Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations.

With roughly 90 games left in the season and with the Red Sox holding a 10.5 game lead in the AL East that means that if the Red Sox went just .500 the rest of the way to finish 92-70 - the Yankees would have to finish 56-35 just to tie. That's a .615 winning percentage. In all of major league baseball - only the Red Sox and Angels have a winning percentage over .600 this season. There is just no way that the Yankees catch the Red Sox this season... The Yankees are also currently 5.5 games behind the Indians for the AL Wildcard. That puts them tied with the Twins but behind both the A's (3 games back) and the Mariners (4 games back) in the Wildcard chase. Who would have thought that this far into the season that the Yankees would have a worse record than the Mariners?... Nate Colbert is the all-time leading HR hitter for the San Diego Padres with just 163 dingers. Colbert's 163 would only be good for 13th on the Red Sox all-time list. Colbert would be one HR ahead of both Carlton Fisk and Tony Conigliaro. I'll admit to never having heard of Colbert before...