Wildcard Standings

[biggunsbob]

Crazy this team is only 4 out of a spot of the wildcard spot.. Just one really good winning streak away from making it interesting..


Blue Jays............. 64-54 .542
Angels..................60-56 .517
Orioles.................59-56 .513
Texas Rangers.......58-57 .504 1.5
Minnesota Twins.....58-58 .500 2
Tampa Bay Rays.....58-58 .500 2
Tigers...................56-60 .483 4
White Sox..............54-60 .474 5

 

[UMRules06]

This is why they invented the second wildcard spot I suppose. To give more fanbases false hope

Seriously though, I do admire that you're not giving up. I just don't see it happening at all.

 

[biggunsbob]

Oh trust me I have a lot of moments this year where its hard to really give a rats A$$ about this team and the way they are playing and your right about the wildcard.. But I just cannot give up hope about a miracle finish by the Tigers.. Snatch the spot.. Down 4-2 in the ninth Miggy smashes a 3 run bomb to win 5-4.. sweep the next series beat David Price in game 7 in the ALCS.. Then knowing how we play in WS lately probably lose it 4-2 lol with our luck..

 

[biggunsbob]

It will be a shame if we just cannot figure out a way to get the city of Detroit, JV and Miggy a WS title... So darn close a few times...

 

[tomdalton22]

Crazy this team is only 4 out of a spot of the wildcard spot.. Just one really good winning streak away from making it interesting..


Blue Jays............. 64-54 .542
Angels..................60-56 .517
Orioles.................59-56 .513
Texas Rangers.......58-57 .504 1.5
Minnesota Twins.....58-58 .500 2
Tampa Bay Rays.....58-58 .500 2
Tigers...................56-60 .483 4
White Sox..............54-60 .474 5

It might be interesting if they were 4 games out with only one team in front of them. They have no chance in hell of passing all of those teams!

 

[biggunsbob]

Yeah i know its a long shot.. but we are 116 games in with 46 games to go..Damn it we have to go 34-12 just to get to ninety wins... freaking flibber shit :/

 

[biggunsbob]

Yeah KC had 89 and the other three wildcard teams SF,Oakland, and Pittsburgh had 88 wins last year.. fudge muffins.. we really need a long ass winning streak soon...

 

[tomdalton22]

Yeah i know its a long shot.. but we are 116 games in with 46 games to go..Damn it we have to go 34-12 just to get to ninety wins... freaking flibber shit :/

I think that most of us that post here are die hard Tiger fans. I will follow them to the end of the season...I think we all know that this team has a 0.00001% chance of making the wild card.

That said...we will all hope!

 

[biggunsbob]

Yeah I do not disagree sadly TD...

 

[Rebbiv]

The team hasn't won 4 in a row since opening the season 6-0. It will pretty hard for them to pass 5 teams without a prolonged winning streak.

 

[jdeb]

No winning streaks with this bullpen.

 

[gotime909]

Stranger things have happened. Nobody else seems to want to take the spot.

 

[lonesometiger]

Four games out is one thing. Five teams that are .500 or better, to over take is another. But with the way most teams are playing not out of the possibilities. to get to that 34-12 that Biggunsbob, points out is easy. Win 3 out of 4 games, works. Just start winning series, 2 out 3 and sweep once in a while, sounds easy. And can be done without winning, Rebbiv's 4 in a row. So it can be done but time is running out!

 

[Rebbiv]

By all appearances, the final Wild Card team is going to have at least 85 wins.

For DET to get to 85 wins (which would only tie for the last spot), they would have to go 29-17 .630 WPCT in the last 46 games. While stranger things have happened, this would certainly be the strangest given this bullpen.

 

[tigermud]

In looking at the schedule for the remaining 46 games even with a large portion of them being in the Div in Sep and factoring in that they seem to play their best baseball in the DIV I estimate best case they win 25 of the remaining 46 25-21 from there which would put us at 81-81.. probably not going to be quite enough to grab that final spot considering 6 teams in front of us ATOM

 

[Mitchrapp]

In looking at the schedule for the remaining 46 games even with a large portion of them being in the Div in Sep and factoring in that they seem to play their best baseball in the DIV I estimate best case they win 25 of the remaining 46 25-21 from there which would put us at 81-81.. probably not going to be quite enough to grab that final spot considering 6 teams in front of us ATOM

My theory is that we haven't had "best baseball" at all this season.. 25-21 won't cut it and I suspect it'd be more like 16-30.

 

[biggunsbob]

Dare to dream..Needs some winning streaks!!!!

 

[kalinecountry]

Tigers are only as good as that days pitcher.
With a couple of rookies, Boyd and Norris, homeruns allowed king for this year Sanchez, and an improving Verlander his past few games without any run support the task at hand looks difficult to get to. Plus it would seem they way the season has gone they would be one and done with either the starter or the bullpen imploding. But dare to dream.

 

[byco42]

Projected wins based on current WP:

Jays 87
Angels 83
O's, Rangers, Twins and Rays 82
Tigers 78

For the Tigers to finish with a .542 WP (87-75), the they have to finish 31-15. (673). And hope that the other teams do not get that white hot. NA GA HAPPA

 

[Rebbiv]

Wild Card Teams (last 45 games)

2012

BAL 93 (29-16 = 64)
TEX 93 (25-20 = 68)

ATL 94 (26-19 = 68)
STL 88 (24-21 = 62)

2013

TBR 92 (25-20 = 67)
CLE 92 (30-15 = 62)

PIT 94 (24-21 = 70)
CIN 90 (25-20 = 65)

2014

KCR 89 (25-20 = 64)
OAK 88 (16-29 = 72)

SFG 88 (25-20 = 63)
PIT 88 (26-19 = 62)

At this point during the last 3 years did no Wild Card team have less than 62 wins. Only OAK played sub-.500 ball. They were up by 4 games with 45 games to play, with 72-45 record.

BLUF....there are 6 AL teams with at least 60 Wins (5 make it). 2 more at 59 wins and 1 at 58. DET is at 56 wins and CHW is at 55 Wins. DET would need at least 4 teams to start playing sub-.500 (about 22-23 or less) baseball for the rest of the season at the same time they play incredible ball. Even if the worst team is at 82 wins, DET would have to go 27-18 to over take them. I still think the last AL spot will be at 85 wins, but what if 84 wins takes it.

For the teams ahead of DET to finish with 84 wins (record last 43-47 games):


DET 28-17 .622 (19-26 .422)
CHW 29-18 .617 (25-22 .532)
MIN 25-20 .556 (20-25 .444)
TEX 25-21 .543 (22-24 .478)
LAA 24-21 .533 (24-21 .533)
BAL 24-22 .522 (23-23 .500)

HOU 21-23 .472 (22-22 .500)
TOR 20-23 .465 (25-18 .581)
NYY 21-25 .457 (26-20 .565)
KCR 16-29 .356 (27-18 .600)

I do not see DET overtaking KCR, TOR, NYY or a West Coast Winner (HOU, LAA or TEX). That really leaves the last WC spot. 7 teams vying for 1 spot. I am more inclined to think it is the West Coast runner-up.