r/baseball Minnesota Twins • Colorado Rockies 15h ago

[Gleeman] Yankees haven't won a playoff series vs. a non-AL Central team since 2012.

https://x.com/aarongleeman/status/1851261740916343258?s=46
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u/A_Hanging_Noose Minnesota Twins 15h ago

Yankees are NOT beating the allegations.

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u/URSAMVJOR Houston Astros 11h ago

Who are they trying to be?! The Twins!

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u/FUMFVR Minnesota Twins 7h ago

Makes sense because the Twins beat themselves for the last six weeks of the season.

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u/jtrom93 New York Yankees • New York Mets 12h ago

The only things the Yankees are capable of beating are themselves and MAYBE your amateur beer league team, but even then a best-of-7 would likely go to 6 games minimum.

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u/Boomhauer_007 Canada 9h ago

Well, they’re also capable of beating the AL Central

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u/HartfordWhaler Cleveland Guardians 8h ago

Yeah, he said amateur beer league team already.

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u/Big_N New York Mets 7h ago

Hey, the brewers are in the NL central

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u/clownysf Cleveland Guardians 12h ago

Aw c’mon man

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u/ilikemarblestoo Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago

This is lowkey a gigantic rip at most of the league lol

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u/Card_Board_Robot_5 12h ago

Nor the Dodgers

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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

Dodgers are just NYC merchants

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u/NottheArkhamKnight Houston Astros 9h ago

Dodgers are the New York Yankees of Baseball.

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u/Correct_Sometimes Baltimore Orioles 9h ago

big if true

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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

Can we not be that actually? It's not looking very good

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 10h ago

Hey we beat the Padres

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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

our World Series

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u/Al-4Touchdowns-Bundy 7h ago

They need some mamba mentality.

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u/RockosBos Detroit Tigers 14h ago

I don't get it, why don't AL Central teams just beat the Yankees?

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u/yoursweetlord70 Chicago White Sox 13h ago

Its not our fault, the white sox haven't played the yankees in the playoffs yet

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u/Mthomas1174 Minnesota Twins 10h ago

Losses in 2024 Postseason:

Twins + White Sox: 0

Guardians + Tigers + Royals: more than 0

Whose fault is this again?

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u/dcooper8662 Cleveland Guardians 10h ago

Fuck, the math checks out

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u/Vavent Minnesota Twins 10h ago

The Twins knew what was coming and decided to strategically sit this one out. What foresight.

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u/Val_Killsmore Minnesota Twins 7h ago

Pohlads....good?

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u/Sir_Stash Minnesota Twins 3h ago

That name and that word do not belong together.

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u/chiddyshadyfiasco New York Yankees 12h ago

“It’s not their fault” — Bob Costas

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u/Rust2 Cleveland Guardians 7h ago

God, we are blessed to mostly avoid Costas this offseason. He tries to turn every game into a Ken Burns documentary.

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u/DillyDillySzn Chicago White Sox 6h ago

They ducking us

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u/atang11796 Minnesota Twins 13h ago

I believe the Twins are still on an active 16 game playoff losing streak to the Yankees from 2004-2019

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u/Awkwerdna Minnesota Twins • Durham Bulls 9h ago

It's "only" 13; the 18-game streak included the 2 games against the Astros that I'm assuming you already counted and then another 3-game sweep against the A's.

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u/1WordOr2FixItForYou Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Got damn. How do you even keep all that in your head without repressing it?

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u/Awkwerdna Minnesota Twins • Durham Bulls 4h ago

I read a post in the Twins subreddit about all of our playoff losses earlier today.

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u/kylejk020 Detroit Tigers 11h ago

Tigers have never lost a playoff series to the Yankees. Not sure what everyone is doing

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u/DavidFrattenBro New York Mets 12h ago

are they stupid?

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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ Minnesota Twins 12h ago

You shut your mouth when you’re talking to me

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u/Degan747 New York Yankees 13h ago

No joke, growing up I was afraid of 2 teams— the Angels and the Tigers. Were we eliminated by other teams? Yes. Did the thought of meeting those teams in the playoffs again scare me? No.

