That 1998 team was a playoff calibre team. Easily. Hell, with a 2nd wildcard, they would be, and I still think they're better than those Red Sox. Had Fernandez, Sprague, Stewart, Green, Delgado, and Canseco in the lineup with a killer 1-2-3 in the rotation of Clemens-Guzman-Escobar (Carpenter wasn't exactly a scrub either). That should've been a playoff team. Still hate that idiot "Vietnam vet" Tim Johnson.