It’s a fun… though usually perilous… exercise that we do each year: it’s our attempt to predict how the Atlanta Braves and their 29 other foes will finish the season.
It’s not an all together level playing field… hey – Seattle is already 2-0 on this season… but it never is exactly level and plumbed.
The unbalanced schedule means that the NL East teams will all face one another 18 or 19 times apiece while having home-and-home series’s against the rest of the NL.
This year, the Atlanta Braves and their NL East rivals will also see the teams from the AL Central.