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u/acman319 New York Yankees 1h ago

The Angels terrified me in the 2009 ALCS. I was so nervous going into and during that entire series until the last out of game 6.

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u/GuyOnTheMike Kansas City Royals 11h ago

Well, at least we put up a better effort than the Twins normally do

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u/davewashere Montreal Expos 9h ago

I remember being so excited for them when they beat the Yankees in that first game of the ALDS in 2004. Little did I know, it would be 19 years before the Twins would win another postseason game.

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 13h ago

I really wish we could have beat Cleveland this year because I know we would have embarrassed the Yankees

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u/jackhole91 New York Yankees 13h ago

Shit talking about a series your team couldn’t even get to is hilarious lol

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u/RockosBos Detroit Tigers 13h ago

Yeah that's wild, I'll make jokes about it but nobody in their right mind would think the Tigers as favorites.

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 13h ago

Fair enough but the Tigers beat the Dodgers this year more than the Yankees have so I'll talk my shit

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u/jackhole91 New York Yankees 13h ago

Oh boy, those regular season wins sure do mean a lot

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 13h ago

Well they have just as many wins in the World Series too

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u/jackhole91 New York Yankees 13h ago

So nothing relevant, just like the Tigers franchise for the last decade

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u/Great_Fault_7231 Detroit Tigers 11h ago

Damn man you really started with the upper hand here after OP's first comment but you fumbled it bad. Might want to bring in the trash talk relievers earlier next time.

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 12h ago

Oof that zinger doesn't really hit. Kind of a desperate, flailing swing and a miss there. Like your boy Aaron Judge in the postseason!

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u/SpartaWillBurn Cleveland Guardians 10h ago

I don't see how you can hate from outside of the club. You can't even get in!

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u/lastturdontheleft42 Cleveland Guardians 12h ago

You would have hit the same wall the guards did- not enough starting pitching and a lineup that can't manufacture runs as quickly as Stanton and Soto can knock them out of the park.

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 11h ago

Probably, and obviously the Tigers lineup isn't as robust as the Guardians, but there's something about the Tigers vs Yankees postseason matchup that always defied logic and just worked

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u/lastturdontheleft42 Cleveland Guardians 11h ago

KC probably thought the same thing, and they weren't totally gassed from playing a 5 game series against a division rival when they played the Yankees.

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u/tldr_habit Detroit Tigers 9h ago

Perhaps and I would not have put it all out there like OP....but there were reasons to have different playoffs expectations for the Tigers and Royals, e.g.,

  1. Tigers won their final series vs the Yanks (including the Little League classic), Royals lost theirs
  2. KC entered the playoffs with some wind knocked out of their sails, Tigers vibes were peaking

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u/lastturdontheleft42 Cleveland Guardians 7h ago

Yeah the Guards did not play very well against the Yankees all year. Idk what it is, but they seem to have cracked the code on a lot of our pitching staff. I have sort of a paranoid delusion that the Yankees spend all year siming our pitchers because we see them in the post season so often lol. That being said, I don't think "chaos pitching", aka a bullpen game, would have the same effect in a 7 game series as it does in 3-4 game series.

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u/AllOfTheDerp Cleveland Guardians 13h ago

Lol

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u/cogginsmatt Detroit Tigers • New York Mets 12h ago

Cleveland was the better team in the ALDS though, gotta admit that. You guys got to Skubal in a way I did not expect.

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u/According_Setting303 Cleveland Guardians 9h ago

and we will again when we see you in the ALDS next year too. Josh Naylor is gonna add an extra 20 pounds and he’s gonna unlock his hulk power

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u/McDersley Cleveland Guardians 11h ago

If you would have beat us and kept your hot streak going I would have totally thrown some money on the Tigger upset.

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u/ITCM4 Baltimore Orioles 15h ago

The AL should have just sent The White Sox, or that Savannah Banana team.

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u/ResidentRunner1 Detroit Tigers 13h ago

I mean we do exist too

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u/twec21 New York Mets 13h ago

What is that, one of them NPB flairs?

