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Originally Posted by Brad K
Where's the cutoff for unacceptable? 510? 520?
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Well, it's perception and baseball fans have always been big consumers of perception. We count players' .300 BA and 20 W seasons, not .299 and 19. We declare 3,000 hits and 500 homers as sacrosanct. These are numerical red-lines, thresholds and hurdles. A sub-.500 team is self defined as below average. It's math. Undebatable. MLB has plenty of drama. Seeing a 62-100 team have a shot at winning the WS (much less winning it) isn't needed, imo.