Which MLB teams have the highest stakes with one month to play? | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz look at several teams with the most on the line with less than 30 games to play in the 2024 regular season. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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In the American League East.
I think if either of these two teams don't win the division, the Yankees or the Orioles, they should be embarrassed.
Right, because the Orioles, the Orioles have had such an opportunity and this week was a great example.
Right.
Yankees lose the series to the freaking Nationals and yet the Orioles roll out Cade Povich, a rookie who's doing his best against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
I think for both of these teams, Yankees and Orioles not winning the division would feel like a missed opportunity.
Red Sox have not missed the postseason three consecutive years since 2012.
I mean, like they might be heading towards, I think they're gonna win more than the 78 games.
They've won the last two years, but that's significant.
And then obviously we know how embarrassing the Mariners, uh, situation is and, you know, they're, they're playing a little bit better since they fired Scott Service.
But it's, they, they, they're gonna have to play a lot better if they're gonna obviously catch Houston.
The one area with Stakes is Philadelphia because if the Braves can leave with a 31 series victory, that's gonna be a three game lead and we, we talk about house money, right.
We talk about playing free.
The Braves expectations right now are so much lower than the Phillies.
Phillies held a massive lead in the division.
They have all the guys who are healthy.
The Braves are working with the skeleton crew.
It's the direct opposite of what we've had the last couple of years with these two teams where the Braves have these enormous expectations rolling into October and the Phillies are just like chugging a Miller lite and like swinging really hard.
And it's like, oh, ho ho right now it's different now.
There's like you could feel it too at Citizens Bank.
I was there the last few days, like when the Phillies offense just puts up these just soggy innings they're hitting into an outrageous amount of double plays right now.
Like, again, they really only need to win one more game over the weekend to feel ok.
But if they don't, it's gonna get dicey.