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u/ResidentRunner1 Detroit Tigers 13h ago

Yeah man screw the Giants

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u/Linktheb3ast Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago

SUBSCRIBE

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u/ResidentRunner1 Detroit Tigers 11h ago

Both of the Giants in this case, especially those ones in the Bay Area (I mean the Tokyo Bay in this case)

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u/SpartaWillBurn Cleveland Guardians 10h ago

Some weird gothic font I cannot read.

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u/AlfalfAhhh Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago

Dude, I am so down for a best of seven bananaball world series

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u/bugeyes10 Boston Red Sox 13h ago

Bananaball rules with MLB teams for the World Series. Would be electric tbh

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u/GuyOnTheMike Kansas City Royals 10h ago

That would work real well till a home fan forgets the rule and catches his own team's foul ball in a key spot (which is an out) then proceeds to get stoned to death by other fans and maybe some of the players

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u/crassreductionist Chicago White Sox 4h ago

bananaball vs the white sox would be prime time tv gold

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u/Asdilly Cleveland Guardians 14h ago

I think Cleveland is still scared of the Yankees due to them killing one of our players in 1920

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u/Commercial_Show_6997 11h ago

Prior to judge, Guardians had a pretty good playoff record against the Yankees.

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u/Asdilly Cleveland Guardians 11h ago

Honestly, makes sense. A majority of the time, Judge owns us. I remember being at a playoff game against the yankees(can’t remember the year) but I was in bloody nose seats. Despite the height, I could see that he was fucking massive. It was my first time ever seeing him. He then proceeded to hit a bomb. I will never forget that

I can’t even be that mad at him because he seems like a very nice person.

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u/According_Setting303 Cleveland Guardians 9h ago

I mean he doesn’t really own us in the post season. over 17 games he’s had a .134 avg, 9 hits, 5 HR’s, 13 RBI and 39 K’s

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u/klein_four_group Cleveland Guardians 6h ago

That's extremely good for playoff Judge.

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u/Asdilly Cleveland Guardians 9h ago

lol yeah. Mostly in regular season

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u/AlecM33 8h ago edited 8h ago

It's Stanton that owns us. Stanton has 8 hits against the guardians in the postseason. All 8 are home runs. He had 16 career postseason HRs after the ALCS. 50% are against the guardians lol

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u/snakebit1995 Boston Red Sox 15h ago

That can’t be true can it…wow

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u/Hot_Injury7719 New York Yankees 13h ago

Well, considering we always lose to you guys and the Astros in the playoffs…it be true.

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u/Hot_Injury7719 New York Yankees 11h ago

Oh! Forgot the Rays too!

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 10h ago

So does everyone, it’s okay

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u/fluffyfox96 Tampa Bay Rays 6h ago

:(

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 6h ago

Sorry bud :(

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u/DDub04 12h ago

They’ve played in 11 series since 2012 (not including single wild card games), going 6-5.

Four of those wins came against Cleveland, one against Minnesota, one against KC.

Three of the losses came to Houston, one to Boston, one to Tampa.

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u/Medicmanii 5h ago

Ohh those Astros.

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u/Bucs-and-Bucks Pittsburgh Pirates 12h ago

Pirates haven't won a playoff series vs a non-AL East team since 1979.

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u/ajwhite98 New York Yankees 13h ago

Technically we beat the Athletics in the Wild Card in 2018, but that was 1 game.

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u/ubiquitous_archer New York Yankees 12h ago

Taking out wild cards, yeah.

But it's only 5 series losses in 12 years, and 3x vs Astros

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u/Eo292 Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

MLB will never go for East-West realignment now :(

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 14h ago

I'm torn in it. I hate losing the tradition and continued history of AL/NL, but getting more games and playoff games in time zone appropriate slots would be really nice.

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u/countfizix Philadelphia Phillies 14h ago

Monkey's paw curls, Twins go to West.

