Sheehan on the Series (EDIT)

Baseball Prospectus’s Joe Sheehan has posted his Prospectus Today article, and it’s a fine piece of journalism.  Read it here (not a subscription-only piece as of right now).

Basic premise:  The Phillies best chance in this series is to win when Cole Hamels starts and steal one or two other games.  Sheehan advocates using Hamels on short rest not just in game 4, but again in a potential game 7.  I’m with him wholeheartedly here – the Rays, as I said yesterday, are just the better baseball team, but Philly can maximize their chances of a Series win by getting Hamels on the mound as much as possible.

EDIT:  The comments over there are quite good so far, too (7 posted as of now).  BP has a quite intelligent reader base, and the discussion on their newly added comment threads is top notch.

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