August 17, 20223 yr SOX Cat 4 Road games at over .500 Seattle, CLE, Balt, MINN, SD=15 Cat 3 Home games over .500 Hou (2), MINN 6, CLE 3=11 Cat 2 Road under .500 KC (1), Oak (4), Detroit=8 Cat 1 Home games under .500 AZ, KC, Col (2), Detroit=11 CLEVELAND Cat 4 at +.500 road SD (2), Seattle (4), Minnesota, Sox= 12 Cat 3 home + .500 Sox, Balt, Sea, Minn (4), TB=16 Cat 2 road under .500 KC, Tex=6 Cat 1 home under .500 Detroit (1), LAA, KC (last six consecutive games of the season)=10 Minnesota Cat 4 over .500 on the road Houston, Sox (6), NYY (4), Cleveland (4)=17 Cat 3 Over .500 at home CLE, SOX=6 Cat 2 under .500 on road KC, Detroit=6 Cat 1 under .500 at home LAA, KC (1), Texas (4), SF, Boston, KC=17 (Boston / SFG close to .500) Pretty darned evenly balanced schedules from here on out. Twins have to try to beat nemesis Yankees, and have 6/9 White Sox games on the road. CLE seemingly has the biggest advantage if they can get to the last six consecutive at home versus the Royals, but divisional opponents with a chance to knock you out in such an unusual six game situation aren’t just going to lay down and die. Also, might not have the huge crowd support in late Sept/Oct football season. Edited August 17, 20223 yr by caulfield12
August 17, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: SOX Cat 4 Road games at over .500 Seattle, CLE, Balt, MINN, SD=15 Cat 3 Home games over .500 Hou (2), MINN 6, CLE 3=11 Cat 2 Road under .500 KC (1), Oak (4), Detroit=8 Cat 1 Home games under .500 AZ, KC, Col (2), Detroit=11 CLEVELAND Cat 4 at +.500 road SD (2), Seattle (4), Minnesota, Sox= 12 Cat 3 home + .500 Sox, Balt, Sea, Minn (4), TB=16 Cat 2 road under .500 KC, Tex=6 Cat 1 home under .500 Detroit (1), LAA, KC (last six consecutive games of the season)=10 Minnesota Cat 4 over .500 on the road Houston, Sox (6), NYY (4), Cleveland (4)=17 Cat 3 Over .500 at home CLE, SOX=6 Cat 2 under .500 on road KC, Detroit=6 Cat 1 under .500 at home LAA, KC (1), Texas (4), SF, Boston, KC=17 (Boston / SFG close to .500) Pretty darned evenly balanced schedules from here on out. Twins have to try to beat nemesis Yankees, and have 6/9 White Sox games on the road. CLE seemingly has the biggest advantage if they can get to the last six consecutive at home versus the Royals, but divisional opponents with a chance to knock you out in such an unusual six game situation aren’t just going to lay down and die. Also, might not have the huge crowd support in late Sept/Oct football season. Hopefully the Padres are near elimination by the time of that second to last series of the season against the Sox so that they will have already given up.
August 17, 20223 yr Author 50 minutes ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: Hopefully the Padres are near elimination by the time of that second to last series of the season against the Sox so that they will have already given up. Milwaukee looks like they have the toughest odds…it will be a pretty dramatic final week.
August 17, 20223 yr https://www.tankathon.com/mlb/remaining_schedule_strength Per this, the Sox have the easiest schedule (26th most difficult) of the three (CLE = 22, MIN = 15). Sox have 15 head-to-head against Cleveland (6) and Minny (9). Cleveland has 14 (Minny 8, Sox 6) Minny has 17(!) - Sox 9, Cleveland 8 SoS is close enough that it will really come down to head-to-head.
August 17, 20223 yr 27 minutes ago, JoeC said: https://www.tankathon.com/mlb/remaining_schedule_strength Per this, the Sox have the easiest schedule (26th most difficult) of the three (CLE = 22, MIN = 15). Sox have 15 head-to-head against Cleveland (6) and Minny (9). Cleveland has 14 (Minny 8, Sox 6) Minny has 17(!) - Sox 9, Cleveland 8 SoS is close enough that it will really come down to head-to-head. That’s interesting. Makes sense because fangraphs has the Sox as the favorite to win the division.
August 17, 20223 yr Maybe, just maybe, we spend too much time thinking and talking about “schedules.”
August 17, 20223 yr 31 minutes ago, 35thstreetswarm said: Maybe, just maybe, we spend too much time thinking and talking about “schedules.” Not all. That 19 game stretch was make or break for the season. On second thought, I guess it wasn't.
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