Hello and welcome back to FanPost Friday. Today we’re going to talk about expectations. I consider expectations to be different yet similar to hope or faith when it comes to sports. The entire industry of stats-based sports projections is what feeds expectations. Hope and faith have to do with you feel about a team regardless of expectations. In the end, they are all connected and feed off of and inform each other in ways that are difficult to quantify.
Expectations in baseball are certainly quantifiable. When your favorite team signs a free agent pitcher after their Cy Young Award winning season, you expect a certain level of success from that pitcher.