It would be nice to finish the season strong enough to ensure that occurs. The Yankees haven’t had a playoff home game since pre-pandemic. And once they theoretically get to October, there isn’t much to be excited about beyond passing the threshold.īut … still … postseason baseball in the Bronx would be a welcome change from these past few years. Anthony Rizzo isn’t sitting up straight without experiencing headaches. This isn’t the same Yankees team from May and June trying to protect a 10.5-game lead over the O’s with 24 remaining or a 4.5-game advantage on the division. There are plenty of reasons to be cautious here. The Rays and Blue Jays are 8.5 and 6.5 games behind the Yankees in the AL East, so a division title is likely out of the reach of each club. Their magic number to win the division is eight. New York 4.5 games ahead of Tampa Bay #BlueJays #Orioles #Rays #RedSox #Yankees #MLB- MLB Magic Numbers ⚾️ September 9, 2022įanGraphs, which has been realistic about the Yankees’ playoff chances for months, believes the Bombers enter their final series (!) with the Rays with about an 86.8% chance of polishing off the AL East Tampa is at 6.2% to steal, while Toronto sits at 6.9%.Īdd in New York’s supposed 13.2% chance at a Wild Card berth, and FanGraphs still has the Bombers making the playoffs with 100% likelihood with 24 games remaining. With either one win over the Red Sox or one Orioles loss to Houston this weekend, the Yankees will clinch a playoff spot for the sixth consecutive season. Magic Numbers (win division/be eliminated) after games on September 8th Either way, it’s approaching a bit faster than the division crown marker - which is exciting news, if you want to play a best-of-three series on the road to open the postseason. That’s led to other outlets reporting the number as 14. New York has already clinched the season series, up 11-5 with three games to go. NJ.com’s coverage cites that number as 15, but it currently depends on the distance between the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles, the first team out of the newfangled Wild Card picture.Īccording to MLB.com, the O’s elimination number is 15, but if the Yankees and Orioles end up tied, that’ll be broken by season record between the two teams. There’s a bit of a debate rolling at the moment about what the Yankees’ magic number to clinch a playoff berth really is. Inching closer to that division title /3oPaR0Plef- Talkin' Yanks SeptemYankees playoff odds, magic number entering Rays series They will now take on the Rays on their home turf with a 4.5-game lead and a magic number of 22 to clinch the AL East.Īh, 22! The vaunted number of Yankees legends like Roger Clemens … Greg Allen … Jacoby Ellsbury … agh, please make it 20 with a win Friday night, will you? Smash cut to the end of another Twins series, and the Yankees (mostly) took care of business. Instead? Five games (four in the loss column) with a Tampa-Toronto five-game marathon slated for this week that will always have both a positive and negative outcome baked in for the Yanks’ playoff chances, no matter what. If the Yanks had lost that Clay Holmes tightrope game, they would’ve been just three games up and reeling after a sweep. The New York Yankees’ division lead isn’t stable, per se - in fact, they’re only three games up in the loss column entering a three-game home series with Tampa - but the Bombers were at least able to maintain things after giving their season a tourniquet with Sunday’s win at The Trop.
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