Tigers have now won 7/8 to go from 65-78 to 72-79

K.Montero pitches tmrw afternoon vs Blue Jays (-2) in a critical game for TOR

Max Scherzer looking to avoid getting battered like 7+ ERA starter Lorenzen on Tuesday...his last outing did not go well to say the least

The White Sox should see Framber Valdez LHP Thurs

then Tigers will have to decide whether or not to use another LHP in AAAA/spot starter Andrew Sears (LHP)

that could push Jobe and Melton back to Sat and Sunday

otherwise, it would be

Valdez, Jobe RHP, Melton RHP, Drew Anderson RHP...which is their new regular five man rotation after trading Skubal and Mize away

knowing Hinch, expect they will go to the two lefties to keep White Sox back on their heels and Venable running out crazy lineups

Sears gave up 3 in 4+ to Royals on Saturday in first appearance back from AAA

Of course the tigers get hot right when we are about to play them in 4

baseballsavant.com

Statcast Expected wOBA, xBA, xSLG

Baseball Savant

Expected outcome stat is interesting...

Vargas 8th in mlb.

Antonacci second on the White Sox...then Murakami and Grichuk.

Kolson way way down near the bottom for the team.

Didn't anticipate Braden actually being ahead of Peters.

And Meidroth was pretty low as well.

Edited yesterday at 08:16 AM1 day by caulfield12

7 minutes ago, AntMan26 said:

Of course the tigers get hot right when we are about to play them in 4

I think we'll be repeating all off season long that they were just one well executed Taylor slider/curve against Rocchio away from an almost insurmountable in reality 3 1/2 game lead (considering CLE had to finish a game ahead due to Sox 7-5 season series lead with one to go) with just 10-11 games remaining on the schedule for both teams.

Didn't expect anything in the postseason...they're clearly not close to TB NY or Boston in talent...but just feels like a terribly cruel twist of fate after leading the division for months and months.

Ofc, all White Sox fans shpuld be used to this by now...at least those of us in our 50s.

2005/08 really are the pretty much the lone exceptions.

We need to win the series 3-1, a sweep would be more than great but first let’s win today’s game in Cleveland.

Edited yesterday at 11:44 AM1 day by The Mighty Mite

I think it's important to note that the tigers have played some really mediocre/crappy teams in this run. I include the Blue Jays

4 hours ago, Colome's Hat said:

I think it's important to note that the tigers have played some really mediocre/crappy teams in this run. I include the Blue Jays

True, but it's also important to note that going into today the Sox have lost 11 of 16 games. That qualifies as pretty mediocre/crappy too.

1 minute ago, Lip Man 1 said:

True, but it's also important to note that going into today the Sox have lost 11 of 16 games. That qualifies as pretty mediocre/crappy too.

We've lost to decent teams. Pirates are much better than the blue jays.

8 hours ago, AntMan26 said:

Of course the tigers get hot right when we are about to play them in 4

"That's the way we roll..." - Ozzie Guillen.

Depending on what happens today they could be only four games behind the Sox when the series starts Thursday.

Just now, Colome's Hat said:

We've lost to decent teams. Pirates are much better than the blue jays.

I don't know about that myself but it is a reasonable comment.

2 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I don't know about that myself but it is a reasonable comment.

Their record is much worse than their expected W-L. Bad bullpen early in the year screwed them.

15 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:

We've lost to decent teams. Pirates are much better than the blue jays.

Blue Jays were also one out (and miracles from Yamamoto and Rojas) away from taking down the WS champion Dodgers...a dynastic superfranchise that's a major reason for the impending lockout. The majority of that core is still intact.

Tmrw Valdez Fedde

Then Sears TBD

Jobe, then Melton to finish off series unless they switched Drew Anderson with Melton

72-80

Houston CLE TEX Toronto the much bigger worries…especially with Houston holding the only tiebreaker of those four

Adams, M Pummeled by Padres, Ethan Salas

4.1 8 6 6 3 1 1 5.09

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by caulfield12

Fully expecting the worse

13 hours ago, BigHurt3515 said:

Fully expecting the worse

They way they have played the last few weeks coupled with the disastrous trade deadline, it's hard not to think this way.

Up to the players to prove otherwise.