[USML Announce] Sabremetric Anomoly

[Rick Gammons]

Until recently, Oakland had a weirdly high positive run differential, and
they've had a losing record since about the second week!
    RG

On Tuesday, July 21, 2015, Mark Blocker <blockermark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeff/others:
>
>   Just curious about the following statistic.  The Toronto Blue Jays have
> outscored their opponents by 89 runs (and have scored 80 more runs than any
> other team in baseball), yet have a .500 record.  For comparison, the St.
> Louis Cardinals are plus 100, but they are 24 games over .500.  The Toronto
> stat has to be some sort of record-setting anomaly.  How could that be?
>
>   -- Mark
>
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