There was a bit of separation in the wild-card race last week.
The Toronto Blue Jays went 2-4 and dropped to six games back in the race. That may not seem like an insurmontable gap, but Toronto’s playoff odds dropped below 1 percent in both FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus, so the Blue Jays are not part of this week’s wild-card lookahead.
There are still eight teams in the running for the two wild-card spots, and who can say what will happen? FanGraphs says there is a 17.7 percent chance that there will be a two-way tie for the second wild-card spot, a 3.