AL West odds: Astros can’t seem to find a worthy challenger but Mariners, Rangers aren’t dead yet

The West of the American League has not been the strongest department for several years.

In the last season, Astros won the division with three games, although only the victory of 88. At 2023, the stars and rangers on top 90 tied the top, but Houston won Tiebreaker (:Even not reveal me there) and provided the title. Rangers received the last laughter, defeating Astros’ ALCS, then the World Series. Regardless, the fact remains that in the next season we saw a weak west, three straight years.

Today, Astros tops the department and is in the PACE to win 89 games. Marinmer is in the PACE during the 84 victories, while Rangers lead to 83.

The stars seemed to be desperately trying to allow someone to go through someone for about two months. From July 6 to September 3, the star went 22-28. Only two AL teams have a worse record in that passage, and 50 games are not a small sample. Houston has been fighting for a while.

Marines divide the division on August 12, but they have fallen from 14 to 14, as they looked terrible so far. They sit four games.

Rangers have just been very hot and cold in the whole season. They climbed the scope of the incident, in early 4, but then they passed a stretch where they lost 12.

It is possible to win Al West right now, politeness Fantastic:

Astros -330

Now that the crime is the return of Alvarez, and the Kriaarian caves and Luis Garcia return to the rotation, the star is healthier than most of this season. Still, Isaac’s parades, Spencer Rered and Josh Habs are injured, among others, and the team has not been very good for some time.

After Thursday, Astros has 15 of their last 21 games on the road. The other housewife, however, is against Rangers and Pirates. It is their occasion to bury the opposition. Then they could fold again.

It seems that the stars will win the division, but I’m not sure about that. At this moment, the other teams fade more.

Mariners +290

Marines have a big porous, isn’t it?

Well …

They are the 19th in a rotational age because it is the entire star break. Bryan Woo is the best of the bunch of 3.60, Logan Gilbert 4.22 and George Krybi 4.44. Luis Castillo, Logan Evans and Bryce Miller have 5+ era from break.

After the offender, they hit .221 / .297 / .392 (in ROC). They have some good pieces and have some stretches where they gather in bunches, but things are just consistently not consistently corresponding to the gaunt.

Maybe everything gathers from the stretch. MARINS have one of all five of the five easiest schedules of all baseball. They have left rows against rocks, angels and cardinals. Winning records against teams against them three rows are against the stars (opportunity), royals (just one game more than one game) and dodgers (the last three games of the season can relax their stars).

Rangers +1700

Although it will require a little help with other sea ships, Rangers control their destiny against the star. They have six games against the leaders of the department on Friday in Arlington.

It would be sure if Nathaneunwald was not damaged, Tyler Mahl was locked to return to a strong (he gave up five runs this week) when he was thrown for more than 150 seconds. In addition, the insult did not inspire confidence in all season, and now the semi-annual Sams of Marcus are damaged.

It is a great rise struggle, but technically has a chance.

The verdict

It’s probably just going to be the star. I certainly didn’t bet these opportunities on them. I could see arguments for shrimp, based on schedule or rangers, hoping that it would bring great strokes to those opportunities. Choose your poison with this absence section.