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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
I thought this was going to about the Royals possible joining the Pacific Coast League.
The fact is that with tonight’s convincing win against the Diamondbacks, the Royals are now 47-32 against NL teams since the start of the 2005 season, a .595 winning percentage, while playing just 244-388 (.386) against AL teams in that span. The odds that a team with a “true” winning percentage of .386 would actually win 47 out of 79 games is .00014, or about one in seven thousand. And while the Royals are probably the most dramatic example of AL teams beating up on NL competition, they are far from the only ones….
Looking to the future, while it’s possible and maybe even likely that the AL will maintain its dominance, from the Royals’ standpoint the question of which league is superior is a lesser concern than which division is superior. While a wild-card entry to the postseason is certainly nice – and a more likely outcome in the Yankee and Red Sox-free National League – the Royals’ best hope for a playoff spot is to win their division. Aside from the fact that the NL Central is the only division in baseball with six teams, there’s an even more compelling reason to think that going forward, the Royals will be better off staying in the AL Central.
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* Yeah, you could argue that the difference between the leagues means the AL Central isn't the worst division in baseball, but the general point still stands: the AL East it ain't.
AL East +148
AL Central -19
AL West -30
NL East -95
NL Central +9
NL West -13
By this metric, the NL East is the worst division in baseball. The gap between the AL East and every other division is pretty wide.
Nats to the AL East, Toronto to the AL Central, Pittsburgh to the NL East, Royals to the NL Central, and... stick the Brewers in the AL West. Screw 'em. Why not.
After having to deal with both the Red Sox and Yankees, and the rise of Tampa Bay, I love this idea.
Well I don't really follow it, the Sox will get their 95 wins and every thing else just kind of fills around that....
there are other divisions? does ESPN know this?
Also, anybody know why the pecking order back in 1997 was first choice to Kansas City, second to Milwaukee, third to Minnesota? Just curious how the Royals supposedly got first choice...although I've always suspected that was just a front and that the Brewers were pegged for it all along.
I'm pretty sure they know about that team Manny plays for. That one over there. No, the other one, with the thing.
Agree. But fans want their rivalries more than they want the highest quality postseason. One day...
As I understand it, Selig wanted the Brewers to move, but thought it would look bad if the commissioner's team was the first one offered the NL slot. So they went through the motions of offering it to the Royals; I don't know if there was ever any chance of Kansas City actually switching leagues.
What Tom said. And David Glass was very close with Bud Selig, and this was at a time when the Royals were still owned by a non-profit trust set up by Ewing Kauffman and looking for an owner, so maybe they thought that choice would make it a more attractive franchise?
In any case, I don't think it was given much consideration. I certainly don't recall a lot of discussion in KC at the time, although there does seem to be a lot of people here now that think it was bad to stay in the AL. Curiously, those people were quite silent all those years the AL Central was called "Comedy Central."
47-34 now Rany, and that Pythag is taking a beating...
Thankfully the Royals got to face some of AZ's relievers
That helped spark up the offense a little bit
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