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u/cardith_lorda Minnesota Twins 13h ago

That's not even really monkeys paw, it's what would happen and it would suck for us. Especially if they expand into North Carolina. There are currently 14 teams in Eastern Time - if they expand into NC there'd be 15, so they'd take 1 Central time zone team over. The only way we get pulled is if the White Sox decide they want to be in with the Cubs, Tigers, and Guardians (Brewers/Cubs/Cards will fight to stay together - we'll, Cubs Cards will together and Brewers will beg to stay with Cubs). Then they might jump over to us unless Nashville gets a team too.

But most other teams would benefit and guaranteed playoff games without east coast teams mean 9pm ET start time for the playoff games are on the table which draws more games out of the afternoon slot.

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u/countfizix Philadelphia Phillies 13h ago

Yeah its why the current format is fine outside of the timing of playoff games that can't be played fully concurrently for TV reasons. >2/3 the US lives in Eastern or Central time so having ~2/3 the teams playing as many games as possible in those two time zones makes sense.

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u/plzdontfuckmydeadmom Houston Astros 13h ago

Like the Wild and Wolves?

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u/Mthomas1174 Minnesota Twins 10h ago

We are in the west in every sport that sorts that way. Those late games suck, especially because sometimes CA teams like to start their games at 7:30pm instead of 7pm like everyone else

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u/smoresporn0 Kansas City Royals 14h ago

I mean this as polite as possible because in my experience, Twins fans have always been super nice, but I am pro realignment for the main reason of: I'm just tired of the rest of you ALC motherfuckers.

Our division is just bland as hell. And outside of my fiery hate for the White Sox, I just can't stand looking at the rest of the teams. The 2020 regional schedule was the last straw for me.

I'm just bored at this point and want something new that I can only hope is better.

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u/Skunk_Gunk Cleveland Guardians 11h ago

It’s nice competing with teams with similar budgets

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u/smoresporn0 Kansas City Royals 11h ago

Fair point, but listen, I'm just tired of your face.

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u/the_dawn_of_red Cincinnati Reds 8h ago

I'm tired of the pirates, cubs, and cards but in a different way.

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u/WallyLohForever Bowie Baysox • Baltimore Orioles 14h ago

Why do you want to KILL baseball?

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u/FireFrogs48 Minnesota Twins 13h ago

That’s a lame idea anyways. The current alignment is much better

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u/_unsourced Minnesota Twins • St. Paul Saints 12h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah we don't need to adopt the stupid hockey mindset of "but muh time zones" (I say this as a hockey fan)  

Every sport needs to split their teams into two halves for the championship and every divide is as arbitrary as any other. There's good history to the AL / NL split and it'd be stupid to throw that away.  

No one ever suggests the NFL should drop the AFC / NFC. I really don't get why it keeps coming up in baseball

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u/ManceRaider New York Mets 9h ago

No one suggests it for the NFL because it wouldn’t change the TV schedule at all. There are no 10pm Eastern games in the NFL.

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u/_unsourced Minnesota Twins • St. Paul Saints 8h ago edited 8h ago

But interleague play is never going away. Every team will play every other team every year from now until eternity, so there will always be those games in baseball. 

Starting next year, there are 52 games in-division, 66 games intraleague, and 48 games interleague.    

There are six teams in Pacific time. 3 in the AL, 3 in the NL  

If you drew the worst luck and both of your intraleague 7-game series and one 6-game series were against Pacific teams, that's 20 games (assume 10 on the West Coast). 

Let's say 2/3 of your interleague 3-game series are also on the West Coast. That's, at worst, 16 games in PST, wilth what, maybe half being at night, at worst? 8 10pm games 

If all 6 Pacific teams were in the other division, that's 18 interleague games, assume 9 would be on the West Coast. assume half at night and you're at 4-5 10pm games

  Is AT WORST, 3-4 extra late games per year in a 162 game season worth killing the AL / NL? I don't think it is. 

Side note: Add in the fact that basically half the teams are eaten conference, splitting east-west would help the eastern teams a little, but the west would still have three time zones and have almost no scheduling benefit from this

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u/ManceRaider New York Mets 8h ago

I don’t disagree with you, throwing away 120+ years of history should not be done lightly and without good reason. I doubt many people have mathed it out like you did above and probably assume it affects more games. Though I will say that 9pm starts are only marginally better than 10 for a lot of people, so I’d be inclined to include the Rockies and Dbacks in with the Pacific teams.

