the Atlanta Braves first won the NL West in 1991, their worst-to-first season, but repeated in 1992, 1993, and for 11 more years after switching to the NL East -- where they belonged from the start of divisional play in 1969 -- in 1994.
This is undoubtedly the stupidest article about baseball I have ever read. Two years ago, Baltimore and Arizona both lost 110 games, and Texas lost 102. Where are those three teams now? What's your plan? To realign baseball every year depending on who's playing good after three months? If you want the poor Yankees to make the playoffs, maybe they should get a better team rather than whine about the division they're in.
Thomas, you speak like a true Yankee fan and put the emphasis on "aspiring" when it comes to "baseball writer." You ask rhetorical questions without attempting to answer them, perhaps because you wouldn't like the answer. Could it be that your perfect vanilla world would have the teams with the biggest payrolls make it to the playoffs every season? Is your perfect world one where every team follows the same strategy of investing in the better free agents and validating the rishest markets as the best? Do you remember 2014-16 when the AL Central had teams in the World Series each year? The following season the Indians won 102 games including 22 in a row. How did that fit into your world view? Perhaps you would like every team to bow down to Yankee Stadium in the east and pray the New York supremacy is validated time after time. The ebb and flow of baseball fate works against you. Alternate strategies sometimes work. You will see a demonstration of that the next time the Rays come to town. I fear a baseball struture that you favor would leave most of America with nothing to root for. The AL Central, made of mostly similar towns with similar and realistic baseball strategies, deserve a seat at the table. Yes, our chances are slim even then, but there sometimes are bright moments like last October when the Guardians whipped the Rays had the Yankees down before the destiny you favor could be manifested.
Nice job Thomas. Coincidentally our episode this week is about if MLB should be changing the All-Star game for the same reasons you point out that exist in Interleague play. We don't feel Interleague play should go away entirely but less is more. The ASG has even less significance and the HR Derby is probably more interesting to most than the game itself. 90 years after the 1st MLB ASG maybe it's time for a change or two?
the Atlanta Braves first won the NL West in 1991, their worst-to-first season, but repeated in 1992, 1993, and for 11 more years after switching to the NL East -- where they belonged from the start of divisional play in 1969 -- in 1994.
This is undoubtedly the stupidest article about baseball I have ever read. Two years ago, Baltimore and Arizona both lost 110 games, and Texas lost 102. Where are those three teams now? What's your plan? To realign baseball every year depending on who's playing good after three months? If you want the poor Yankees to make the playoffs, maybe they should get a better team rather than whine about the division they're in.
Thomas, you speak like a true Yankee fan and put the emphasis on "aspiring" when it comes to "baseball writer." You ask rhetorical questions without attempting to answer them, perhaps because you wouldn't like the answer. Could it be that your perfect vanilla world would have the teams with the biggest payrolls make it to the playoffs every season? Is your perfect world one where every team follows the same strategy of investing in the better free agents and validating the rishest markets as the best? Do you remember 2014-16 when the AL Central had teams in the World Series each year? The following season the Indians won 102 games including 22 in a row. How did that fit into your world view? Perhaps you would like every team to bow down to Yankee Stadium in the east and pray the New York supremacy is validated time after time. The ebb and flow of baseball fate works against you. Alternate strategies sometimes work. You will see a demonstration of that the next time the Rays come to town. I fear a baseball struture that you favor would leave most of America with nothing to root for. The AL Central, made of mostly similar towns with similar and realistic baseball strategies, deserve a seat at the table. Yes, our chances are slim even then, but there sometimes are bright moments like last October when the Guardians whipped the Rays had the Yankees down before the destiny you favor could be manifested.
Nice job Thomas. Coincidentally our episode this week is about if MLB should be changing the All-Star game for the same reasons you point out that exist in Interleague play. We don't feel Interleague play should go away entirely but less is more. The ASG has even less significance and the HR Derby is probably more interesting to most than the game itself. 90 years after the 1st MLB ASG maybe it's time for a change or two?