00:00baseball, American League wildcard is actually hysterical to look at.
00:07Okay, you tell me, which of these teams is really any good?
00:14Baltimore, Texas, and Detroit are three games under .500,
00:19and they are all tied with the Orioles currently having the tiebreaker,
00:24but that will change daily, of being in the playoffs.
00:28The other teams in contention, Minnesota, Toronto, Cleveland, and Seattle,
00:35they are a half a game, one game, or two games behind Baltimore, Texas, and Detroit.
00:42According to fan graphs, the Texas Rangers are the most likely team of this group of seven,
00:49these seven ugly ducklings, to make the playoffs.
00:54The Tigers, even after trading away Scooble, the Tigers have a 24% chance of winning the third
01:03final wildcard spot.
01:05Baltimore coming in at 18% of the three teams.
01:10Now, that does not speak to Minnesota, Toronto, Cleveland, or Seattle.
01:14Toronto could very well win that.
01:16In terms of teams and talent, you would be hard to argue any other team besides Toronto.
01:23Toronto's got good starting pitching.
01:25Toronto's got bats to talk about.
01:27They've got Vladdy Jr.
01:28They just have woefully underperformed this year with a 61-65 record,
01:34but they're only a half a game behind Baltimore, Texas, and Detroit.
01:38This is not what the American League hoped for, or even Major League Baseball hoped for
01:47when they started the third wildcard.
01:50It keeps teams involved, but when you only have five teams over 500 in the whole freaking
01:57division, or sorry, the whole freaking league, the American League turns into just an absolute
02:02clown show for the third and final wildcard spot.
02:06It makes it entertaining.
02:09We're going to watch this.
02:11We're going to watch this go, but the American League on paper is so woefully behind the National
02:18League.
02:19Tampa Bay and Toronto, sorry, Tampa Bay and the Yankees and the Red Sox are all over 500,
02:25and all three most likely are going to make the playoffs.
02:29The Yankees in the race are going to make the playoffs.
02:31The Red Sox are somewhat of a question, but they have a pretty good lead after they're
02:35ridiculous July.
02:36They have a six game lead on the Orioles right now in the loss column for the second wildcard.
02:42So the Red Sox are sitting pretty.
02:44They're two and a half games behind the Yankees.
02:46Could the Red Sox catch the Yankees?
02:48Well, yeah, that's what you would want because last year the Red Sox had to go to Yankee Stadium
02:53to play in the wildcard series.
02:54I know you're going to go to Yankees.
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