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"I’d be shocked if we make the playoffs at all at this point. 
That would require the A’s to be better team than the Mariners and Tigers.
They’re not."
This quote is from an Orc fan on the whole Wild Card situation. (Note that I had to run the quote through an online translator program to get the quote from the guttural Orc tongue to English, so apologies in advance if it did not translate perfectly.) The Orc concept at issue here, is that the Orcs have scouted their enemies, and the Orcs don't look like winners.  
Comparatively, The Orcs strengths are its starting rotation.  Who has the better 1-3?  Choose two:
1. Felix, Kuma, Paxton; 2. Lester, Samardzija, Gray; 3. Verlander, Price, Scherzer.
Hitting wise, the Mariners have a deep team of troublesome lefties, Detroit has Kinsler, Miggy, and V-Mart, and the Orcs have the swooning Josh Donaldson, Adam Dunn and Yeonis Cespedes.
Bullpen wise, the Orcs have suffered greatly from the loss of Sean Doolittle, Detroit is sorry and Seattle is an eleven headed monster that looks like something that Tony LaRussa made.  
Detroit, for its problems, still looks like a winner.  So does Seattle.*
*I'd like the record to reflect that Detroit is chasing Seattle for the Wild Card game and not the other way around.