American League playoff predictions

As we get closer and closer to October, we start to see what teams have a realistic, legitimate shot a post season birth as we see the flukes slowly start to fade away as crunch time begins. I’m here to break down what teams will and will not make the 2015 playoffs and have a shot at the trophy every baseball player dreams of holding one day. We start with the most blown open race in baseball, the AL central. The Royals currently hold a 11.5 game lead over the .500 Minnesota Twins. You could say the Royals are very good, yes. However you do need to acknowledge just how bad the division is. Sorry Kansas City fans, your team isn’t how good as their lead in the division is. I’m not calling them bad and to be honest i believe they’re the best team in the American League however i think there are multiple teams in the National League are better. However the Royals will come out on top of the division, and if they choose to stop trying now, they still might win the division with the lead they’ve built up. Next, we move on to the AL West. Where we find two struggling teams battling it out for the division. We find the Astros with just a two game lead over the struggling Halos. Despite the Astros being in first place for the majority of the year, look for the veteran ball club just 2 games back to leap them as we start heading towards October. Whenever you have the best player in the game and possibly best player we’ve seen in quite some time on your side, things are looking pretty good. Mike Trout will lead his Angels into the post season giving him back to back MVP awards. Theres another prediction. Mike Trout wins AL MVP again however this blog is about division winners so lets stay on task. However Houston fans should not worry, I never said their ball club won’t make it to the playoffs, just not as the division winner. And lastly, we get to the closest race in baseball. Here come them Blue Jays. The Blue Jays winners of 11 straight have overtook the Yankees for the best record in the AL east and i don’t seem them giving it back anytime soon. What the Blue Jays pulled off at the deadline just might work out for them. The Blue Jays find themselves in perfect position as they hope they stretch their lead over the Bronx bombers as the season comes to an end. And finally we get our Wild Card marquee matchup consisting of the Astros and Yankees. It’ll be interesting to see who the Yankees put on the mound in hopes of attaining a playoff birth for their one game playoff game against most likely AL all star starter Dallas Kuechel. This should be an interesting game because you have a heavy bat lineup in the Yankees while you got a young an inexperienced Astros team relied heavily on starting pitching. I think the experience of the Yankees will help them achieve a victory over the Astros in their one game playoff matchup.