Which pitching rotation will dominate in the postseason? | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz draft their top potential playoff pitching rotations and note how important pitching rotations are in the postseason. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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What we're going to do now is draft the playoff rotations, the potential playoff rotations Jordan Schuster.
When you are older, you get the first pick.
I'm gonna keep it boring and, and go with the Phillies here.
So that's Wheeler, Nola Christopher Sanchez Ranger Suarez.
It's looking pretty likely that Suarez will start game four.
He's just been pretty shaky over the last month and a half and Wheeler is just such a again.
I mean, I'm, I'm just looking at the top guys.
Of course, there are some strong number ones across the board here, but I, I still, especially having seen all these guys have success in October already makes me feel better.
So I'll go with those, the Phillies first.
I'm gonna take the Astros with my pick, which is really a group of six and that is from Valdez.
You Kuchi Hunter Brown, Justin Verlander, Spencer, Arrietty and Ronell Blanco.
I think we're getting close to the Justin Verlander will get a playoff start conversation.
He's just been kind of mad.
Uh, I think the Astros will end up giving him one.
I wouldn't if I was in charge of the Astros.
Thank God, I'm not, that's, I, I don't really want that job, uh, but all of these guys that are just really good, the depth year is really impressive.
They will, whoever they start in a game four, I'll feel better about than anybody else and probably a game three.
I'm actually gonna go with San Diego here.
Um, uh, again, considering one other team as well, I'm gonna go with San Diego mostly.
I mean, I'm, you can't find someone that likes Dylan C Moore.
So that's a good place to start.
But Musgrove has looked healthy and, and pretty good, Darvish looked the best.
We've seen him and Michael King's just been one of the best pitchers in baseball quietly this whole season.
So the injury stuff is a little sketchy with those three after CS, but you could say that about most of these teams.
So I'm going to go with San Diego here.
Um If Lopez was fully healthy and rolling, I'd probably still lean Atlanta.
Uh, but I am going to go to San Diego, I'll take Atlanta, then Sal is the best pitcher in the world right now.
Still, he has really not tailed off.
He will win the NL Cy Young, he will earn it.
It is one of the most sensational comeback seasons we've seen in a long time.
He deserves a lot of credit for that him in a game one.
It's why Atlanta's dangerous if they get it.
Right.
Right.
If they, if they get in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Schwellenbach.
If he has to start a game three because Lopez is unavailable.
I still feel pretty good about that.
You take Ronaldo out of there.
Sale.
Fried Schwellenbach Morton is still really good.
And so that's why I'm taking Atlanta here.