May schedule talk:
not to sound too hyperbolic about a stretch of games the first week in May, but the stretch between now and next Thursday is pretty important.
2 more with the Guardians
3 with Seattle
3 at Yankees
Winning each of those series means a 5-3 start to the month and 7 below .500.
Then the schedule lightens up a bit with Detroit, before returning home for our longest homestand of the year with Oakland, Milwaukee, and LA Angels.
Finish the month with 7 games at Oakland and Seattle (before opening a series on 5/31 back at home against Minnesota).
Over the past few years, Seattle feels like the tortoise in the tortoise and the hare —slowly but consistently getting better—and I think we’re going to have some knock down, drag outs with them all year. Would be huge to jump out to 4-3 or 5-2 on them this month.
But overall, the best records in the AL in April were 19-10. With our schedule in May, pitching staff coming back together, rotten luck we’ve endured for most of April, and shedding Abreu and whatever happened to him there is no reason in my mind that we can’t replicate that and flip our 4/30 10-19 record to match that 19-10 and be back to .500 by June 1
CLE 1-1
SEA 4-3
NYY 2-1
DET 2-1
OAK 5-2
MIL 1-2
LAA 3-0
MIN 1-0
= 19-10
3 game win streak kool-aid tastes so good.