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Fire Up The Hot Stove November 2, 2010

Although I’m usually fairly heavy on the statistical content, I can’t help but mention a few impressions from Game 5 of the World Series last night.

• If I didn’t have Baseball-Reference.com to tell me different, I’d have assumed Aubrey Huff wasn’t an everyday first baseman from the way he played last night. He was competent and made some nice picks, but he didn’t seem to have the ankle-preservation instinct that most everyday 1Bs do. He seemed to have his heels back quite far on the bag most of the time.

• The rumors about the Yankees pursuing Cliff Lee strike me as cartoonish supervillainy. “If I cannot defeat you, I will simply BUY you!”

• Game 3 was the Lee vs. Tim Lincecum gem that we all assumed Game 1 would be.

• Somewhere, Bengie Molina is secretly pouring champagne all over himself.

• If the postseason came before voting, Buster Posey would be a lock for Rookie of the