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Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
And they won how many playoff games?
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They won the same amount of playoff games as Baltimore (100 wins), Tampa (99 wins) and the Dodgers (101 wins).
The goal is to build a team that makes the post season as many times as possible in a span of years to increase your odds of winning a WS in that time frame.
As you can see from the above numbers, the playoffs in MLB are a crap shoot.
Atlanta won the WS when they didn't even win 90 games. They've won 100+ every year since and haven't even come close again.
The Dodgers win 95 to 100+ every year for like a dozen years and have only one WS title in that time.
Arizona went to WS with an 84 win team lol
Got beat by 90 win team that absolutely tanked for the last two months last season and barely even made the playoffs after leading their division for like 5 months straight.
Win games, get to playoffs, hope enough of your players are hot at the right time to go far.
Right now the Jays are winning games so who cares if they aren't scoring more than 5 runs. Their team is built around pitching and defense. These results are not surprising.