Let’s get this out of the way at the start. Yes, this article should have ran yesterday. That was before the Rays were smacked 10-3 by the Toronto Blue Jays. That was before Tyler Glasnow gave up seven runs and couldn’t even make it out of the first inning. That was before the Rays slipped back to 8 GB of the second wild card, and their FanGraphs odds slipped to 0.2 percent.
But sometimes life comes at you and your best intentions of getting back to write the article portion of the research you did in the morning becomes impossible, and the timing of the rankings you produced (that cover through Wednesday’s standings) lose a bit of their shine.