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JohnU
Aristocratic Hoosier
I've seen this before, but mostly in expansion years back in the 1960s, when really bad teams would lose 100 games and the top teams would all win at least 95. The 1961 Yanks won the AL pennant by about 8 games over the Tigers, who won over 100 games to finish second.
The point: Miami is awful. The Mets are awful. I think Colorado is awful. San Diego appears to be awful. Lucky for us, Houston moved to the AL, where they can be awful all on their own.
Studying Miami, which will lose at least 110 games this year and the Mets might lose 95, that would mean that the other teams in the NL-E are feasting.
In the Central, the Cubs are probably a 90-loss team but everybody else is probably at least .550.
In the West, the Padres are better than people think, and probably so are the Rockies. NL-W is going to be a dogfight.
It's going to take at LEAST 92 wins to make a wild-card. The 19 games the teams play inside their own division will mean a lot of teams in the East will be beating Miami and the Mets. It's the same thing we had last year in the Central with the AAAstros and the Cubs.
The point: Miami is awful. The Mets are awful. I think Colorado is awful. San Diego appears to be awful. Lucky for us, Houston moved to the AL, where they can be awful all on their own.
Studying Miami, which will lose at least 110 games this year and the Mets might lose 95, that would mean that the other teams in the NL-E are feasting.
In the Central, the Cubs are probably a 90-loss team but everybody else is probably at least .550.
In the West, the Padres are better than people think, and probably so are the Rockies. NL-W is going to be a dogfight.
It's going to take at LEAST 92 wins to make a wild-card. The 19 games the teams play inside their own division will mean a lot of teams in the East will be beating Miami and the Mets. It's the same thing we had last year in the Central with the AAAstros and the Cubs.