Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Major League Baseball expanded its postseason from 10 to 12 teams last year with the addition of a third wild-card entrant in each league, then adopted a 2023 schedule in which every team plays at least one series against all 29 other teams.The early results of the new schedule have confirmed what most everyone knew: The American League East is far and away the best division in baseball, while the AL Central is the worst. Coming nine years before Don Larson's World Series perfect game, it would've been the first no-hitter in postseason history. Instead, the Yankees' Cookie Lavagetto doubled on a 1-2 pitch to score two runs and give the Dodgers a 3-2 win. Had Bevensgotten the no-hitter, it would've been arguably the ugliest no-noin the history of baseball.
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