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When Davey Johnson got his first managerial gig with the New York Mets in 1984 he took over a franchise that had lost 94-plus games in six of its previous seven seasons, and the only reason it didn't happen in the seventh season was due to the 1981 s...

Back on March 31, I wrote a fateful post entitled, "Why the Phillies won't make the playoffs." And, yes, a certain group of fans have not let me forget about it. Nick Pietruszkiewicz, one of the baseball editors here, warned me; he gave me a chanc...