Brian Mangan - Sandy Alderson is Right, the Mets Are a .500 Team: Run Differential Explained

Sandy Alderson is Right, the Mets Are a .500 Team: Run Differential Explained

By: Brian Mangan

“We kind of like our team.  If you look at the run differential, we should be a .500 team. We’re not. At the same time, it doesn’t mean we should throw everyone overboard.” – Sandy Alderson

These words, uttered by Mets GM Sandy Alderson last week (in an interview with Jon Heyman for CBSSports.com) set off a firestorm in the Mets universe of newspaper columns, blogs, and on twitter.  Much of the commentary was critical of Alderson, and to be fair, Alderson’s Mets deserve plenty of criticism.  Was he deflecting blame? Is his head buried too deep in the spreadsheet to see that the Mets are actually “what their record says they are”?

The short answer is: no, Alderson is actually right.

http://thereadzone.com/2014/07/10/sandy-alderson-is-right-the-mets-are-a-500-team-run-differential-explained/