MLB National League Playoff Picture & Key Division Races

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00:00Let's get to the National League playoff picture. Less than two

00:06weeks remain in this MLB regular season. We're nearing

00:10only 10 games left over an area of 162 around MLB this year.

00:15Again, as we look at the divisional races, there is not

00:19much at stake. The Dodgers are going to win the National League

00:21West for the 11th time in the last 12 years. They have a

00:24three-and-a-half game lead over San Diego. That's the closest

00:28one. But when you look at division prices on the

00:31FanDuel Sportsbook, only two remain. None in the National

00:35League. It's just the AL East and the AL Central. National

00:39League East, we're going to have a new divisional champ for

00:42the first time in seven seasons. The Braves have won

00:45six straight. The Phillies an eight-game lead over the Mets

00:48right now. And the Brewers maintain a double-digit

00:50advantage in the National League Central, 10 games up over

00:54the Chicago Cubs. So that's kind of taken care of. The

00:58question, Joe, with the division leaders is the order

01:01of those three. Will it be Philadelphia one, LA two,

01:06Milwaukee three? Might we see a change in these final two

01:09weeks? Yeah, and you could very well. And it actually means a

01:14little something, right? Because of the new

01:17structure with the playoffs and the extra team ban, we got

01:19buys are involved this year. So it's actually not a, ah, just

01:24get in it and win it. We don't care. Heck, if you can get that

01:27number one locked up, man, you get that number one locked up.

01:30It gives you all the advantage with rotations and everything

01:33else moving forward. It is a really interesting debate, Joe.

01:37If you remember the debate last year in the MLB postseason, as

01:40we saw wild card teams in both leagues face off in a World

01:44Series. The Rangers who knocked off the top overall seed in the

01:47AL Baltimore in the division round. The D-backs, of course,

01:51catching fire at the right time to play in the World Series. It

01:55was the rest versus rust age old debate was earning those

01:59top two seeds in the opening round by past the wild card

02:02round into the division series. Actually, a benefit will have

02:06those same conversations. I am sure as we get to this October

02:10and this MLB postseason, here's a really intriguing and frankly

02:14wrong market discrepancy on the FanDuel Sportsbook. The Dodgers

02:18are the favorites right now to have the best record in all of

02:21the bigs at minus 150. The Philz have the second best price

02:26of plus 110, but Philadelphia with the one game advantage for

02:29the best record currently in the National League is a minus

02:32145 favorite to be that NL number one overall seed. There

02:36is no way the Dodgers could have the best record in

02:39Philadelphia. The best seed unless they would pay you out in

02:43the dead heat rules applying because Philly does have the

02:46advantage in the season series over LA and thus the tiebreaker

02:51if they ended up with the same record. That's an interesting

02:54odds distinction on FanDuel. Yeah, it's a very interesting

02:58and what does it say about what we're thinking about this

03:02Dodgers team, what we thought about them, where they are

03:06currently right now, what the market still thinks is going to

03:09happen here. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, the team that I

03:14trust the most of those three, Ben, as crazy as this is the

03:18Milwaukee Brewers because I think they've been the most

03:20consistent that we can trust here to do it. But the way the

03:24schedule is lining up here, it's probably if the Phillies

03:27handle their business, the Phillies are going to be your

03:30number one seed. But can you say that with confidence that

03:34they'll go ahead and just run the table and handle it? I

03:37can't, not with the way they've been playing since the

03:39All-Star break.

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