The Cookies are in the Oven

… but we know better.  The Alleghenys won their 100th game Saturday, with 20 games to go. Their lead over the Tornadoes (and everyone else) keeps growing. Cory Kluber is on his way to another Cy Young.

I’ve often said that no one within about 28 games at the start of the month is technically mathematically eliminated until the last pitch is thrown with at least one hitter still eligible to bat or one pitcher eligible to pitch.  That last game could go for 1000 innings, and your batter or pitcher could go that entire stretch batting (or pitching) perfectly, compiling massive stats in your favor.  But I realized today this isn’t true on the hitting side. Once your player fills up the maximum plate appearances at the position where you’ve allocated him, even if he bats an infinite number of times, he can only improve about one-ninth of your offensive stats.  (If you were clever enough to allocate this immortal to all nine offensive positions, there would be no limit to how much he could improve your team’s numbers.  If your team allowed 100 runs in a month, they’d only need to score about 750 in that month to officially go 28-0. Of course, you would need the first place team to go 0-28, and all the teams in between to do very badly, too…)

Anyway, we can smell the cookies in the oven.  Smell them all you want, but unless you’re an Allegheny don’t expect to be allowed to touch them.

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