JAL’s Holding Back the Years Morning Links

Holding Back the Years Simply Red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w

MLB Transactions

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/

3 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8jN0zO-DxI0eVkyazRFY2IzLU0&usp=sharing

4 BFFL’s Pirates Stats Spreadsheet and Prediction Contest

First link is to new 2017 sheets but no data yet while second link is to 2016 data

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wMRQrWaQaLQvSs502k6qTzds_6JOlKjzNeaUNLtNLyc/edit#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19zg6X5VUHUBW_0QTsTMLdNcgTYSq-hZIKvzLFmhwPjU/edit#gid=775822168

5 Retrosheet

http://www.retrosheet.org

6 Rumbunter

In September, did Edgar Santana lock up a 2018 bullpen spot?

https://rumbunter.com/2017/10/06/september-edgar-santana-lock-2018-bullpen-spot/

7 Viva El Birdos</b>

J.D. Martinez as Giancarlo Stanton lite

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2017/10/7/16433660/cardinals-outfield-middle-order-bat-jd-martinez

8 Green Weenie

10/7 Post-Season: Bad Day at the Shop...0-for-3 in WS; 1-for-5 in Playoffs

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2017/10/107-post-season-bad-day-at-shop0-for-3.html

9 Red Reporter

Cincinnati Reds links - New minor league affiliate, roster moves, & Shohei Ohtani

https://www.redreporter.com/2017/10/5/16430354/cincinnati-reds-links-new-minor-league-affiliate-roster-moves-shohei-ohtani

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Cubs Playoff Rapid Recap: Cubs 3, Nationals 0

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2017/10/6/16440072/cubs-playoff-rapid-recap-cubs-nationals-kyle-hendricks-anthony-rizzo-kris-bryant-stephen-strasburg

11 Pirates Breakdown

Top 10 wins from the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2017 season

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2017/10/06/pittsburgh-pirates-2017-top-wins/

12 LA Times

Yasiel Puig has Dodger Stadium rocking during Game 2 defeat of Arizona

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodgers-plaschke-20171007-story.html

13 Washington Post

With two swings of the bat, everything may have changed for the Nationals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/with-two-swings-of-the-bat-everything-has-changed-for-the-nationals/2017/10/07/0c130fa6-aaec-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?utm_term=.c6c038d01cca

14 Lifehacker

Every Hot Dog in Major League Baseball, Ranked

https://lifehacker.com/every-hot-dog-in-major-league-baseball-ranked-1819249617

15 Yahoo Sports

Major League Baseball is rising — so who is the face?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/major-league-baseball-rising-face-113446086.html

16 St. Louis Post Dispatch</b>

  Ortiz: Getting back to the Cardinal Way

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jose-de-jesus-ortiz/ortiz-getting-back-to-the-cardinal-way/article_90369d53-b923-53d2-acbd-5a850804055f.html

  17 SB Nation    

MLB playoffs 2017: Bracket, schedule, scores, and more from the postseason

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/10/3/16390256/2017-mlb-playoffs-bracket-schedule-scores-results-postseason

Joe Girardi learned the hardest lesson of the 2017 postseason

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/10/6/16440050/joe-girardi-yankees-indians-replay-chisenhall-knob-wait

18 CBS Sports

Yankees-Indians: Not challenging hit-by-pitch only start of Joe Girardi's problems

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/yankees-indians-not-challenging-hit-by-pitch-only-start-of-joe-girardis-problems/

19 Fangraphs

Trevor Bauer’s Dominating Curveball

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/trevor-bauers-dominating-curveball/

20 Baseball Prospectus</b>

Stargazing in the Nation's Capital

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=32938

21 Sports on Earth

IT AIN'T OVER: 0-2 PLAYOFF COMEBACKS

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/257800128/down-0-2-best-of-five-comebacks

AL Division Series Game 3

Houston Astros at Boston Red Sox

Time: 2:30 pm

TV: Fox Sports 1

Brad Peacock (R) 13-2 3.00 ERA   Doug Fister (R) 5-9 4.88 ERA

Astros

1. George Springer (R) CF

2. Josh Reddick (L) RF

3. Jose Altuve (R) 2B

4. Carlos Correa (R) SS

5. Marwin Gonzalez (S) LF

6. Alex Bregman (R) 3B

7. Carlos Beltran (S) DH

8. Yuli Gurriel (R) 1B

9. Brian McCann (L) C

Red Sox

1. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS

2. Dustin Pedroia (R) 2B

3. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF

4. Mookie Betts (R) RF

5. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B

6. Hanley Ramirez (R) DH

7. Rafael Devers (L) 3B

8. Sandy Leon (S) C

9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF

AL Division Series Game 3

Cleveland Indians at New York Yankees

Time:  7:30 pm

TV: Fox Sports 1

Carlos Carrasco  (R)  18-6  3.29 ERA  Masahiro Tanaka 13-12  4.74 ERA

Indians

1. Francisco Lindor (S) SS

2. Jason Kipnis (L) CF

3. Jose Ramirez (S) 2B

4. Jay Bruce (L) RF

5. Carlos Santana (S) 1B

6. Austin Jackson (R) LF

7. Michael Brantley (L) DH

8. Roberto Perez (R) C

9. Giovanny Urshela (R) 3B

Yankees

1. Brett Gardner (L) LF

2. Aaron Judge (R) RF

3. Gary Sanchez (R) C

4. Didi Gregorius (L) SS

5. Starlin Castro (R) 2B

6. Greg Bird (L) 1B

7. Todd Frazier (R) 3B

8. Jacoby Ellsbury (L) DH

9. Aaron Hicks (S) CF