2008 American League (AL) Expanded Standings - Baseball

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G35: Red Sox at Tigers, 7 PM
Published 5/6/2008 by redsock at The Joy of Sox
Tim Wakefield (4.03, 108 ERA+) / Nate Robertson (6.82, 61 ERA+) 3.5 GA! I'm at this game, so the game thread will be at ThreadSox. Cardboard sign carried by a Red Sox fan last night: "1984"

Re-Opening Day! Boners Re-Abound!
Published 5/20/2008 by Lloyd the Barber (noreply@blogger.com) at Ghostrunner on First
... With an even record and a quarter of the season complete, the Jays essentially have a blank slate. They are four back in the division, three in the wildcard. Things could be much, much worse. They've started to get some bounces (their Pythag has come around to a plus 1). They've even been winning one run games. ...

How Good Are the Cubs Anyway???
Published 6/20/2008 by South Side Rob at The Brewer Nation
... Back to the Rays for just a second. Right now, the Rays are 14 games over 500 for the first time in the 10-year history of the franchise. Can you believe it? As great as that is, I looked at the AL Expanded standings to find out how they've done it so far this season. To my shocking surprise, I see the Rays are 33-24 against teams with a winning record. Are you kidding me? They have played 57 games against winning teams by far, the most in baseball and winning 33 of them is also a major league best. Dwayne Staats also mentioned on the broadcast that this was the 3rd 1st place ...

Long and Winding Road (Records)
Published 22 days ago by Matt (noreply@blogger.com) at The Immaculate Inning
... (Connectiuct's theday.com). The Associated Press was convinced, without much evidence, that a 23-23 road record was "mediocre." It sure seems so, compared to the team's 56-45 overall record, and brightly contrasted the six straight games they'd won in Yankee Stadium leading up to the series in Fenway. Yet, a simple check of baseball-reference.com tells a different story: The Yankees (now 25-24 on the road) have the second-best road record in the American League! In fact, the team that they were trying to "improve on their mediocre" road record against, the ...