Cleveland's Struggles Continue Amid Tight AL Central Race

Who would have had the Tigers two and a half games out of first place? Uh cleveland to me is a huge disappointment recently four games under 500 now, they just can't uh, you know win any games it seems like lately so Uh, you know, I I still handicap it with those four teams and you know cleveland tonight if they can get on the right track They'll play san diego. But boy the padres are playing great baseball, too Uh kind of like a low scoring game I think tonight seven runs as I see there is the total pitchers are really good tonight. So i'm probably going to go under here It's it's just a scrape in the bottom here of mediocrity Uh when once you get paid, I mean yankees boston listen great turnaround Uh, they finally won one against toronto yesterday But you had a feeling when they were rolling sures around for a getaway game that yeah, it was uh likely going to be a good news for boston, but Uh, you're right about detroit almost just one game under 500 now, uh, texas. I don't know what happened. They can't win a game Anymore, we watched minnesota Uh do their thing which is kind of the biggest and they got boston back which was a crazy to me craig yesterday But they got him back, uh, and they'll have his services for as long as he can play but again that that offense I don't care what you brought in in the bullpen that offense is very hit or miss for me from minnesota and I can't if you can help me understand cleveland made all of these great moves at the deadline to Kind of patch some holes here where we thought they needed it and they just can't put anything together It's and I are you really going to outslug the padres right now? I I don't see that happening And cleveland's not scoring runs at all. So yeah And and again and and san diego's offense is not bad at least one through five and that total is seven it sort of tells you You know four to two three to two type games. So yeah, I I until cleveland starts hitting I I don't know what else to say now Stephen quad has done a really good job for them and seems like Them putting him in the nine hole earlier in the season got him going and now they have him leading off again But jose ramirez clearly that hammock bone injury Is usually they say that you don't get healthy from that for months So that's going to mean next season for him, unfortunately joe, so yeah, we'll see if cleveland could get it going but for now They're on the outside looking in and I I just I I really thought it was their division to win And now I sort of feel like this matchup between the white socks and tigers There's a chance here detroit if they win two out of three, you know becomes that team to look out for In the american league central now, I don't I don't really think either of those teams will be wild cards But if you see look at that, I mean toronto to me has been one of the worst teams In baseball in the american league, especially and they're just two games out of the playoffs and I think you asked me last week Will the team under 500? I don't know if it was you I think it was will a team under 500 make the playoffs. I still say no I still say no, but i'm starting to think 82 and 80 may get you in 82 and 80 may get you in the playoffs this year It's hard to believe that the and a lot of this has to do I think the central whoever wins the central Will likely be it's the west that i'm concerned with it. The american league west is just a hot mess uh, if it's not the astros, I I I don't know what to tell them like they and but even they Have now started to go the other way also a little bit here But if you're listen if you're texas, you can't at a tent You can't lose seven of ten games against the angels like you just cannot do that Uh, and de grom again loses last night. He is yet to win. We found out yesterday He is yet to win a game at angel stadium in his career I think he's owing that's his fifth start last night still has not been able to pull off owing to this year against them I mean just from bad to worse there for the texas rangers and again That seems to be a theme this time of year And i'm wondering craig is it maybe guys running out of steam a little bit here that we're getting so many goose eggs at the middle of august You know, they they always say joe that like they call it the dog days of august in major league baseball And it's generally right after the trade deadline all the way to september. It feels like we're in it right now I I I just think that everyone is hurt and going through something right now physically mentally uh, usually The month of september teams kick it back into gear, but we may get sloggy baseball for another couple weeks I I just sort of get the feeling Uh that we will and you know a lot of unpredictable results. I think that's fair as well But you know, we'll uh, you know, hopefully, you know, the only the only thing that's been a positive with all of these teams Especially in the american league not playing particularly well as it's made all the games on the board basically meaningful pretty much every night like You can look at the schedule and say I don't want to watch A certain game, but it does mean something and it may mean a team that wins moves up in the wild card standings In fact, I think of the 15 games that they will play today. I think there are 12 That have like some deep significant playoff relevance. So that's a lot in august I'd see about and again the american league taking up a lot of that Mediocrity because it's still anybody's division both in the central And the west so it is far from over