Yes. See above indeed. Looking above I see some posts about the need for teams to learn from the failure of the White Sox. My point (perhaps made in a slightly smug way) has to do with the difficulty of identifying "bad chemistry" or "bad mix" before it kills your team. It seems to me it is easy ex post to say such and such a team had chemistry issues. "Bad mix" becomes the explanation for all things that happened that could not be explained by other variables. The question I am interested in raising is whether in analyzing the failures of teams like the White Sox it is possible to identify ex ante which teams are learning something from those failures and which teams are not.Originally Posted by Horsehide Harry
I hope the above clarifies things and makes clear how my post fitted in with the conversation that was happening.
If I really wanted to be condescending I would say something to the effect that I was looking forward to your analysis of which teams had a "bad mix" in 2017 after the end of the season. But I resisted that temptation. Until now.
In a similar vein, anyone have a list of players they expect to be clutch this upcoming season?
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