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

[Just Regular]

I guess KCR-CLE have a contrast where Royals are leaning on their SP and the Guardians on their RP.    I still think the Twins are the favorite.

I'm pretty sure the 2nd place East team will be the #4 seed, even with the banked wins by those two early leaders.

The Royals all slow bullpen was a notable feature in our games with them - they are probably knocking on all the same doors Elias is when they take a break from their preparations for the draft.

[Aristotelian]

18 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.  

As I acknowledged the season isnt over. The claim I responded to was that KC is *below* HOU and TEX. If you want to put them all in a category of teams who have not been eliminated, sure.

[Surhoffan17]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

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

Agreed. We were lucky to win 2 of those. Could have easily flipped to 4 of 6 for them. 

[Jagwar]

27 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

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.

I suppose you could have said the same thing about the 2023 Orioles with Gibson, Kremer, Bradish, Wells and GRod

[RZNJ]

8 minutes ago, Jagwar said:

I suppose you could have said the same thing about the 2023 Orioles with Gibson, Kremer, Bradish, Wells and GRod

We did say the same thing about the 2023 Orioles.  Health and innings.  

[Malike]

2 hours ago, Jagwar said:

I suppose you could have said the same thing about the 2023 Orioles with Gibson, Kremer, Bradish, Wells and GRod

Technically, we didn't get through the whole year with Wells and Rodriguez. They both came back and contributed in different ways, but if Lugo has to go to the pen, that changes the metric in a big way for KC.

[OriolesMagic83]

Royals have a lot of talent, but I would still put them a notch below the O's and Yanks.  They'll probably fight it out for the Central with the Indians.

[ExileAngelos]

"Looked at the wild card standings."  LOL  It is May.  I barely look at the division standings this time of year.  

[waroriole]

11 hours ago, Aristotelian said:

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

Because I don’t base everything on 50 games this season. 

[HowAbout That]

Where do you find “strength of schedule,”?

We’ve played fewer games than all the teams in MLB who have fewer losses than we do, including four fewer than New York. So the record by itself doesn’t tell the whole story, and I’m interested in what information the strength of schedule stat might provide.

[maybenxtyr]

They definitely have the beginnings of a good young team.

 

Maybe they can play the Phillies so each team can play against a team with a winning record.