The A's announcers praised Story right into a K. At least, Franchy hit the ball hard. And finally, whatever WAR the nerds have assigned to Devers, it's too low. He's more dangerous with a bat than the nerds' hero Mike Trout.
The statement that a team is what their record says it is, imho, is not true while the season is in progress. When the season has concluded, then I will agree that statement is true.