Wednesday Night Open Thread

One postseason game is in the books, and boy, was that a doozy or what? Imagine not using the best reliever on the planet in a winner-take-all game that went to extra innings. Say what you want about Joe Girardi, but he’d never ever ever ever do that. Anyway, check out Bruce Schoenfeld’s profile of Daren Willman, MLB.com’s Statcast guru. Teams have millions of Statcast data points and no idea how to use them. Pretty interesting stuff.

Here is tonight’s open thread. The Mets and Giants will play the NL Wild Card Game at 8pm ET (Syndergaard vs. Bumgarner). The television broadcast will be on ESPN, and you can stream the game online at WatchESPN. Hopefully tonight’s game is as good as last night’s.