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    2023 MLB Playoffs

    in Detroit Tigers

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    47 minutes ago, oblong said:

    that goes back to the AL and NL being different entities moreso than now.  You had AL offices, NL offices, AL Umpires, NL umpires.  The teams didn't play each other during the season.  Player movement wasn't like it was today.  In that sense it was unique.  Now the leagues are just words rather than units with any meaning. They could be called conferences for all we care.  It would be an interesting study to see how that evolved over time, at what point did they join up and what made up each connection?   Could the American League add a team without the National League's approval for example?  Or make their own rules?

    Outside of the NFL though no other league goes through this effort to reward teams for regular season sucess other than seeding.  Everyone just got split up a certain way and that's how it was.  The NHL did away with the Wales/Campbell conference designations.  The NFL just took on the AFL and made it "American Conference" to pretend there was a difference.

    My deer hunting buddy, Adam Hamari, worked the WC round in Minnesota and will umpire the NLCS when they start.

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    Bobrob’s 2023 Preseason Predictions

    in Detroit Tigers

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    27 minutes ago, bobrob2004 said:

    Going back, I wish I had done Jake Rogers, Akil Baddoo, Kerry Carpenter, and Tarik Skubal instead of Eric Haas, Austin Meadows, Jonathan Schoop, and Spencer Turnbull, but there was a lot of uncertainty in Spring Training this year. 

    As I was going through the stats I was wishing that as well.

    Nice piece of work putting those stats together!

    It is very interesting.

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