"Absurdly Preliminary" ZiPS give D-backs 41% playoff chance

Here's a nice Black Friday nugget for D-backs fans. Over on Fangraphs, Dan Szymborski has posted what he explicitly calls The Absurdly Preliminary 2023 ZiPS Projected Standings. Obvious caveat is obvious: "These 2023 projections are guaranteed to be awful, wrong in many ways ranging from tragic to comic...absolutely premature and littered with horrible misses." But he goes on to point out that they still are useful. They are "the best estimates ZiPS can make at this point about where a team sits in the league’s pecking order, based solely on the players currently under contract with the team.