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Article: NL Central on wretched pace
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- May 30, 2007
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The National League Central isn't merely a bad division.
It has an excellent chance to be the worst division -- by one
telling measurement -- since Major League Baseball expanded from four
to six divisions in 1994, back when the circumference of Barry Bonds'
skull was smaller than a pitching mound.
Out-of-division winning percentage is the measurement, and the NL
Central is 46-82 against the rest of the baseball world this season,
good for a winning percentage of .359.
Without radical improvement, this group will make history.
The wrong kind, of course.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the worst out-of-division