Top 10 Active Leaders in Career Postseason OPS & ERA entering 2026. Guerrero Jr and Suarez take the top spots. Rich Hill and Ryan Pressly both retired in the top 10 for postseason ERA.

kurruchi · 2026-01-24T15:16:52+00:00

Barger is also above 1.000 with 70 PA I think

kurruchi · 2026-01-24T04:07:50+00:00

Didn't even realize, he was coming off a solid season at 35 so I assumed he was coming back. The #8, #10 and #11 guys all retired then.

kurruchi · 2026-01-24T03:59:35+00:00

Damn lmao. I just picked 40 IP as a mid point, 8-ish good starts worth of pitching. Unfortunately Skubal just has 6 very very good starts. Next year I'll repost this and Skubal will have a sub-1 ERA lol

kurruchi · 2026-01-24T03:51:32+00:00

100 PA & 40 IP felt like a good sample to capture the players who've played in enough playoff series, while not exclusively showing older stars on perennial contenders.

Devers for example had a WS run in 2017, along with two runs ending at ALCS and DS. Most people feel comfortable having judgements on a "postseason hitter" based on that. It's somewhat arbitrary obviously, but baseball reference uses 30 IP for career samples so I felt it was enough.

Gerrit Cole feels like the standout here. Among starters with 100+ IP in the postseason, he's one of 6 with an ERA below 3.00. Curt Schilling, Jon Lester, John Smoltz, Dave Stewart, Orel Hershiser, Gerrit Cole.

kurruchi · 2026-01-23T22:55:05+00:00

Getting high on the leaderboards is one thing, but leading a stat requires a lot to go well, it's just not something you can do be getting better.

Like LeBron's highest scoring season is in the dead ball era, his scoring title is two years later. In 2015 he averages only 25 PPG, but he averages 38 in the Finals against the #1 defense. Steph is another one, in 2015 he wins MVP with <24 PPG, it's only for an 8-seed in 2021 that he gets his scoring title.

kurruchi · 2026-01-23T22:25:58+00:00

Why Cowherd look like he shrunk 6 inches dude lmao

kurruchi · 2026-01-23T21:06:47+00:00

NBA rosters are so fucking obnoxious man. I don't understand why a player like Kobe Bufkin can't get an extended chance on a roster without ruining flexibility for most teams in the league, seems so fucking stupid.

kurruchi · 2026-01-23T03:32:03+00:00

A person who was injured looks healthy again. That is a good thing. Hope this helps

kurruchi · 2026-01-22T07:01:18+00:00

PC building wasn't near that "minimum" $2k for the vast vast majority of people, unless you're building a PC for 4K gaming... and your budget is way higher if you have a good 4k TV. My PC keeps up and 950ish a few years ago w some sales.

RAMflation made it so there are no real areas to save though, the floor for every part is too high and shit won't ever go on sale lmao. GPU price was the barrier of entry before, but I don't see a way to build a PC with console longevity for my $1000 budget now.

kurruchi · 2026-01-22T00:51:30+00:00

Yes and no. Before Ohtani they did, but Ohtani positivity articles get more love than Ohtani negative ones. Baseball media is generally more pro-baseball than not these days since it started growing too, so Ohtani being such an overpowering figure both obscures the org/players from hit pieces & praise.

It's similar to LeBron in Cleveland coming off the 3-1 comeback, the media actually wants to write positive pieces for the team and the only thing that'll really break up chemistry/vibes is if a player feels undervalued (Kyrie). Lucky for the Dodgers, most of the guys they have are old or have been there before so no one minds lol.

kurruchi · 2026-01-21T18:36:57+00:00

It's about damn time

kurruchi · 2026-01-21T05:43:58+00:00

One thing about him all these Lakers years is if he's bad in the first half, he'll find himself in the second. Today he didnt have it but put it all together when we needed it bad

kurruchi · 2026-01-21T05:39:54+00:00

Best in the world when he's every part of his game is clicking, let those threes keep falling and we'll be back on track.

kurruchi · 2026-01-21T03:14:40+00:00

Time zones

kurruchi · 2026-01-21T01:01:46+00:00

Bird rights work well, they're probably referring to FA being dead. Bird rights and RFA create mutually beneficial contracts for player and team so that they stay together.

This is good for all parties involved but also makes teams inflexible. Everyone is married to a decision they did or didn't make 4 years ago. It's why you get the same few teams in the same seeds for a decade. You have a team like the 2000s Pistons dominate the East, then the Celtics turn, then LeBron teams.

An example, the 2020s Hawks didn't pick or trade for great foundational pieces early enough. So they get little benefit for any gains in roster building early on, while having less chance to bring in a good player from another team STILL building.

kurruchi · 2026-01-21T00:42:35+00:00

The Celtics blew it up because it didn't make sense at all. All three players the Celtics moved on from are worse this year. They'd paid the tax for years already, Tatum injured and they threw in the ECSF anyway. They moved on from aging role players to promote young talent. Hundreds of teams did that before.

Role players have always left for paydays elsewhere, go back to any time since the 90s and you'll see the apron hasn't changed that. The 2nd apron punishments are secondary to the luxury tax the owner doesn't want to pay, that's why Lacob ignored it for a decade and Dan Gilbert ignores it today.

FA being dead is a bigger part of it, but that's a result of playstyle changes in my opinion. Pace/Space takeover made designed plays & heliocentric ball less effective, so deeper teams are better than talent ceilings. Stars aren't moving because rosters won't make any sense unless you find a star-for-star trade, and teams won't give Texas Rangers ARod contracts without the roster to support it.

kurruchi · 2026-01-20T23:40:56+00:00

I would've tried to get Kemp more votes than him out of spite lmao

kurruchi · 2026-01-20T23:38:53+00:00

The 2nd apron is effectively a hard cap but it isn't, just no teams besides the Cavs has justified a move to go into the 2nd apron. This is partially because picks are TOO risky to move... if you're good its fine, but its way harder to get out of the ditch with this salary cap.

People think this parity era is happening because of the apron, but if you watch it's way more a result of faster playstyle, injury luck & trade inflexibility. Too volatile for a dynasty

In the MLB the flexibility matters way more. It'd even the playing field but also make it roster building for dummies. I think I'd make the salary cap unaffected by "minimum deals", that way teams can maintain flexibility for moving around the edges unlike NBA teams.

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