Did I win? Am I the lucky 250th writer to bring up this subject?” What I’m here to propose is a change in that scheduling. Since 2013, the schedule has been weighted so that each team plays everyone else in their division 19 times plays either six or seven times against the rest of the teams in their own league and plays 20 inter-league games (including six games against their inter-league “rival”). (And for that matter, it was a conversation with a Red Sox fan that spurred this article, and he was all aboard for these proposals). Ask any Toronto Blue Jays/ Baltimore Orioles fan, and they’ll agree. In three of the past four seasons, they have been under. There is also a flaw in the logic of some of the number twisting above: take the two best teams out of any team’s schedule and of course they will get better.īut with the Rays this phenomenon is more pronounced than with almost any other team. And it isn’t meant to be a pity party for/from Rays fans. Beyond the fact that they are steeped in over 100 years of lore each, they currently sport the highest (Boston) and seventh-highest (New York) payrolls in baseball, while the Rays sit in the bottom tier of payroll rankings (28th) with a payroll less than half the size of New York and just over a third the size of the Red Sox. Again, those pesky Yanks and Sox.īut here’s the thing: The Sox and Yanks are anything but pesky. The second wild card spot went to a team with a. In 2017, the Rays were 15-23 (.395) against the Sox and Yanks they were 65-59 (.524) against everyone else. The Rays would be right in the mix if not for those pesky Yanks and Sox. The Seattle Mariners currently hold the second wild card spot with a. The Rays are 3-10 against those two mighty AL East foes. Of those 24 losses, 10 of them have come against arguably the two best teams in baseball, the New York Yankees and the aforementioned Red Sox. 500 and 5.5 games out of the second wild card spot. The Rays fell to the Red Sox 4-2 on Tuesday night, their 24th loss of the season.
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