{"id":5523,"date":"2012-10-04T05:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T11:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2012-10-04T05:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T11:11:35","slug":"2012-league-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5523","title":{"rendered":"2012 League Cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4721\">suggested<\/a> a way baseball could bring some relevance back to the regular season: by recognizing the team with the best record as the League Champion.  This year&#8217;s League Champions, under that formulation, would be New York and Washington.  I find that a far more useful metric of overall team quality than &#8220;made the post-season&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I suggested a way baseball could bring some relevance back to the regular season: by recognizing the team with the best record as the League Champion. This year&#8217;s League Champions, under that formulation, would be New York and Washington. I find that a far more useful metric of overall team quality than &#8220;made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012 League Cups<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[61,404],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1r5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}