Now that the dust has fully settled on MLB's 2024 trade deadline hullabaloo and we can return to our regularly scheduled programming already in progress, what is the playoff picture looking like in the aftermath of all those swaps?
There were no massive winners of this year's trade deadline. Certainly nothing compared to the Padres acquiring all of Juan Soto, Josh Hader, Josh Bell and Brandon Drury two summers ago. However, there are definitely contenders who improved and others who left us wondering if they actually are trying to win this season.
So let's go division by division with our updated predictions of who will make the postseason, culminating in a rapid-fire prediction of how things would play out if we're right with all this seeding prognosticating.