Forty-three baseball “experts” at ESPN.com made their picks for the 2013 baseball season. Below is a look at how they picked the AL East. Of the experts, almost all are feel either the Rays or the Blue Jays will win the division. In all, 33 of the 43 experts believe [...]
In one of our favorite preseason posts, Replacement Level Yankees Weblog, have released “The 2013 MLB Projection Blowout.” Here’s how it works… RLYW uses five different projections systems. These systems (CAIRO, Marcel, Oliver, Steamer, ZiPS) predict what the stats of every player will look like based on things like past performance, [...]
Back in Spring Training we took a look at several different projection systems and how the 2012 Tampa Bay Rays could be expected to perform. Each of the systems uses a different set of projected stats and simulated the 2012 season “hundreds of thousands” of times. Now let’s take a [...]
The Oakland A’s beat the Texas Rangers, eliminating the Rays from postseason contention. And they did it with some help from some former Rays. First there was Josh Hamilton flying out to the warning track in the eighth inning with the Rangers trailing by one. And then it was Grant [...]
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. RAYS 6, White Sox 2 (boxscore) THE GOOD: Still Alive. The Rays have played 159 games and they are still alive. There are just 13 teams [...]
This morning I wrote about just how devastating one loss can be at this time of year, especially in a head-to-head matchup with a team the Rays are chasing. In fact, according to CoolStandings.com*, the Rays had a 61.3% chance of making the playoffs yesterday. And today it has fallen [...]
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. The Rays are now 4 games behind the Yankees in the AL East and one-half game ahead of the A’s and O’s in the Wild Card. [...]
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If you read “The Hangover” in the morning, you know that we occasionally reference the Rays’ playoff chances from CoolStandings.com. Basically, they look at how well a team is playing, as well as their remaining schedule, and simulate the remaining games millions of times to see how often that team makes [...]
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. Indians 10, RAYS 6 (boxscore) THE GOOD: Hot Scott. Luke Scott may now be as hot as he was cold just a couple of weeks ago. [...]
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A look back at past seasons shows that, on average, 89 wins would have been needed to be the second Wild Card team in the American League. That’s big step down from past seasons in which typically 94-95 wins were needed to be the lone Wild Card team. So, regardless [...]
