The outlook has shifted on the 2025 season.
It’s amazing how much can change in just a month.
Just one month ago I asked Rays fans to vote on if the team will make the playoffs and only 38% were confident they could do it.
Now, just four weeks later a 0.5 games back of first place in the AL East, an astonishing 82% now believe in the Tampa Bay Rays chances of post season contention:
Of course, these survey results are also very close to the FanGraphs odds, which placed the Rays at around a 32% chance of the playoffs at the start of June and now have the Rays and Blue Jays at 77%, so the result was not unexpected.
That’s why I added a second question: what about 90 games? Is that within reach?
Here the voters are split pretty evenly:
This is reasonable! Given the parity between the teams not named the Orioles in the AL East, I would think few if any hit 90 wins at this rate.
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Thanks for reading, thanks for voting, thanks to FanDuel for their support, and Go Rays!