FWHORN
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The Rangers sit at 42-27 right now and we already have a thread that looks like it will go all summer long on magic numbers but here is some additional interesting math.
The Rangers are only average against the AL sitting at 31-24 while they are feasting on the NL at 11-3 through the first 14 interleague games. Disturbingly the Rangers are 10-12 against the AL West. Now that is largely because of a terrible road trip right before interleague began to all three divisional opponent.
The Angels sit at 37-32. They are only slightly better against the AL West at 12-10 and 28-27 against the AL. They are 9-5 against the NL.
Rangers and Angels are 3-3 against each other so far, both having won a home series 2 games to 1.
Before the season began I thought it would take 92 wins to win the west. That would mean that The Angels would have to go 55-38 over their last 93 games. The Rangers need only go 50-43.
With interleague play soon to finish the Rangers will have to improve against the AL west, games they dominated last year enabling them to run away with the division late in the season in 2011.
Obviously there is a ton of baseball still to be played as we arent even at the all star break yet so the math still can go a lot of ways but as we sit in June the Rangers are well positioned so long as they imrpve against own division.
The Rangers are only average against the AL sitting at 31-24 while they are feasting on the NL at 11-3 through the first 14 interleague games. Disturbingly the Rangers are 10-12 against the AL West. Now that is largely because of a terrible road trip right before interleague began to all three divisional opponent.
The Angels sit at 37-32. They are only slightly better against the AL West at 12-10 and 28-27 against the AL. They are 9-5 against the NL.
Rangers and Angels are 3-3 against each other so far, both having won a home series 2 games to 1.
Before the season began I thought it would take 92 wins to win the west. That would mean that The Angels would have to go 55-38 over their last 93 games. The Rangers need only go 50-43.
With interleague play soon to finish the Rangers will have to improve against the AL west, games they dominated last year enabling them to run away with the division late in the season in 2011.
Obviously there is a ton of baseball still to be played as we arent even at the all star break yet so the math still can go a lot of ways but as we sit in June the Rangers are well positioned so long as they imrpve against own division.
