Blue Jays Discussion: 2024 Season - Complete without a great title in keeping with the performance

[tmlfan98]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844465422953017348

 

[Suntouchable13]

You know, it chafes my ass nowadays a team like KC with a 86-76 record can make the playoffs while the Jays who had same records way back in 2006 and 2008 but couldn't sniff the post.

 

[CabanaBoy5]

You know, it chafes my ass nowadays a team like KC with a 86-76 record can make the playoffs while the Jays who had same records way back in 2006 and 2008 but couldn't sniff the post.

I have some Penaten cream that'll help with that, the grand-child swears by it. But, I hear ya brother. Frustrating being in the division we were in at the time, finished 4th with that record.

 

[Discoverer]

You know, it chafes my ass nowadays a team like KC with a 86-76 record can make the playoffs while the Jays who had same records way back in 2006 and 2008 but couldn't sniff the post.

A win's a win, obviously, but the Royals were a game below .500 when they didn't play the White Sox. They were pretty heavily reliant on beating up on one of the worst teams of all time.

The plus side is that the Royals (and the Tigers, to some extent) should give hope that the Jays can turn things around next year. The Royals looked to be in a MUCH worse situation last year than the Jays are now, coming off a 106 loss season and with an even worse farm system. Unfortunately the AL East makes it harder to turn things around, but a handful of teams did it unexpectedly this year.

 

[GoonieFace]

Look at that Tigers team and tell me baseball isn’t just so random. They basically have nothing, other than Skubal and a good bullpen.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Look at that Tigers team and tell me baseball isn’t just so random. They basically have nothing, other than Skubal and a good bullpen.

wellll ...

I think 162 game season gets rid of alot of the randomness.

 

[tmlfan98]

Technically the Tigers were lucky to make the playoffs this season.

Tigers were the 7th best team in the AL by pythag record, Mariners were 6th. Real standings were the other way around.
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Mariners underperformed their pythag record by 4 wins, the Tigers overperformed theirs by 1 win, and in the real standings the teams only finished 1 game apart.

 

[Discoverer]

wellll ...

I think 162 game season gets rid of alot of the randomness.

It gets rid of a lot of it, but it's still a very random game.