COMMENTARY
Three thoughts after a brief quartet of Wild Card Series, and a coming set of Division Series that will hopefully offer a little more heft.
Meek ousters
The nature of baseball is that we spend six months watching a team establish what exactly it is, then a couple of days invalidate most of our research. When stuff doesn’t work in October, it’s not the sort of bad few games even the best have every season. It’s a fatal flaw that forces introspection.
This was crazy in the pre-Wild Card era, when it took two seven-game series to be the World Series champion.