The 2021 regular season is officially in the books. Playoff baseball commences tomorrow night. According to FanGraphs, the Astros are the favorites to win the pennant. Fresh off winning the AL West for the fourth time in five years, their reward is a five-game series with the White Sox, the only other team in the American League that FanGraphs gives a greater than 10 percent chance of winning the World Series.
If the Astros are to reach the American League Championship Series for the fifth consecutive year, they’ll need to go through the AL Central champions in the American League Division Series.