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The rather obvious takeaway lesson from the 2012 Orioles is that having one of the all time great bullpen seasons in MLB history can go a long way towards covering for some gaping holes.
Can this year's bullpen performance possibly come even close to being repeated next year? If I absolutely had to bet money on it, my guess would be "no". But then again, I thought that the Orioles were just about finished like two months ago.
I didn't mean to suggest that I think they're a true talent .690 team, just that they've been playing well recently. And I think it's relevant that the team that's been playing well isn't the same team that played poorly in June and July. I think the current roster is an 84-86 win team, which means that no one should be surprised if they win 95 games, and no one should be surprised if they win 75.
55.Nasty Nate posted on September 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM #hit 0 | hit 0
...and no one should be surprised if they win 75.
I'd be very surprised because they already have 81...
I'd be very surprised because they already have 81...
They could get dinged for a recruiting violation.
58.SG posted on September 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM #hit 0 | hit 0
The Oriole's Pythagenpat winning percentage bottomed out on July 17 at .434(about a 70 win team). They were 46-44 at that point and were about 9 wins better than Pythagenpat.
Since then they've gone 35-18 and have a Pythagenpat winning percentage of .573, so they've been a bit less than 5 wins better than their Pythagenpat.
By their runs scored and allowed they've now played at about a 93 win level for 53 games. Whether or not that's closer to how good they are as presently constituted than their overall season numbers I don't know, but I'm guessing there's at least some truth there.
The O's are unstoppable. Locked in a .500 season tonight. First time since 1997.
On the other side of that coin, the Red Sox are two losses away from their first sub-.500 season since 1997.
(And if they lose at least 10 of the last 18 games, which they almost certainly will, it will be their first 90-loss season since 1966, aka the year before the Impossible Dream. If they finish behind Toronto, it will be their first last-place divisional finish since 1932.)
An ICE investigation will reveal that Manny Machado isn't actually a 20-year-old native of Miami, but rather a 35 year old man named Billy Wilds from Urbana-Champaign, IL using a stolen identity.
61.BDC posted on September 14, 2012 at 01:30 PM #hit 0 | hit 0
It gets worse, I just looked on StubHub and the Rangers are playing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the ALDS, the ALCS, and the World Series. What will Bud come up with next.
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< 1 2Can this year's bullpen performance possibly come even close to being repeated next year? If I absolutely had to bet money on it, my guess would be "no". But then again, I thought that the Orioles were just about finished like two months ago.
It's a trap!
Oh, don't worry, we are! (Though the tooth-clenching extra-inning games don't allow for a lot of sitting back....)
I'd be very surprised because they already have 81...
They could get dinged for a recruiting violation.
Since then they've gone 35-18 and have a Pythagenpat winning percentage of .573, so they've been a bit less than 5 wins better than their Pythagenpat.
By their runs scored and allowed they've now played at about a 93 win level for 53 games. Whether or not that's closer to how good they are as presently constituted than their overall season numbers I don't know, but I'm guessing there's at least some truth there.
On the other side of that coin, the Red Sox are two losses away from their first sub-.500 season since 1997.
(And if they lose at least 10 of the last 18 games, which they almost certainly will, it will be their first 90-loss season since 1966, aka the year before the Impossible Dream. If they finish behind Toronto, it will be their first last-place divisional finish since 1932.)
Fox is going to hate that.
Holy crap, it's 2007 again!
Real, really takes the interest out of the first two series.
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