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Originally Posted by browna
As always, balanced by ones they shouldnt have. Like the Oriioles not long ago.
6 games to go and the Jays have their own destiny in their hands to make the playoffs. Everyone of us would've taken that in March, April, May, June, July and most of August.
Sure, it's to get to a one gamer against the Sox or Yanks and winner gets the Rays, but playoffs are playoffs and hopefully they don't play scared to get there.
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It's not balanced at all.
You have to go back to 2011 before you find a team that missed the playoffs with a run differential of +100 or more. That was the Red Sox with +138 and that was before the 2nd wild card was introduced, which they would have gotten as they were the first team eliminated.
The Jays currently have a +175 run differential and an expected W/L of 95-61. It's a disservice to this team to say "things have all balanced out" when it comes to the stretch of tough losses they had at the hands of their bullpen and manager. They most certainly have not balanced out.
BTW the only other team to miss the playoffs with a +100 or better run differential in the last 15 years was the 2008 Jays with +108. Two teams in 15 years, and neither one had even close to as high a run differential as this years Jays do.
Just sayin'...