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The Brewers swept the Dodgers. The Rays eliminated the Yankees. And anyone who's survived decades of Chicago baseball knows that spending money and knowing how to build a winning team are two entirely different accomplishments.
A game played by people not spreadsheets
Baseball built a statistic to measure individual value. Somewhere along the way we started asking it to explain winning, greatness and championships. Those may not be the same thing.
Is Chicago watching the beginning of the greatest center-field career baseball has ever seen?
The White Sox can slug their way off the ropes. Now baseball’s most surprising Chicago revival has to learn how to stop taking punches.