Nine Innings: How to Maximize Your NLCS and ALCS Viewing Experience; Predicting Unlikely Heroes

Baseball looks a lot different today than it did even a few years ago. This is the best way to enhance your viewing experience of the NLCS and ALCS. Plus, the unlikely heroes, the best reliever you don't know and key storylines for the four remaining teams.

By Tom Verducci

Baseball from the 1990s is dead. Baseball from five years ago is passe. When you watch the League Championship Series you have to drop your notions of what baseball used to be and accept what baseball has become. It will enhance your viewing pleasure.

Don’t look at the Milwaukee Brewers, for instance, as unorthodox. Look at them as a team that is as good as any team at leveraging what wins in today’s game: home run hitting…