Orioles opponent preview: AL wild card contenders

On the FanGraphs projected playoff odds with six days to go until Orioles Opening Day, it’s a wide open American League. No team has more than a 36% chance to win its division or better than 63% to make the postseason at all. The PECOTA picture is a bit more zeroed in on some favored teams but still open to just about anybody except for the White Sox. There’s also not much expected from either the Angels or the Sacramento Athletics.

Everybody else has a chance. And even those teams have a chance, at least until they prove they don’t. When I wrote this article a year ago, the Royals had odds below the threshold of my discussing them in detail. That team made the postseason and ultimately…