COMMENTARY
On Friday morning, nine of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams sat within two games of .500: The Red Sox, Minnesota, and Seattle (26-24); Pittsburgh (25-24); the Mets and Toronto (26-25); San Francisco (25-25); Miami (25-26); and Detroit (23-25). It’s the vast, average middle, neither ticketed for nor disqualified from dreaming anything’s possible.
You could probably compel me to believe the Red Sox were the most average of them all, but I think it’s clearer that this group lacks anything particularly exceptional.
The roads to that yawning middle have been different. The Marlins are 15-4 in one-run games; the Twins are 4-10.