“ Look at Tampa, they started the season with that record win streak, but nobody believed they were the best, and by the end of the season nobody was even talking about them.”
Once again you make my point.
No. I was showing you’re wrong. Tampa still got to 99 wins, largely held up by that beginning. According to standard baseball logic that means they were almost great. But we all know they weren’t. They started the season with a hot streak and that inflated their record. Who knows, maybe they were good. This is the problem with the baseball schedule. Which version of the team is the team? The record setting early season team? The really bad mid-season team? Or the pretty good late season team?
Once you build in the assumption that 1/3 of the season is completely meaningless the WHOLE season is actually meaningless. That’s the problem with baseball, a 6 month 162 game grind where 109 games actually matter, but nobody knows which 109, and in the end the teams really just want to finish hot so they can get the trophy because nobody gives a damn regular season success in American sports.