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Article: NL Central on wretched pace

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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 winning percentage since 1994 was .412, posted by the AL Central in 2002. ...

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