For a little peek behind the curtain here at OTM, and something that I’ve mentioned before but is worth bringing up again, for these roundtables I send out the questions on Monday so staff has all week to answer the question. Typically, that’s not a question, but when the trade deadline is rude enough to fall on a Friday, it throws a wrench in things. The deadline is the obvious topic, but for this format there was just too much chance of the answers being moot by publish time that I pivoted to another important topic.
That would be the American League East race.