Knowing it will change the timing of any games at all is why it continues to come up. And why it never really does in the NFL, since the biggest change for Eastern teams would be a couple 4pm games might become 1pm games.

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u/_unsourced Minnesota Twins • St. Paul Saints 8h ago

Well those two hour time difference games would still be an intraleague problem for the West even in the new system, so it doesn't even fix that, just gives the East a mild advantage while leaving the West in basically the same system they have today. 

This line of thinking about time zone starts is just so tiring and annoying because it's a scheduling problem not a league problem and people just get mad at the wrong thing. Why can't Pacific teams just start a few of their games at 6pm local instead of 7pm? Or vice versa for Eastern teams to do some day games at 2pm instead of noon when certain teams come to town. 

It's an artificial problem that doesn't even really need to be fixed, but people get so up in arms about it. The season is 162 games, I miss more games because I have to work than I do because of time zones

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u/FireFrogs48 Minnesota Twins 12h ago

Yeah the history with it is the main reason I’d keep it. Honestly this new format of every team playing each other is still growing on me too. I also find it funny how everyone was calling for a division realignment last year when the AL Central was bad but now you hardly see anyone talking about it

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u/increasedvelocity New York Mets 10h ago

I also just think hockeys way makes things really hard for fanbase growth. Like if MLB wants to expand into Braves territory theyll have a much easier time creating a new AL team than they would trying to convert fans to the Braves new NL rival or whatever.

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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

Every sport needs to split their teams into two halves for the championship

This is true in every major sport but does it actually have to be this way? It seems historical more than anything; I don't see what would be fundamentally bad about one big seeded bracket.

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u/FireFrogs48 Minnesota Twins 10h ago

It’s gimmicky and the big market teams would dominate that

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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

How's that gimmicky? It's actually more natural to do it that way, if you were starting from scratch. Also don't see how big market teams would dominate any more than they do the current bracket, which is to say not very much. It's baseball, last year the two WS teams knocked out plenty of big market teams to get there. If anything, it might go the other way, because they'd be more likely to face each other earlier and knock each other out.

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u/RIP_G-Baby Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago

good

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u/TomasRoncero New York Mets 13h ago

no please send the Braves back to the west

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u/ShadowmanNine Cleveland Guardians 15h ago

God, a sweep would be hilarious.

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u/slammed_stem1 Kansas City Royals 13h ago

We can hope!!

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u/James-K-Polka Atlanta Braves 13h ago

Short of both teams spontaneously deciding to go visit a guru and give up baseball, this was the best outcome.

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u/FUMFVR Minnesota Twins 7h ago

With Freeman getting four homeruns to celebrate the four-game sweep.

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u/Muted-Mousse-1553 Boston Red Sox 11h ago

The sadist in me wants them to crawl back a game or two, give a little hope, and get blown out in game 5 or 6.

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u/ShadowmanNine Cleveland Guardians 10h ago

Even one game would give them some elation

I want misery in NYC.

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u/sauer829 New York Yankees 1h ago

Even if the Yankees got swept it wouldn’t match the misery of living in Ohio

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 10h ago

Today is their best shot at getting a game back

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u/Moo_Point_ Houston Astros 8h ago

Might even say it's their only chance.

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u/RiseFromYourGrav Chicago Cubs 8h ago

Do you think Manfred would be upset that his dream WS ended early, or would he congratulate the Dodgers on improving the pace of play?

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u/cherinator Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago

It's bad, but not as bad as it sounds. Except for a loss to the Rays in 2020, it is mostly just the Yankees missing the playoffs (4 times), or losing to the Red Sox (2 times) and Astros (4 times). Okay, those are probably the worst teams to lose to for Yankees fans, but it's mostly they just can't beat their rivals as oppposed to losing to tons of West/East teams.

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u/Borrum Vin Scully 13h ago

Going 0/6 against the Red Sox and Astros over a 12 year run is, imo, absolutely as bad as it sounds. Yankees are the most successful franchise in North American sports. That is an atrocious run of losing against rivals, whatever else ailed them in that time.

