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Game Threads ALCS Game 1 - Seattle at Toronto
Away we go.

We talked a fair bit about how Seattle's extreme ball park has made some of their pitchers look a wee bit better than usual.

The flip side is what it's done to their hitters, three in particular, who have been much more dangerous when they get out of the great Northwest.

Player     G    PA   AB   R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB  CS  BB   SO  BAVG   OBP   SLG   OPS    

Raleigh    80   366  307  58   82  12  0  32   63   7   3  55  101  .267  .380  .619  .999
Rodriguez  80   364  338  64  100  20  2  23   60  12   5  18   71  .296  .341  .571  .912
Canzone    43   139  124  18   40   4  0   8   16   2   1  11   28  .323  .384  .548  .932

So there's that.

Matchup

Miller (4-6, 5.68) vs Gausman (10-11, 3.59)

Posted by Magpie on Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 02:27 PM EDT.
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ISLAND BOY - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 02:54 PM EDT (#470342) #
All, right, we've had a few days to rest and relax our nerves. Now it's back to the tense TV watching. (Unless you're lucky enough to see the games in person)
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uglyone - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 03:10 PM EDT (#470343) #
Strikes me that Straw has no splits at the plate, not this year, not career (actually better vRHP for career), and that his defense would be more important in Seattle's park than most any other park in baseball.
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uglyone - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 04:43 PM EDT (#470348) #
Twitter notes that these were the SP the jays threw at Seattle in their 2 series this year:

Gausman
Berrios
Francis x3
Lucas
Urena

we did not send our best.

but we still went 4-2.



up against

Woo
Gilbert
Castillo x2
Miller
Evans
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ayjackson - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 04:43 PM EDT (#470349) #
8:03pm EDT?
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uglyone - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 05:24 PM EDT (#470350) #

so now that the rosters are settled, here's my best attempt to match up the rosters.

First with this year's stats:

And with Fangraphs Combined Projections:

I ended up pretty much ordering them by war pace. It seemed to work out best.

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James W - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 05:29 PM EDT (#470351) #
Posted lineups:

Arozarena, 7
Raleigh, 2
Rodriguez, 8
Polanco, 4
Naylor, 3
Suarez, 5
Canzone, 0
Robles, 9
Crawford, 6

Springer, 0
Lukes, 9
Guerrero, 3
Barger, 5
Kirk, 2
Varsho, 8
Clement, 4
Santander, 7
Gimenez, 6
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Glevin - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 05:41 PM EDT (#470352) #
Issue with Straw is that there's basically no scenario where he is in the best OF VS RHP. varsho,Lukes,Santander, and Schneider all would be ahead of him IMO. I imagine Jays will lift Santander early if leading so Straw should still get plenty of playing time. Schneider might start him one game too but it would mean sitting Santander and Schneider both which seems like not a great idea to me.
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uglyone - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 05:51 PM EDT (#470353) #
manager did something clever there - there's only one lefty in the lineup that's overly exposed vs LHP, and that's Barger, so he stuck him in between two of his best hitters vladdy and Kirk instead of further down the lineup in order to make it as tough as possible on them to think about bringing in a lefty. This is the kind of thing Boone should have tried around Grisham to make his lineup less vulnerable.

But while I appreciate that the idea of Santander is enough to make other managers hesitate still, I really hope he starts hitting sooner or later because he's a pretty big downgrade both offensively and defensively from Schneider in LF at the moment.
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ayjackson - Sunday, October 12 2025 @ 06:11 PM EDT (#470354) #
Barger-Kirk-Varsho wouldn't be the worst spot for a lefty.

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