Do We Know The Ten Baseball Tournament Teams? Part 2

In addition to the current and very likely eventual top two seeds in each league (Cubs, Rangers, Nationals and Indians) I will “give” at least a playoff spot if not the N.L. 3 seed to the L.A. Dodgers whose 3 seed lead is 4 games and qualification lead is 7 games.

The other “3” seed leader, the Boston Red Sox have a 2 game lead over two fellow A.L. East teams, the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles.

In turn, both the Jays and O’s have 3 game leads for qualification.

In the N.L. the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets have respective 3 and 2 game leads for tournament qualification.

The Jays, Dodgers and Mets made the tournament last year.

Cubs’ manager Joe Maddon, has guided the Cubs to the best record in baseball but that means little once the tournament commences, in the Cubs’ case in the quarterfinals, at home, on Friday October 7th.