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You're right. Good players never play poorly and average ones never play better.

Math, and the way baseball works, should tell you you can't just wave away any team in baseball in a one game play-in or a 3 game series.

Baseball is not Basketball. The 14th best team in baseball would beat the best team probably 30 or 40 percent of the time. The reason the playoffs are a crapshoot is because baseball as a game is random as hell, not because top teams don't get a tune up or whatever the hell your talking about.

This is the exact reason I think it sucks. Rewarding teams for being mediocre.

The White Sox quite literally won 4 out of 7 games against the Astros in 2019.

Not sure what isn't being understood here.

This parts fine. I just can't get past letting 47% of the teams in playoffs in a sport where the 2019 White Sox are able to beat the 2019 Astros in a 7 game series.

At least with hoops, the difference between the 1-seed and the 8-seed is large enough that the 8 rarely wins.

You can't have a 6 month season and let 14 teams in. It's rendered completely pointless. I don't hate on Manfred and most of MLB as much as most people, and generally encourage them be thinking outside the box, but this idea SUCKS

Also helps being available for vet minimum vs. asking for several million dollars.

There's no such thing as garbage time for guys who have millions of dollars on the line.

Twitter truly killed the internet

Arenado has declined to waive tweet coming in 3....2....1.....

There's a reason Mike Trout was just paid half a bill

So clearly the answer is hang onto every single prospect until they show their ass and are useless to everyone.

We're seriously lamenting Steele Walker?

It's BPs version of WAR yes.

I'm convinced they accidentally switched Moncada and Robert because it makes zero sense.

Assuming every pitch that had a bang would have ended it an out renders this pretty much meaningless.

Teams don't come out of rebuilds and immediately get pegged for 90 some wins. I don't understand why there is a set of people that are upset or surprised about this projection.

God I'm so glad the Sox didn't think Ozuna or Castellanos were actually good options.

The Dodgers haven't been ones to throw around giant contracts to guys in years. Will they compete on the open market for him? Maybe. But they're not going to dump the brinks truck on him to keep him off it.

There is a 0.0% chance Betts does not hit the open the market.

They have

Padres at ten is the real head scratcher here