Why the Red Sox and Blue Jays will clinch the AL wildcard spots
The AL wildcard race is set to go to the last few games of the season.
The AL wildcard race is set to go to the last few games of the season.
The AL Cy Young race is wide open.
Diving into Matt Olson’s career so far and his 2021 performance.
Rounding up the headlines from the opening weekend of the 2021 MLB season.
The Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics are swapping bad contracts. A trade, announced on Saturday, will send Elvin Andrus to The Bay and Khris Davis to the Rangers.
The last three years in the AL West have been mostly been straightforward wins for the Houston Astros, but after a tumultuous offseason and now a difficult start to the abbreviated season, they are facing a fight to even make the expanded playoffs.
Each Major League Baseball season brings a new group of prospects ready to explode onto the big league scene. Sometimes service time nonsense deprives us of a few weeks, sometimes new contracts mean they are with us from Opening Day onwards.
The Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland Athletics will get the American League side of the 2019 MLB postseason underway in just two days as for a second consecutive year a team with 95+ wins will find itself out of contention just one game in. That’s the beauty of the Wildcard games.
Sadly, the time has come to face the ending moments of a very competitive 2019 season in Major League Baseball. But while much of the playoff picture has already been determined, a few crucial battles are yet to conclude.
The Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians will battle it out for the last remaining playoff spots over the final week of the season. The american league wildcard race is now the final competitive contest of the regular season.
We’re getting the most competitive AL wildcard race since 2017 but what most fans are interested in remains which teams will eventually end up playing in the play-in game on October 2nd. And what better time to evaluate the teams’ chances than when September is right round the corner?
They continue to overperform, and while they’re not the only team who punch above their financial weight, it shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Starting pitcher Tanner Roark has been traded from the Cincinnati Reds to the Oakland Athletics, as reported by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal.