Fasten your seat belts...it’s going to be a bumpy night”
- Bette Davis, All About Eve (1950)
Perhaps Bette Davis didn’t have the final month of the 2023 MLB regular season in mind when she uttered that famous line, but it could certainly apply to the chase to the 2023 MLB post-season. A good number of franchises enter September with legitimate playoff aspirations, either benefiting from a relatively weak division (hello AL and NL Central), a battle royal for divisional supremacy (see AL East/West), or the chance to get one of 3 wild card spots (the Non-Atlanta/Los Angeles Dodgers NL teams in the East and West, most of the winning teams in the AL).