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What kills me is the people calling into WFAN today complaining about dropping a series to the Phillies this early in the season "you can't win 100 games losing series to teams like that".
First off it's stupidly early to be making any judgments...but beyond that, they won 90 games last year with basically the stars aligning after July 31st, getting to face the Phillies, Braves, and Rockies a ton and also sweeping their top division rival twice. You can't bank on stuff like that every year. EXPECTING 100 wins from any team seems insane to me.
At the same time they also went 0-13 against the Cubs and Pirates in the regular season which I would think isn't likely to repeat itself this year. So overall with an improved everyday lineup right at the start of the year I could see maybe forecasting a modest improvement. 93, 94 wins? Sure. But 100? GTFO.
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