Senior MLB analyst
With more than two months of the 2024 season officially in the books, we’ve gained laughably little clarity regarding how each league’s playoff picture might shake out. Twenty-five teams sit either in a postseason spot or within five games of one, and that doesn’t include the perennial powerhouse Astros, who are slowly crawling back into the mix after a dreadful first month.
While the standings remain rife with uncertainty, we’re working with a large enough sample now that it’s reasonable to draw some preliminary conclusions about the direction these teams are heading.