Jacko is usually pretty level-headed, but the absurdity of that statement has homer rivalry written all over it.
We know the Sox are going to stay near the tax line and we’re shedding some dead weight contract long before 2025, so even if we took a longer time rebuilding the farm, we’d still have been competitive by 2022 or 2023.
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The Rays going 16-1 is simply amazing!
Of course, it's unsustainable, but teams that have stretches like this often go on to great endings.
The Sox has a 17-1 stretch in 2018, after our opening day loss. We ended up going 90-52 afterwards, which was still fantastic. I'm not sure the Rays can pull that off, especially in this year's ALE.
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The Rays won the division, last year, by going 40-20. That's a nice record.
They are 35-20, now.
Last year, they did lose 5 straight and 6 of 7 during one stretch.
They won 96 games in 2019, while going 12-17 in a 30 day stretch and 9-12 in another stretch shortly after the first one I mentioned.
They won 90 games in 2018, after being just 1 game over .500 on August 8th.
This team can be streaky.
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Pesky rays pitching has been getting better! As long as the pitching holds out, wins will keep coming!