This preview, written by Baseball Prospectus’s Bryan Grosnick, forms part of the main site’s comprehensive coverage of the postseason, “Playoff Prospectus”. More Game One coverage can be found here. It’s finally here! The World Series kicks off tonight with Game 1, and two long-storied franchises with histories of futility and new-school front offices will face […]
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Game 1 Recap: Cubs 9 Angels 0
This was fun. Let’s get to it. Top Play (WPA): “When you go, we go.” That’s what manager Joe Maddon said to Dexter Fowler before every one of his at-bats during the 2015 season, and it is (presumably) what he said to him today, shortly before Fowler began the Cubs’ 2016 campaign with a sharp double down the […]