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Ranking the AL's roughest roads to the playoffs

By Buster Olney

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Schedule advantages and disadvantages are difficult to calculate in baseball, because you don't know who will be hurt, which team will be hot and which team will fade, and you don't know exactly which pitcher you might face in a crucial series in September. If Roy Halladay is still wearing a Jays uniform, for example, he'll probably get the ball against the Red Sox in the last week of the season. If not, well, the Red Sox might face a guy who's pitching in Triple-A these days. But there are som ...

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