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  • #16
    Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

    Originally posted by state of hockey View Post
    I believe the Twins' magic number is four as well.
    Now down to 3. There have been 114 teams to lose 100 or more games in a season in the history of baseball, including the 2016 Minnesota Twins. 0 have made the playoffs the following season. The Twins are 3 wins (or a combination of Twins wins or Royals/Angels/Rangers losses) away from becoming the first to do so.
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    • #17
      Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

      Now that everyone gets into the playoffs, it's no wonder.

      Great job righting the ship, but not nearly as impressive as it would have been even ten years ago.
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      • #18
        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
        Now that everyone gets into the playoffs, it's no wonder.

        Great job righting the ship, but not nearly as impressive as it would have been even ten years ago.
        Considering one of their championship (87) years produced 85 wins, I don't find this any less impressive of a season. They will likely win the same number.
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        • #19
          Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
          Now that everyone gets into the playoffs
          Not everyone.

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          • #20
            Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
            Now that everyone gets into the playoffs, it's no wonder.

            Great job righting the ship, but not nearly as impressive as it would have been even ten years ago.
            Does it make it any more impressive for you if you knew that only a handful of teams have even finished above .500 the season after losing 100 games?

            The record for wins after losing 100 games is 87, by Baltimore (who lost 107 in 1988 before finishing 2 games out of first in the AL East in 1989). The Twins would need to go 5-1 to match that.

            For me, to potentially do something that has never been done in the history of a sport (and particularly in baseball, which has such a tremendous history) is extremely impressive...but I understand the criticism. That being said, to do something that only a handful of other teams have done is still pretty impressive.

            Also, if Houston beats the Angels tonight, the Twins magic number will be down to 2.
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            • #21
              Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

              Originally posted by Fighting Sioux 23 View Post
              Does it make it any more impressive for you if you knew that only a handful of teams have even finished above .500 the season after losing 100 games?
              Yes. I'm not saying it's not impressive. It is. It's just not as impressive. I would be curious to see the results if someone went back and calculated playoffs based on today's playoff rules.
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              • #22
                As of Saturday, the Red Sox magic number was 5. Today, the Sox won and the Yankees lost, so their magic number is... 3?
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by ShirtlessBob View Post
                  As of Saturday, the Red Sox magic number was 5. Today, the Sox won and the Yankees lost, so their magic number is... 3?
                  Confirmed.

                  Also, I was wrong. Cubs won, Cardinals lost, so the Cubs magic number is 2.
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                  • #24
                    Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                    Originally posted by Fighting Sioux 23 View Post
                    Does it make it any more impressive for you if you knew that only a handful of teams have even finished above .500 the season after losing 100 games?

                    The record for wins after losing 100 games is 87, by Baltimore (who lost 107 in 1988 before finishing 2 games out of first in the AL East in 1989). The Twins would need to go 5-1 to match that.

                    For me, to potentially do something that has never been done in the history of a sport (and particularly in baseball, which has such a tremendous history) is extremely impressive...but I understand the criticism. That being said, to do something that only a handful of other teams have done is still pretty impressive.
                    Speaking as one whose sole thoughts of the Twins are that they should relocate back to DC, and who routinely remembers them second-to-last when counting off all the MLB teams (Brewers), I think it's very impressive.
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by burd View Post
                      They're letting Quintana go for the shutout against Brewers. 109 pitch count.

                      How baseball has changed. Only one Cub pitcher has a CG this year.
                      After 3 straight extra innings games, the bullpen needed a day off.

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                      • #26
                        Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                        Judge ties McGuire at 49 dingers as a rookie.

                        Here's an impressive fact: Judge has homered against all 14 AL opponents in the 2017 season.

                        Edit: 50. Judge takes the rookie HR record.
                        Last edited by hockeyplayer1015; 09-25-2017, 02:28 PM.

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                        • #27
                          Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                          Yes. I'm not saying it's not impressive. It is. It's just not as impressive. I would be curious to see the results if someone went back and calculated playoffs based on today's playoff rules.
                          It's very difficult to really determine it because for the vast majority of cases, there were significantly fewer teams. For example, the 1989 Orioles team I noted earlier (with 87 wins) was the 5th best (out of 14) team in the AL.

                          Either way, yours' is a fair criticism.

                          That being said, if scores hold, the Twins magic number will be down to 2, and they could clinch as early as tomorrow.
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                          • #28
                            Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                            My goodness, these September Mets are awful.
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                            • #29
                              Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              My goodness, these September Mets are awful.
                              Relative to... some sort of MLB-wide baseline? Or, dear god, normal September Mets?
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                              Originally posted by Kepler
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                              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                              • #30
                                Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

                                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                                Relative to... some sort of MLB-wide baseline? Or, dear god, normal September Mets?
                                Well, the MLB-level baseline is .500 and yes, awful relative to that.

                                But these guys are special by any standard. Look at the starting lineup for game 1 yesterday.

                                The horror.
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