Seattle’s Struggles & MLB American League Analysis

And then Seattle is doing exactly what we've been telling folks here. Cal Raleigh's telling everyone, yeah, I'm awful. Yeah, no, we're very well aware how awful you are, as well as the rest of that team. And by the way, it ain't getting any better tonight here against Will Warren. I don't, what, are they supposed to flip a switch Seattle somewhere that I missed at 56 and 64 in the season, Tom? No, they're just not a good team. The offense isn't good enough. And when you relied last year so much on Cal Raleigh and the long ball to, you know, a rising tide lifts all ships type of scenario where players get on base, he hits a home run, he knocks them in, you know, via double. That's great for the offense. But when he struggles, that can't be the turning point. One player can't be your entire offense. I would say it's about a lot of teams, but when he's struggling and Josh Naylor hasn't lived up to expectations and some of the young players that they have called up and gave extensions to, they haven't showed up. Like the bottom is really, really lower. We should, we should have viewed it as being very low for the Mariners, even though they're pitching staffs. Great. The offense is so, so in that we can't possibly trust them to score runs or even do enough to win a series against a beatable opponent. Ugly. When I tell you ugly and who defunct it really that the American League East, Tampa Yankees and the Red Sox really are the class of the American League. Now you figured the Yankees were going to be there, but I don't know. What was your expectation for Boston heading into this year? It's one of the best turnaround stories that we have seen here, but I still think there's a lot of holes on this team, but they are by far, I just think heads and tails over anything in the central or the West at this point. I would take the Red Sox in a series, you know, in a playoff series against either of those teams. From those divisions. I think that's give me Red Sox, White Sox, Red Sox Rangers. I think that's fine. You know, coming into the year, I think a lot of people were on the same page, but Hey, it's going to be the Blue Jays, the Yankees up at the top of the division, the Red Sox thing. They were good enough to be a wildcard team. You know, the race can be pesky. Can the Orioles bounce back? And you know, some of that has come true. You know, Yankees are in a playoff spot. The Rays are obviously unbelievable and they're torching teams right now. It really comes down to the Red Sox and what kind of form they're in because they are appearing to be an extremely streaky team and if they can kind of right the ship and be hot the last two weeks of September, I would take them in a series going up against any other team from either of the other two divisions. And it's amazing to me how some of these teams, you know, 80% of the teams, Tom, they're terrible at home this year. Terrible in the American League at home.