A brief preview of MLB’s division series

MLB’s four division series will get under way Saturday, all eight remaining teams in action.

Here’s a brief summary of each of the four series. At the time this preview posted, only a handful of the starting pitchers had been announced, so this is a bit more of a guessing game than usual.

On the other hand, if teams in this round do what the Blue Jays did in the last one with pitchers, they might not last very long.

Rangers vs. Orioles

Regular season finishes:

Rangers: 90-72, second wild card, defeated Rays in wild card series

Orioles: 101-61, A.L. East champions

The Rangers had a weird year. They were in first place in the A.L. West almost all year until a 4-16 (!) stretch dumped them into third…