AL playoff picture

[Just Regular]

Astros admit it is a knee sprain for Yordan and he is out the Mariners series, with hoped for return at the Guardians Friday.

He will play the playoffs and I guess benefit from that infielders on the dirt rule, as otherwise defenses might have been able to put all of them well on to the grass like Pujols at the end.

Mariners got the must opener with "just" Bryce Miller - now they have Logan Gilbert and George Kirby tonight and tomorrow afternoon against Yordan-free lineups to try and make the weekend interesting.

[ShoelesJoe]

 

[Just Regular]

It is only this hour I am discovering the Skubal-Pepiot game is now at 110 this afternoon.

https://www.mlb.com/news/rays-tigers-september-24-game-time-change

 

[Fiver6565]

3 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

It is only this hour I am discovering the Skubal-Pepiot game is now at 110 this afternoon.

https://www.mlb.com/news/rays-tigers-september-24-game-time-change

 

Thanks for this, I’ll be firing up the MLB app for this one!

[Fiver6565]

15 minutes ago, ShoelesJoe said:

 

So our lead would be pretty much exactly what is is anyway over the 5, just a different team behind us. 
 

Good thing they balanced the schedule at least a little bit, else this would be even more skewed. Red Sox might be in if it was 19 v 13 in division games still. 
 

I think an argument can be made that the schedule should be balanced the rest of the way ( as best it can be) given the prominence of the WC and the extra spot that now provides. Main competition for the playoffs, for many teams; has nothing to do with division anymore. 

[Fiver6565]

Actually forget the bit about the Red Sox above. My mind was thinking backwards there. 

[Bahama O's Fan]

52 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

So our lead would be pretty much exactly what is is anyway over the 5, just a different team behind us. 
 

Good thing they balanced the schedule at least a little bit, else this would be even more skewed. Red Sox might be in if it was 19 v 13 in division games still. 
 

I think an argument can be made that the schedule should be balanced the rest of the way ( as best it can be) given the prominence of the WC and the extra spot that now provides. Main competition for the playoffs, for many teams; has nothing to do with division anymore. 

100%! I say abolish divisions, play a fully balanced schedule and take the top 4 or 6 or 8 or whatever teams in each league to the playoffs. 

[Fiver6565]

1 hour ago, Bahama O's Fan said:

100%! I say abolish divisions, play a fully balanced schedule and take the top 4 or 6 or 8 or whatever teams in each league to the playoffs. 

i still like that winning your division matters, at least a little bit.  So I think there's a happy medium between how unbalanced it was, and what you are suggesting.  13 games vs each division team feels right to me, but there are going to be years where that skews the WC thing a bit, because there's always one really bad team, it seems, somewhere (not always as bad as the ChiSox, of course).  I'm not sure how else to further balance it.  Maybe cut back on the NL stuff a bit and play more games against your non-divisional conference rivals so at least there's more head to head to base the WC on.