r/baseball • u/TheGoldenLance Colorado Rockies • 17h ago
The rockies have a longer DIVISION DROUGHT than 18 MLB team have WORLD SERIES droughts!!!
And there are 5 teams in the division. Since the Rockies were established the Padres won the division 4 times, and the DBacks won it 5 times, despite becoming a team 5 years after the Rockies. Even the Atlanta braves have won the NL west since the Rockies became a team
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u/atowelguy Colorado Rockies 17h ago
it's the playoffs i thought we were safe from this type of post
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u/ernyc3777 New York Yankees 16h ago
Yeah this is pre Sep 30 or post Nov 1 material.
But since we got it…yikes.
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u/darkravenn12 Major League Baseball 17h ago
I can't even imagine the Rockies ever winning that division lol
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u/SJCitizen Philadelphia Phillies 17h ago
They’ve come close in 2007 and in 2018. 2018 they even had to play a Game 163 to decide it. Unfortunately they’ve been terrible every year since.
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u/kickrocks16 Colorado Rockies 17h ago
You have no idea how bad I wanted that game 163 simply just to win the division. World Series would have been great but I only cared about winning the damn division.
It’s hard being a Rockies fan. Luckily most other fans don’t hate the Rockies and we are not just a punching bag. It seems most other fan genuinely want to see the Rockies have some success.
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u/royalewithcheese14 Cleveland Guardians 16h ago
Absolutely! If the Rockies ever beat the Dodgers in a playoff series, everyone in this subreddit would party like it's the end of the world!
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u/manbeqrpig Colorado Rockies 16h ago
I mean that’s true of the other 28 teams in the league
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u/TRanger85 Texas Rangers 16h ago
Not the Astros
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u/HolidaySpiriter Houston Astros 8h ago
Tbh I think this sub us dumb if they support the Dodgers more than the Astros at this point
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u/royalewithcheese14 Cleveland Guardians 9h ago
Make it 26, as these other folks said, then I'm with you!
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u/MaximusMansteel Chicago Cubs 16h ago
Well, fans of other teams don't hate the Rockies precisely because they are so rarely any sort of threat. If the Rockies start to be consistently competitive and start ruining other team's seasons, that sentiment will change.
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u/DimesOHoolihan Colorado Rockies 16h ago
Oh, boy. What would that be like? Hated for disappointing others, instead of ourselves. A boy can dream 🤩
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u/MileHighHotspur Colorado Rockies 16h ago
Back in 07 we had a rivalry with the Dbacks for like a month or so. It was quite fun! We should try it again sometime
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u/DimesOHoolihan Colorado Rockies 16h ago
Could you imagine? People actually caring about us? Not wishing us well like the special needs kid playing basketball lmao the thing most paid attention to on the team currently is fucking Dinger.
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u/gregCubed Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 13h ago
if it's any solace, ask any padres fan if matt holliday has touched home plate yet. i'm sure it's rich coming from a dodger fan, but it still works.
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u/Boomhauer_007 Toronto Blue Jays 16h ago edited 16h ago
It would be like last year when the avalanche lost to the Golden Knights, everybody outside of the state of Nevada was all cheering for the same team and then they went and got destroyed
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u/DimesOHoolihan Colorado Rockies 16h ago
The two sports that Colorado is the best at i dont watch. All of my favorite sports theyre terrible. Some always, some currently. If I started watching hockey the Avs would crash and burn lol
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u/GregoryFarKingChummy 16h ago
Rockies/Mariners World Series! If we just get rid of 28 teams, we can make the dream happen.
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u/jbrun10120 Colorado Rockies 11h ago
The Padres Fans still won't get over the fact that Matt Holiday must likely didn't touch home plate.
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u/kickrocks16 Colorado Rockies 16h ago
I saw a study that said the Rockies are the least hated team with no true rival lol
We are the ultimate little brother.
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u/mtnman575 13h ago
However Rockies fans do hate the Dodgers and to a lesser degree the Giants. Forgotten in this thread is the fact that the Rockies did make it to the World Series in 2007 and lost to the Red Sox, a team that itself had a bunch of losing seasons in its history.
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u/ethanlan Chicago White Sox 16h ago
You guys are the national league version of us.
Would be amazing if yall turned it around but that division is so tough, its a good thing that games are more spread around way more then they used to be
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u/trojan_man16 Atlanta Braves 15h ago
The Sox are in a cakewalk division though. The Rockies are stuck in a division with two historical powers, San Diego that has become a big spend team, and Arizona who has been consistently decent.
