Don’t Look now but Kansas City is pretty good.

[accinfo]

I looked at the wildcard standings and they are half of a game ahead of the Orioles.  They have won 7 in a row and 15-6 in May.  

[Surhoffan17]

Good. Let's get revenge or 2014 on them. And then the Ravens can go get revenge on the Chiefs in the postseason if they learn that running the ball is an effective strategy. 

[Malike]

They've played teams over .500 15 times, they are 6-9. They are on a nice roll and they have a lot of talent, but I'm not buying in yet.

[Spy Fox]

2 minutes ago, Malike said:

They've played teams over .500 15 times, they are 6-9. They are on a nice roll and they have a lot of talent, but I'm not buying in yet.

I noticed the same thing looking at their schedule. They've won only 1 series against a team that currently has a winning record (Milwaukee).  The O's by contrast have won 6 (KC, Boston, Minnesota, KC again, NYY, Seattle).

[Frobby]

I bought in when we played them.  We won 4 of 6, but they impressed me.

[spleen1015]

I think we knew this on 4/21. 

[waroriole]

They’re tough but I don’t think they’re WS contenders. A notch below Astros, Rangers and Yankees. 

[Aristotelian]

24 minutes ago, waroriole said:

They’re tough but I don’t think they’re WS contenders. A notch below Astros, Rangers and Yankees. 

The Astros and Rangers are 4+ games under .500.

[waroriole]

13 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

The Astros and Rangers are 4+ games under .500.

Is the season over?

[TommyPickles]

2 hours ago, Frobby said:

I bought in when we played them.  We won 4 of 6, but they impressed me.

Same here. Exciting young team and Salvy is having a career year at 34. 

[Aristotelian]

14 minutes ago, waroriole said:

Is the season over?

Of course not but I don't know how you can say those teams are better. Better uniforms?

[ScGO's]

I mean, they got THE Adam Frazier, what did you expect?

[Frobby]

9 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

Of course not but I don't know how you can say those teams are better. Better uniforms?

You know who’s a WS contender?  Any team that makes the playoffs and plays well in the playoffs, regardless of whether they won 100 games or 85 during the season.  We’ve seen the truth of that dozens of times over the years.  

[RZNJ]

It looks like their starting pitching has been stupendous.   Can Seth Lugo, Brady Singer, Alec Marsh, Cole Ragans, and Michael Wacha do this for a whole season?    Just like most any other team it could go either way.

[Keygans]

16 minutes ago, Frobby said:

You know who’s a WS contender?  Any team that makes the playoffs and plays well in the playoffs, regardless of whether they won 100 games or 85 during the season.  We’ve seen the truth of that dozens of times over the years.  

Let’s get hot in September and just steam roll who we play.    We are collectively slumping and now catching a case of the injury bug.  Fine… it will be NYs turn soon.    
 

I don’t care whether we win the division or wildcard. I just want to be not slumping and not injury riddled come October.    We need to fix the bullpen and we will probably before July. If the starting pitcher, get healthy and our bats get hot over the summer look out!