caulfield12 Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 (edited) SOX Cat 4 Road games at over .500 Seattle, CLE, Balt, MINN, SD=15 Cat 3 Home games over .500 Hou (2), MINN 6, CLE 3=11 Cat 2 Road under .500 KC (1), Oak (4), Detroit=8 Cat 1 Home games under .500 AZ, KC, Col (2), Detroit=11 CLEVELAND Cat 4 at +.500 road SD (2), Seattle (4), Minnesota, Sox= 12 Cat 3 home + .500 Sox, Balt, Sea, Minn (4), TB=16 Cat 2 road under .500 KC, Tex=6 Cat 1 home under .500 Detroit (1), LAA, KC (last six consecutive games of the season)=10 Minnesota Cat 4 over .500 on the road Houston, Sox (6), NYY (4), Cleveland (4)=17 Cat 3 Over .500 at home CLE, SOX=6 Cat 2 under .500 on road KC, Detroit=6 Cat 1 under .500 at home LAA, KC (1), Texas (4), SF, Boston, KC=17 (Boston / SFG close to .500) Pretty darned evenly balanced schedules from here on out. Twins have to try to beat nemesis Yankees, and have 6/9 White Sox games on the road. CLE seemingly has the biggest advantage if they can get to the last six consecutive at home versus the Royals, but divisional opponents with a chance to knock you out in such an unusual six game situation aren’t just going to lay down and die. Also, might not have the huge crowd support in late Sept/Oct football season. Edited August 17, 2022 by caulfield12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUSTgottaBELIEVE Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 9 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: SOX Cat 4 Road games at over .500 Seattle, CLE, Balt, MINN, SD=15 Cat 3 Home games over .500 Hou (2), MINN 6, CLE 3=11 Cat 2 Road under .500 KC (1), Oak (4), Detroit=8 Cat 1 Home games under .500 AZ, KC, Col (2), Detroit=11 CLEVELAND Cat 4 at +.500 road SD (2), Seattle (4), Minnesota, Sox= 12 Cat 3 home + .500 Sox, Balt, Sea, Minn (4), TB=16 Cat 2 road under .500 KC, Tex=6 Cat 1 home under .500 Detroit (1), LAA, KC (last six consecutive games of the season)=10 Minnesota Cat 4 over .500 on the road Houston, Sox (6), NYY (4), Cleveland (4)=17 Cat 3 Over .500 at home CLE, SOX=6 Cat 2 under .500 on road KC, Detroit=6 Cat 1 under .500 at home LAA, KC (1), Texas (4), SF, Boston, KC=17 (Boston / SFG close to .500) Pretty darned evenly balanced schedules from here on out. Twins have to try to beat nemesis Yankees, and have 6/9 White Sox games on the road. CLE seemingly has the biggest advantage if they can get to the last six consecutive at home versus the Royals, but divisional opponents with a chance to knock you out in such an unusual six game situation aren’t just going to lay down and die. Also, might not have the huge crowd support in late Sept/Oct football season. Hopefully the Padres are near elimination by the time of that second to last series of the season against the Sox so that they will have already given up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted August 17, 2022 Author Share Posted August 17, 2022 50 minutes ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: Hopefully the Padres are near elimination by the time of that second to last series of the season against the Sox so that they will have already given up. Milwaukee looks like they have the toughest odds…it will be a pretty dramatic final week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 https://www.tankathon.com/mlb/remaining_schedule_strength Per this, the Sox have the easiest schedule (26th most difficult) of the three (CLE = 22, MIN = 15). Sox have 15 head-to-head against Cleveland (6) and Minny (9). Cleveland has 14 (Minny 8, Sox 6) Minny has 17(!) - Sox 9, Cleveland 8 SoS is close enough that it will really come down to head-to-head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUSTgottaBELIEVE Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 27 minutes ago, JoeC said: https://www.tankathon.com/mlb/remaining_schedule_strength Per this, the Sox have the easiest schedule (26th most difficult) of the three (CLE = 22, MIN = 15). Sox have 15 head-to-head against Cleveland (6) and Minny (9). Cleveland has 14 (Minny 8, Sox 6) Minny has 17(!) - Sox 9, Cleveland 8 SoS is close enough that it will really come down to head-to-head. That’s interesting. Makes sense because fangraphs has the Sox as the favorite to win the division. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35thstreetswarm Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Maybe, just maybe, we spend too much time thinking and talking about “schedules.” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiddleCoastBias Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 ?Al Davis said it best - just win, baby, win. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wegner Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 31 minutes ago, 35thstreetswarm said: Maybe, just maybe, we spend too much time thinking and talking about “schedules.” Not all. That 19 game stretch was make or break for the season. On second thought, I guess it wasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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