After reviewing the 2011 season, I concluded that the Boston Red Sox were the unluckiest team in the major leagues. Not because they tasted improbable defeat in game 162 resulting in a missed postseason berth, but because they were even in a position to blow an all-but-certain playoff berth in historic fashion. The beneficiaries of that bad luck were, of course, the Tampa Bay Rays. So perhaps it’s evidence of a universe in balance that, in 2012, the Rays were the unluckiest team in Major League Baseball.