This post isn’t going to be about numbers. Instead, I want to talk about two teams.
Team A
The first team (let’s think of them as Team A) was still rebuilding last year. Organizational difficulties led to a Front Office personnel shakeup, and while many reasons were cited (youth movement still on the way, lack of certainty by new executives regarding organizational talent, restrictive payroll situation), the team was quiet in the offseason.
As a result, expectations were fairly low, and those expectations were met early on. After two months, the team had played .