ST. PETERSBURG — It’s not Labor Day. It’s not even the Fourth of July.
It’s just the day after Memorial Day so how pumped should you be that the Rays are currently leading the American League wild card race? Quite a bit, actually.
Since MLB adopted the two wild-card system in 2012, exactly two-thirds of the teams in the lead on Memorial Day went on to clinch a postseason spot.
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