Baseball's Biggest Losers Deserved Better

It’s often said that you have to be a pretty good pitcher to lose 20 games in a season. If you weren’t any good, you’d be out of the rotation long before you hit 20 in the loss column.

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October Country's Refugees (Part 2 Of 2)

In last week's column I asked one of the classic questions of baseball sports fans: who was the best team to never make the World Series? More importantly, I had a way to try to answer this question; ask SG from the Replacement Level Yankee Weblog to run 1,000 Diamondmind season sims with a computer program he set up to do just that.

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A League Divided: Part 1 (1901-1925)

In a previous article, I balanced MLB schedules since 2001 and used divisional winning percentages to readjust records to see how much was different and what pennant races would change. This series of articles is the historical flipside:

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