AL playoff race

9 Thoughts On The American League Landscape

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized AL MVP race, AL playoff race, American League, American League MVP, American League playoff race, MLB coverage

The MLB regular season has 6 ½ weeks left as we go into Friday night’s games. Here’s nine thoughts on the state of the American League, from the race for playoff spots to individual awards…

MLB Coverage: The American League Playoff Race

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized AL Playoff picture, AL playoff race, American League playoff race, baseball articles, MLB articles, MLB coverage, MLB playoff picture

The American League playoff race has the same eight teams in realistic contention that there were when we covered this topic in last Monday’s MLB coverage, but the cards were shuffled a bit, thanks in no small part to the devastation the Detroit Tigers wreaked on the city of Cleveland.

MLB Coverage: The American League Playoff Race

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized AL playoff race, American League playoff contenders, American League playoff race, baseball articles, MLB articles, MLB coverage

With the trade deadline passed, it’s time for TheSportsNotebook’s MLB coverage to do here what front offices around baseball had to decide, and it’s this—who’s a contender and who’s not. I think we can safely narrow the American League field to nine teams.

Phils & Brewers Join The Fray In National League Wild Card Race

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized AL playoff race, American League playoff race, MLB playoff race, MLB playoffs, National League wild-card race, NL wild-card race

The American League playoff race got a little bit of clarity this week thanks to some decisive results in showdown series, but the once-clear National League suddenly has a wild finish on its hands. While the division titles are all firmly in hand, as Washington, Cincinnati and San Francisco continue to run away with first place, and the first wild card is under solid control by Atlanta, the second wild-card now has at least five viable contenders.

American League Overview

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized AL baseball, AL playoff race, AL win futures, American League baseball, American League playoff race, American League win futures

Over the next two days TheSportsNotebook will look at how each team in baseball is performing in relation to the win total Over/Under that was posted in Las Vegas at the start of the season and assess their chances the rest of the way in that same light. I’m also going to do the less appealing prospect of assessing how my own preseason playoff picks have worked out and look ahead with some revisions (or wholesale changes as the case may be). Today we start with the American League and a link to each team’s season preview back in March is included…

AL Weekly Report: The Cleveland Indians Join The Wild-Card Fray

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized AL playoff race, AL wild-card race, American League playoff race, American League wild-card race, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Indians hot streak

The American League Central is starting to become where the action is as we hit the last day of baseball prior to the All-Star break. The Cleveland Indians have ripped through three successive series against contenders, playing good baseball. Not only are the Tribe keeping pace with the red-hot Chicago White Sox, with only a three-game margin coming into Sunday, but Cleveland is squarely in the middle of the wild-card race and could be even with Baltimore by day’s end.