American League Standings & Wild Card Race Overview

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00:00He always get the credit for being the top team in the American League East right now

00:04Despite having the same record as New York the Yanks well in front though in the American League wild card chase

00:10They have a two and a half game advantage over

00:13Minnesota the twins win three or four this weekend over the rangers firmly in that second spot even testing Cleveland

00:20Just two games back at the top spot in the American League Central the royals have won four straight

00:25They swept Cincinnati this weekend now a three and a half game lead DRS for Kansas City for that third and final

00:33American League wildcard spot at the break. It was the Red Sox in that pole position

00:38Yeah, by the way, shout out the AL central playing great baseball here now granted the Guardians kind of interesting last two weeks overall

00:44But you take a look at the twins who I think have a lot of talent on that team and a solid pitching staff

00:49and then the Kansas City Royals playing their best baseball right now why cuz they won four games in a row to sort of

00:53Solidify that mark now. It is interesting to see the Boston Red Sox. I'm so high on that team. I like the roster

00:59It's a decent pitching staff here and an average bullpen at best

01:02But if you're looking at who's going to make the playoffs, I just told you in the National League

01:06I don't think they're up for grabs, even though the Atlanta Braves only a two-game lead over the New York Mets

01:11But if you're focused here on the American League wildcard situation, it sort of feels the same right now

01:15And I don't just what well-done either in the lead by at least three and a half games

01:18But the twins I think are immensely talented

01:21I think the Kansas City Royals playing great

01:23The only thing you can say and I guess from past and prior experiences

01:27How good are the Kansas City Royals actually at this point?

01:30No, we're not talking about they only played a month of baseball Ben in April and May it's like oh sooner or later

01:34They'll fall through, you know

01:36You're through three quarters of the season and they're playing good baseball now six and four in the last ten

01:40But again as you pointed out four games on a win streak three and a half games is a lot to jump even with over

01:46a month left to play because you're anticipated Boston would have to basically be winning six to seven of every ten games here while the

01:53Royals sort of flounder a little bit. I like what I'm seeing here

01:56So the easy cop-out to say yes

01:57Yeah, those top three teams and the Yankees gonna be in no matter what same thing with the Orioles

02:01So the real focus is the twins and the Royals and I think they're both immensely talented teens

02:05And what are we getting from the Red Sox what we saw to begin the year or what we saw in the middle of the year?

02:10Are they sort of falling back at this point?

02:12But if you're just saying well the Royals I don't trust because they're usually not a good baseball team

02:16It's not a great wording of it because they've played good for the majority of the season

02:20I could see it being locked in Yanks Twins Royals. That's your wild cards