Slugger Shavings 2060.6 - Slugger's hitting squared plus Slugger's pitching squared equals despair squared

[RT60]

The 2060 Sluggers will go down in history, but not in a way the fans wanted. Was it a record amount of games back with 63? Nope, that was last season's team that finished 65 games back. Was it a record amount of losses with 110? Nope, that was the 2005 team that had 111 losses. Well, what was it then? Actually, it was in two ways.

The 2060 Sluggers finished with the worst pythagorean record in franchise history with a pathetic 53-109 record. The 2005 team that finished with the worse actual won-loss record had a better pythagorean record of 57-105. That 2005 team had a higher payroll (59Mvs94M), a full run better in ERA (5.5vs4.5), and a slightly higher batting average. It also had two eventual hall-of-famers in Michael Strathallan (his rookie year) and Allen Izatt. So it must have been quite a pathetic scene when it only ended up with 51 wins.

The other record broken in 2060 was the team batting average. The team was tied for second-worst team ERA with 5.55, but ran away with the worst team batting average with a measly .229. The next worst was .242 shared by last year's team and the 2005 team. That is a huge difference, and something the team will need to work on as it eventually turns the corner in its rebuild.

[RonCo]

Time to wrangle The Genius out of retirement and send on a talent hunt to the Amazon.