PECOTA Hates Your Team

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Arizona Diamondbacks$

by Ben Carsley 3/26

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The PECOTA Hates Your Team series ends with perhaps the league's most meh team

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Atlanta Braves$

by Ben Carsley 3/25

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We say PECOTA hates every team. In the case of Atlanta, it's more like a mutual loathing.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Baltimore Orioles$

by Craig Goldstein 3/24

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How do you critique a team that isn’t trying?

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Boston Red Sox$

by Ben Carsley 3/23

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What's worse than enraging your fanbase? Making them not care at all.

PECOTA Hates Your Team 2021: Chicago Cubs$

by Ben Carsley 3/22

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At this point, the Cubs are the baseball equivalent of a C+ student. But the league is full of slackers.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Chicago White Sox$

by Ben Carsley 3/19

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How do you hate one of the better, more fun teams in baseball? Well, their manager is an easy start.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Cincinnati Reds$

by Patrick Dubuque 3/18

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The Reds gave up on the offseason. If anything can save them this year, it's that some teams gave up even worse.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Cleveland$

by Ben Carsley 3/17

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It's a hard-fought competition, but Cleveland arguably had the worst offseason of any franchise.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Colorado Rockies$

by Ben Carsley 3/16

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The Rockies suck. Like, existentially. They're a black hole, is what we mean.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Detroit Tigers$

by Craig Goldstein 3/15

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The 2021 Detroit Tigers are the Simpsons’ “That’s the Joke” meme in human form.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Houston Astros$

by Ben Carsley 3/12

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And it's not alone.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Kansas City Royals$

by Craig Goldstein 3/11

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The Royals can be commended for trying. We just can't commend them for being good.

PECOTA Hates Your Team: Los Angeles Angels$

by Ben Carsley 3/10

Alex Cobb, guys? Really? Really??

PECOTA Hates Your Team 2021: Los Angeles Dodgers$

by Patrick Dubuque 3/09

Have to admit, fitting the Dodgers into this series was gonna be tough.

PECOTA Hates Your Team 2021: Miami Marlins$

by Ben Carsley 3/08

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The Marlins had the 22nd-best offense in MLB last year. They ran it back, plus Adam Duvall—expect great things.

PECOTA Hates Your Team 2021: Milwaukee Brewers$

by Patrick Dubuque 3/05

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Ok, so maybe it doesn't. But someone has to!