All through the season the CBS Sports activities MLB specialists will carry you a weekly Batting Round roundtable breaking down fairly a lot something. The newest information, a historic query, ideas about the future of baseball, all kinds of stuff. Final week we mentioned the Braves and their postseason hopes. This week we will sort out potential 100-win groups.
Will any groups win 100 video games this season?
Mike Axisa: As I write this Wednesday afternoon, no group is on tempo to win even 96 video games. There have been no less than 4 96-win groups yearly since 2016. Anyway, I say sure, there might be a 100-win group. Two, actually. I feel the Dodgers and Phillies will get there. Even this late within the season, all it takes is one actually nice week to nudge your win tempo up significantly. I feel the Dodgers and Phillies are the 2 greatest groups in baseball and I feel they’ve 100-win expertise on their roster, and I feel each get there earlier than the top of the season. Let’s name it 101 wins for the Dodgers and 100 on the nostril for Philadelphia.
Matt Snyder: No. I feel the Phillies are in all probability the very best wager to problem the century mark, however we have seen sufficient flaws within the top-tier groups together with sufficient indicators of life from the decrease tier to consider we simply have a bit extra regular-season parity this yr than in previous seasons, White Sox clearly excepted. This may be the primary full season since 2014 that no group reached 100 wins and that World Collection gave us an 89-win group towards an 88-win group. May we see one thing related this yr?
R.J. Anderson: I will say sure for the sake of variety. Many of the high groups have been mired in slumps currently, leaving everybody (as I write this) a number of wins in need of a 100-win projection. Absolutely no less than considered one of these groups will get and keep sizzling, permitting them to scrape previous the 100-win mark and us to keep away from our first season in a decade with out such a membership.
Dayn Perry: I’ve to say no. That is important floor to make up the remainder of the way in which, given {that a} 100-win tempo interprets to a successful share only a bit north of .617. That is actually attainable, however I will default to saying the groups inside vary will proceed to play at their present ranges, broadly talking. The Yankees and Orioles have the best remaining schedules among the many groups inside vary of a 100-win tempo, however I will nonetheless lean no.
