‘Like pulling a tractor trailer’: what it’s like to play on an awful MLB team
A 162-game season guarantees failure as much as success. Inside a losing clubhouse, staying together and believing can become the hardest part of the jobIf you ask professional athletes, they’ll tell you.
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A 162-game season guarantees failure as much as success. Inside a losing clubhouse, staying together and believing can become the hardest part of the jobIf you ask professional athletes, they’ll tell you. But in Major League Baseball, losing big can be especially tedious.An MLB seasons boasts a whopping 162 games (twice as many as the NBA and NHL) and even the best hitters fail two-thirds of the time at the plate. If a pitcher wins half his starts, he’s an All-Star.
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- A 162-game season guarantees failure as much as success. Inside a losing clubhouse, staying together and believing can become the hardest part of the jobIf you ask professional athletes, they’ll tell you.
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‘Like pulling a tractor trailer’: what it’s like to play on an awful MLB team
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