These Astros are the first team since those Yankees to not fall prey to what is so often referred to now as the postseason crapshoot.
They are in their seventh straight ALCS, beginning with Sunday night’s Game 1 against the Rangers. If you don’t like that because it begins with their sign-stealing baseball unholy year of 2017, fine, it is six in a row since 2018.to alert him to what pitches were coming, fine, it is three straight since 2020, including a championship last season. So they have a chance to be the first repeat champs since the 1998-2000 Yankees threepeat.
So they have defied crapshoots and playoff layoff theories. So I personally will give them another bye — to the idea that somehow this staying power is about cheating. They are beyond the full grasp of current analytics. Because, as with Jeter, they are pressure proof with a flair for the moment and a feel for the game not captured in modern measurement.
But here is something simpler: Trash-can banging or not, I believe if you simply flip-flop third basemen — Bregman with Todd Frazier — the Yankees win the 2017 pennant because Bregman made two confidence-high, pressure-ignoring genius plays that helped change games. His glove shows up every October.
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