The Bye

Last year I recall a lot of discussion over whether it was better to have a bye or not - seemingly it offered a risk all it's own in the bye-team perceived as having a slow to start vs a wild card winner already in rhythm. At the time, the results seemed to somewhat bear that out as bye teams had gone collectively 6 - 6: - 2022: 2-2 - 2023: 1-3 - 2024: 3-1 The counterargument is that baseball is highly variable, playing a 3-game elimination series is to be avoided at all costs for any team with World Series aspirations. The more recent results seem to validate that - after a slow start, th

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