HBT: NLCS winner won't be gassed for Tigers

The Cards and Giants are beating each others? brains out up until less than 48 hours before the World Series starts. Heck, if it rains tonight, maybe to within 24 hours. ?As Buster Olney says, this has to be good for the Tigers, right?

For the?Detroit Tigers, the drawn-out series between the Cards and Giants is all good, because the rotations of the NL teams will be left in a jumble, the bullpens taxed. The Tigers are lined up and all ready to go with?Justin Verlander, et al.

Except the last time they were in the World Series it was set up very much like this. Detroit dispatched the Athletics in the 2006 ALCS in four games, with the last one being on October 14. ?The Mets and Cardinals, in contrast, played a seven game series that ended on October 19. ?The World Series began two days later, with the Tigers having had a full week to rest bodies and set up the rotation, with the Cardinals in a?putative??jumble.? ?And the Cardinals ended up winning that series in five games.

It?s quite possible that, yes, whoever comes out of the NLCS will be jumbled. And I imagine that after 2006 the Tigers learned some lessons about how to spend a long layoff (thus the scrimmages they?ve been playing against minor leaguers and such). But if history shows us anything it?s that we can?t really predict how layoffs and frantic run-ups to a series will play out.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/22/dont-count-on-the-nlcs-winner-being-gassed-for-the-world-series/related/

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