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Quote: Originally Posted by ehh

Those teams never used to score? AL Rankings 1997: 2nd in runs scored 1998: 1st in runs scored 1999: 3rd in runs scored 2000: 6th in runs scored (we had that awful Sept) Small ball is stupid? Do you think it's some random conicidence that the last three WS winners (besides the Red Sox because their offense was idiotic in '04) are eerily remeniscent to the Yankee teams of the late 90's? The Angels, Marlins and White Sox - watching those teams reminded me an awful lot of those Yankee teams. When you get to the post season you face such good pitching that you can't just sit back and wait for your big guns to hit homers. That's how the Yankees survived the last four years because you can do that in the regular season because of all the mediocore pitching. That's why we get to the post season and then lose. Once you get to the post season that doesn't fly. And the starting pitching hasn't been that bad in the post season outside of the '04 ALCS. In the 2003 WS the Marlins hit .232 and beat us 4-2. Their OBP was only .282. That's why you see players even as hot as Jeter and Abreu bunting this year.

2005 white sox = HR team.. being small ball was just coined by idiotic reporters who saw them bunt and said "OOH SMALLBALL" when most of their runs were scored off of homers

Yankees NEVER score a lot of runs in the postseason, and you know why? Because they give away outs with small ball. Somebody explain to me why a guy with a 900+ OPS and a .345 avg should EVER bunt

the 1996-2000 teams won because of pitching. we don't have that same type of pitching now, so playing smallball and scoring less runs would be stupid