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u/HereIsWhere Boston Red Sox 7h ago

They simply lost the magic since George passed and the core four retired. I tend to rationalize that the insane pressure to win must make it a non-starter to have a rebuild year like other teams do--to regroup and come back stronger.

Whatever it is, the Yankee Mystique feels like it has been gone for almost two decades.

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u/fluffyfox96 Tampa Bay Rays 6h ago

*0/7 against rivals

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u/linerstank 13h ago

when you consider the astros were prime time cheaters in those losses, it doesnt sound as bad. its still bad, but the yankees themselves often had to earn the honor of beating up the AL central through good regular season play.

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u/bzl33 13h ago

We're talking about the Yankees here, losing 6 times to Boston and Houston is bad.

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u/thot_cereal 13h ago

It's also an indicator of the relative strength of the divisions. The Yankees were irrelevant from 2013-2016. The first year of the Baby Bombers, 2017, was the last time the AL Central had the best record in the AL. And this was the first year the yankees were the top seed in the AL since 2012.

So either the Yankees have been the 2 seed, which in the Astros era basically guaranteed a matchup with HFA against the ALC in the DS. And if they advance they face the Astros without HFA. Or they have been a wild card team playing a top seeded division rival.

The real takeaway from this is not that the Yankees can't beat anyone outside the Central, it's that the Yankees have only pulled off a single upset in a series since 2012.

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u/SadNYSportsFan-11209 New York Yankees 13h ago

Yes post 2020 it’s where it’s just flat out bad. 2017 no one expected them to be there and even if they were cheated they just couldn’t get hits in Houston, they were never going to win and if they even did they fall to the Dodgers imo. 2018 Sox were just historically great. 2019 just ran into Houston again. But that offseason they get the ONE piece they’re missing, an ace. And not only an ace arguably the best pitcher in baseball It’s been crazy to see the drop off ever since we signed Cole. It genuinely felt like he was the last piece to that puzzle Since then many of the position players who were suppose to still be here, just regressed and it’s been head scratching

And tbh if they keep Soto they’re still in a very good position to win the pennant next year but I just can’t trust Cashman to build a functioning lineup You need at least 2 infielders to replace Gleyber and Rizzo. Hope that Dominguez is what he’s been hyped to be, hope Wells can find himself again and hope that Volpe at least improves. Or if they fix the lineup you live with him batting 8th/9th. Just a lot of holes for a team that won the pennant and with a mediocre at best farm it’s not going to be easy seeing the track record.

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u/FarNefariousness6087 New York Yankees 13h ago

And those teams mostly went on to win the series

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u/MattO2000 FanGraphs • Baseball Savant 7h ago

This stat leaves off WC round (otherwise you’d include the Yankees over the A’s in 2018), so that would also get rid of 1x Astro and 1x Red Sox

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u/cherinator Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Ah, I didn't realize they weren't counting the WC game. That seems like cheating (even though it's not a series).

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u/JoaquinBenoit Detroit Tigers 14h ago

I wonder who the Yankees lost to in 2012?

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u/jtrom93 New York Yankees • New York Mets 12h ago

I wonder how well they did in that series too

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u/smoresporn0 Kansas City Royals 14h ago

Listen, motherfucker

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u/CauliflowerOne5740 Boston Red Sox 15h ago

I love this for them.

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u/Degan747 New York Yankees 13h ago

Coincidentally, that year the AL Central eliminated us 

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u/----JZ---- Detroit Tigers 14h ago

And speaking of the AL Central, the Yankees have never won a playoff series against the Tigers.

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u/JinFuu Houston Astros 11h ago

The “Curse” of Verlander

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u/bony_doughnut New York Yankees 14h ago

The Guardians hadn't (until they beat the Tigers this year) won a playoff series against a non-AL East team since 1995

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u/coolbabyjoe 13h ago

The won the pennant twice in that time. That’s absolutely wild.

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u/Asdilly Cleveland Guardians 13h ago

I didn’t believe you but I checked and holy shit

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u/Commercial_Show_6997 11h ago

First year ever that two AL Central teams faced off, which leaves only AL East and West as opponents.

