The way I think of where to draw the line at diminishing returns for any skill is to think about pythag logic. Because the game, for lack of a more convenient description, plays pythagoreanly in marginal run scoring.
If you allow 500 runs (and have league average - 765 RS - offense) you'll win 113 games.
If you allow 100 MORE runs with the same offense, you'll win 100 games. That's 13 fewer wins and 100 fewer runs saved (you'd predict TEN fewer wins...so there's a drop-off in expected returns, but not a MASSIVE drop-off)
It's not impossible to allow 500 runs. It just hasn't been done recently because no team has ever tried to build a massive juggernaut defense
I wouldn't project that the Mariners have gone THAT far...but I don't think we're at the point where the returns for our efforts have become useless.
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