Have you experienced a feeling that your favorite team — if your favorite team is a contender — is good enough to win the World Series and flimsy enough to be bounced in the first round?
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If so, I get it. We are in a second straight season in which only one team might have a .600 or better winning percentage, which last happened in consecutive years in 2013 (no teams reached .600) and 2014 (one team did).
The one team this year is the Brewers, and congratulations to them for figuring out the new Moneyball inefficiency, which — ironically for the analytic world — is thriving at the finer parts of the gam