American League Playoff Overview: Top Seeds and Matchups

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00:00But DRS, the American League is set. Here is the postseason picture in the AL. The Guardians

00:11only played 161 because they could not catch the Yankees. New York will be the top overall

00:17seed in the American League playoff picture. Cleveland also that opening round by the Astros

00:23clinching the American League West about a week and a half ago. The Orioles sweeping

00:27the Twins to end out this weekend. Despite Baltimore not really needing the series,

00:32they a large cushion for that top overall wild card. And because of the twin slide to end out

00:38the year and a hot play out of Detroit, it's going to be the Royals and the Tigers in the final two

00:44American League wild card spots. Detroit did drop its final two games of the year after beating the

00:51White Sox on Friday to make history in Major League Baseball. The White Sox now officially

00:56the worst team we have ever seen in the modern era. 121 L's. That the most we have ever seen

01:03since the year 1900. So a little bit of reshuffling in terms of the AL Central

01:08teams into the postseason. But that's how it looks in the American League.

01:13Yeah, it's fun to get new teams in, right? We didn't anticipate the Tigers making it in. Like

01:17to see that same thing with the Kansas City Royals played well down the stretch. Or should I say

01:21almost the opposite? Detroit was awesome down the stretch and Kansas City sort of backed their way

01:25but they still found their way in. And that's the thought process around 162 game season.

01:29There's games that you win early and middle of the season count just the same as those

01:33wins or losses late in September. So they got in. The interesting part is going to be

01:36game number one, Houston and Detroit. Probably going to be frame Revaldez taking on Tarek

01:40Scoble. Like the total of that game was what? Three and a half for that game? That's going to

01:44be crazy to watch it play out. And that's, yeah, that's the one scenario that I look at and say

01:49to myself, like the Tigers aren't a great baseball team, but they do have the best pitcher in baseball

01:54in the short series. And if you're Houston, like, come on, like I understand the Royals are quite,

01:58we couldn't get the Royals in this spot here. So that's going to be a series to watch right

02:01off the bat. But also keep in mind, the Dodgers are the number one overall seed in baseball.

02:05The Philadelphia Phillies are the two seed here. So I was watching that over the weekend to see

02:09if the Yankees might be able to claim it or even the Guardians who got that game rained out. So

02:12looking longer down the line, it'll be interesting how it plays out. But we always thought, at least

02:16I thought the Yankees would be that top overall seed in the American league. And they did get that.

02:24Yeah.