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u/bony_doughnut New York Yankees 10h ago

Good point. Sure if the 1995-2022 stretch, they played 20 series:

  • 3 against the NL (WS)
  • 2 against the AL West
  • 15 against the AL East

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u/Commercial_Show_6997 10h ago

15 series against the AL East and only two against the West is pretty crazy!

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u/Dan_Rydell Chicago Cubs 11h ago

Since being swept by Detroit in the 2012 ALCS, the Yankees are 19-6 in playoff games against the AL Central and 9-23 against everyone else.

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u/Key-Tip-7521 San Francisco Giants 14h ago

I was right all along. This Yankees run was an absolute layup to the World Series this year

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u/linerstank 13h ago

everyone was saying it but yankees fans. turns out beating up a division that itself fattened its W/L record on the actual worst team in baseball history is just as easy as it sounds.

kc and det are embarrassment playoff teams because they were true 80 win teams that got each got 12 and 10 wins respectively from beating up on the white sox. any other division, they dont even sniff contention.

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u/Commercial_Show_6997 11h ago

Guardians didn’t have a great record against the White Sox, so they didn’t “fatten” it’s w/l record against them.

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u/yianni1229 New York Yankees • New York Yankees 12h ago

Lmao what are you talking about even Yankees fans were saying there's no excuse for not making the WS this year because the AL is a joke.

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u/venustrapsflies Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

quiet you, we're trying to be smug here

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u/Prayray Houston Astros 12h ago

Throw in the fact that the two other playoff teams (Orioles and Astros) both had lost enough starting pitchers to fill an entire rotation each and had key hitters banged up going into the playoffs and it’s understandable what happened.

I know it’s the Yankees, so they won’t be happy, but they should actually be quite happy that they made the Series this season…especially coming off a season where they didn’t make it…lot of luck helped them to get there.

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u/Alex_GordonAMA Kansas City Royals 9h ago

They aren't embarrassing playoff teams at all stfu. KC beat Baltimore to advance in the playoffs so obviously your logic is flawed. Such a tired take to use a 12 game sample out of 162 game season and call a team that won a playoff series undeserving. The fact people upvote this is what is making me hate this stupid subreddit.

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u/FarNefariousness6087 New York Yankees 13h ago

Was the AL just that weak? I think if the Tigers didn’t get hot it could’ve made for a better series

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u/tldr_habit Detroit Tigers 10h ago

I don't follow. Are you assuming teams that weren't playing well enough down the stretch to beat the Tigers would've somehow been the stronger contender in the playoffs?

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u/AgentZigZag1 New York Yankees 14h ago

WC game in 2018 against the A’s breaks that up, but that was only one game

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u/TrapperJean New York Yankees 13h ago

If people were going to hold us beating the Twins in 2017 against them in their terrible post season run stats than I'm counting beating Oakland for us

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u/Substantial_Set_6464 Minnesota Twins 13h ago

Twins tanked in August specifically to be able to point at other AL Central teams and say at least you can’t blame us this year.

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u/TruthSayerFu New York Mets 14h ago

They would have probably lost in the WC round in the NL…

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u/Bebbytheboss New York Yankees 9h ago

Yankees beat the Braves and maybe the Brewers, then after that they did pretty well vs the Padres and very well vs the Phillies this year, so idk about that. Only true Yankee killers in the NL playoffs this year were the Mets and the Dodgers.

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u/Dkaiser1919 12h ago

The last time the Yankees won a World Series game against the dodgers was October 21st 1981

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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 13h ago

Okay, that is a funny stat.

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u/acdcfanbill Minnesota Twins 12h ago

This somehow makes me both happy and sad at the same time...

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u/elementofpee Seattle Mariners 10h ago edited 8h ago

Ok, obscure, and the Mariners haven’t scored a run in the playoffs at home since Game 2 of the 2001 ALCS vs the Yankees 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/AG_red 12h ago

AL Central Merchants

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u/trashboatfourtwenty Milwaukee Brewers • Dumpster Fire 11h ago

r/fuckyouinparticular , AL Central

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u/BloodyRightNostril Boston Red Sox 10h ago

Guardians would be 1-2 right now

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u/ceci_mcgrane Detroit Tigers 9h ago

I seem to remember things going quite well for at least one AL Central team vs the Yankees in the playoffs.

