Some Teams That Had 3-8 Stretches in 2008

I’m interested in starting a list of puzzling Macha moves, to see if I can begin to understand the logic behind them. It will be infinitely more interesting than watching this team sleepwalk to defeat. Maybe when they decide to wake up and play, I’ll regain perspective.

Incidentally, how bad does the stretch need to be to get down to 10 or so? 3-10? 4-12?

I don’t see Boston or Anaheim on your list.

The Angels aren’t on the list. They’ve had such a promising start to their season this year, too!

But I’m wondering how many teams (and particularly playoff teams) had at least two separate 3-8 runs during the season.

The reason I ask is because having this poor stretch at the beginning of the season puts the pressure on the Brewers the rest of the way. Some of the teams on this list didn’t have this stretch until June, July or August—but the Brewers have “used up” their mulligan, so to speak, the first two weeks of the year. That means they may have to go the entire rest of the season without another similar stretch, which seems like a tall order to me.

I hope that made sense, and, of course, if you can produce numbers showing that most playoff teams had multiple stretches like this during the season, then I’ll gladly recant.

I sure hope that extra day off works.