Too bad this isn't real life and that doesn't matter at all. 1 pick in the draft thanks to their combined 2020-21 record. Four of the other five divisions have at least three teams with winning records. The Braves have the best 2020-21 record in the division and that record would land them in fourth place in the AL East and NL West. San Francisco now has baseball's best record. 8 postseason spot, but Milwaukee held the tiebreaker and went to the postseason while the Giants went home. They finished tied with the Brewers for the No. The Giants went 29-31 last season, remember. The three best teams in the league (and three of the five best teams in baseball) reside in the same division. Now here are the combined 2020-21 National League standings: NL East I can't imagine the Royals feel good about having the same 2020-21 record as the Tigers after spending money this past offseason. They had the worst record in the league last year and they were only one game ahead of the Orioles for the worst record in the league this season going into Tuesday. Not surprisingly, the Rangers still hold the worst record in the American League. 98 runs! That run differential says they should be closer to 70-92. 500 the last two seasons despite being outscored by 98 runs. The A's are hanging on to a slim two-game lead. Last year's 29-31 record is enough to keep the Astros out of first place in the AL West in our combined 2020-21 standings, but only barely. On the flip side, the Red Sox had the fourth worst record in baseball last season, yet their success this year vaults them all the way into second place in the AL East, and a tie with Cleveland for the second wild card spot. The Twins won the AL Central last season yet slip all the way to third place (with a sub-.500 record) because he's had such a poor season this year. Got it?įirst up, here are the combined 2020-21 standings for the American League AL East Because we have an uneven number of games played, we'll round to 162 for some teams. The Blue Jays were on the low end at 157 games played going into Tuesday.
Not every team has played exactly 162 games since Opening Day 2020 but most are in the ballpark. We're going to look at one "season" spanning two calendar years. This week we're going to shift gears a bit and look back at the 2020-21 seasons combined, which conveniently work out to 162 games played for most teams.
Best record in mlb history series#
We've reached the second half of the regular season and the dog days of the summer are right around the corner.Īs part of our weekly series breaking down trends across the league, we looked at Juan Soto's post-Home Run Derby surge, Cody Bellinger's fastball problems, and David Fletcher's long hitting streak last week. The All-Star break is in the rearview mirror and the chaos of the trade deadline is only two days away.
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