Nine of twelve

K him, Jose!

Beyond that, there's a lot of postseason left.

Cruz demonstrating to the Yankees why their stadium is a joke. In this case the joke is on them.

Just now jumping in. Great to see the good guys with the lead!

Perhaps I should have done this as a blog but that's too much work. Besides, this is really where this belongs. I suppose you could call this a power ranking. I wanted to quantify each team's performance over the entire regular season and compare that to other teams. To do this as objectively as possible requires considering only games involving common opponents. Interleague games could not be considered because the opponents were not common to all teams. This also means AL teams could not be accurately ranked against NL teams and vice versa. The number that I chose to generate for each team is the number of wins the team would have had in a 162-game season playing each of the other teams an equal number of games. Since 162 is not evenly divisible by 14 that means finding out how many games each team would have won playing each other team 11.57 (eleven and four sevenths) times. For example, the Twins won 14 of 19 games against Detroit this season. Based on that the Twins would be credited for 8.53 wins against Detroit. Similarly, the Twins won 5 of 7 games against Seattle, which translates into 8.27 wins. Here are the results: AL 1. Min 105.94 2. Hou 104.91 3. Oak 100.08 4. TB 97.60 5. NY 97.36 6. Bos 89.37 7. LA 85.50 8. Tex 83.74 9. Cle 82.96 10. Tor 74.92 11. Sea 72.37 12. Chi 72.04 13. Bal 59.25 14. KC 52.22 15. Det 48.87 NL 1. LA 110.96 2. Mil 90.77 3. StL 90.00 4. Was 89.06 5. Atl 86.69 6. Phi 83.36 7. Chi 83.14 8. NY 79.19 9. Cin 76.85 10. Ari 74.57 11. Col 73.76 12. SF 72.18 13. SD 68.47 14. Pit 65.60 15. Mia 57.32 I was surprised that our team had the highest number in the AL. My assumption was that since we played in the worst division in MLB that our win total would decrease when the records were balanced. However, this reveals that we did well against all teams, not only those in our division. This also shows that we should not consider our team to be underdogs in the postseason. I'm sure there are many things that this reveals and I'm not going to try to make a detailed analysis, but the most obvious is that the Dodgers appear to be as dominant as everyone thought, probably even more so. Edit: I had spaces to make the columns easier to see when I typed it. This didn't come through to the final outcome. Sorry I didn't know how to do this better.

That isn't the Marlins guy behind home plate is it?

Lofty goals: to be a ballerina, to be president, to own a juice bar in a mall. Or maybe not-so-lofty.

Tres bombas.

I'm a nitpicky kind of guy. Dick just said a word that sounded like momento. He probably meant memento. It's "mem" from the root remember, not "mom" from the word moment.

Two and a half hours before gametime is too late. If you don't know that song by now you never will.

This was great. Dick mis-called the relay. It was Schoop who did it, and it was one of many examples of his arm being way above average for a 2B.

A bit late to the thread, but per SQUIRREL's instructions here's my highlight. I chose it because of the center fielder.

I know, and I've never understood why. Maybe you can enlighten us.

It was not the intent of my comment to assign blame for this injury. It just seems like common sense that the player who is already standing there should be the one to make the play.

I'd rather lose the game and have Arraez.

I liked this but I don't like it.

The pitcher should field any popup that comes down on the mound. That is all.

This is very bad.

In 2017 there were nine teams in the AL with 75 to 85 wins. That may be too much mediocrity.

I will abide by the policy of this web site and avoid using a derogatory term for the home plate umpire regarding the strike three call he made on Polanco. This I will do even though he richly deserves any such treatment.

Apparently Ozzie Guillen once said that if AJ is not on your team you hate him, but if he is on your team you hate him less.

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the 2020 American League Most Valuable Player: from the Minnesota Twins, Miguel Sano.

I dare Dozier to swing at the first pitch.

Frank was a skunk but he sure could sing.

Good to know.