What am I doing hanging on?

I should be on that train and gone

I should be riding on that train to San Antonio

What am I doing hanging on?

What am I doing hanging around?

I should be on that train and gone

I should be riding on that train to San Antonio

Good morning and welcome to episode 727 of Effectively Wild

The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus presented by the Playindex at baseballreference.com

I am Ben Lindberg of Grantland joined by San Miller of Baseball Prospectus

Hello, Sam. Hello, Ben. So we're going to have a couple guests in a few minutes

Right now as we start to record this there are basically eight teams that are almost

locks for the playoffs. If you look at various playoff odds reports you will see

eight teams in the very high 90s or 100s and then the remaining uncertainty

is concentrated in the AL West and the AL Wildcard where

the Astros and the Rangers and the Twins and to a lesser extent the Angels and Yankees are still sort of

battling things out. So we're going to talk to people who cover a couple of those teams. We're going to talk to Adam

J. Morse of Lone Star Paul about the Rangers and Brandon Warn about the Twins

and we're going to find out how those teams have defied everyone's

expectation that they would collapse or never contend to be good and

with and how they have remained in this race in mid-September. But before that just a couple quick

banter items since we brought up the using tons of players and pictures in

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