Hooray Interleague week! A week of probably seeing what Alex Guerrero could do on an AL team.
The Dodgers open up an eight-game road trip against the Oakland A’s, who are a lot worse than they should be. They’re 51-68 with a 60-59 Pythagorean W-L record. For all my mathematically inclined people out there, that means this: (copy pasted from Baseball Reference.)
Pythagorean winning percentage is an estimate of a team’s winning percentage given their runs scored and runs allowed. Developed by Bill James, it can tell you when teams were a bit lucky or unlucky.