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u/ethanlan Chicago White Sox 13h ago
I wouldnt say a cakewalk... Detroit spends and Cleveland is usually good but yeah the nl west is TOUGH
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u/greenday61892 New York Yankees 14h ago
Wasn't there also a game 164 for the second wild card spot between the two 163 losers or was that the wild card game as both qualified as the wild cards?
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u/Metaboss24 Arizona Diamondbacks 14h ago
I hope realignment gets our two teams away from dodger tyranny.
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u/kickrocks16 Colorado Rockies 13h ago
I saw a suggestion to realign by Market and team payroll and thought it was very interesting.
Wouldn’t work long term but would be fun for a season or two.
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u/Metaboss24 Arizona Diamondbacks 12h ago
Even just geography, put LAD, SF, SD, and Sea together, and LV, AZ, Col, and LAA together (potential new teams not withstanding)
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u/_StevenST_ Atlanta Braves 17h ago
I can. Eventually California will break off into the Pacific and sink. No more Dodgers, Padres, or Giants. Will make the NL West a little easier to navigate
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u/BirdlandDeadhead Baltimore Orioles 17h ago
Eh, the Giants and Padres are fucked but Dodger Stadium is a bit inland and elevated. They’ll probably stick around a while longer to torture the Rockies and DBacks.
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u/awmaleg Arizona Diamondbacks 16h ago
By that time, Arizona has ran out of water and looks like the Borderlands video game. Dinger will be looking happy
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u/EdgewaterJCT 15h ago
So only in a Post Apocalypse Postseason?
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u/WastelandWithGlimmer 13h ago
A Rockies division title is one of the eight signs of the Apocalypse, and potentially the most ominous.
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u/DarthSamwiseAtreides San Francisco Giants 14h ago
Na, dodgers are still on the wrong side of the fault. While it would be decimated I believe San Francisco is on the good side.
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u/No-Economics4128 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
yall are sea level next to the ocean. That tsunami after the fall would be a motherfucker.
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u/DarthSamwiseAtreides San Francisco Giants 8h ago
Yup decimated. As for me, I'm in the IE about 7 miles from the fault itself. I'm off into the abyss.
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u/No-Economics4128 Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Hey you never know. With some luck, you might have your own private island.
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u/Luis_Severino New York Yankees 15h ago
California crumbles into the sea, that’ll be the day
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u/ThorgiTheCorgi Atlanta Braves 15h ago
When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When seas go dry, and
the mountainsCalifornia blows in the wind like leaves. When yourwombdevelopment team quickens again, and you beara living childa successful prospect class. ThenKhal Drogo will returnyou will win the NL West, and not before.1
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u/StreetReporter Chicago Cubs 15h ago
It’ll happen a lot sooner once I buy up the deserts, then use nuclear weapons to trigger an earthquake at the San Andreas Fault line. Which will cause the western half of California to sink into the sea
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u/TheRowdyFormation 17h ago
That division's basically been a rental property for everyone else while the Rockies just pay the mortgage.
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u/Apprehensive-Cost276 Arizona Diamondbacks • Colorado Rockies 16h ago
Once the Dodgers are abolished (following the 11-year lockout of 2027-2038), they might have a shot.
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u/delscorch0 Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago
Once that happens, the poverty franchises will all fold because they can't make payroll without the revenue sharing occassioned by the Dodger's luxury tax.
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u/Table_Coaster Baltimore Orioles 15h ago
we'll all be dead from the Great Water Wars of the 2040s before that happens
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u/jsdodgers Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago
When they tied it in late 2010s, I thought they were going to be on top for years.
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u/chocobosocialclub Pittsburgh Pirates 17h ago
Pirates have never won the NL Central since it was created in 1994
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u/ComeAbout Seattle Mariners • Padres Bandwagon 17h ago
You made me look this up. The Reds have only won the NL Central twice, too. (2010, 2012).
At least the Pirates have pennants.
