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MLB Playoff Race: Tight Pennant Odds & Playoff Predictions
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9/26/2024
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The pennant races are getting interesting here, Craig.
00:06
They wanted, with the extra playoff spot, right, they wanted meaningful games in the
00:11
last week of the regular season.
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Well, we got them in the American League because it looks nothing like it did a week ago here.
00:18
What is your take on what we've got here so far?
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It's going to be a fight to the finish.
00:23
You know, I think, you know, Yankees and Astros battling record-wise, Cleveland's already
00:27
in, of course.
00:28
I think most people realize who's going to be in the postseason with the exception of
00:32
that final wild-card spot, and let's just call it what it is at this point.
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The Twins and the Royals have both fallen apart in September to some degree, and the
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Tigers have taken the league by storm.
00:43
They're calling up Jackson Jobe today.
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He's their top prospect.
00:46
He won't be available for the postseason, but he'll pitch today for the Tigers.
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They try to push their way in.
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Hard to doubt the hot teams, Joe, the last couple of weeks of the Major League Baseball
00:56
season.
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I do think, in the end, Detroit's got a great shot to get in.
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You know, Kansas City, you know, they had a really good season.
01:03
I think they will sneak in.
01:04
I think the pressure right now is on Minnesota because Minnesota, you know, was in it from
01:09
start to finish.
01:10
They got three games coming up here against Miami.
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I mean, anything less than two of those three wins, I would say there, there's going to
01:16
be some trouble in Minneapolis at the end of the season.
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Fifteen games, 72-57, above .500, was Minnesota on August 25th.
01:25
Since that point, in the last three-plus weeks, nine and 18 to now find themselves
01:31
on the outside looking in, entering the final week of this MLB regular season.
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Of course, the expanded playoffs in Major League Baseball began in full in 2022.
01:42
And Craig, the two pennant winners in the National League in the two playoffs we have
01:46
seen have both been a wildcard team, which makes the pennant odds a little bit interesting
01:52
to look at.
01:53
The Phillies and the Phillies have been the two best teams in the NL, and really, MLB,
01:57
all of this year.
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And they are still the two favorites to win the National League pennant, plus 164 LA.
02:03
Philly, only 40 cents back.
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So I ask you the question this way, will the National League pennant winner come from those
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two top teams, or will it be somebody on the outside once again?
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It would be a guess.
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You know, as you said, Ben, the last couple of years, it has not gone the way that the
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teams that got the bye won.
02:22
If you watch the Phillies' celebration last night after they won, you know, Rob Thompson,
02:26
the manager, said that we want the bye, we want the time off.
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And so show up tomorrow, be ready to win until we get that.
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So that tells you everything you need to know.
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You know, at some point, I think the mold will be broken.
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It could be potentially this year.
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I still do like the Phillies here, and I think the Phillies have a great shot.
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I think the American League, to me, is a little bit more wide open than the National League.
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I do think that one of those, let's say, first four teams comes out of it.
02:54
Maybe that's not, maybe that does seem a little bit wild to me, but I do think an upset could
02:57
be brewing in the AL, but hard for me to see the Phillies not in the NLCS at the very least.
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I think the Phillies, I mean, the Dodgers have fallen over themselves in the postseason,
03:07
so I can't sit here and predict them, but the Phillies, I think they'll be there in
03:11
the end.
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Whether they get all the way, I'm not clear.
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