Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers Playoff Preview

Written By; 

Anthony Sanchez

Game one of the American League Division Series gets going in Toronto Thursday October 8th, 2015 at 3:37pm, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers are primed to feature plenty of runs in this series.

This is the Blue Jays first playoff since Joe Carter hit a homerun to end the 1993 World Series, Toronto will send pitchers David Price (18-5 with a 2.45 ERA) in game one and Marcus Stroman
(4-0 with a 1.67 ERA) in game two.

The Blue Jays lineup is considered to be the most dangerous in the American League playoffs, this lineup has no let up especially in the middle with the power bats of Josh Donaldson (41 HR), Jose Bautista (40 HR) and Edwin Encarnacion (39 HR) these players are nightmares for opposing pitchers.

The Toronto Blue Jays finished the season with 93 wins and can feel confident going into the series, after the Blue Jays took the season series four out of six games.

The Texas Rangers won 88 games during the season and coming into the playoffs are considered one of the dangerous teams on a roll. The Rangers will send pitchers Yovani Gallardo (13-11 with a 3.42 ERA) in game one and Cole Hamels (13-8 with a 3.65 ERA) in game two.

Texas Rangers rotation has something to prove coming into the division series, because it was not particularly effective down the stretch. The Positive is that the Texas Rangers offense after Toronto's lineup is the most dangerous in the American League playoffs.

The Texas Rangers are still trying to win their first World Series in team history and it will be up to first year manager Jeff Banister to help guide this team. Jeff Banister is to be commended on the absolutely tremendous job he has done in turning things around going from worst to first in the American League West, especially when things did not look good in the beginning he kept that team going and moving in the right direction.

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