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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
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Nice call out.
I mean, it's not like I quoted a post in which you said you believe in stats, and shared stats that suggested Detroit was NOT going to run away and hide.
Hindsight is nice. At the time of that post - coming off a terrible month that had the team on the verge of fracturing and a clubhouse that was starting to see rumors about its rookie manager being overmatched - there wasn't anything STATISTICAL to suggest Detroit was about to go on a stretch in which it went from a -3 run differential to a +50 run differential in 23 games.
There was nothing that suggested an offense that had, to that point, been pretty mediocre would suddenly explode. As of 06/18, the Tigers had scored 305 runs in 68 games. That's 4.5 runs a game, and was 7th in the AL (Just nudging out the Royals at 303 runs, 8th in the AL). There was nothing to suggest JD Martinez, a scrap heap acquisition at that point posting an .843 OPS with 4 HR, would go on a tear in the next 23 games that would see him hit 9 HR and post a 1.222 OPS.
But congrats, I guess?