The Atlanta Braves had the best rotation in the game and won the division annually (minus the 1994 strike shortened season). They also won pennants in 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996 and 1999. Despite all this success, they only won the World Series in 1995. The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series in 2008 and actually had increasingly better teams every
Read moreThere is a flawed thinking that the regular season record is a good way to judge how good a particular team is. The problem with this type of thinking is that teams don’t play to have the best record, they play to win the World Series, which requires qualifying for the playoffs, and that doesn’t mean having the best record.
Read moreAL WILD CARD PLAYOFF GAME Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees NL WILD CARD GAME Los Angeles Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals AL DIVISION SERIES Boston Red Sox 3 Tampa Bay Rays 2 Houston Astros 3 Chicago White Sox 1 NL DIVISION SERIES Atlanta Braves 3 Milwaukee Brewers 2 Los Angeles Dodgers 3 San Francisco Giants 2
Read moreWho will win this season’s AL and NL MVP races and who should win? The all-star break is just around the corner, so let’s take a look, while also considering the fact that there’s still more if this season to be played. It’s useful to take a look at the odds of who might win. The AL MVP race unsurprisingly
Read moreIt’s that time of year again and along with it are my predictions for the season. AL AL EAST 1. NEW YORK YANKEES 2. BOSTON RED SOX 3. TORONTO BLUE JAYS 4. TAMPA BAY RAYS 5. BALTIMORE ORIOLES The Bronx Bombers are head and shoulders above every other team in the division, with a strong bullpen and lineup and a
Read moreIt’s that time of year again. The season feels as if it only just started, but here we are and the playoffs begin today. I won’t do the typical round by round predictions and just make a general analysis of the likelihood of each team winning it all. If you’ve been reading this site, you know that my research showed
Read moreI‘m focusing on the most important transactions. Weird early move by Houston. Yuli Gurriel is not worth that contract and wouldn’t even come close to it on the open market. Logical move by Boston to fire manager Ron Roenicke, as he was terrible. They never should’ve been that bad this season. The Chicago White Sox surprisingly fired manager Rick Renteria,
Read more2013 was the last season when the Cincinnati Reds were in the playoffs. 2012 was the last season when they won the division. Can they win their division or at least return to the playoffs this season? Cincinnati focused on doing just that since the trade deadline last year and it may actually work. Cincinnati has by far the best
Read moreThe Los Angeles Dodgers extended RF Mookie Betts. It’s now the most expensive extension in the game’s history. I think that Betts’s game is dependent on speed and hrs already in his prime. As he goes deeper into his 30’s, he won’t be worth anywhere near this contract. LA had to extend him and I think that was good, but
Read moreAn asterisk denotes a Wild Card team and I listed teams in order of how I think that they’ll finish. AL AL EAST 1. NEW YORK YANKEES 2. TAMPA BAY RAYS* 3. BOSTON RED SOX 4. TORONTO BLUE JAYS 5. BALTIMORE ORIOLES Baltimore looks really bad, as in they’re contenders for the worst team in the game. Toronto have a
Read moreWhat if the teams with the best records in their leagues faced each other in the World Series every year? What if the playoffs were never used starting with the 1969 season. I used this to simulate World Series results. I edited lineups to the ones that were actually used, alternated the home team and Starting Pitchers. I realize that
Read moreI decided to simulate series using this. I just alternated home and away and cycled SP’s accordingly. I gave home field advantage to teams with a better WP% and used a 2-3-2 format. Here are the results: 1927 NYY 4 1939 NYY 1 1917 CWS 4 1920 CLE 3 2015 KCR 4 1991 MIN 1 1984 DET 4 1917 CWS
Read moreI only count bWAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other teams after subsequent trades. A positive or negative WAR is the result of the difference between the combined
Read moreI only count bWAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other teams after subsequent trades. A positive or negative WAR is the result of the difference between the combined
Read moreI only count bWAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other teams after subsequent trades. A positive or negative WAR is the result of the difference between the combined
Read moreI only count bWAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other teams after subsequent trades. A positive or negative WAR is the result of the difference between the combined
Read moreI only count WAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other teams after subsequent trades. A positive or negative WAR is the result of the difference between the combined
Read moreI only count bWAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other teams after subsequent trades. A positive or negative WAR is the result of the difference between the combined
Read moreI decided to complement a great new series on MLBTradeRumors by rating each GM’s listed trades by bWAR. I only count WAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other
Read moreI only count bWAR for the years that the players accumulated on their acquiring teams while under the team control at the time of the trade. In other words, I didn’t count any years added by new contracts or spent on other teams after subsequent trades. A positive or negative WAR is the result of the difference between the combined
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