MLB Postseason Decided

I know there's still one week left in Major League Baseball regular season play, but it's all wrapped up now. Thanks to my ever-decreasing scale of can't-catch-'em-anymore, the postseason lineup has been decided. The last to fall off the list were the Brewers, losing too much ground to the Cubs over the weekend.

The division winners are:

AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: Indians
AL West: Angels
AL wild card: Yankees

NL East: Mets
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Diamondbacks
NL wild card: Padres

The Phillies, however, are only a half-game behind the Padres for the wild card slot. They fell behind too far last week, so I cut them.

The Yankees are only 1.5 games behind the Red Sox, even though they fell far behind a month ago.

The Rockies are on an eight-game winning streak to get to 1.5 games behind the Padres. I crossed them off two weeks ago.

If any of these trailing teams manage to catch and take over the leading teams, then they surely are the teams to watch in the postseason. They're obviously playing well right now, to have regained some distance.

Time will tell.