just one start it looks like.

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Kuechel is key to the play-offs and backs are very iffy things with pitchers. IF he isn't 100% for the play-offs their chances really take a hit.

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I would count on Dunning just yet. He has pitched 4 games since Tommy John and 6 innings was the most he has gone and that was a blow out vs. the pirates. Many pitcher run into a wall or have a bit of a set back after they get going again but he has looked pretty good so far.

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Keuchel is already penciled in for the 17th vs Minnesota. This move to the IL was just to add another pitcher until then for the bullpen game that will take up his 1 missed start

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It's to add Lopez, which is basically saying that it will be a bullpen game after he gives up 4 run in the first.

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Be careful putting all your playoff chips on Keuchel. His peripherals aren't as hot as his ERA. He's averaged 5-2/3 per start and that puts his QS at 44%. His 3rd time through the order numbers blow. And like the rest of the staff, the competition he's faced has mostly been poor.

What I'm saying is the bullpen is as important as Keuchel himself in the games he's going to pitch.

That’s baseball these days though.

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I know but I worry about that 10 ERA after 4.

I hate saying this, but the rotation reminds me of '83 & '93. I just hope the hitters don't follow suit.

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How often from 2015-2019 did you see starters go beyond 5 innings in the playoffs? Managers seem to like having a quick hook in October so that they can run a man 3 rotation in the playoffs.

Every pitcher sees a major drop off the 3rd time through the order. So much of pitching is deception and that deception is lost mostly when guys have seen your stuff that night.

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Any playoff series win is gravy. It's STILL about 2021. But I'm happier than a pig in shit that the run came a year early. The 3 year rebuild has been remarkable. In this era of the rebuild, KC took 5 years, Houston took 4, and the Cubs took 3 to get to the playoffs. But we're set up better for the future than any of them.

I think much of that is a mistake to do. Dodgers, Brewers, Cubs, have had zero luck with it. I consider all 3 of those managers idiots.

I agree. Roberts and his stupid GM have cost the Dodgers at least 2 maybe three World Series championships. Their failure to have a top closer and set-up man when the play-offs start was stupid and unnecessary. With all of the money that they spent on a line-up and a few starting pitchers, they screwed the pooch on a bull-pen as well as not having a manager who knows how to set-up a rotation.

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Once again, this Dunning is pretty good. Not great. But he's good.

So he's the 3rd starter for the playoffs. I'll take that and feel OK.

Then you throw Cease in the bullpen to get a few outs. Just saying. It's a decent situation with the pitching right now.

Hes handling it. That's as far as I'll go. Run thru 6 and give less than 3 and the offense will give you a shot at a win.

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Going to need at least 4 starters for playoffs. No off days during series until LCS.

I feel good with Giolito, Diamond Dallas, Dunning, and Cease.

Dunning is pretty good. Always injured though.

Sounds like a perfect Hahn guy!

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Dunning looks like he at least consumes a salad or two

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