Joe Sheehan, ineffectively disguising his identity with Groucho nose and glasses, asks this week’s question: Dear AFTH Guy, The Mariners tied the major-league record for wins. Looking past that, though, where do they rank historically if you look at things like run differential, or use VORP or like tools to compare them to other great…
I didn’t write a column for Monday, mostly because I couldn’t get one started. That sounds weird, but it came down to two things: So much had happened over the weekend and I was completely exasperated by the decisions made by three managers on Sunday The latter point was the bigger one. Even now, thinking…
Okay, so I blew it and got a series prediction flat-out wrong. Serves me right for writing what I wanted to happen (sensible usage of Octavio Dotel, for example) to predict an Astros win instead of simply picking the Braves to conquer the Astros’ battered pitching staff. That kvetching aside, the NLCS should be a…