Look at the SP LAA faces and ask who they should lose vs ?
@TB- Sonnastine , Shields , Garza 1-2
@Cle -Sowers , Carmona , Lee 1-2
Sea- Felix , Washburn 1-1
NYY -Pettitte , Giese , Kennedy 3-0 (2 wins late)
Balt - Olson , Waters , Sarfarte 2-1
@NYY -Rasner , Moose , Ponson , Pettitte 2-2 (inlcudes 1-0 win balanced by Lackey loss)
@ Boston - Bucholz, DiceK , Beckett (Manny has to be tarded after this series)
@ Balt-Olson , Liz , Burres 2-1
Cle -Byrd , Ginter , Laffey 2-1
Bos- Wake , beckett , Bucholz 3-0
They went 5-4 in those games and 3 of them they pulled out later thanks mostly to teams not putting them away ...Beckett @ LAA , Dicek at home and Pettitte @ LAA...only twice did they look impressive hitting Beckett hard the 2nd time but who may be injured and Pettitte 1st time......
So whats impressive ? 10-8 past 18 after 10-2 stretch which included imploding Boston 6-0 and 4-2 vs 6 SP which 5 have little business in the majors and another who if he wasnt in the majors would be most likely in a semi pro league ....
Its all how you look at it . I see LA winning because of what there opponents fail to do not what LAA is doing vs there opponent ....buts itall semantics.....
Are they top 3 ? yes they are but every team in baseball is pretty medicore or very bad.....
Cubs best in the NL but just throw a power RH vs them and there true colors show...pen is also medicore....Again though quality SP ....
teams like STL , Milw , NYM , FLA , Philly , LAD all good teams but none do I see 95 win talent from......take Zona whats there record when Haren or Webb doesnt start?
AL who stands tall after LAA ? White Sox probably by number 2 at the moment because of injuries to NYY pitching and Bostons injured lineup . TB is very solid but again Longoria and Crawford out with a suspect pen IMO .Then you have Minny another team gets solid consistent SP.....
So basically you have 30 teams of which I deem 13 as good with a handful 500 types Arizona and Tor same version of eachother ......
Just a bunch of teams who will rely on being HOT at the right time.....
said my peace ...I am exhausted at the moment...:shake: