Padres Secret Sauce?

[AztecBill]

Good Padres Article.

At the bottom of the article the author writes about Baseball Prospectus' (BP) Secret Sauce of post season success. BP says that 3 metrics correlate to post season success:

1. Defense
2. Closer
3. Staff Strike outs.

BP says the Padres currently rate higher in their Secret Sauce calculations than any team during the Wild Card Era.

[dshawfan]

All I know is out here in the Imperial Valley where the masses worship the Dodgers, they have suddenly become strangely quiet!

[AztecBill]

Aug 3, 2010 11:54:06 GMT -8 dshawfan said:

All I know is out here in the Imperial Valley where the masses worship the Dodgers, they have suddenly become strangely quiet!

Dodger fans are shocked. This is like Aztecs basketball being sweep into 6th place by first place AFA.

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One of the keys for post season success is the relative strength of your #1 and #2 pitchers. Having 4 #2 pitchers is great for regular season success but in the playoffs having 2 #1s is better than having 4 #2s. I hope Black is smart enough to pitch Garland at home in the playoffs. He excels at home and has been not as good on the road. Hopefully Latos is still dealing. He is a perfect road warrior for us.