2019 Washington Nationals

The 2019 Washington Nationals were 19-31 and 10 games back after the first 50 games, including sporting an around 13-19 record around where we are now (they were 14-18 but then went on a losing streak to 14-22).

30 games later, the team hit .500 at 40-40.

They finished that season 93-69 (nice).

They won the Wild Card, beat the Dodgers in the NLDS, beat the Cardinals in the NLCS, and beat the Astros in the World Series.

Not saying it’s likely, or even easy. But the precedence is there.

We’re in our Chad Sox era.

Not to mention that, outside of the Yankees and Rats, the AL is… not great. We’ve got 16-16 and 17-14 division leads with only 3 teams over .500.