For the teams that entered Major League Baseball's 2023 All-Star break out of the postseason picture, the glass-half-full perspective is that there is plenty of season yet to be played. A lot can change in 2.5 months, like in 2015 when Toronto and Texas both entered the break with a sub-.500 record before posting the AL's best and second-best records in the second half of the season to each win their division.
The glass-half-empty perspective is that those teams were very much the exception to the rule.
Since MLB expanded the postseason to 10 teams for 2012, there have been just four clubs that made the playoffs after entering the break with a losing record: 2015 Toronto Blue Jays (45-46), 2015 Texas Rangers (42-46), 2017 Chicago Cubs (43-45) and 2021 St.