Special playoff edition of Dickles Pickles  

First Matchup ----   Tacoma vs Santa Cruz:  
 Season matchup  Santa Cruz 7 wins  Tacoma 3 wins
 Runs scored in the matchup Santa Cruz 36 Tacoma 35
  Team Stats:
   Santa Cruz: batting: .259 average .718 ops
                      pitching 3.72 era    .708 defensive ops
   Tacoma: batting .260 average    .751 ops
                  pitching 3.87 era         .715 defensive ops

Probable rotations:
   Santa Cruz 3 man rotation        Tacoma 5 man rotation
  Butler(12-7)                                  Leary(12-16)
  Nance(10-6)                                  Prieto(13-8)
  Alicea(11-11)                                Russell(9-10)
                                                        Thomas(17-7)
                                                        Trevino(16-12)

Thoughts:
  The run differential between the two teams means this one should go 5 games.
  It's Tacoma's hitters against the Santa Cruz pitchers.
  The wild card in this series is Jacob(13-8) coming out of the bullpen for Santa Cruz

Second Matchup------ Cincinnati vs. Augusta
Season matchup : tied 5 games a piece
Runs scored in the matchup Augusta 54 Cincinnati48
Team Stats:
 Cincinnati: batting .275 avg.   .813 ops
                   pitching 4.34 era    .765 defensive ops
 Augusta : batting .272 avg .804 ops
                  pitching 4.48 era  .746 defensive ops

Probable rotations
 Cincinnati 3 man rotation                  Augusta 4 man rotation
 Miles(18-4)                                        Dixon(8-14)
 Callaway(10-10)                                Nakajima(19-8)
 Brooks(15-8)                                      Maddox(13-13)
                                                            Cayones(19-8)


Thoughts:
 I have a disposition towards looking at pitching more than hitting. Yet this is a batters series Cincinnati has the third most runs scored and Augusta sixth. This one also goes 5 games.
The team that has the most innings where they score more than 3 runs win this series.


Third Matchup------------St. Louis vs.Charleston
 Season matchup: St. Louis 6 wins Charleston 4
Runs scored in the matchup St. Louis 48 Charleston 47
 Team Stats:
 St.Louis: batting    . 244 avg   .652 ops
                 pitching   3.44 era   .697 defensive ops
 Charleston: batting  .269 avg  .746 ops
                  pitching  3.37 era   .667 defensive ops

Probable rotations
 St.Louis  5 man rotation            Charleston 3 man rotation
 Lopez(11-13)                              Carter(18-7)
 Ramirez(17-11)                           Johnson(13-9)
 Loux(16-9)                                  Phelps(11-3)
 Viriato(10-12)
 Yang(8-11)

Thoughts:
  Team statistics seem to heavily favor Charleston, even though they lost the head to head matchup during the season. This one looks likes it also goes 5 games. I think whoever scores the most extra innings runs wins.

Fourth Matchup----------------Seattle vs Washington
 Season matchup --------------Seattle6 Washington 4
Runs scored in the matchup Seattle 42 Washington 39
Team Stats:
 Seattle: batting   .249 avg  .703 ops
            pitching    3.14 era  .651 defensive ops
 Washington batting  .266 avg  .747 ops
                     pitching 3.77 era  .686 defensive ops

Probable rotations
Seattle 3 man rotation                 Washington 5 man rotation
 Mateo(17-10)                               Carpenter(9-9)
 Brinkley(13-8)                             Fleming (11-12)
 Perez(14-5)                                  Paul (12-6)
                                                      Boscan (7-15)
                                                      Gattis (14-12

Thoughts:
 I think this one will be the quick one. I like the Seattle rotation best of all 8 rotations and did I say earlier I have a predisposition to favor pitching