99% chance he’s so dominant and amazing that he rewrites what is thought possible for a human being throwing a baseball. 1% chance he’s merely run of the mill cy young level good.
AL Overall Standings (before 9/1 results): NY 79-57 — BALT 78-59 1.5 CLEV 77-59 2 KC 75-62 4.5 HOU 74-62 5 MINN 73-62 5.5 The division is one race. The other is trying to get a top 2-seed for the all important first round bye and avoiding the best-of-3 series. If we assume one of NY/BALT grabs one bye, then we’re currently chasing Clev/KC for the other and entering Sunday 9/1 slate, The Astros are just (3) games behind Clev, a 1/2-game behind KC. Also important, tiebreakers. Houston leads season-series w/ CLEV 2-1 w/ 3 games @CLEV to close the reg. HOU v KC is tied 3-3 w/ today’s game deciding the season series
Good for Jake Last time Chaz got demoted (but never actually went down) he went on a tear. Hopefully he comes back like a house of fire.