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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
I think it’s mostly the fans who wind up blaming the Safe. Note that the hitting picked up quite a bit from August 1 onward and by wRC+ was actually above average (I think 103?) by season’s end. They also underplayed their run differential by 4 wins.
People hate to hear this but perhaps the biggest factor in the Ms missing the playoffs this year was bad luck. It was also sooooo close that a lot of individual things could have tipped the scales: not trying to make the Mitches work for much of the season, better performance from the middle infielders, cutting Ty France loose after last year, better performance from the pitching down the stretch, signing one decent free agent instead of a lot of kind of crappy ones… but had the Ms performed to their Pythagorean Record, they’d have won 89 games and made the playoffs, perhaps as a division champion.
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Yeah, people always blame bad luck when things don't go their way, but they don't do the opposite when things do go their way.
The fact is with the pitching staff the M's had they should have won 96 to 98 games if they had half a decent offense.