Sentences with phrase «of the wild card era»
In the 22 seasons since the start of the Wild Card Era, there have been 15 teams to go from last place to the postseason in one year.
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Toronto is dangerous because it has ace righthander Roy Halladay (9 - 2, 3.07 ERA) and a high - powered offense (first in the majors in sluggingpercentage), but assuming the AL wild - card winner comes out of the Central, where the White Sox and the Tigers each were on pace for more than 105 wins, the Blue Jays would have to hurdle the Yankees and the Red Sox, who havefinished one - two in the East every year since 1998, to reach thepostseason.
The 11 previous teams coming off a minimum of 98 losses in the wild - card era improved by an average of eight games.
A new manager: Forty percent of Turnaround Teams in the wild card era (20 of 50) changed managers before or during the season.
They've made the postseason 10 times in the wild card era, and Game 6 of the NLCS is the furthest they've gotten in any of those attempts.
«Turkey in many ways is a wild card in this coalition equation,» said Juan Zarate, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of «Treasury's War, the Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare.»