Do We Know The Ten Baseball Tournament Qualifying Teams? Part 1

I think for the first time in a long time, if not all season, there is currently two games of separation for playoffs qualification in major league baseball.

Almost certainly, things will change a bit but I am, often at my own peril, “a wood man” i.e, the lead, thus I will talk of the ten projected playoffs teams compared to those who made it last season.

Agreed it is dangerous and foolish and I am not declaring the race for playoff qualification over but the ten teams in as of today were all teams I projected to be in weeks ago.

Only half of the ten projected/currently ahead teams made the playoffs last season.

The top ranked Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers each qualified last season as wild card teams while the two other virtually certain playoff qualifiers to this point, current 2 seeds, the Cleveland Indians and Washington Nationals, did not qualify for the baseball tournament.

Next a look at the six other teams currently qualifying for the layoffs with the all important proviso, “if the season ended today.”

Flying under the national radar of Cubs’ publicity and my focus on the Cleveland Indians, are the current American League one seed, Texas Rangers, a franchise as is of course the case with the Cubs and Indians that has a history of frustration, trying to win The World Series.