With the Dodgers loss, no team will hit 100 wins in a season for the first* time since 2014

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1. I’m going to wait for 17 more people to post this before deciding how I feel

2. The White Sox were so bad that everyone else decided to be worse as to not make them feel as bad.

3. What a bunch of chokers! Not reaching 100+ wins.

   /s

4. I got to 100 wins this year because every day I come home to my beautiful wife is a win

5. Ohtani joins the Dodgers, has a career high offensive season, and the Dodgers end up with a worse record than the previous 3 years anyway.

   Pure Tungsten

6. 2014 Had every team between 64-98 and 98-64 (The Angels went 98-64).

7. I think it’s good for the sport to have this much parity. Obviously the current generation of contenders (Dodgers, Yankees, etc) is sort of bitch made so we haven’t had to worry about 1/2 seeds dominating anyway lately but should make a very exciting playoffs

8. nah i decided ill get 100 wins anyway

9. The way everyone across the league, including some analysts I usually respect the opinions of, clutched their pearls about the Dodgers’ offseason and what it would do to competitive balance was such an overreaction.

   Their o/u was at 103.5 wins at one point for Pete’s sake. Easiest $50 of my life.

10. The real crazy thing is everyone lost 63 with EIGHT days still left so nobody was even close to 100 wins even if someone actually wins 97 or 98 games.

11. Good! I’m tired so seeing these overachieving teams with their gaudy win totals. It’s an embarrassment to the game to win more games than necessary!

12. For those wondering, the team with the worst record to lead the majors in wins in the 162-game era was the 1982 Brewers at 95-67. It’s unlikely but not impossible for that to be matched this year.

13. Dinger FTW !!!

14. I don’t know why you excluded 2020. No one reached 100 wins that season either.

15. Good, makes for a more competitive league, the battle for the AL Wildcard spots has been incredible.

16. This will be the new normal, playoff expansion has made 100 wins functionally useless, now teams have incentive to basically throw games in order to keep players fresh and healthy, start AAAA pitchers you’d normally never see to lengthen the rotation, pull the good players early if a game is out of hand, play to win in extras instead of to tie because a 14 inning game isn’t worth the wear-and-tear even if you lose, etc.

    Currently only 4 of the teams in playoff spots have even reached 90 wins

17. Imagine spending a billion dollars and not even getting 100 wins

18. As a Yankee fan fuck 100 win seasons. They don’t mean shit.

    I think we won in 2000 with 87 wins? 88?

19. Put another way, despite the atrocity of the White Sox this year, there’s been really good competitive balance across the MLB this season. We will will probably see >20 teams finishing within 10 games of .500 this year and >25 within 15 games. This is the type of competition pool we’ve been looking for, hasn’t it?

20. Ha, we actually did something 

21. parity good

22. No one is mentioning the schedule change and that every team plays every other team now. Cleveland would have 120 wins if they got to play the White Sox as often as they used to in a season.

23. Injuries really undermined almost everyone this year.

24. Baseball confirmed washed?!

25. Royals to the World Series confirmed

26. Although my Dodgers have missed the mark, I’m greatly enjoying the renewed competitiveness in the division. It simply makes for better baseball.

27. What’s the asterisk for?

28. 2024, the dead ball year with impressive parity. Get me the fuck out of here already