Mat Germain, Tampa Bay Rays & Orioles and the MLB Postseason, Living the Dream

BaseballBiz On Deck

• MLB Rundown
• Long stretch of games for O’s – facing Astros, Red Sox, Nationals & Guardians
• AL West strength who will prevail into Wild Card spot – Astros, Mariners & Rangers
• NL East – Atlanta Braves rule across entire AL
• Compare Braves & Brewers pretty evenly matched in starting pitching
• BaseballBiz visit to Camden Yards – Avid & loud fans with a Sold Out crowd of 43,000 plus fans
• Mat’s visit to Camden Yards, sat in the vanishing left field seats w/Blue Jays fans
• Finding moments & milestones with Yandy Diaz
• Select a Rays jersey with player longevity with the Rays - Isaac Paredes
• Yandy & Isaak quietly build a great body of baseball work
• Game 2 – Zach Eflin was on fire against the Orioles Eflin, the most important & steady confident player of the Rays. Cy Young award talk
• Game 3 with Orioles – Tyler’s pitching was off and Rays lost
• Grayson Rodriguez - pitched a career-high 8 scoreless innings on 7 strikeouts & 5 hits (O's Game Notes) ‘he fanned Curtis Mead on a 100.1 mph fastball in the 2nd inning, the 2nd fastest strikeout pitch by an O’s starter in the Statcast era …His 117 strikeouts this season are the 10th-most by an O’s rookie at 23 years old
• No Yankees & Red Sox this postseason
• Grayson Rodriguez & Shane McClanahan comparisons on style and health
• Brandon Lowe – (O's Game Notes) slugged his 21st home run of the season in the first inning; marked the 105th homer of his career, surpassing Carl Crawford for sole possession of 6thplace on the Rays all-time home run list…Also marked his 202nd career extra-base hit, tying him w/Fred McGriff for eighth-most in team history
• Game 4 – 11 inning loss for the Rays
• Why did Kevin Cash use Pete Fairbanks for 2 innings
• Rays face Angels next
• Shohei Ohtani
• Ray Bourque & the Boston Bruins path could that be the same for Mike Trout
• Angels need an Alex Anthopoulos style GM to rebuild their organization – perhaps Chaim Bloom
• Pirates could be a model for a new Angels path
• Will Rays keep a .600 record for the remaining season?
• Teams with a Bye may go cold with time off at the beginning of postseason
• The Stadium of the Future – Virtual Ballpark – with live - on-field avatars
• AppleTV & MLB – a camera shot from the seats with the Canadian broadcast
• Rays’ Tristan Gray (O's Game Notes) Gray made his 1st MLB start, 1st career hit, and launched his first career home run in the 8th inning

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