2016 World Series Mets/Royals

[Borealis]

That throw home - which would have had Hosmer nailed easily, had to have been one of the worst throws I've ever seen.

[roncollins]

If the throes had been even close Hosmer could have gone down as a total goat. Instead, he's a hero. Baseball is strange, as Rory so eloquently stated.

[Mike Dunn]

If the throes had been even close Hosmer could have gone down as a total goat. Instead, he's a hero. Baseball is strange, as Rory so eloquently stated.

Except ... On Buster Olney's a Baseball Tonight podcast they said KC scouts and coaches had impressed on their players that Lucas Duda has a terrible arm, and they should test it. So Hosmer tested it. The ESPN guys felt with a better arm at first, he would have held at third.

Baseball is strange, but in this case good advance scouting paid off big time.

[roncollins]

True enough. I've read lots of commentary on the question of Duda's arm. But I think that if that play runs 100 times, Hosmer is out 85 of them.

[Coqui]

True enough. I've read lots of commentary on the question of Duda's arm. But I think that if that play runs 100 times, Hosmer is out 85 of them.

That's what Strat-o-Matic is for.