After two convincing wins in Toronto, the Red Sox enter play on Thursday with an 87-71 record and have a Magic Number of 1. While it may seem like we’re tempting fate to look ahead to potential playoff opponents next week, that’s what we’re going to do today.

The top seven teams in the American League are separated by a total of six games. There will not even be a 95-win team this year in the AL. The upside of having condensed standings on this side of the bracket is that truly any team has a shot to make it to the World Series. The downside is that not a single team is even close to being locked into a specific seed, and guessing what the matchups will look like starting on Tuesday, September 30 is pointless. Which is, again, exactly what we’re going to do today.

For the sake of probabi

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