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Too much is up in the air for the Cubs (80-60) to start lining up their postseason rotation just yet.
“It’s just not a thing that you think about right now,” manager Craig Counsell said last weekend in Colorado. “I think it’s a mistake to go there for us, for the team right now, for me to think about that right now, because there’s enough baseball games left.”
Entering Thursday, with three and a half weeks to go in the regular season, no team had yet clinched a playoff spot. And while the Cubs’ most likely path to the postseason is through the wild card, they aren’t completely eliminated from the division race.