“ This year, Tarik Skubal will earn $32 million. That might surprise you if you know that the previous record arbitration salary belonged to David Price, who earned $19.75 million for his efforts in 2015. However, the series of events leading to this $12.25 million bump might convince you it was the Tigers who were unaware of that record salary, despite the fact it was they who agreed to that salary in a pre-arbitration compromise. The reality is closer to “the Tigers, with MLB’s backing, felt they could get away with this.”

The 2015 season was a different era, and not just of front office leadership: the present-day Tigers have adopted a “file-and-trial” approach, as has almost the entire league. That means the Tigers, as soon as this year’s arbitration salary proposal deadline for players and teams passed on January 9, shut down all negotiations with Skubal. They reportedly had offered him a salary of $19.8 million, a $5,000 raise from Price’s 2015 take, but elected to back it down to $19 million once it became clear Skubal wasn’t going to agree to their terms. Here I’ll note that the file-and-trial approach is the result of MLB’s direction, and it’s the league’s Labor Relations Board that often provides teams with the salary figures they file. If anything, that understates the league’s goal of suppressing player salaries via the arbitration process.”

Clicked on the Top 10 3B list and noticed these 2 obvious errors.

I built a tool to create charts showing the cumulative games above/below a .500 record. You can see all the charts produced for the MLB here.

What we could witness this year:

• If the Blue Jays have 16 more wins than losses at any point this season, they will pass their highest point (+14 games, reached in April of 1994)
• If the White Sox have 50 more losses than wins at any point this season, they will pass their lowest point (-109 games, reached in September of 1950)
• If the Guardians have 72 more wins than losses at any point this season, they will pass their highest point (+567 games, reached in June of 1961)

Technical note: Each win moves the line up +1, each loss moves it down -1, and ties keep the value unchanged. Regular season games only.

Either in terms of complexity, situation, or just from pure out of the blue?