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What do you think, folks?
Here's what the Red Sox just did:
– Won 108 regular season games
– Went 11-3 in the postseason
– Beat teams that won a combined 295 games
– Beat teams that had a combined payroll of $542 million in 2018Yikes. That's gotta come down as one of the best seasons ever, right?
— Kevin Wheeler (@KevinWheeler94) October 29, 2018
Inducing payroll into the evaluation actually hurts the argument since Boston had the highest team payroll by far.
Fox: Red Sox' diminished appeal one reason for WS viewership drop.https://t.co/0kI2nXTIrF
— Sports Business Journal (@SBJ) October 29, 2018
I agree on the 2018 Red Sox as having one of the best seasons ever. They certainly are the reigning greatest Red Sox team in history, argulably unseating the 1912 club that went 105-47, for a better winning percentage than this ’18 version. The 1912 team then beat the New York Giants 4 games to 3 (with one tie) in a thrilling World Series finale that saw the game tied 1-1 after nine. The Giants then scored a run in the top of the 10th, only to see the Red Sox come back with two after Tris Speaker’s harmless foul pop-up was mishandled.
Back 50 years or so ago, many felt their 1915 team was tops. That club had about the same winning percentage as this group, .669, and featured rookie Babe Ruth as an 18 game winner and a .952 OPS, in the dead-ball era no less.
Turning to 2019….
from Bovada:
Prior to Winter Meetings.Cubs 10-1 to win WS
Brewers 14-1
Cards 23-1How recent are those odds? They look like the ones from October. Looks to me like Bovada has taken them down entirely. Maybe because of winter meetings?
Here are more recent World Series odds. Note how Cards improved in the last update to pull even with Cubs and Brewers, while Arizona dropped like a rock. Gee, I wonder why?
07 Dec 04 Dec Red Sox750 700 Yankees 750 750 Astros 800 750 Dodgers 800 700 Braves 1000 1000 Cubs 1200 1200 Cardinals 1200 1800 Brewers 1200 1200 Indians 1400 1400 Phillies 1600 1600 Mets 1800 2000 Nationals 2000 1600 Angels 2500 2500 Rockies 2800 2800 Athletics 2800 2800 Twins 4000 4000 Rays 4000 4000 Blue Jays 5000 5000 Reds 5000 5000 Pirates 5000 5000 Padres 5000 5000 Mariners 5000 5000 Diamondbacks 6600 4000 Giants 6600 6600 Rangers 8000 8000 White Sox 8000 8000 Orioles 10000 10000 Tigers 10000 10000 Marlins 10000 10000 Royals 10000 10000
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