Tease
The felons are frolicking this year, for the first time in months.
Off to a great start that shows ominous signs of being unsustainable. We’re hitting a little bit better, we’re pitching a little bit better, and the close call games are falling our way.
Division 1st Overall 2nd. But the rdiff is small positive and pythag is +6, tilted way in our favor. We're winning the one-run and extra inning games, horrors. The team one game behind us, the Blue Sox, has an objectively better team with a much stronger rdiff by pythagoras is being mean to them (-2).
Which generally means that in the long haul we can expect him to overtake and pass us, as we come down to earth.
Thanks to the scheduler the critical games against UBS won’t happen until September. They’ll likely no longer be critical by then.
Happy with the pitching and the defense so far. Everyone knows Joe Cronin won’t hit .315 all season. The universal backup (Peckinpaugh) is also hitting over his weight. The catchers are swinging bats. To me it feels like this league’s pitching is weaker than the general tide of excellence we’ve been facing for the last eight or nine seasons.
And no one is running away with the league. There’s usually one (or six) clear strong Perfect contenders, burying the rest of us too deeply to get any air. (All due respect to the Leggo$, the current one seed, looks like the eventual series winner.)
I’d take all of that as a positive sign, if only there weren’t so many felons hitting .250 season after season after season. And handful of offensive players clearly don’t have the chops to play at this level (or the level above, for certain).
The replacement list is long. Cano, Cronin, Dihigo, usually one or more of the catchers, Giambi. Even Yas has never really hit for us.
Evaluation unchanged, O is bad.