September 2020 game thread

[Lee Stone]

It's been mentioned exactly nowhere, but the Marlins didn't need the expanded playoff field to make it to the postseason this year! Under the regular ten-team structure, the Marlins earned a wild card spot and would have been playing San Diego tomorrow in a one-game playoff. Because of injuries to the San Diego staff, it is likely that the Marlins would have been facing none other than Chris Paddock.

[fish16]

love that we went with sandy for game 1. he deserves it, but their lineup does scare me in that ballpark. baez and bryant have had horrendous years yet they will scare me at the plate every single time they are up. game 1 is enormous.

[fish16]

also, i hope we dont fuck around and i hope mattingly just puts our best lineup out there. Rojas, marte, cooper, anderson, aguilar, dickerson, jazz/Brinson (splitting between 2b and an OF spot with Berti switiching between 2b and DH), wallach, berti.

[fish16]

umpire crews just came out and we dont have any of the notable suspects that are awful like Joe west or angel hernandez or cb Bucknor. So that's good

[Nick]

also, i hope we dont fuck around and i hope mattingly just puts our best lineup out there. Rojas, marte, cooper, anderson, aguilar, dickerson, jazz/Brinson (splitting between 2b and an OF spot with Berti switiching between 2b and DH), wallach, berti.

You know Joyce will be in the lineup.

[fish16]

You know Joyce will be in the lineup.

i swear if he's in there im gonna lose it.

[Lee Stone]

i swear if he's in there im gonna lose it.

100% chance Joyce is in the lineup in RF

As Ozuna finishes the regular season barely missing a triple crown, I muse about the Marlins signing him to something like a three year, $60M deal. He was such a popular Marlin ... truly great guy. That would conclude the trade to SL nicely. Alcantara in the rotation, Chisholm at SS (for Gallen), Sierra as reserve OF, and Castano in the pen.

[Namaste]

Marlins went from +166 to +153 after Ross announced Hendricks (not Darvish) is starting Game 1

[Namaste]

Cubs are obviously favored for Games 1 and 2 but Fangraphs has Marlins win probability in Game 3 (Sixto vs Lester) at 51.9%

[Lee Stone]

Has Sixto Sanchez been named as game two starter? I don't have a huge problem with that ... IF the Marlins win the series opener. However, if game one is lost, you have to turn to Lopez. Lopez won twice as many games as any other Marlin pitcher this season and is actually the team MVP for 2020. You don't make the playoffs and leave him on the pine. No way, no how.

Addendum: Actually, the more I think about it, the more ridiculous this becomes. Should be Pablo in game one and Alcantara in game two. Over their last three starts, Lopez has clearly been the best. And if it goes to game three, I'd consider Trevor Rogers as a three inning opener and then Sanchez.

[fish16]

I got the marlins in the series at +185. Im much happier facing hendricks rather than darvish in game 1. both great pitchers but i feel like we can possibly make some noise against hendricks potentially and darvish feels like a pretty easy quality start from him.

[Namaste]

Marlins went from +166 to +153 after Ross announced Hendricks (not Darvish) is starting Game 1

Down to +145 now. Lets gooooo

[Namaste]

What a joke MLB is having Cubs/Marlins have all 3 of their games scheduled at 2:08 PM.

[gustavopim]

The Miami Marlins today announced the club’s 28-man roster and taxi squad for the Wild Card Series. The club added INF Lewin D

[Nick]

https://twitter.com/CraigMish/status...29110321434626

Lineup. Joyce in RF batting 6th. Wallach at C batting 9th.