“And if a team isn’t a contender, or even competitive, they’ll be a doormat.”

Are you referring to the Twins in 2007?

twins are in a rebuilding year.. that doesnt mean they cant do very good this year or even win the world series.. just NOT very likely… though we have a very strong young crew and could maybe do what the dbacks did.. we have pitching (liriano is better then hughes atm… )(hughes yesterday: 2 innings 6 er 3 walks… and an era of like 20…)
and we also have hitting… you saw glimpses durring the 12-4 game and the 5-0 game… they are simply getting used to batting by each other… (rebuilding)

tigers idea of selling the farm didnt work and backfired… injuries and bad pitching… if your pitching is doing worse then the yankees then yes your batting no matter what wont win a game…
too bad it would take 5 years to get decent pitching through the farm… cause they have nothing anymore…

indians: not doing that bad.. had trouble at the start without their catcher.. now they arnt doing as bad.. expect them to be a contender..

overall… twins could be anywhere from 70 wins too 95 wins… depends if they wanna go for it this year… big range cause its a rebuilding year and we dont know what this group can really do yet… the range will get smaller later in the season..

tigers i cant even guess yet… problem is their pitching stinks and their hitting isnt comming together.. (same thing happening with the twins.. we have pitching though to back it up…) its called having new players batting with eachother and it takes time….

playoffs i think will be this

blue jays
angels
indians
wild card: twins or mariners or yankees or red soxs

People are saying the same thing about KC. And I think what happens is people get “competitive” mixed up with “contender”. At least that’s my opinion.

Being competitive to me is shooting to finish respectfully above five hundred and playing even with teams that are contending for the title. If everything clicks for a competitive team they’ll make a play for the Wild Card. Otherwise they’ll finish out of it by double digits.

A contender is a team that plays strong all season long and stays in the division hunt. They may not make the postseason, but they’ll fight hard and finish close (a handful of games out)

And if a team isn’t a contender, or even competitive, they’ll be a doormat.

Then you’ve got the doormat. This is the team that finishes with 90+ losses and doesn’t even sniff the postseason race. And usually it’s more than one season in a row. The Royals and Rays are perennially dismissed as doormats, and most people are writing off the Twins as such as well.

That’s just my defintions. But they seem reasonable.