
Effectively Wild Episode 2009: Safe By a Hair
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Strange Confluence of a Division Being Better Than the Other
As late as September 28th of that season The whole NL East had better records than the whole NL West When the 1994 strike shortened season ended The entire AL West was worse than every other AL team East or Central. Ryan concluded he thinks those are the only four That could be deeper into the season than this year But also that puts the season 5th of 55 seasons in the divisional era So barely top 10% So weird, but not unprecedented It's definitely strange for a division to be as strong as the AL East has been this year Or as weak as the AL Central has been thisyear I mean those could end up being the strongest and weakest divisions ever Or certainly among them.
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