AL Wild Card Standings

[Peter Welch]

American League wild-card standings

• WC1: Twins, 27-18, .600
• WC2: Yankees, 21-21, .500

• Orioles, 20-21, .488, 0.5 games back of second WC
• Tigers, 19-21, .475, 1.0 back
• Mariners, 19-23, .452, 2.0 back
• Angels, 17-26, .395, 4.5 back
• Royals, 15-28, .349, 6.5 back
• Rangers, 14-27, .341, 6.5 back
• Red Sox, 15-29, 341, 7.0 back

[Roger King]

This looks to be before yesterday because the Tigers are now 19-22.

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[Peter Welch]

Sorry about that.  The Tigers are now 1.5 games behind the Yankees for the last WC spot.  The Orioles are 1 game behind the Yankees.

Peter

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[Roger King]

By the way, maybe it's good they are only playing 60 games this season.  After 41 games last season, the Tigers were actually 18-23 so not really that much of an improvement this year, believe it or not.

That said, Game 41 last year was the 3rd loss in what would become a 10-game losing streak.  It was that stretch of games that really sealed the deal on the Tigers having an epic losing season.  

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[Peter Welch]

It's funny but I don't think the Tigers are trying that hard to make the last playoff spot.  Their plan is to play some of the kids and give them experience plus let guys like Fulmer work their way back regardless of results.  It just turns out that we're in the playoff race in this goofy short season.  Anything can happen in a 60-game sample size.

Peter

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[Michael W]

Peter wrote

> It's funny but I don't think the Tigers are trying that hard to make the last playoff spot.  Their plan is to play some of the kids and give them experience 

> plus let guys like Fulmer work their way back regardless of results.  It just turns out that we're in the playoff race in this goofy short season.   

It's not just luck.  The "kids" are mostly better baseball players than the "veterans" they are replacing.   Compare Willi Castro to Niko Goodrum, Victor Reyes to Cam Maybin, even Candelario to CJ Cron.  If the Tigers decided they were going to go for broke this season, this is exactly what they should be doing.  If they were really playing for next year, they would have traded Schoop at the deadline..

Best,

Michael

[Paul Meloche]

It's really a good situation for the Tigers in that regard. They aren't very good, but they're good enough to be kinda sorta in a playoff race in this weird season. Nobody begrudges them for not being more aggressive at the deadline and many of the hoped for future core is getting plenty of opportunity in Aug/Sept..

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