but they went on an absolute terror killing the weak AL central teams down the stretch.
44 Total games left
Games left against ALC opponents
KC - 10
Min - 6
Chi - 7
Cle - 6
They really have the opportunity to do the same this year, whether they take advantage of it is another matter.
IMO They have only 6 tough series left in the season (against teams in the hunt)
Aug 17-19 vs Baltimore
Aug 24-26 vs LA Angels
Aug 31-Sep 2 vs Chicago
Sep 7-9 @ LA Angels
Sep 10-13 @ Chicago
Sep 18-20 vs Oakland
19 games
None of these teams are anything special either.
If I wasn't concerned with the ups and downs of this team, I'd say they are in a very good position right now.
Let's stay relatively conservative and say they win all their series against the bad teams (all 2-1/3-1, 17-8 overall) and lose 5 of those tough series (all 1-2) and split the one with Chicago (7-12 overall). That would give them a 24-20 record the rest of the season, 87-75 as the final record. That's probably not gonna be enough to win the division or make the wild card but this is all assuming they're going to play mediocre, beat the bad teams and lose to the good teams.
Let's put our homer caps on now, say they win all their series against bad teams, including four sweeps (21-4 overall) and split wins and losses with the better teams (around 10-9). That would give them a 31-13 record the rest of the season, 94-68. This will probably be enough to at least get a wild card spot, if not win the division. Keep in mind they finished 32-12 in their last 44 in 2011.
Done rambling for now, make of it what you will.
