MLB Playoff Race: Tight Pennant Odds & Playoff Predictions

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00:00The pennant races are getting interesting here, Craig.

00:06They wanted, with the extra playoff spot, right, they wanted meaningful games in the

00:11last week of the regular season.

00:13Well, we got them in the American League because it looks nothing like it did a week ago here.

00:18What is your take on what we've got here so far?

00:21It's going to be a fight to the finish.

00:23You know, I think, you know, Yankees and Astros battling record-wise, Cleveland's already

00:27in, of course.

00:28I think most people realize who's going to be in the postseason with the exception of

00:32that final wild-card spot, and let's just call it what it is at this point.

00:36The Twins and the Royals have both fallen apart in September to some degree, and the

00:40Tigers have taken the league by storm.

00:43They're calling up Jackson Jobe today.

00:45He's their top prospect.

00:46He won't be available for the postseason, but he'll pitch today for the Tigers.

00:50They try to push their way in.

00:52Hard to doubt the hot teams, Joe, the last couple of weeks of the Major League Baseball

00:56season.

00:57I do think, in the end, Detroit's got a great shot to get in.

01:00You know, Kansas City, you know, they had a really good season.

01:03I think they will sneak in.

01:04I think the pressure right now is on Minnesota because Minnesota, you know, was in it from

01:09start to finish.

01:10They got three games coming up here against Miami.

01:12I mean, anything less than two of those three wins, I would say there, there's going to

01:16be some trouble in Minneapolis at the end of the season.

01:19Fifteen games, 72-57, above .500, was Minnesota on August 25th.

01:25Since that point, in the last three-plus weeks, nine and 18 to now find themselves

01:31on the outside looking in, entering the final week of this MLB regular season.

01:37Of course, the expanded playoffs in Major League Baseball began in full in 2022.

01:42And Craig, the two pennant winners in the National League in the two playoffs we have

01:46seen have both been a wildcard team, which makes the pennant odds a little bit interesting

01:52to look at.

01:53The Phillies and the Phillies have been the two best teams in the NL, and really, MLB,

01:57all of this year.

01:59And they are still the two favorites to win the National League pennant, plus 164 LA.

02:03Philly, only 40 cents back.

02:06So I ask you the question this way, will the National League pennant winner come from those

02:11two top teams, or will it be somebody on the outside once again?

02:16It would be a guess.

02:17You know, as you said, Ben, the last couple of years, it has not gone the way that the

02:21teams that got the bye won.

02:22If you watch the Phillies' celebration last night after they won, you know, Rob Thompson,

02:26the manager, said that we want the bye, we want the time off.

02:30And so show up tomorrow, be ready to win until we get that.

02:33So that tells you everything you need to know.

02:35You know, at some point, I think the mold will be broken.

02:38It could be potentially this year.

02:40I still do like the Phillies here, and I think the Phillies have a great shot.

02:45I think the American League, to me, is a little bit more wide open than the National League.

02:49I do think that one of those, let's say, first four teams comes out of it.

02:54Maybe that's not, maybe that does seem a little bit wild to me, but I do think an upset could

02:57be brewing in the AL, but hard for me to see the Phillies not in the NLCS at the very least.

03:04I think the Phillies, I mean, the Dodgers have fallen over themselves in the postseason,

03:07so I can't sit here and predict them, but the Phillies, I think they'll be there in

03:11the end.

03:12Whether they get all the way, I'm not clear.

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