It’s clearly a factor but they have been playing crappy baseball (poor base running, defense, inability to move runners over) since June. It really hasn’t been much different than the last 2 weeks other than the pitching being worse and the offense being a little bit better. Still the same vibe though. They haven’t won a series against a team over .500 in 2 and a half months. They’ve won 1 series against a non Colorado or CHW team since 8/1. There’s zero reason they should be this bad.
So... who should be on the team instead of those 4 AAAA players? And given the timing of each injury to Westburg, Urias, Kjerstad and Mountcastle... how and when was Elias supposed to acquire/add them to the roster?
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-playoff-tiebreaker-rules
This says third tiebreaker is effectively intra-league league, which we can still lose to the Twins.