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Originally Posted by Balticfox
Preferable to certain others!
A cheap and ill informed shot at Bobby Cox who took over the Blue Jays in 1982. He turned a sad sack club into a contender. Here are the Jays' numbers before, during and after the Cox era:
1981: 37-69 (7th)
1982: 78-84 (6th)
1983: 89-73 (4th)
1984: 89-73 (2nd)
1985: 99-62 (1st)
1986: 86-76 (4th)
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Fun fact: a team can improve and underperform at the same time.
Also, winning 99 and then blowing a 3-1 lead is underperforming.
And it's not like his Braves teams had a rep for overachieving.