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FanGraphs, an advanced baseball analytics website, says both teams have 100% chances to make the playoffs, with the Mets holding a 69.6% chance to win the division and a 30.4% chance to make it as the wild card. The Braves\u2019 probabilities are the reverse of those.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
At Caesars, the Mets are -250 favorites to win the division, with the Braves, last year\u2019s World Series champs, at +200 to overtake the Mets, who lead Atlanta by a game (85-50 to 84-51), with each team having 27 games left. That includes a three-game series in Atlanta Sept. 30-Oct. 2. But the Mets have a far easier schedule the rest of the way. Only six of New York\u2019s final 27 games come against teams with a winning record, while Atlanta must play 13 games against teams better than .500 in its final 27 contests.<\/p>\n
AL Central Barn Burner<\/h2>\n
So that leaves the American League Central as the lone true pennant race in baseball this year. Three teams \u2013 the Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago White Sox \u2013 are all within two games of each other heading into the final month. Given that none of those three teams are better than four games above .500, it\u2019s highly likely only one of those teams will make the postseason. All three trail the Toronto Blue Jays by at least 6.5 games for the third and final AL Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n
Cleveland and Chicago were playing Monday night. But the Guardians (68-64) led Minnesota (68-65) by a half-game and the White Sox (67-67) by two.<\/p>\n
These three teams will also duke it out largely among themselves for the division crown. Cleveland and Minnesota play eight more times over the next month, with the Guardians hosting five of those games. Minnesota and Chicago play six times, while Cleveland and Chicago have three games left.<\/p>\n
DraftKings has Cleveland as the favorites to win the division, offering odds of -125. Minnesota is second at +190, while Chicago has odds of +285.<\/strong><\/p>\nWatch for the World Series’ odds later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of Monday, there\u2019s one month left in the Major League Baseball regular season, and there will be some drama between now and the final pitch thrown on Oct. 5. Two of the top storylines are if Albert Pujols can reach 700 homers for his career and if Aaron Judge can slug his way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":230343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1074],"tags":[82674,82673,82677,81828,82678,82679,82680,81829,82676,81831,82675],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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