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1. Pythagorean analysis doesn't have any predictive value about games that haven't been played yet nor any other future performance. Nor any NEW way to evaluate past play.
2. The worst 16-game stretch, out of an entire season, does not prove that a team which had played .500 ball the first half, is suddenly "genuine badness".
3. People who fall in love with a statistic will cling to it with dogmatic zeal and defend it to the death, shouting down any doubters.
4. Even a fifth-grade girl who dots her I's with little hearts and has never heard of Pythagoras nor baseball, could guess, intuitively, that a team that scored more points than their opponents would have more wins than losses.
1. Pythagorean analysis doesn't have any predictive value about games that haven't been played yet.
2. The worst 16-game stretch, out of an entire season, does not prove that a team which had played .500 ball the first half, is "genuine badness".
3. You can, with hindsight, pre-select any subset of past games and analyze them to come to a conclusion that you wish to express with a clever quip.
4. People who fall in love with a statistical methodology will cling to it with dogmatic zeal and defend it to the death, shouting down any doubters.
5. Even a fifth-grade girl who dots her I's with little hearts and has never heard of Pythagoras nor baseball, could guess, intuitively, that a team that scored more points than their opponents would have more wins than losses.
The M's have a golden opportunity to end their streak today against Phil Hughes.
Hey, the Mariners have a real shot at immortality here, they only need to drop five more to break the Orioles AL record of 21 consecutive losses. (1988)
If they did it, I would regard that as the true MLB record.The 1899 Cleveland Spiders hold that at 24 straight whippings, but I think folks are generally familiar with the special circumstances involved with the Spiders. Their owners decided to fold the team. They bought the St. Louis Browns and transferred all of the halfway decent players on the Spider roster to the Browns roster. They also changed nearly all of the Cleveland home games to road games since the team's only function now was to meet the schedule obligations. (The Spiders lost 101 road games, a record that will never be approached since teams only play 81 road games a year.)
All of that was by preparation for contracting the Spiders out of existence in 1900.
So, I think it is fair to say that the '88 Orioles hold the consecutive loss record for ML teams which were actually trying to win.
Sox are pretty deep in starting pitching, at least for this season, so I don't think this is that big of a risk. We'll see if it pays off.
Jackson and more flipped to the Cardinals
The Final Deal:
Cards Receive: Edwin Jackson, Mark Rzepczynski, Cory Patterson, Octavio Dotel
Blue Jays Receive: Colby Rasmus, Mark Teahen, Brian Tallet, Trever Miller, PJ Walters
Chi Sox Receive: Jason Frasor, Zack Stewart
Off the top of my head, big win for the Jays. Rasmus is the best player in the deal. And getting the best player is usually a good thing.
Stewart has mixed reviews. He's certainly not an A+ prospect.
The Cardinals got some good players, but gave up a very valuable piece in Rasmus
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