Posted by bad_luck on 7/28/2015 2:36:00 PM (view original):
But I'll answer for you.
The answer is they will not expect to win more games. Or less games. In both scenarios, they would expect to win 98 games*.
*Obviously, the Jays aren't going to win 98 games this season, despite their great run differential. But, as long as the full season RS/RA are somewhere in the neighborhood of what we can reasonably expect them to finish with, adding 10 runs of offense is the same as saving 10 runs with pitching.
The Jays have scored 72 more runs than everybody else in MLB, and are +123 over MLB average.
Their pitching staff has allowed 28 more runs than MLB average.
When you're trying to improve a team, is it smarter to make the things that work great even better, or try to improve the things that are working poorly?