With the calendar set to flip from August to September on Wednesday, the start of the postseason on Oct. 7 is suddenly upon Major League Baseball.
Clearly, there's no time like the present for fresh predictions for how the division and wild-card races in the American League and National League will play out.
This involved making layups for two of the six division races, but the other races are all varying degrees of "up in the air." To make our picks, we assessed how teams are playing, the current and future states of their rosters and what their schedules look like.