NLCS Preview

Championship Series are set, I'll do my best to talk about the NLCS here between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies

Catcher: Buster Posey vs. Carlos Ruiz, Advantage: Even. Both aren't bad, I like the spark from Posey and the experience from Ruiz. Call it even.
First Base: Aubrey Huff vs. Ryan Howard, Advantage: Phillies. Huff is the lone star in SF's line up, Howard is better.
Second Base: Freddy Sanchez vs. Chase Utley, Advantage: Phillies. Utley is better, nothing else to it.
Third Base: Pablo Sandoval vs. Placido Polanco, Advantage: Phillies. Kung Fu Panda is struggling, and that'll bring him down more than Polanco's injuries.
Short Stop: Juan Uribe vs. Jimmy Rollins, Advantage: Phillies. J-Roll can hit for power just as well as Uribe, but Rollins is a much better base runner.
Left Field: Pat Burrell vs. Raul Ibanez, Advantage: Phillies. Close, but Ibanez is pretty good at coming up big in October (at least he was last year)
Center Field: Andres Torres vs. Shane Victorino, Advantage: Phillies. Victorino is just much better...not much to it.
Right Field: Cody Ross vs. Jason Werth, Advantage: Phillies. Ross had a great first series...but Werth is better...yet again.

Starting Pitching, Adantage: Phillies. Giants pitched GREAT in the DS, Halladay gave up no hits in 9 innings. When Roy Oswalt makes your bad start you're in pretty good shape
Bullpen: Even. I'd say that the Giants have a better pen, but it wasn't amazing in the series and the Phillies didn't use theirs really.
Closer: Brian Wilson vs. Brad Lidge, Advantage: Giants. I gotta give the Giants at least something on this. That being said, it is pretty close to even.

Series Prediction: Phillies in 5. The match ups say it all.