Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
This San Diego series unfortunately reminds me of 1996.

Dodgers came into the final series with the Padres up 2 games on them. This meant that SD had to win all 3 in order to win the division.

The Padres proceeded to win 5-2, 4-2, and 2-0. Dodgers became the wildcard after leading most of the season.

Dodgers got swept by the Braves, Padres got swept by the Cardinals.

Yankees won the World Series that year over the Braves, after beating the Orioles.


This postseason will also have the Dodgers, Padres, Orioles, and Yankees. Probably not the Braves. Definitely not the Cardinals. But the Padres could very well end up the NL West champs, which would be sad.
Braves current ESPN playoff odds are 69.2%.

If they split one of next two with Mets they’ll hold tiebreakers over both Mets and Dbacks. And they’ve absolutely owned the Mets in Atlanta for a while now. That said they’re still so beat up. You keep talking about Strider and Acuña but they’ve also lost Riley for the year, Minter for the year, and just got back Albies after he was out two months and Harris also missed two months as well. They had plenty other significant injuries too.

Anyways, something to watch is the weather as Atlanta is about to get hit by hurricane Hellene. It won’t be a hurricane by the time it gets here but the forecast is calling for like 10+ inches of rain over the next 3 days.

It’s very possible that the Braves and Mets have to play a double header on Monday which is supposed to be the off day before the wildcard round. Whichever one (or both) of them make the playoffs that would put them at a huge disadvantage going into the wildcard round.

Not sure how to be able to profit off of that information right now but food for thought.