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Originally Posted by Saul Good
This is hilarious. The 7-0 part involves chance, but we are playing vastly superior to what we were roughly 100 games into last season. That isn't random chance. We're on a nearly 90 game tear that has spanned the course of two seasons. Immediately prior to that, we were a .500 team for a 300 game stretch.
On July 21, 2014, we lost our 50th game of the season, falling to 48-50. Suddenly, we went on a nice win streak and wound up going 41-23 the rest of the way. (How random!)
But the randomness didn't stop there. We went 11-4 in the postseason pushing our streak to 52-27.
But the randomness didn't stop there. We've gone 7-0 to start the season...bringing our random 86 game streak to 59-27.
Either the talent fairy arrived, her twin sister the luck fairy arrived, or we actually got on a roll, became more confident, and our talent that had been sitting dormant finally was able to be used to its fullest.
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Jesus, nice healthy amount of snark there, you've gone angry full tilt also.
That player meeting that you seemed to be putting so much weight on did not suddenly make us a good team. First of all, we were a better team at the end than at the beginning from a personnel standpoint after cutting or diminishing the roles of some ineffective pitchers. We just were better. Second, its not weird to think that we were a little unlucky at the beginning of the year, and played a bit better than expected at the end, baseball is a very high-variance game with plenty of randomness built in. You are sarcastically pointing at the .500 point and asking how luck made a .500 team win so much. But we weren't a .500 team. Thats what our record was, but we were better than our record. Finally, when you bring in prior years, the maturation of young players as they catch up to MLB pitching and hitting and learn how to succeed belongs on the talent side of the scale.