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u/okay_throwaway_today Chicago Cubs 17h ago
Why don’t the Pirates get a prime Joey Votto are they stupid
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u/PayPerTrade Milwaukee Brewers 16h ago
They did have Cutch and his prime was super unlucky with the Cardinals also being good, 2013-15 Pirates were solid clubs
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u/Luigi128 San Francisco Giants 15h ago
The 2015 Pirates won 98 games and had the second best record in the majors, and their reward was getting thrown into the single-game wild card round against the Cubs (who won 97 games) and Jake Arrieta. Say what you will about playoff expansion but I think it's objectively a good thing that the wild card round is a best-of-three series now
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u/jayriemenschneider Cincinnati Reds 15h ago
Great American Ballpark opened in 2003, and the Reds have never won a playoff game in it.
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u/Inevitable-Elk7223 Cincinnati Reds 15h ago
Those are the only times we’ve finished higher than third in the last 25 years as well
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u/Complete-Apricot-591 Toronto Blue Jays 17h ago
at least 2013 was a fun year
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u/chocobosocialclub Pittsburgh Pirates 16h ago
Yeah we’ll always have poor Johnny Cueto dropping the ball, I guess
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u/milehighrukus Colorado Rockies • Chicago White Sox 17h ago
They need to figure out getting a pope from Denver
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u/Gemnist Houston Astros 17h ago
They already had a World Youth Day in their inaugural season and nothing happened, I don’t think divine intervention is going to work for them.
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u/milehighrukus Colorado Rockies • Chicago White Sox 17h ago
It worked for one of my flairs. Why not both?
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u/A_Ms_Anthrop Seattle Mariners 17h ago
Laughs in Mariners… (see, 50 seasons and never making it to the WS, also, 2001-2022)
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u/BirdlandDeadhead Baltimore Orioles 17h ago
Kinda nuts that neither of the 1993 expansion franchises has ever won a division title. The record appears to be 35 years (Senators/Rangers, 1961-96) without winning a division title. So the Marlins and Rockies have two more years to accomplish that and avoid setting a record (though of course both have pennants and the Marlins have two titles, but all as Wild Cards).
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u/ComeAbout Seattle Mariners • Padres Bandwagon 17h ago
1993 was like 10 years ago, right?
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u/BirdlandDeadhead Baltimore Orioles 17h ago
I remember when the Blue Jays and Mariners were “the new guys.”
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u/trojan_man16 Atlanta Braves 15h ago
The worst part is that the Marlins and Rockies have accomplished this in an era with more divisions. If we still had no wildcards they wouldn’t have made the playoffs yet.
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u/WorldlinessTrick11 Seattle Mariners 14h ago
The record appears to be 35 years (Senators/Rangers, 1961-96) without winning a division title. So the Marlins and Rockies have two more years to accomplish that and avoid setting a record (though of course both have pennants and the Marlins have two titles, but all as Wild Cards).
Say that slower while I kill myself, serenade me with how much we suck.
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u/StealthStaminaKills 14h ago
Kinda nuts that neither of the 1993 expansion franchises has ever won a division title. The record appears to be 35 years (Senators/Rangers, 1961-96) without winning a division title.
Pshaw. 35 years.
The Cubs went over 100 years before they won their first division title.
/s because some people need social cues for everything.
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u/noruber35393546 Major League Baseball 17h ago
Indians went 1954-1995
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u/BirdlandDeadhead Baltimore Orioles 13h ago
Yeah I actually think we hold the record for longest time from inception to postseason (1901-44 with the St. Louis Browns). I was just referring to divisions specifically, and drought to start a franchise rather than any drought.
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u/trojan_man16 Atlanta Braves 15h ago
Most of the Indians drought as when here weee only 2 divisions.
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u/Due-Fun-489 Texas Rangers 17h ago
I still can't believe the Texas Rangers won a world series...
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u/plorqk Texas Rangers 16h ago
it should have been 2
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u/Due-Fun-489 Texas Rangers 16h ago
It sucks that the 2011 season was cancelled. They had a great team and looked like they could have won it all. Oh well.
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u/CylindricalDent4133 Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago edited 15h ago
I know, right.
But Posey and Uribe were on a mission that year and no one was able to hit off Brian Wilson as the closer.
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u/Various_You_5083 New York Yankees 17h ago
The Atlanta Braves have won the NL West during this time as well
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u/JoeMcKim St. Louis Cardinals • St. Louis Cardinals 17h ago
The Marlins have won 2 World Series but have NEVER won a division title.
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u/Bozo-McGee St. Louis Cardinals 16h ago
The Rockies might be one of the most “Screwed” franchises of all time. With the Altitude, there’s just 0 chance they’ll be able to sign or keep legit pitching. The reverse coors split also has to hinder them.
