Let me preface the following rant with the following, before I get into it in earnest: I, personally, do not really care about whether the Braves win the division. As I’ve said before, this is a hell of a team, and it’s no skin off my back that MLB has requested, and the MLBPA caved into, the current debacle of a playoff format where the September races are pretty much exclusively about playoff seeding rather than playoff berths. The Braves finishing with a top-four record in MLB is the real accomplishment, and the fact that the ridiculous playoff format seems to award specific benefits to some teams with a certain record, but not others, is their own problem, not mine.
Even this late in the season, the Braves are banking on talent, not tactics
