It's Memorial Day, MLB fans! And you know what that means: You can now officially look at the MLB standings.
The saying goes, among baseball fans, that you should avoid checking the standings until Memorial Day, which puts us two months into the season. That gives teams time to play enough games to add meaning to what we're seeing happen in every division.
And while where your team sits in the standings this holiday might not serve as a guarantee to where it will finish the season, there is some truth to the concept: According to Elias Sports Bureau data, 58% of teams (87 of 149) that were in sole possession of first place on the morning of June 1 have gone on to win their division in the wild-card era (since 1995 and excluding 2020).