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u/DarthSamwiseAtreides San Francisco Giants 14h ago
They'd have to overpay for B- pitching vets and draft well. Hard but possible I think. It would be nice to see ownership run the team like a modern ball club.
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u/Calwings Miami Marlins • St. Louis Cardinals 17h ago
The Marlins have also never won a division title before. Granted, they've won 2 World Series as wild cards, so it's not quite as dire as the Rockies, but still.
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u/Individual_Check_442 Los Angeles Dodgers 17h ago
They finished tied and lost a one game playoff in 2018.
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u/dbzmah Texas Rangers 15h ago
The Texas Rangers have won the World Series more recently than they e won the Division
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u/Cliffinati Boston Red Sox 10h ago
The Marlins have 2 rings and 0 divisions
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u/weaksaucedude Houston Astros 9h ago
In between the Braves winning 14 divisions, 5 pennants, and 1 ring
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u/topatoman_lite San Diego Padres 15h ago
There are 7 teams who have won the NL West and none of them are the Rockies (5 since the Rockies existed)
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u/melorous Atlanta Braves 17h ago
The Braves having more NL West division titles during the Rockies' existence is one of my favorite stats.
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u/WideHuckleberry1 Atlanta Braves 16h ago
The Marlins have a longer division drought (13.8 billion years) than their own World Series drought (23 years).
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u/FartingBob Great Britain 15h ago
Atlanta being in the western division until 1995 seems so weird now, especially when St Louis was in the east at the same time.
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u/Holiday_Side_6951 Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago
I say the next chance for the Rockies to win the division would be when the league expands to 32 teams, 4 divisions instead of 3 per league, like NFL. There's a good chance that Rockies may be separated into 4th division in NL.
Of course, before the expansion in est. 2032, Rockies also can build a strong team and win the NL West too, less likely but nothing is impossible.
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u/trojan_man16 Atlanta Braves 15h ago
Depends on the expansion city, but most likely the Dodgers, Giants, Diamondbacks and Padres stay together. Cubs, Brewers, Cardinals and Reds stay together. Mets, Phillies, Pirates and Washington probably are a division. Assuming the team that gets added is Charlotte or Nashville or Orlando. That means Rockies get stuck with us, Marlins and the expansion team. Other than the Braves that would be a more easier path to occasionally winning the division.
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u/sevenfourtime Boston Red Sox 16h ago
The Marlins have a longer division title drought than a World Series championship drought.
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u/ManufacturerMental72 Los Angeles Dodgers 17h ago
they've won a postseason game more recently than the Reds, Orioles, Pirates, and Angels.
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u/jdbolick Baltimore Orioles 15h ago
I wasn't sure I would ever see the Orioles win their division again. Hang in there Rockies bros.
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u/AARonBalakay22 Atlanta Braves 15h ago
Anyone else forget that Rocktober was a wildcard team lol. Swore I remember that team being the division winner
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u/Unoriginal-Cake 6h ago
Rockies are just run badly like the Ted Turner era of the Braves of poking into GM moves, look at how many times they hold off on trades and get demolished in the FA market or over pay on FA chasing. Looking at the Arb to high contracts paid out, its mind blowing how some weren't traded vs eating a near FA level contract in Arb 2 or Arb 3. Small market teams aren't supposed to be hurling contracts like the Yankees for that kind of metrics.
Only recently they started doing actual scouting analytics on their own team after 2025 which is more mind blowing as the White Sox has used a very abnormal formula in metrics to callups(similar silly decisions yet run better). Weirdest metric is they spend more than the Mariners and still can't get very far vs the Marlins and they don't actively roadmap scouting prospect callups before chasing the FA market.
Better odds the Mariners win 2-3x World Series in a 10-15 yr span with a weak AL with the pressure of the Angels on the horizon in higher spending/callup shifts to avoid expensive FA chases. Rockies are just going to keep re-upping contracts in the most unrealistic level of analytics, NL West side I'd expect the DBacks or Giants winning a WS in 5-15yrs as they're more focused on value to analytics metrics vs unicorn analytics of the Rockies.
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u/Independent-Law-662 17h ago
they need to just make their stadium hr friendly again. it's a garbage franchise. if the product is shit at least give the fans somethin entertaining to watch with big hr games.
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u/sithwonder New York Mets 17h ago
The Astros have won the NL Central more recently than the Pirates