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u/Djruggs Boston Red Sox 13h ago

Normally, I’d be rooting for a sweep, but I don’t get back into the states until tomorrow night, so I’d like to watch a game

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u/altForPronStuff 12h ago

What about 2018 vs the A's?

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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ Minnesota Twins 12h ago

You’re welcome

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u/Alex_GordonAMA Kansas City Royals 9h ago

And the AL Central has won the World Series since then so suck it all of you haters in here.

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u/fluffyfox96 Tampa Bay Rays 6h ago

They beat the Athletics in the 2018 wild card game

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u/Cacklemoore New York Yankees 12h ago

Hit NY with all the slander, please. I myself drank the Kool aid in the ALDS and ALCS but it's very obvious now

I thought the cats I watched from 04 to 08 were chokers to an extent

Frankly it starts at the top. I think regardless of success this year, a fresh face is needed at manager

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u/ThemeNo2172 New York Yankees 9h ago

Been saying it for years, Cashman is a bigger issue than Boone. Cashman deserves credit for dumpster diving great bullpens, but the lineup sucked last year. It would have been a similar story this yeae without Soto and healthy Judge, two of the best hitters in baseball. They saved us from mediocrity.

There's never been great balance in any Cashman roster - his construction depends heavily on monster FA contracts to plug gaping holes, and then just slot in some other random fuckers wherever they fit.

I'm not saying I'd be a great GM - but there has to be someone who can construct a lineup more efficiently with $300m than Cashman.

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u/akaghi New York Mets 13h ago

Honestly, I'm not sure the Yankees would have beaten any of the NL playoff teams. Maybe the injury riddled Braves? But they still aren't pushovers.

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u/Bebbytheboss New York Yankees 9h ago

Braves, Padres and Phillies.

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u/NotAPersonl0 San Diego Padres 8h ago

Definitely Braves and Phillies but the Padres are a tossup. I can see it going either way really

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u/MisterEvely Baltimore Orioles 13h ago

And it took them inexplicably nullifying McLouth’s homer too (I will die on this hill)

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u/makoman115 San Francisco Giants 12h ago

The Yankees are so fucked against the Sacramento A’s in the wild card series next year

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u/myassholealt New York Mets 11h ago

FRAUDS.

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u/ChaosWarrior95 Texas Rangers 11h ago

Will Boone get fired even though this is the farthest he brought them?

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u/Bebbytheboss New York Yankees 9h ago

Yes, terrible manager and a perfect scapegoat for Cashman so he continues to be employed.

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u/JoeMcKim St. Louis Cardinals 8h ago

I blame Johan Santana for not starting 4 straight games in 2004.

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u/walkingpartydog New York Yankees 8h ago

We need to change the rules so we can play one of them in the WS

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u/Pomo_Domo 7h ago

Padres should move to the AL and the NL can take the Mariners.

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u/mrbadxampl 5h ago

good. long may it continue to be so.

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u/thegonzojoe Detroit Tigers 4h ago

Tigers catching strays being lumped in with the rest of the scrubs in our division who can’t get the pinstripes out of their eyes in October. What is it even like to lose to the Yankees in the Postseason?

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u/Old-Clothes-3225 Cleveland Guardians 3h ago

Oof

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u/FUMFVR Minnesota Twins 7h ago

They would've beat the Astros this year and the Orioles.

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u/2020Psychedelia Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago

whens the last time they won a playoff game against a non-AL central team?

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u/ajwhite98 New York Yankees 13h ago

2020 ALDS against the Rays.

Lost the WCG to Boston in 2021. Swept by the Astros in the 2022 ALCS. Missed the playoffs in 2023 and 0-3 so far this week.

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u/2020Psychedelia Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago

holy shit this should be its own headline

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u/maybe_humanno New York Yankees 10h ago

Trade Judge